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More games, more screens, more opportunities for sponsors. Those were the messages delivered by ESPN at its upfront presentation to advertisers Tuesday morning in New York. For TVWeek's comprehensive coverage of the upfront presentations, visit the Upfront Navigator page. Despite the economy, ESPN...
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Walt Disney’s fiscal second-quarter profit fell 46%, with a slight drop in earnings from its media networks unit overshadowed by plunging profit from its studio entertainment and parks and resorts operations. Disney’s operating profit from media networks for the quarter ended March 28 fell 4% to $1.31...
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Samuel L. Jackson has been tapped to host the 17th annual ESPY Awards, airing July 19 on ESPN and ESPN HD. It will be Mr. Jackson’s fourth time hosting the sports award show. The awards ceremony will be taped July 15 at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles.
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ESPN led the nominees for the 30th annual Sports Emmy Awards with 42 nominations, followed by NBC with 28. Fox and HBO were tied for third with 18. The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences will announce the winners of the Sports Emmys at a ceremony April 27 at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P...
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Dave Winfield has joined ESPN as a “Baseball Tonight” analyst, beginning April 5 on ESPN2. Mr. Winfield will work with host Karl Ravech and analysts Peter Gammons and John Kruk on Sundays and some Mondays during the Major League Baseball season. His first appearance on April 5 will lead into the Opening...
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DINESH JAIN Name: Dinesh “Dinni” Jain, president-COO, Insight Communications Vanguard Award: Cable Operations Management How long in current position: Five years. Mr. Jain was appointed president in February 2006, having served as chief operating officer since October 2003. Born: 1964, New York City...
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The National Basketball Association is getting ready for the playoffs with a promotional campaign that its TV partners, ABC, ESPN and TNT, will be using as well. The campaign, launching this week, uses the theme “Where Will Amazing Happen This Year?” as it shows in striking black-and-white some of the...
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ESPN and FIBA, the world basketball governing body, have signed a three-year agreement that gives ESPN exclusive English-language distribution rights through 2011. ESPN will carry live games in the U.S. for international men’s basketball tournaments, including the 2009 and 2011 FIBA Americas Championships...
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Automaker Infiniti has become the exclusive sponsor of college basketball in the Big Ten and SEC conferences. It also has signed new multimedia ad deals with ESPN and CBS. ESPN will air an “Infiniti Pre-Game Showcase” before key games, and Infiniti ads will get prominent placement on ESPN.com on Saturdays...
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Bravo’s “Top Chef” reigned supreme among cable shows Wednesday night, taking the top spot and matching its previous season high. At 10 p.m., “Chef” scored a 1.8 rating/5 share among adults 18-49 and drew 3.3 million viewers, according to national ratings from Nielsen Media Research. The cooking competition...
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Walt Disney Co.’s first quarter profit fell 32%, driven down by weaker performance at its broadcast and cable holdings as the economy has slowed. “We faced a challenging first quarter with many of our businesses impacted to various degrees by the economic downturn,” said Robert A. Iger, Disney’s president...
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ESPN Classic will air a 10-hour marathon of “Breaking Barriers” on Jan. 20 to celebrate Barack Obama’s inauguration as president. An additional seven hours of the series, which profiles ground-breaking African American athletes such as Jackie Robinson, Arthur Ashe and Jack Johnson, will air Jan. 19 to...
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Fox drew the highest ratings among the networks that show NFL football for the second consecutive year. Fox said its NFL games averaged a 10.5 Nielsen household rating and a 22 share CBS’s Sunday games drew a 10 ratings and 21 share. Fox’s Sunday afternoon rating also beat the 10.2/16 NBC drew with its...
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The National Association of Broadcasters is issuing a warning to policy makers and Congress about the potential impact of ESPN’s winning exclusive rights to air most of the Bowl Championship Series. The new deal takes much of the series off broadcast TV and moves it to basic cable. In a policy statement...
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ESPN Tuesday formally announced an agreement to air all of the college football Bowl Championship Series games on cable television beginning in 2011. Fox on Monday said it wouldn’t match ESPN’s offer, said to be $500 million over four years. Fox bid $400 million, up from the $330 million it’s paying...