Monthly Archives: March 2009
On Demand Does Not Mean Live
Just a quick note in the middle of the Thursday afternoon madness…
My local television feed has LSU-Butler. I am checking out CS Northbridge-Memphis online. It appears that the updates CBS has at the top of their TV coverage is ahead of the live stream.
Has this always been the case or is it something with my Internet connection? Just wondering?
Come Tweet with Us
My generational deficiencies are still prohibiting me from fully grasping this social networking. micro-blogging movement. With that said I realize that we at SMJ need to get on the bandwagon. So we have.
For those of you inclined to use Twitter, SMJ now has an account, where all our future posts will be added.
Follow us if you wish. If not, a visit to the site will do us just fine. Either way, thanks for checking in!
Another Newspaper to Shut Down
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer will publish it’s final print edition tomorrow.
An Ombudsman Curtain Call
ESPN Ombudsman Le Anne Schreiber has posted her final column for the WWL.
In it she encapsulates the feelings of fans who wrote to her over her two year stint as ombudsman, focusing on their frustration with the excess that has become ESPN. And as has been the case since her inaugural column, Schreiber again does a fantastic job in understanding and relating those frustrations to ESPN and her readers.
Schreiber points out that ESPN can learn to change some of their habits if they just go back to how they got to be the dominant sports media force they’ve become…
…I think the chances are pretty good. If you step back and take the long view, a perspective advanced years forces on me, you will realize ESPN did not become the phenomenal success it is by underestimating the intelligence of the sports fan
…It was ESPN that peeled back the layers for fans — revealing how players, teams, coaching staffs, front offices, leagues and conferences, their marketers and commissioners, agents and recruiters mesh. Knowledge once considered arcane is now elementary education for ESPN’s audience.
It is too late for ESPN to dial it back or dumb it down, too late to satisfy the savvy core audience it created with the thin gruel of sound bites, shouting heads and the celebrations of the obvious. If it wants to sustain its success, ESPN has no choice but to keep getting smarter. Its audience demands it.
We interviewed Le Anne last month. You can find the podcast here. ESPN has yet to announce a successor for Schreiber. Let’s hope he or she builds upon the work Schreiber was able to on behalf of the fans of ESPN.
The Sports Blogger 2009- Part 3
Here is our third and final report based on the results of our survey of sports bloggers. In case you missed it, here is part one. And part two.
In this final installment we look at the reading, viewing, and listening habits of the bloggers who responded to our survey. We also asked them of their their expectations of a game telecast as well as their preferences of play-by-play announcers and studio hosts.
As has been the case in the first two parts of this series, after each question I will add my answers and some commentary…let’s get to it…
