Wasn’t able to do linkage on Friday due to several issues, but I’ll do links now as I get ready to watch the USA-England game later today.
I’ll do a review of early World Cup telecasts on both ESPN and Univision sometime this weekend. Thus far, I’m leaning towards Univision as your World Cup destination for the entire month. I can understand a little bit of Spanish, but even if you can’t understand the language, I like how the network presents the games. But I’ll do a full review later.
First, some links.
Multichannel News reports that TV executive Robert Wussler who was with CBS Sports and developed sports programming at CNN, TBS and TNT has died at the age of 73.
Kristi Schwarz of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution writes that Wussler had a big impact on Turner Broadcasting.
Mike Barnes from the Hollywood Reporter has an obituary of Wussler.
Mike Reynolds of Multichannel News writes that with the conference realignment mess in college sports playing out, so will TV rights deals especially with an expanded Pac 10 and Mountain West.
William Cooper of Sports Business Daily conducts the first of several roundtables concerning the World Cup and how South Africa is handling the event.
CNBC’s Darren Rovell talks with ESPN Vice President John Skipper about the network’s investment into the World Cup.
Ben Grossman of Broadcasting & Cable reviews ESPN’s World Cup debut.
Glen Dickson of B&C reports about ESPN 3D’s debut which carried the South Africa-Mexico World Cup opener.
The New York Times’ Richard Sandomir has a profile of ESPN/ABC NBA analyst Jeff Van Gundy.
Greg Connors of the Buffalo News says ESPN has tempered criticism of its World Cup coverage from four years by hiring a professional soccer announcing crew.
Tim Lemke has some thoughts of the closing of five ESPNZone’s across the country including Washington, DC.
Jim Williams at the Washington Examiner says ESPN is all over the World Cup.
Jim adds that the John Riggins Show is returning to MASN in July.
Jim reports that the Big East may take in the four Big 12 teams not taken by the Big 10 or Pac 10.
Barry Horn at the Dallas Morning News says the TV networks are not talking about the shift in college conferences.
Phil Rosenthal of the Chicago Tribune ranks where the Blackhawks’ victory in Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Final ranks with other Windy City sports moments in local TV history.
Maury Brown at the Biz of Baseball says MLB will celebrate the comic strip, Peanuts’ 60th anniversary this summer.
The great Bob’s Blitz blog paid a visit to the Mad Dog Radio studios at the Sirius XM New York headquarters.
Bob adds that a new book on ESPN is on the way.
We’ll end it there for now. USA-England is coming up.
