Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Sports Media Digest- February 29, 2012

Polian Joins ESPN as Football Analyst- ESPN announced today that former Colts executive Bill Polian has joined the network as an NFL analyst. Polian begins March 12th and will appear throughout the year on NFL Live, NFL32, and SportsCenter. He will also regularly contribute to ESPN.com, ESPN The Magazine, ESPN Radio and other platforms.

ABC/ESPN has NBA Quadruple Header On Sunday- ESPN and ABC will televise four NBA games this Sunday. Beginning at 1:00p.m. ET (ABC) Mike Tirico, Hubie Brown and Heather Cox will call the action as the Knicks travel to Boston to take on the Celtics. At 3:30p.m. ET (ABC) the Miami Heat will take on the Lakers in Los Angeles with Mike Breen, Jeff Van Gundy and Lisa Salters announcing. ESPN will have the two late games as the Bulls will be at the 76′ers at 7:00p.m. ET with Dan Shulman andDoris Burke calling the play. Finally at 9:30p.m. ET Dave Pasch and Chris Mullin will be on hand as the Denver Nuggets take on the San Antonio Spurs.

All-Star Game Delivers for NBA.com- The NBA today announced that online traffic to NBA.com during the NBA All-Star weekend totaled 114 million video streams and 209 million page views, an increase of more than 40 percent and nearly 30 percent respectively over 2011. The site also saw significant increases in other online related activity during the weekend.

ESPN to Collaborate With Facebook to Stream Championship Week Games- ESPN and Facebook have announced that the social network will launch a syndicated ESPN3 player that will be available during the network’s coverage of collage basketball Championship Week next week. Beginning tomorrow, fans will begin to discover the ESPN3 player by going to one of ESPN’s Facebook pages. For users who receive ESPN3 through an affiliated Internet service provider, the player will be able to automatically identify them as an authenticated user. Users whose subscription is tied to their video account will be directed to www.watchespn.com to authenticate.

First Woman to be Named Executive Producer of a Sports Network Will Take Over at Golf Channel- The Golf Channel has announced that Nine-time Emmy Award-winner and longtime NBC Olympics coordinating producer Molly Solomon has been promoted to Executive Producer and Senior Vice President, Production and Operations, Golf Channel. The promotion marks the first time that a woman will serve as executive producer for a national sports network. Solomon will report directly to Mike McCarley, President, Golf Channel. Solomon will oversee all aspects of production for programming on Golf Channel, including tournament coverage, news, original productions and operations.


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