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...avid sports fan, Obama sat in the back of his campaign bus last Saturday relaxing on a Lazy Boy and watching some ESPN News. As the ticker on the bottom of the television screen rolled through college football scores from across the nation, it finally came across the Ivy League...
...during the course of the campaign, Hardwick said, “I saw my barbershop change from ESPN...
...Superman’, Berry has been wowing Harvard fans since his spectacular freshman debut, when he recorded three pass breakups, six tackles and a fumble recovery. The senior cornerback has amassed an impressive collection of accolades throughout his Harvard career. A John Harvard Scholar, Berry has been named an ESPN the Magazine Academic All-District selection, a Major H winner and an All-Ivy League Fall Academic Team selection. His other honors include an Allstate AFCA Good Works Team selection, a preseason All-American selection by the Sports Network and a preseason first team All-American selection by College Sporting...
...Cable TV also has free, night-on-the-couch appeal for the cash-strapped, plus another advantage. The research firm SNL Kagan says cable TV advertising will have grown an impressive 10.7% by the end of 2008, as channels like ESPN and Lifetime continue siphoning viewers away from broadcast TV. Next year cable ad revenues will grow only 4.7%, Kagan predicts, because of the recession. But when squeezed companies slash their advertising budgets, cable has the cushion of a second revenue stream - about 50% of its cash comes from affiliate fees paid by cable operators...
...Sports do benefit from a buffer against recession. Leagues are in the midst of long-term television-rights deals whose terms are already locked in (baseball, for example, has a contract with Fox, TBS and ESPN that expires in 2013). And there are some positive economic indicators. New York Mets vice president David Howard says the 49 luxury boxes for the team's new stadium, which are priced between $250,000 and $500,000, have already sold out. That's an impressive achievement, given the bad economy and the team's second straight horrific collapse down the stretch...