Archive for December, 2006

2006 was a big year for sports media. From the success of new media ventures, such as the partnerships of Google Video and YouTube with sports leagues, or the mainstream popularity of sports blogs, to [...]

#5: Sports on demand.This year, sports took advantage of new media to make games available in ways they haven’t been before. The NBA signed deals with Google and Apple to distribute games on Google Video [...]

Monday, legendary singer James Brown died at age 73. Tuesday, former U.S. president Gerald Ford died at age 93. And Friday, former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was executed at age 69. Truly a strange, morbid [...]

Norby Williamson is the executive vice president of production for ESPN. The Sporting News placed him #67 on its Power 100 list, two spots ahead of Shaq. Norby, whose real first name isn’t Antwan, recently [...]

Originally aired by ESPN on New Years’ Eve 1999.

Michael Wilbon has signed a multiyear contract extension with ESPN that shifts most of his work to television and away from the Washington Post. Monday Night Football was the most watched cable series of all [...]

To quote our late 38th U.S. President Gerald Ford, our long national nightmare is over. After over two years without Mike Fratello and Marv Albert working together on TNT, it looks like the best NBA [...]

ODB of olddirtyblog.org posted this on the AOL NBA Fanhouse, directed to blogger Marcel Mutoni: “Off-topic, but I thought you’d be interested in an email I sent to Peter Vecsey in response to the article [...]

NBC’s Christmas evening broadcast of the Philadelphia Eagles and Dallas Cowboys game registered 23.2 million viewers, higher than any game of the NBA Finals since 1998 and any game of the World Series since 2004. [...]

The NFL continues to dominate; Christmas Day saw a 12.5 overnight rating for the Eagles/Cowboys matchup, which isn’t phenomenal for an NFL game (compare it to the huge numbers FOX and CBS get for their [...]