MediaWeek: Web Publishers Divided Over Value of Charging
Monday, 14 September 2009, 12:47
Erm, it's not just the BBC that won't be charging for content you know: "Besides Yahoo, neither MSNBC.com, CBSNews.com, nor CNET are likely to implement any paid structure. CNN.com has made no moves in this direction. Even ESPN.com, which has long maintained a small paid subscription service with its ESPN Insider product, isn’t likely to change its online approach."
New York Times: ESPN Limits Employees’ Social Networking
Wednesday, 5 August 2009, 10:50
"[On-air] talent, reporters and writers are prohibited from having sports-related blogs or Web sites and that they will need a supervisor’s approval to discuss sports on any social networking sites. They will also be restricted from discussing internal policies or detailing how stories are 'reported, written, edited or produced.'"
Online Video Watch: ESPN Drives Another Stake Into Newspapers
Thursday, 23 July 2009, 20:48
"For ESPN it’s a natural extension, in Chicago a 3-5 minute local version of SportsCenter is available online daily, and the company can leverage its scale to reach much more specific niche audience. For newspapers it’s a competitor they may never be able to beat."
New York Times: ESPN Aims to Be the Home Team, All Over America
Monday, 20 July 2009, 23:28
"ESPN is taking aim at hometown sports coverage, threatening one of the last strongholds of local newspapers and television stations. … after a promising test run in Chicago, ESPN is adding local offshoots to three more cities."
paidContent.org: ESPN The Magazine To Charge For Content Online
Sunday, 7 June 2009, 22:13
"ESPN The Magazine becomes the latest print publication to try charging for its content online. The magazine announced on its website Friday that its online version, ESPNTheMag.com, was merging with the ESPN Insider service, which charges $39.95 a year for specialized sports content. "
WSJ.com: Digits: ESPN Plans Local Sports Sites
Tuesday, 24 February 2009, 21:40
"Add ESPN to the list of national news outlets positioning themselves to capitalize on the demise of local newspapers. … ESPN hopes ESPNChicago.com will be the first of a series of new sites that will deepen its online penetration in local markets, following an increasingly popular approach for major content providers."
WSJ: The Numbers Guy: MLB Standings Get More Sophisticated
Tuesday, 26 August 2008, 08:00
"For the past month, ESPN.com’s Major League Baseball standings have included postseason probabilities, broken down by chance of winning the division and winning a wild card. It’s a brave step forward for standings, longtime fixtures of newspaper agate and more-recent staples of online sports sites. And ESPN isn’t yet sure playoff probabilities, as supplied by an online standings provider called Coolstandings, are for the long term."
Friday, 25 January 2008, 14:05
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"ESPN declined to confirm the numbers, but an executive briefed on the data said that for one 24-hour period, ESPN’s wireless NFL section, with 4.9 million visits, topped the PC NFL section’s 4.5 million visits." (via Lost Remote)
Saturday, 29 December 2007, 20:09
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"ESPN and Yahoo Sports are on a furious hiring binge, offering reporters and columnists more than they ever imagined they could make in journalism."
Monday, 10 December 2007, 21:18
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"US sports cable network ESPN is ‘absolutely interested’ in buying the UK rights to broadcast Premier League football"
Friday, 7 December 2007, 11:36
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"SPNU Campus Connection, is specifically to help get more user-generated content on ESPNU’s website, and will be accepting video clips with play-by-play analysis, sideline reporting, and production of televised events on ESPNU."
Tuesday, 30 October 2007, 07:50
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"During a tour of ESPN’s Bristol, Conn., campus, eWEEK got an up-close look at how the self-proclaimed worldwide leader in sports uses various technologies to offer broadcasts for almost any device."
Friday, 19 October 2007, 17:53
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PC Magazine has a slideshow of websites that are disaggregating the bundle of news that US metropolitan dailies used to provide. The situation’s a bit different in the UK, but it’s worth looking at.
Monday, 9 July 2007, 23:50
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"Major League Baseball has limited ESPN’s access to Tuesday night’s All-Star Game after the network broke an embargo and broadcast news of the players’ selections a few minutes after an exclusive, rain-delayed telecast on TBS."
