Fans of quality sports documentaries can mark their calendars for Tuesday, October 2, when ESPN's "30 for 30" franchise returns.
Originally designed as a series of 30 documentaries tied to ESPN's 30...
A slate of tantalizing match-ups, highlighted by the long-awaited rumble between the defending champion Lakers and the big three of the Heat, delivered ABC and ESPN's highest cumulative audience ever for its Christmas...
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Officials with knowledge of the decision say NBC has retained the U.S. Olympic television rights in a four-games deal through 2020 worth more than $4 billion.
The two officials...
ESPN will be the place to see college football playoff games...for at least the next 12 years.
The cable network has signed the dotted line for a 12-year agreement to air playoff games including national championsh...
I watched and reviewed almost all of ESPN's "30 for 30" films, but since the documentary series relaunched last year under the simpler ESPN Films banner, I have to admit I've lost track. I have DVDs of all...
Although ESPN continues expertly the chronicle the day's current sporting highlights and although "Outside the Lines" continues to be the "60 Minutes" of in-depth sports reporting and although the network has diversif...
Having worked at two major media companies I know something about how difficult it is to get different divisions to work together. Synergy was the buzz word in my early days at NewsCorp owned 20th Century Fox In...
It seems hard to believe, but by my count, Thaddeus D. Matula's "Pony Express" will be the 30th and final film in ESPN's ambitious "30 for 30" documentary franchise when it airs on Saturday (Dec. 1...
One of the goals of ESPN's year-plus "30 for 30" documentary series was to break the sports documentary genre out of the effective but familiar rut it had been placed in by HBO, which had dominated the fie...
ESPN's 30th anniversary was more than two years ago, and it's been almost a year since the "30 for 30" documentary series - designed to both celebrate the anniversary and show off ESPN's reach and creativi...
