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‘Conflicted’ Peter Gammons to Leave ESPN After 20 Years
Report: Hall of Fame journalist to join MLB network
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Will ESPN Become the Worldwide Leader in Lawsuits?
Network fires Steve Phillips, woman over affair fallout; ex-analyst Sean Salisbury files suit against Deadspin.
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ESPN Sacks Baseball Analyst Over Affair With Intern
Steve Phillips’ relationship with a 22-year-old was splashed across New York tabloids.
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ESPN’s ‘Body Issue’ Viagra for Subscriptions
General manager: We got 400 new subscribers in two hours.
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Favre Scores Cable’s Biggest Audience Ever
Nearly 22 million tune into ESPN to watch QB clash with his old team.
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Is ESPN The Mag Committing ‘Publishing Suicide’?
The numbers are hard to fathom. According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, a staggering 75 percent of consumer magazines saw their single-copy sales decline between June and December of 2008 — the most recent industry-wide stats available. Advertising pages, meanwhile, plummeted 28 percent during the first half of the year, representing roughly $2.5…
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ESPN Cracks Down on Employees’ Social Networking
ESPN, the “Worldwide Tweeter” – err — “Leader in Sports,” drew the ire of some of its employees yesterday when it issued a set of formal guidelines limiting their use of social networking. “The hammer just came down, tweeps: ESPN memo prohibiting tweeting info unless it serves ESPN,” Ric Bucher, one of the network’s…
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ESPN Brings Big Names to ’30 for 30′
John Singleton, Ice Cube will direct portions of sports documentary.
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UFC Fighting for Mainstream Acceptance
But big media and the general public are not coming around so quickly.
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New Consensus: People Will Pay for Quality Content
A consensus is emerging among the leaders of the digital media industry, and it’s an encouraging thing. At conferences — which seem to have spread like some upper class disease across the land (when does anyone do work anymore?) — in Palo Alto venture capital conversations, around the pools in Malibu…a light seems to…
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Will ESPN Ban Conan Over Peephole Joke, Too?
In New York, the Erin Andrews’ peephole story just won’t go away, even when it comes off the front page. Yesterday, ESPN announced a wholesale ban on New York Post reporters from appearing across its shows after the paper ran stills from the now-infamous video of the sideline reporter nude in a hotel room. "While…
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Hypocrisy and That Erin Andrews Peephole Video
ESPN sideline reporter gets victimized twice, first by “a perv-cam-wielding sicko” and then by the media reporting on the sicko’s actions
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Not Everyone Lives in a TiVo/YouTube World
D-day — June 12, 2009. Last Friday was the day when the remainder of the nation’s 1,700 analog television stations shut down in the long-promised changeover to digital broadcasting. Cable and satellite viewers — or those whose TV has a digital tuner — were still able to watch “American Idol,” “CSI” and “Heroes,” unaware…