Awful Announcing
"I brought the idea to Aaron, and he immediately stopped me and said, 'Who did you talk to about this and how many people know?' He thought it was a great idea and said, 'Let's make this.' After the initial shock wore off, I got to work, and we started building it."
"The partnership with Raycom has been extraordinary for our company, especially at a time when the transition is really from traditional broadcasting to over-the-top."
About half of ESPN's games will feature an on-site truck (and likely on-site announcers as well), with Shiffman saying "The production will be at its best when we can travel people."
"Can we tell a running story, but one that also looks at some of these other issues?"
"I think what we can do is take sort of a more artistic look, so to speak, and just complement what they do."
"Here is a self-made man, who doesn’t ask anything from these kids in return for his help. He doesn’t do it for the money or recognition, he does it to help these boys become men and make a better life for themselves and their family. After spending time with him these past few years, it really is all he wants."
"Being able to shine a little bit right now is a blessing, especially in the fall, when swimming normally really gets put on the shelf."
"This really started with the TV network and moved to the digital space, and it's all about people's passion for sports, and we recognized really early that people's passion for sports included betting on sports. It's not this monolithic thing that's out there, it's not 'Oh my god, people bet on sports?'"
San Antonio Spurs' assistant coach Becky Hammon spoke to AA this week on her involvement in a 60 Seconds Docs piece, and why she prefers coaching to TV commentary.
"We doubled down on content and created our own muscle to go direct to fans."
"It’s one of those fights that fight fans, sports fans, certainly have been anticipating for a long period of time, and were anticipating they’d have to shill out money from their pockets to watch [on pay-per-view], and that’s not the case. They’ll be able to see it live on ESPN, and it will be sensational."
"We're a team, and we meet, we interface with each other. The way I envision Sunday going down with all the new protocols, I'm going to see, physically see, two, maybe three live human beings. "
"There's an appetite for knowledge across sports, whether it be to understand how salary caps work or what goes into draft picks. So giving fans the power to reconstruct plays, and being able to do that across a NFL Sunday, is kind of cool."
