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ESPN Acquires Cable And ‘Expansive’ Digital Rights For Tennis’ US Open - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 12 May 2008 08:09 AM PST

The US Open moves to ESPN (NYSE: DIS) in 2009, giving the Disney sports unit bragging rights for the tennis Grand Slam: US Open, Australian Open, French Open and Wimbledon.…

ESPN Syndicating Video Through Portal For First Time; ESPN Channel Launches On AOL - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 07 Apr 2008 03:00 AM PST

Back in 2004, ESPN (NYSE: DIS) ended a three-year relationship with MSN designed to boost the sports site’s traffic while giving the Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) portal much-needed content. Among other…

ESPN Acquires Girls Basketball Site Hoopgurlz - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 25 Mar 2008 09:22 AM PST

ESPN (NYSE: DIS) has acquired girls-focused basketball site Hoopgurlz.com. The Seattle-based site, which reports on high school and college basketball, offers tournament listings, player profiles, message boards, player blogs and…

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ESPN Pulls The Plug On Ad Network; Millard Warns About Treating Ads Like Pork Bellies - 3 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 24 Mar 2008 05:10 AM PST

With nearly every media company getting in the ad network game—the latest entrant being Forbes—one major player is bucking the trend. ESPN (NYSE: DIS) has ended its arrangement with Specific…

Doing The Bristol Stomp: ESPN Responds To Criticism For Multi-Platform Approach - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 17 Mar 2008 08:00 PM PST

I wrote some long stories for the Sports Business Journal but nothing comes close to John Ourand’s magnum opus on ESPN (NYSE: DIS) in this week’s issue. Ourand, who worked…

@ NBA Tech Summit: ESPN360 Adds HD - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Fri 15 Feb 2008 08:02 AM PST

Some broadband networks have been pulling back from HD broadband but ESPN360.com will start to provide the higher-quality experience with its NBA game this Wednesday. It’s a combination of 16:9…

Industry Moves: Damon Phillips New VP-ESPN360.com - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Sun 10 Feb 2008 07:57 PM PST

Damon Phillips is joining ESPN (NYSE: DIS) as the new VP of broadband network ESPN360.com; the post has been vacant since Jeff Cravens left in October. His responsibilities include strategy,…

Industry Moves: Mehta (Officially) Joins NBCU; President-Business Operations, Strategy, Development - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 05 Feb 2008 07:37 AM PST

As we told you back in November, ESPN/*Disney* vet Salil Mehta is the new head of biz dev for NBC Universal (NYSE: GE). The official title: president, business operations, strategy…

ESPN Opens Broadband Access Beyond Certain Cable, ISP Subs To MIL, EDU - 1 Comment
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 04 Feb 2008 01:19 PM PST

There’s still no notice of it on the site but, according to the NYT, ESPN (NYSE: DIS) is planning to offer some live broadband programming free to anyone in the…

Broadband Content Bits: Sony-DivX; ABC; ESPN; ACCSelect - 1 Comment
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 14 Jan 2008 11:38 AM PST

-- Sony, DivX pact for online downloads: Studios have resisted DivX (NSDQ: DIVX) software for downloads until now but Sony (NYSE: SNE) Pictures TV finally has given in. Online retailers…

ESPN Expands In High School Sports; Acquires SchoolSports Inc., Publisher Of Rise, RiseMag.com - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 20 Dec 2007 08:22 AM PST

Add this to the growing list of high school sports deals: ESPN (NYSE: DIS) is acquiring SchoolSports Inc., a high school-focused sports media company. SchoolSports is the publisher of RISE…

ESPNU Enlists Colleges For Student-Generated Sports Coverage - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Thu 06 Dec 2007 08:39 AM PST

College sports network ESPNU is tapping students, professors and athletic departments at 20 universities to cover their respective schools’ games as part of an effort to by the Disney (NYSE:…

@ UBS Media Week: George Bodenheimer, President, ESPN: 50 Percent CPM Premium Online With Geotargets - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Mon 03 Dec 2007 09:05 AM PST

ESPN’s (NYSE: DIS) George Bodenheimer kicked off his presentation at the UBS Global Media Conference with a real crowd pleaser: a few of his network’s latest (still hilarious) “This is…

Busy Week In NYC: UBS 35th Annual Global Media&Communications Conference - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Sun 02 Dec 2007 10:03 PM PST

For the first time in four years, I won’t be spending a large chunk of early December in NYC hotel meetings rooms as media and tech execs make their cases…

Earnings: DIS: Strong Quarter Across The Board (Ditching ESPN MVNO Helps) - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Thu 08 Nov 2007 02:12 PM PST

The Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) Company brought in another strong quarter, increasing net income to $877 million from $782 million in the same quarter last year. (The quarter ending Sept.…

Broadband Content Bits: ESPN; mtvU/Cisco; CosmoGirl - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Sun 09 Sep 2007 06:00 PM PST

-- ESPN Premiere Original Webisodes, Mobisodes: ESPN.com has begun airing a new web series, Countdown Daily, which is updated Mondays through Fridays with 12- to 15 minute breakdowns of notable…

ESPN Acquires Rugby Site Scrum.com - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 21 Aug 2007 04:18 AM PST

Two months after buying cricket news Cricinfo, ESPN has bought rugby info site Scrum.com, Reuters reported. Scrum.com claims to attract as many as 500,000 visitors each month at the height…

More On ESPN360: More Than 800,00 Soccer Streams; Cravens New VP/GM - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 08 Aug 2007 11:46 AM PST

Some more on the ESPN360 (NYSE: DIS) remake into a live sporting event broadband network we wrote about yesterday, officially announced Wednesday: Jeff Cravens, who joined ESPN in 2006, has…

ESPN Changes Broadband Game Plan; Will Relaunch ESPN360 With Emphasis On Live Events - 55 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 07 Aug 2007 10:10 PM PST

ESPN (NYSE:DIS) will try to unravel its online video confusion by relaunching ESPN360 in September with an emphasis on streaming live events—some 2,000 in the first 12 months, according to…

Broadband Content Bits: Discovery; ESPN360-FIFA; I-Report - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Thu 02 Aug 2007 12:32 PM PST

Discovery Streaming: Starting Friday, Discovery is moving ahead with a mixed approach to broadband streaming will stream some ad-supported, full-length episodes of series and specials as sneak peeks and next…

Earnings: Disney Quarter Profits Up 14 Percent, Revenues Up 7 Percent - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 01 Aug 2007 09:28 PM PST

Disney’s spring quarter earnings were released at the same time as the news about Club Penguin. The company’s net income rose 14 percent, to $1.18 billion from $1.3 billion in…

NBA Extensions With Disney and Turner Include ‘Robust’ Digital Rights - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 27 Jun 2007 11:59 AM PST

The new NBA media deals are done—extending contracts with The Walt Disney Company’s ESPN and ABC and Turner Broadcasting’s TNT through the 2015-16 season. The broadcast rights are essentially the…

Industry Moves: Disney-ABC; ESPN Content - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 20 Jun 2007 08:00 PM PST

Some significant organizational changes at Disney-ABC Worldwide Television, Disney Media Networks and ESPN ... TV distribution: The impending retirement of Laurie Younger, president, Disney-ABC Worldwide Television, leads to the creations…

ESPN Buys Cricket Website Cricinfo - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 10 Jun 2007 11:39 PM PST

ESPN has made its biggest online foray into cricket: it has bought the largest cricket news and info website Cricinfo, from The Wisden Group. ESPN, owned by Disney, plans to…

ESPN’s 2007 Fantasy Baseball Season Starts Out With Nightmare; Foes Gloat As Site Retools - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Sun 15 Apr 2007 09:22 PM PST

We’re a little late to this—not that ESPN’s competitors didn’t make sure we were informed—but didn’t want to let it slide ... While MLB was suffering one of the oddest…