Sports Media Weekly Podcast No. 44- Lisa Horne, FoxSports.com

August 11, 2010 | Comments Off

We’re in the dog days of summer but there is still a lot of news to discuss on this week’s edition of the Sports Media Weekly Podcast. Our good friend Ken Fang at Fang’s Bites and I talk about the expansion of ESPN’s SportsCenter to ESPNews effective August 30th. We also talk about the “re-imagining” [...]

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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 Live Event- ESPN Media Workshop

August 26, 2009 | Comments Off

I am pleased to announce that this Thursday and Friday (August 27th & 28th) I will be joining other sports media columnists in Bristol, for the 2-day media workshop at ESPN. The event is a look behind-the-scenes at the WWL in conjunction with the celebration of it’s 30th Anniversary on September 7th. Here is a [...]

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NBA > Jon & Kate

May 27, 2009 | 1 Comment

Monday’s Game 4 of the Nuggets-Lakers series drew 9.88 million viewers, establishing highs for any basketball game ever on ESPN, any NBA game ever on cable and any cable program this year. Though I don’t necessarily root for ratings, the fact that a basketball game apparently out-rated the season debut of TLC’s highly publicized Jon [...]

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We Had Such Dreams Then: Analyzing the Death of Play Magazine

May 19, 2009 | 2 Comments

Imagine, for a moment, that you were going to build a sports magazine. It would be a magazine that looked to recapture the glory days of sports magazine writing, the days of Gay Talese, Ring Lardner, William Nack, Mark Kram and others. It would focus not on the daily commotion of sports, but on the [...]

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