Transcript My Career Ambitions

My Career Ambitions
By: Brandon Cogley
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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…
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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
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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
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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???
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