{"id":22,"date":"2004-07-14T23:10:40","date_gmt":"2004-07-15T07:10:40","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-05-25T23:34:40","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T06:34:40","slug":"espnndependent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/archive\/2004\/07\/espnndependent","title":{"rendered":"ESPNndependent &#8211; Life After the Butterfly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month, ESPN and MSN parted ways after their multi-year deal expired and was not renewed. I am not a spokesman for ESPN so I of course cannot comment, but I did want to point readers in the direction of a great pair of interviews on the subject.  In one interview, Staci Kramer of the USC Online Journalism Review talks to <a href=\"http:\/\/ojr.org\/ojr\/business\/1089037783.php\" target=\"_blank\">John Skipper<\/a>, Executive Vice President at ESPN and one of the smartest people I&#8217;ve ever known.  In the other, Kramer interviews <a href=\"http:\/\/ojr.org\/ojr\/business\/1089756066.php\" target=\"_blank\">Ross Levinsohn<\/a>, Senior Vice President and General Manager at Fox Sports Interactive Media.<\/p>\n<p>The interviews provide a nice view into the differing strategies of two online sports franchises; one on the way into a deal and one on the way out of one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month, ESPN and MSN parted ways after their multi-year deal expired and was not renewed. I am not a spokesman for ESPN so I of course cannot comment, but I did want to point readers in the direction of a great pair of interviews on the subject. In one interview, Staci Kramer of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,282],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-original"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}