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Two weeks ago late on a Wednesday night for the MAAC Quarterfinals at the Atlantic City Convention Center, St. Peter’s University Men’s Basketball coach Shaheen Holloway entered a press conference room after the Peacocks dispatched Fairfield University on their way to the MAAC semi-finals and eventually the conference championship game. In the room was my …
“Be a lifter, not just a leader.” That quote from WISE Women of the Year honoree, Disney/ESPN’s Rosalyn Durant really struck me as what’s needed as our industry gloriously and steadily moves back to the breakneck, in person business we have all loved. While bumpy roads still lie ahead and always will, the ability for …
The NFL rode the added 17th week into what plans to be a great offseason with markets and storylines galore. While we all look forward to playoff action, kudos to some of the best business initiatives that shouldn’t be missed from this past fall, all of which again are noteworthy and remind us how the …
New Year’s Eve, like millions of others, we were watching The Orange Bowl between Michigan and Georgia (I have mild rooting interests on both sides, as my daughter is a grad student at UGA and have numerous friends and colleagues who favor the Maize and Blue and had just helped out with the Joe Moore …
There are so many elements in how the greatest storytellers rearrange the furniture in any narrative to make us more engaged and interested in tales, fictional and nonfictional, that we think we know well, but one of the best elements is context. I was reminded of the value of context in visual storytelling not once …
We have written a few times about the continued evolution of the Megacast and what media properties, especially Turner and ESPN, but Nickelodeon as well have done with let’s call it “alternative engagement” of consumers who are not really a core audience sometimes, as we pivot in and away from the traditional, now archaic, systems …
With every passing toe dip we see how the “alternative broadcast” keeps resonating more and more with an audience that is made up of casual fans, who want to watch a game not from an angle dictated by the broadcaster, but one that contains content, style and other elements that makes them feel engaged, comfortable …
When I first saw the reports of Naomi Osaka’s decision to forgo media at the French Open, I shook my head. As I had talked about with Mike Sielski of the Philadelphia Inquirer a few weeks ago, is this another example of the reinvention of the media/athlete celebrity dynamic, one which continues to fail while …
We all know how fast the digital/social business is evolving. Platforms go up and down, features change, buzz drives interest and on and on and on. We were lucky enough recently to spend time with Omar Raja, who is now working at ESPN driving their social and digital strategy and engagement is probably best known …
Animated balls. Lighting Dunks. Hero Points. Fun. That’s what “The Worldwide Leader” ESPN brought us on Monday night as part of “Marvel’s Arena of Heroes” broadcast on ESPN 2. Now this isn’t anywhere near the first time ESPN has tried a little disruption to test the waters with alternative narratives for broadcasts. We have seen …