- ESPN will try something new with its baseball coverage on Monday night. USA Today reports that ESPN will split up its three-person broadcasting team for Monday’s Dodgers/Cardinals game by having analysts Steve Phillips and Orel Hershiser “stationed in the camera wells beside each dugout,” while play-by-play voice Dan Shulman remains in the booth. If the experiment is a success, ESPN “could send more baseball announcers out of the booth on future games.”
- ESPN will review its ban of New York Post staffers this week, reports Sports Illustrated. New York Post employees were banned from ESPN outlets last week after the tabloid published pictures of ESPN reporter Erin Andrews from an illegal video. In a statement to Sports Illustrated, an ESPN spokesman notes that while the New York Post sports reporters banned from ESPN “had nothing to do with the way Erin was treated … [w]e just felt strongly that in this unique circumstance, it would be wrong to have the words ‘New York Post‘ on our air.”
- Viewers wanting to tune into the August 12 World Cup qualifying match between the USA and Mexico may be in luck. NBC Universal’s mun2, which holds exclusive English-language rights to the game, will be made available “as a free preview to all its distribution partners” on the day of the match. NBC Universal has “already received commitments from distributors for the preview … that will put [mun2] before 56 million households.” (via Fang’s Bites)
Ted Turner, whose cable business transformed TV sports, dies
Ted Turner, the media mogul and team owner whose TBS "SuperStation" helped pave the way the era of cable...
