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Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 12:18pm on Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 | ESPN fired baseball analyst Steve Phillips on October 25, 2009, due to his doubleheader with a fellow employee, 22-year-old Brooke Hundley. ESPN announced on October 26 that Hundley has also been fired.
Phillips is a former general manager of the New York Mets.
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Mondo Times editors
Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 11:23pm on Sunday, November 1st, 2009 | ESPN has suspended baseball analyst Steve Phillips over a fling with an assistant, The New York Post reported on October 21, 2009:
"She's not going to be ignored, Steve!
ESPN analyst Steve Phillips had a fling with a 22-year-old production assistant, who, after being dumped, taunted his wife with "Fatal Attraction"-like phone calls and a letter that bragged about her sexcapades with Phillips while taking pot shots at their "loveless marriage," The Post has learned."
The story noted that "Phillips -- who admitted having multiple affairs with women while working for the Mets -- is now being sued for divorce by his 40-year-old wife, the mother of his four sons."
The full story:
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/exclusive_espn_steve_phillips_in_bLw9UoSAQJwJLU4ZDXvvDO
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Mondo Times editors
Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 12:10pm on Thursday, October 1st, 2009 | October 2009: ESPN is developing sports web sites for major American cities. The network has hired Barry Vigoda as managing editor of ESPNDallas.com, which covers sports in the Dallas and Fort Worth area. Vigoda was previously deputy sports editor at the Dallas Morning News.
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Eric Kallgren
Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 12:14pm on Friday, May 22nd, 2009 | ESPN will show short-form content on YouTube, the companies announced on April 10, 2009:
"Disney Media Networks’ Anne Sweeney is leading a charge to expand its online audience.
Looking to reach a wider audience with its sports content and other shows, Disney Media Networks has made an agreement with YouTube to launch multiple ad-supported channels featuring short-form content from Disney-owned ESPN and the ABC Television Group.
The agreement allows Disney to sell its own advertising inventory within the ESPN and ABC channels. The roll out is scheduled to begin in mid-April for ESPN and early May for the ABC Television Group channels, which will include ABC Entertainment, ABC News, ABC Family and SOAPnet.
The agreement allows both companies to share revenue from advertising shown along with short videos, such as sports highlights, show recaps and original Web series. However, the deal doesn’t include full-length sporting events or TV programs, which are increasingly popular online.
The ESPN video player will be integrated into ESPN’s channel on YouTube and will play a variety of sports content and highlights on the site."
The full story:
http://broadcastengineering.com/news/espn-show-short-form-content-youtube-0410/
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Mondo Times editors
Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 3:44pm on Tuesday, December 16th, 2008 | On December 15, 2008, the New York Times reported that ESPN is overhauling its web site:
"ESPN.COM is counting on less clutter and more advertising options to bolster revenue at a time when its sister cable channels are battling rare weakness.
ESPN, the Walt Disney Company’s sports media behemoth, is unveiling Tuesday a substantial redesign of its primary Web portal in a test form, with a formal introduction planned for Jan. 5.
About a year in the making, the overhaul represents at least one significant shift in strategy. Instead of inundating visitors with its intense coverage of every major sport from the get-go — something that the company now believes can drive away certain fans — ESPN.com is moving in a less-is-more direction, at least on the home page.
“If we are frustrating people, they’re not going to spend as much time as we want on the site,” said John Skipper, ESPN’s executive vice president for content. “There can be a thing as too much.”
ESPN.com, for instance, currently greets users with 36 links displayed in a block near the top of the home page. There are links for golf, racing, men’s basketball, college football, blogs, online games and podcasts, among other things. The redesign pares this list down to 19 links."
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