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Home Theater October 23, 2002 HT Staff |
HD Sports on ABC, ESPN High-definition television will get a big push this season and next with sports programming from ABC and ESPN. |
Home Theater September 2002 Mark Fleischmann |
Having a Ball with HDTV A sharper, wider view of the current sports action and what you can expect in the future. |
Home Theater July 31, 2003 |
Fox Plans HDTV, Comcast Adds ESPN HD High-definition television got a big boost from two major sources in July. |
BusinessWeek October 17, 2005 Lowry & Hyman |
The Making of ESPN's Baseball Deal More than two years of talks between the ESPN and Major League Baseball offer a telling glimpse into the complexity of today's big-money sports. |
Home Theater December 20, 2002 |
NFL Playoffs In HDTV In January, football fans will get an unprecedented opportunity to explore high-definition television thanks to an agreement reached December 20 between CBS Television and Thomson Multimedia's RCA division. |
AskMen.com February 5, 2003 Mark Simmons |
Why The NFL Is So Fantastic As the NFL powers into the 21st century, it is head and shoulders above all other professional sports circuits. It is firing on all cylinders; both in terms of financial metrics and public relations goodwill. |
BusinessWeek October 17, 2005 Mark Hyman |
The Wisdom of ESPN's Solomon Now that cable sports network has an ombudsman, expect newsier news coverage and fastidious self-policing |
PC Magazine September 13, 2006 Robert Heron |
Expert View: Big Screens Don't Always Mean HDTV The most insidious problem is the fact that all video on TV is highly compressed. |
AskMen.com Steve Seepersaud |
Top TV Network Contracts Televised sporting events have huge audiences. The bigger the game, the bigger the audience. In America, no game is bigger than the Super Bowl. More than half of all the television sets in the U.S. are tuned in to the NFL's championship game. |
AskMen.com Steve Seepersaud |
How Athletes Are Cultivated How do aspiring sports stars hone their talents so they're ready for the big time and the dollars that are up for grabs? How much money is involved in cultivating talent? |
Home Theater October 2, 2007 |
HD Ads Sell Better Viewers who watch high-def commercials are more likely to remember brands, buy stuff, and have a good time than viewers of standard-def commercials, according to a recent survey. |
AskMen.com June 26, 2002 Mark Simmons |
Why Did NBC Drop The NBA? With ABC and ESPN picking up the torch from NBC for the rights to broadcast NBA games, analysts are asking whether the Peacock Network made the right decision by letting the NBA go. |
Sports Central February 14, 2011 Vito Curcuru |
Why the NBA Has the Best All-Star Game The NBA All-Star Game has started to separate itself as the best event of its kind among the four major sports. |
Home Theater February 17, 2003 |
DirecTV's Full-court Press Direct satellite broadcaster DirecTV is making an aggressive move with live high-definition coverage of National Basketball Association games this season. |
Sports Illustrated March 14, 2001 Ivan Maisel |
'January Madness' just can't happen Each sport has its own charms. A playoff could be developed for college football, but don't think for a moment it would be March Madness come early. Here are a few of the things that would be missing... |
BusinessWeek October 17, 2005 Frederik Balfour |
Slicing And Dicing In Asia Field hockey in India, baseball in Taiwan - ESPN and partner STAR Sports are luring viewers all around the region with its new niche programming. |
Sports Central May 29, 2007 Adam Russell |
The Sports Fan's Cable/Satellite TV Paradox There are now so many specialized sports networks on cable/satellite TV that executives are forced to find anything to fill their programming schedules. |
Sports Central August 13, 2004 Martin Hawrysko |
New NFL TV Rights Could Get Interesting Rumors suggest that Disney might be considering moving Monday Night Football to ESPN. It will not necessarily be the end of the world. |
Home Theater July 2003 Rebecca Day |
Baby Steps to HDTV The process may be painful, but the result is a bundle of joy. |
Sports Central April 7, 2015 Brad Oremland |
Pro Sports' Biggest Disappointments We'll look for the equivalent of the 2014-15 Kentucky Wildcats in the NFL, NBA, and MLB -- the best teams that didn't quite win it all. |
Salon.com November 1, 2002 Allen Barra |
Why nobody watched the World Series Blame it on late games and regionalism -- not the great baseball. And has anybody checked the NBA ratings lately? |
Home Theater March 18, 2004 |
Samsung and Cable Industry Cable providers and electronics giant team up for HDTV's "Coming of Age" party in New York, announce joint promotional effort. |
AskMen.com Steve Seepersaud |
Sports Revenues During the Holidays Sports fans and TV network executives alike will enjoy this holiday season as NBA, NFL and college bowl matchups rule the airwaves. |
Sports Central May 27, 2004 Danny Sternfield |
It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year This time of year you get to see the best basketball players on the planet playing almost every night during these final stages of the NBA playoffs. |
Home Toys October 2004 |
Get The Most From Your HDTV While some cable and satellite companies are beginning to work HD into their lineups, one new satellite service, VOOM, was created with HD expressly in mind. |
The Motley Fool January 26, 2005 Jeff Hwang |
Take-Two Takes the Mound Will the company's baseball deal strike out, or will it toss EA out of the ballpark? |
Home Theater April 23, 2005 Darryl Wilkinson |
VOOM Doom Brings DIRECTV Boom A week before VOOM satellite service is discontinued, DirecTV offers a deal to VOOM customers. |
Home Toys August 2004 |
Mark Cuban of HDNet and Bryan Burns of ESPN to Keynote HDTV Forum 2004 The upcoming conference entitled, "Accelerating the HDTV Transition" will bring together leaders from all segments of the television industry. |
Sports Illustrated January 10, 2001 Frank Deford |
The hot stove league Once upon a time there was an offseason. Super Bowl? NFL Playoffs? The NBA? Hard to imagine today, but for much of the 20th century, perhaps as late as into the 1960s, the sports calendar effectively ended with the New Year's Day bowl games... |
Sports Central July 11, 2011 Bill Hazell |
Locked Out Twice? The NFL labor dispute is on the edge of being resolved, but the NBA lockout has just started and thus, they are nowhere near an agreement. |
Sports Central December 11, 2003 Eric Williams |
Giving Thanks Today, the college football world is in an uproar and the season has been thrown into utter chaos because of three little letters: BCS. Thank God for March Madness |
AskMen.com October 16, 2002 Mark Simmons |
Can We Make Baseball Profitable? At a time when most baseball franchises are crying poverty, how can MLB increase revenue for its franchises? |
BusinessWeek June 3, 2010 Ronald Grover |
Watching the World Cup via MLB Major League Baseball Advanced Media will provide World Cup coverage over the Net -- and probably break all video streaming records. |
BusinessWeek October 17, 2005 Grover et al. |
In the Zone While ESPN boss George Bodenheimer is trying to push his world-beating brand even deeper into the lives of sports fans, at his back is a slew of momentum-gaining rivals -- and Comcast is leading the pack. |
Salon.com March 22, 2001 Luc Hatlestad |
March Madness: Not so mad All those "upsets" are exciting, but they're only "upsets" because the selection committee hasn't realized that the mid-major teams that keep their players are really good. |
Salon.com June 20, 2000 Eric Boehlert |
NBA in disarray Come back, Mr. Jordan: The NBA Finals are in danger of going down as the lowest-rated playoffs since 1981, while couch potatoes turn off college games, too. What's wrong with hoops? |
The Motley Fool February 9, 2007 Brendan Mathews |
DirecTV Dishes Out High-Def The satellite-TV provider has a leg up in a tough industry, thanks to its aggressive focus on HDTV. Investors, take note. |
Sports Illustrated March 15, 2000 |
Best day of the year For basketball fans, this is the best day of all the year. Yes, today -- the day before the NCAA tournament begins.... |
BusinessWeek October 17, 2005 |
Why Mark Shapiro Left ESPN Executive Mark Shapiro calls his ESPN job "one of the best jobs in America" - but he's gambling that a chance to turn around Six Flags will be even better. |
Home Theater February 10, 2003 |
Showtime Boosts HD Programming Showtime Networks has announced that it will "substantially increase" its high-definition programming for 2003, with sports events, movies and many of its original series airing in the digital format. |
AskMen.com Steve Seepersaud |
Most Profitable Sports Leagues The top five richest pro sports leagues. |
CIO May 1, 2006 Thomas Wailgum |
Game On As ESPN fast breaks into the digital age, Technology Executive VP Chuck Pagano is calling the plays. To inspire his team, Pagano relies on communication, collaboration and a one-on-one leadership style. |
PC World August 2006 Yardena Arar |
HDTV: Is Now the Best Time to Buy? Deciding when to move to high-definition TV involves more than just the set. |
Home Theater October 20, 2003 |
Cablevision Launches Voom Satellite service offers 21 HDTV channels, standard fare, plus more to come. |
The Motley Fool May 31, 2005 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Rink on the Brink ESPN is dropping the NHL, and that could add damage to an already battered league. Investors, take note. |
Home Theater December 2003 Pete Putman |
Monday Night Football Feturns in 720p HDTV...Finally! No HDTV program has been more anticipated than the return of Monday Night Football to the wide screen this fall. Ever since ABC's brief flirt with HD telecasts of MNF in 1999, those few football fans who watched the HD version have been like drug addicts in withdrawal. |
Fast Company April 2008 Will Leitch |
MLB's Digital Dominance As the world scrambles to master online video, crusty old baseball already has it figured out. |
PC Magazine March 14, 2007 David Strom |
Q&A: Mark Cuban The owner of the Dallas Mavericks and co-founder of HDNet talks about producing and broadcasting HD content. |
Salon.com March 7, 2001 Allen Barra |
The unsweet 64 The NCAA Tournament is a cash cow for the NCAA, but there are too many teams, and fans have been slowly tuning out... |
The Motley Fool August 18, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson |
New Sheet of Ice for the NHL Comcast could win big with this expensive bet: trying to build its OLN (formerly known as the Outdoor Life Network) programming. |