MNF: It’s just a football game

August 31, 2009 | Comments Off

Some of the quotes coming out of last week’s ESPN media event in Bristol — and so sorry I couldn’t attend, but my travel visa to leave Maryland has expired — spoke to how Monday Night Football should continue to be viewed as a big deal. Sure, some of that is a push-back against NBC’s [...]

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ESPN Media Workshop Wrap

August 31, 2009 | Comments Off

This will be my final post regarding last week’s ESPN Media Workshop in Bristol. First and foremost, I doubt anyone who attended the workshop looked at it as anything else but what it was, a P.R. move by ESPN to showcase the multi-platforms of its brand. It was a chance for the network to [...]

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SMJ Video- ESPN Production Assistant

August 30, 2009 | Comments Off

One of the opportunities the Communications staff at ESPN afforded reporters during last week’s media workshop was the ability to shadow a production assistant. There are dozens of production assistants working on various segments for either SportsCenter or other studio programs. I had the opportunity to shadow David Dreyfuss. David has worked at ESPN as [...]

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SMJ Video- ESPN 30th Anniversary Panel

August 30, 2009 | Comments Off

One of the major events of the recent ESPN Media Workshop is the enclosed panel featuring Chris Berman, Bob Ley, and Executive VP of Technology Chuck Pagano discussing the first 30 years of the network. This video is long. It is also not the entire presentation as I needed to change batteries on two separate [...]

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SMJ Video- Hannah Storm, ESPN SportsCenter Anchor

August 29, 2009 | Comments Off

At the end of the ESPN Media Workshop this week I had the chance to interview Hannah Storm, anchor of the daily 9am to 12pm edition of SportsCenter. In the interview Storm discusses her first year, her relationship with Josh Elliot, and the integration of social media in sports coverage…

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