tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33624629.post5462998783902378350..comments2024-03-17T03:18:56.070-04:00Comments on Dan Shanoff: ESPN.com vs Local Newspaper SportsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33624629.post-76003493057656120902009-08-03T10:11:03.150-04:002009-08-03T10:11:03.150-04:00Great piece- takeaways not just sports but the who...Great piece- takeaways not just sports but the whole news pieces too. I have several associates that are going "hyperlocal" and developing profitable businesses with a deep connect with their customer base.Niches are the future- you Tebow, me- smallbiz and social media, my 13 yr son- Halo3, and 800 readers of his blog. Become an expert in something that you love and make it your biz. Great piece just sent it out to more than 15,000 twitter followers of smallbiz info.Your point of Bloggers is dead on- influence in their niches very very powerful.<br /><br />This is from a die-hard UGA Bulldog fan that will have to deal with Tebow for the last time in November...( let us dawg fans in on any weaknesses you find, OK... <br />Great piece- Looking for your Tebow site right now...Steven Moorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03495553496861391001noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33624629.post-37580404246572741762009-07-21T08:29:40.840-04:002009-07-21T08:29:40.840-04:00This is all v interesting as I've always maint...This is all v interesting as I've always maintained that if I can do football out of www.myfootballwriter.com/norwichcity so someone can do www.mybasketballwriter.com/baltimore or www.mybaseballwriter.com/boston... that with an elegant enough organisation you can drive local and national advertising and arrange local and national syndication deals - particularly if you can get into the locker room where the decent stuff lies...<br /><br />http://outwithabang.rickwaghorn.co.uk/?p=277<br /><br />So, smart joined-up thinking from ESPN... IMHO.<br /><br />Best,<br /><br />RRickWaghornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07458058032648320101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33624629.post-67016622394398092202009-07-20T20:55:45.114-04:002009-07-20T20:55:45.114-04:00Whoa! You're saying J. A. is LA's best spo...Whoa! You're saying J. A. is LA's best sports columnist? What a joke. He was bland, untimely, unconnected and can't carry Plaschke's laptop case.<br /><br />The LA Times has had 25 columnists/sports writers better than Adande since 1975. Maybe 35.<br /><br />I enjoy your commentary, but the Adande references were waaay off. He's pedestrian, which is all too familiar of internet writers.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07773298673951716373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33624629.post-26055540359858999942009-07-20T18:19:57.574-04:002009-07-20T18:19:57.574-04:00This is a savvy move by ESPN. Content is king, an...This is a savvy move by ESPN. Content is king, and if ESPN can find a low-cost way to provide interesting local content via the internet in major markets, it could set itself up quite nicely. Particularly with the economy being down, now is a great time for ESPN to make its move.Lou Pickneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03357326829429747290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33624629.post-59418113091655390152009-07-20T13:43:03.665-04:002009-07-20T13:43:03.665-04:00Good read. I think that ESPN has been evolving th...Good read. I think that ESPN has been evolving this way for a while. The problem that most people have with the WWL (or any national outlet) is the belief that ESPN doesn't care to get it right with their favorite team. As with the ESPN NFL division blogs, the reporters are particularly focused on a division so can be better able to get content out that fans that is closer to being accurate and detailed than most of the generalized information that you normally see.<br /><br />The problem with a lot of inexpensive local blogger based content is that everybody has an opinion on their local teams, but it is hard to search for the best local content out of the noise and garbage. There's more content than ever, but so much of it is painfully bad.<br /><br />ESPN is leveraging its national size to attack something that has been a problem for it in the past--quality local coverage. Their resources can help them target the best local resources.<br /><br />I am guessing it doesn't make sense to go local in every market, so perhaps this means even more big market coverage at the expense of smaller market teams/cities.Stephhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02084581783437421452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33624629.post-30409172660433051892009-07-20T13:33:36.086-04:002009-07-20T13:33:36.086-04:00great piece!great piece!SShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04679933673065183141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33624629.post-50781250525337425612009-07-20T13:10:04.593-04:002009-07-20T13:10:04.593-04:00A lot of this is really well said, but you really ...A lot of this is really well said, but you really think newspapers don't "get" that their basics have been stolen, that box scores and recaps and all that are available elsewhere faster and better? From personal experience, I'd say every damn person in this industry "gets that," and has spent 5-to-10 years running around like an idiot trying to figure out how to respond.<br /><br />The problem is, there is no response. There just isn't. It can't be that the people who run every single top-50 sports section are all uniformly morons, and the people who run espn.com are all geniuses. I mean, it's all the same people, and they were all in newspapers 10 years ago. It's just that the newspapering model broke. It doesn't exist any more. That's no knock on the people in charge, not when it happened to every single one.<br /><br />And if you were gonna start PostSportsDC, or whatever, how many designers or guild-protected copy editors would you hire? How many printing presses would you buy? How many expensive downtown buildings would you rent? How much bureaucracy would you erect? Running a newspaper is just different than running a Web site; you can't convert instantly, especially when the paper part is still the part that brings in ad money.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15205602559787057359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33624629.post-12235618675464935042009-07-20T13:00:47.380-04:002009-07-20T13:00:47.380-04:00once again you have outdone yourself, mr. shanoff....once again you have outdone yourself, mr. shanoff. excellent analysis. lets just hope the newspapers are, as you think they are, too stupid to heed your advice about mariotti. but then again, less mariotti is a good thing for us all...Poster Nutbaghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16998760701962167405noreply@blogger.com