- Via commenter J.E. comes this news: The Toronto Raptors are gaining a prominent broadcast partner in Canada. The team and the CBC agreed to a “in principle to air a package of Raptors games in 2007-08, the first time the National Basketball Association team’s telecasts will be on main network television since 2001-02“.
- ESPN will air 123 hours of Wimbledon coverage starting June 25; live tennis will air on ESPN2 daily through the first week of the tournament from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM. ESPN2 is the only U.S. cable partner for Wimbledon; cable rights for the Australian Open and French Open are shared by the Tennis Channel and ESPN.
- ESPN Original Entertainment is dead — in name only, that is. ESPN has restructured its content division, resulting in among other things, a new content development department — of which Keith Clinkscales will be senior VP — that essentially replaces and expands EOE. According to ESPN, “The move signifies an expansion of ESPN Original Entertainment into a multi-platform (TV, Internet, print, wireless, broadband and radio) creative content developement (sic) unit.”
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