If you visit ESPN.com for your sports fix over the next few days, you may notice something different. Less clutter and more ads is the formula Disney hopes will work to sustain the sports portal through this era of declining revenues. If this works look… Read More »Changes coming to ESPN.com
Just a quick follow up on a story from last week. It was reported that ESPN had bid $125 million for rights to broadcast the NCAA Division I College Football Bowl Championship Series on the cable channel. Turns out that was for just one year.… Read More »Disney’s ABC/ESPN is now the home for College Football Bowl Championship Series
Disney’s ESPN cable sports network brand is making a bid to become a big player in the Bowl Championship Series. Disney made a reported $125 million bid for the rights to the complete Bowl Championship Series, the five annual contests — the Orange, Sugar, Fiesta… Read More »ESPN places $125 million bid for rights to College Football Championship
The snafu that caused much of America to miss the last 34 laps of last weekend’s NASCAR race has raised the ire of NASCAR President Brian France. “We didn’t like it, that was not what we had anticipated but we have talked to them repeatedly… Read More »NASCAR not happy with ABC either
I was very unhappy with ABC Sports on Sunday. With 34 laps remaining in the Checker Auto Parts 500, ABC cut away from the race only to show “America’s Funniest Home Videos” as originally scheduled. You just don’t do that ABC. Not during a sporting… Read More »ABC should be penalized for NASCAR stunt
USA Today has a profile of Disney’s Wide World of Sports complex at the Walt Disney World resort and the miracle of its 11 year over night success. Okay, it’s not a miracle, but it finally is becoming more integrated with the overall WDW experience… Read More »Disney’s Wide World of Sports moves closer to ESPN brand
SportsBiz Blog notes that the NFL and ESPN are in talks to show some NFL Network programming (mostly the NFL games that the network has exclusive rights to) on the ESPN Classic channel. This performs an end-run around various cable operators who have been balking… Read More »ESPN & The NFL Network in talks
Aside from Gambling & Showgirls this is one thing Las Vegas still has over Orlando. 100 Lane Bowling Alleys to cool off in during the hot summer months. Now the Orlando Sentinel is reporting that Walt Disney World will build just such a pavilion at… Read More »ESPN Wide World Of Sports to add 100 Lane Bowling Alley, Tournaments