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Get Off The High Horse
by Paul on 08/05/09 at 12:10 PM ET
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from Frank DeFord at NPR,
Imagine if Vogue magazine was not only the country’s single dominant fashion medium, but also produced most major runway shows. Imagine if The Wall Street Journal was not just the nation’s only powerful business outlet, but it also owned the rights to the listings on the New York Stock Exchange.
Well, essentially, so it is with ESPN and sports. ESPN rules the land, the seas and the firmament of sport, and ESPN sees that it is good. ESPN has multiple channels, a magazine, a radio network, and now it’s starting local Web sites in many cities to compete on that level.
What it covers is so often what it owns the rights to — in almost every major sport. To be sure, other networks share some rights to the various leagues, but only ESPN is a critical mass. ESPN can make you.
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Amen!
Posted by Lindas1st on 08/05/09 at 12:00 PM ET
Don’t “land” & “firmament” mean the same thing?
Posted by aaron from atlanta on 08/05/09 at 12:03 PM ET
I’m a huge sports fan and I rarely turn to ESPN for news.
Too much stuff to dig through to get to the stories I actually wanna know. It’s easier to go online and right the source…
What I wouldn’t give for TSN and TSN2 in Michigan.
Posted by Heaton on 08/05/09 at 12:26 PM ET
+1. I can barely digest the endlessly repetitive loops of Sportscenter anymore. Every time I go to McMullan’s and they have Sportscenter on, I ask the barkeeps to change the channel to Setanta Sports...even if it’s tennis (and I’m not a tennis fan). Setanta has very few sports news segments/episodes. They’d rather show a match even if it’s pre-recorded.
F*ck ESPN.
Posted by SYF from Las Vegas, NV on 08/05/09 at 01:11 PM ET
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I’m a huge sports fan and I rarely turn to ESPN for news.
Too much stuff to dig through to get to the stories I actually wanna know. It’s easier to go online and right the source…
What I wouldn’t give for TSN and TSN2 in Michigan.
Posted by Heaton on 08/05/09 at 11:26 AM ET