Sunday, June 26, 2011

Today's Up-To-The-Minute News On ESPN for Sunday, June 26, 2011

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(7:11:17 PM) ESPN Ready For FIFA 2011 Women's World Cup Kickoff – With far less fanfare - and presumably far fewer vuvuzelas - than last year in South Africa, ESPN is kicking off its coverage of another FIFA event today, the 2011 Women's World Cup from Germany. (This story continues here)

(7:30:15 PM) ESPN The Magazine makes historic move from NYC to Bristol with half a new staff – When Disney announced last July that ESPN The Magazine would move its headquarters from New York City to Bristol, Connecticut—where ESPN's studio and corporate offices reside—some staffers in the magazine's midtown Manhattan offices began crying. Anyone who's ever been to Bristol, or read excerpts of former executives maligning the valley town in Tom Shales' recently [... ] (This story continues here)

(7:20:46 PM) ESPN VOD Puts Bartman Back In Spotlight – ESPN this week officially extended its alliance with the Tribeca Film Festival by launching the Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival via video-on-demand. Among the films that will be available via VOD is 'Catching Hell,' which focuses on the events before, during and after Steve Bartman reached for a foul ball in Game 6 of the 2003 National League championship. (This story continues here)

(6:56:52 PM) ESPN Nets Largest NBA Draft Audience Since 1996 – Many hoops pundits didn't deem the class to be very strong, but the numbers were for ESPN's presentation of the NBA Draft on Thursday night. ESPN averaged a 2.4 rating and 3.2 million viewers for its 2011 NBA Draft Presented by Kia Motors telecast, which ran from 7:30 p.m. to 12:15 a.m. (ET), according to Nielsen data. (This story continues here)

(7:48:22 PM) ESPN 1000 to open street-level studio in fall – ESPN Radio’s WMVP-AM (1000) will open a street-level studio this fall so the public can watch and listen to its broadcasts. The studio will be located in the same building where the sports talk station now operates, at 190 N. State. The existing studio is on the building’s seventh floor.Cadillac will sponsor the new, state-of-the-art studio, to be known as the Cadillac ESPN Chicago State Street ... (This story continues here)

(7:25:45 PM) ESPN Brazil Chooses SES WORLD SKIES for Regional HD Distribution – Home to Latin Americas premium programming, SES WORLD SKIES, a division of SES S.A. (Paris:SESG) (LuxX:SESG), today announced a new capacity deal ... (This story continues here)

(7:10:40 PM) 2011 ESPN ESPY Awards: Nominees and TV Schedule – The nominations for the 2011 ESPN ESPY Awards were announced on Friday, June 24. The awards show will be airing on ESPN live from Los Angeles on Wednesday, July 13 at 9 p.m. EST. Seth Meyers, of SNL Weekend Update fame, is set to host the show for the second year in a row, and that right there is worth the price of admission. While Meyers is sure to be entertaining, he is not the star of the ... (This story continues here)

(7:02:12 PM) ESPN turns into Fox Sports 1340 today – Two major overhauls are on the horizon for the local radio station formerly known as ESPN 1340 AM. (This story continues here)

(7:33:03 PM) 2011 NBA Draft Results: Loser- ESPN’s “Historic” Factoids – ESPN is Trying Desperately to Make Each Pick Sound More Important Than it is Tristan Thompson is the only Canadian player to ever be selected at No. 4, according to ESPN. It seems like every pick or so, ESPN can't help but serve up some useless factoid that they claim to have some sort of historical significance. Be on the lookout for facts that the data team at ESPN is collecting that are ... (This story continues here)

(7:53:09 PM) Washington Nationals to Name Davey Johnson Manager, ESPN Says – The Washington Nationals will name Davey Johnson as their manager, ESPN reported on its website. (This story continues here)

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