Brandon Cogley My Career Ambitions By: Brandon Cogley Comm 115

Brandon Cogley

My Career Ambitions

By: Brandon CogleyComm 115

Brandon Cogley

Introduction

• I choose this topic because I have been in love with sports my entire life.

• Working for ESPN has been my dream since I was a little kid.

• I researched different sites to see what it would take to be a part of the ESPN team.

• I found information about what it takes to get one show up on ESPN.

• I looked into internships and starter jobs in the company.

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Information

• The Bristol campus has 2,084 parking spaces • ESPN's Tape library contains over 1 million tapes. • ESPN production opertations function 24 hours a day, 7

days a week, 365 days a year • More than 50 production and technical personnel work

on each SportsCenter program • A typical one hour SportsCenter program provides an

average of 95 insert graphics and 14 animation elements -- that's more than one-and-one-half graphics a minute (the breakdown is 56 lower-third graphics, 21 full screen and 18 over-the-shoulder).

• SportsTicker utilizes more than 800 on-site reporters

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• Based in Bristol, CT., ESPN is 80 percent owned by ABC, Inc., which is an indirect subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company. The Hearst Corporation holds the remaining 20 percent interest in ESPN

• There are times when ESPN only has rights to air certain events in a specific territory and therefore they are not able to broadcast them to ALL ESPN networks.

• ESPN.com was launched in 1998 as the successor to the ESPN zone.

• ESPN's signal, traveling at 186,000 miles a second, has gone 150 trillion miles (150,000,000,000,000 miles) in 25 years and the first show is now approaching the star Vega (the 5th brightest star in the night sky) in Lyra. (Light travels about 6 trillion miles in one year). (Source: Gengras Planetarium, September 2003).

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More Info Please…

• As many as 16,000 fans turn out to watch College GameDay in person.

• As of 2004 ESPN and ESPN2 combined to present all 63 games from the NCAA Women's Basketball Championship, a tournament first.

• George Grande, the TV voice of the Cincinnati Reds, was the first SportsCenter anchor

• The first score reported on SportsCenter was Chris Evert Lloyd defeating Billie Jean King 6-1, 6-0.

• Up to 110 games and events from around the globe are screened for SportsCenter per day.

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What to watch for

• Sportscenter• Cold Pizza• Pardon the Interruption• Around the Horn• Rome is Burning • College Game Day• Mike and Mike in the Morning • The Contender • E:60• Little League World Series

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Some More Information

• ESPN runs most of its programming from its main building in Bristol, Connecticut

• Other locations include..– Charlotte, NC– San Francisco, CA– Los Angeles, CA (Coming in 2009)

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Television Channels

• ESPN• ESPN 2• ESPNEWS• ESPN Classic• ESPNU• ESPN Deportes• ESPN Brazil• ESPNHD• ESPN International

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Conclusion…

• As you can see ESPN has a lot of people working there and would be a great chance to stay in touch with sports.

• I would love to get a shot at being an analyst for ESPN because I know it will be the most exciting job ever.

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• Any Questions???