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posted by on April 17, 2013 4:06 PM

Yo Sigo A: Alfredo Lomeli

Alfredo Lomeli on the set of Redes. (Rich Arden / ESPN Images)

Alfredo Lomeli on the set of Redes. (Rich Arden / ESPN Images)

Nota de la redacción: I Follow se trata de cualquier tema que tenga que ver con los empleados de ESPN en Twitter: lo que tuitean, a quién siguen y como pueden establecer una interacción social con una persona o con todo el mundo.

Hoy vamos a visitar a Alfredo Lomeli, uno de los comentaristas del nuevo programa de ESPN Deportes #Redes (8 p.m. ET [hora de Nueva York], de lunes a viernes.) Lomeli se unió a ESPN hace tres meses y también va a cubrir los X Games Foz do Iguaçu que empiezan este jueves (see full schedule [vea la programación completa]), para ambos ESPN Deportes y ESPN International. (Nota de la redacción: vea una columna de I Follow con #Redes co-host Carolina Guillén [Carolina Guillén, copresentadora de #Redes]).

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Usuario de Twitter: @Alfredo_Lomeli
Seguimiento: 296
Seguidores: 937
(*con fecha de 17/04/13)

¿Cuándo empezó a usar Twitter y por qué motivo empezó? continue reading…

Filed in: ESPN Deportes, I Follow: Inside Twitter, X Games 2013

posted by on April 5, 2013 4:18 PM

Authors Dick Vitale and Jay Bilas set for ESPN International TV analysis duties from Final Four in Atlanta

Editor’s note: In the video above, ESPN basketball analyst Jay Bilas takes you behind the scenes of the ESPN “Car Wash.”

ATLANTA — Basketball analysts Dick Vitale and Jay Bilas have myriad duties this weekend as part of ESPN’s wall-to-wall coverage of the men’s Final Four.

On SportsCenter and College GameDay, each will be providing analysis surrounding the semifinals Saturday and the national championship game on Monday night. continue reading…

Filed in: Behind The Scenes, ESPN College Basketball

posted by on April 1, 2013 4:02 PM

ESPN Mexico breaks ground on new studios in Mexico City

ESPN President John Skipper and several network executives were in Mexico City last week for the groundbreaking of new ESPN facilities that will be home to the entire ESPN Mexico staff — currently in two different locations — under one roof.

Set to begin operations in July 2014, the new facility is located in Mexico City’s southwestern Periferico Sur neighborhood and will house state-of-the-art studios that will produce content for both the U.S. Hispanic and ESPN Latin North (Mexico, Central America and Venezuela) regions. continue reading…

Filed in: Announcements, Behind The Scenes

posted by on March 13, 2013 3:00 PM

French Alps location presents unique scenes, challenges for X Games Tignes production crew

For Norman Whitehurst, the chance to visit the French Alps is all about work.

As Coordinating Producer, ESPN International at the X Games in Tignes, France from March 20-22, Whitehurst is responsible for bringing together the entire production with the French broadcaster Canal +.

“My role is to work with the ESPN producers and Canal + producers to get everyone on same page since we are all producing the same event,’’ said Whitehurst, who began with ESPN in 1994 working on soccer telecasts and started working on the X Games in Tignes three years ago.

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“It is collaborative in every way.”

What makes these X Games unique is they take place high above sea level in the Alps, a four-hour bus ride from Geneva, Switzerland.

“Definitely it is an experience driving on winding roads with no guard rails getting to this remote place where Internet access is spotty,’’ Whitehurst said.

“But the scene is absolutely great. The athletes love it and there is plenty of spirit shown by fans, especially the French and Italians. It’s like a mini-Olympics.” continue reading…

Filed in: Behind The Scenes, X Games 2013

posted by on February 5, 2013 1:31 PM

Dick Vitale will call NCAA Final Four games on ESPN International

As the face of ESPN’s college basketball for 34 years, legendary analyst Dick Vitale has had a front row seat to more than 2,000 college basketball telecasts, including many of the best and most memorable matchups.

The one event missing from his Hall of Fame resume is calling an NCAA Men’s Final Four game. That will all change this year. ESPN announced today that Vitale will work two Final Four games for ESPN International in 2013 — a semifinal and the National Championship.

ESPN hoops analyst Jay Bilas will work the other semifinal (not called by Vitale) while Brad Nessler will call play-by-play on all three telecasts. Front Row put together a video retrospective of highlights from Vitale’s career at ESPN.

Video produced by Ariel Bond

Filed in: Announcements, Behind The Scenes, ESPN College Basketball

posted by on February 2, 2013 8:00 AM

ESPN Brazil’s team a major part of ESPN International’s worldwide presentation of Super Bowl XLVII

Commentators Everaldo Marques (L) and Paulo Antunes on the set during ESPN’s coverage of Super Bowl XLVII
(Don Juan Moore/ESPN Images)

As we all know, the San Francisco 49ers and the Baltimore Ravens go head to head in Super Bowl XLVII at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans, La. this Sunday at 6:30pm.

But did you know that ESPN International will air the Super Bowl around the world in more than 162 countries and territories?

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ESPN Brazil, in particular, has enhanced its NFL coverage in a country where about 90 percent of sports fans are futebol — or soccer — fans.

ESPN Brazil has been covering American football since 2005 and it has been growing in popularity ever since. Super Bowl XLVII marks the fourth consecutive year ESPN Brazil has covered the big game: Their on-air and production crew this year is the largest to date to make the trip north.

ESPN Brazil’s New Orleans’ team includes on-air journalists Everaldo Marques, play-by-play announcer and host of Semana NFL and The Book is on the Table (a rules-of-the-games series on NFL, NBA, MLB, and other big United States sports leagues), analyst Paulo Antunes and sideline reporter André Kfouri.

“In Brazil, American football fans watch all games. They don’t follow just one team,” Marques said. continue reading…

Filed in: Behind The Scenes, ESPN at the Super Bowl

posted by on November 29, 2012 4:24 PM

Pack your bags for Sao Paulo: Take a tour of ESPN Brazil’s studios

Editor’s note: Recently, ESPN Images photographer Joe Faraoni visited ESPN’s Latin American studios in Brazil and Argentina. In the pictures above and text below, here’s a look at the Brazil portion of his trip; later on Front Row, he’ll take you on a tour of the Buenos Aires facilities.

SAO PAULO, BRAZIL — It was dark when I landed after an 11-hour flight from the United States.

Initially there was not a lot to see from the plane on our approach to the city, just the contour of the earth. Sao Paulo, one of the largest urbanized centers in the world, didn’t seem at first glance that different from a large city in the United States. But once I landed — wow — what a thriving, throbbing beehive of activity this city of 20 million-plus people is! The energy was contagious.

My next few days were jam packed. Car rides, tight schedules, people waiting for me to shoot them and the sets.

When I arrived at the ESPN Brasil offices on Tuesday morning the lobby, with its ESPN-red seating area, multiple TV monitors and ESPN logo made me feel right at home. After Renata Netto, head of the newsroom, met me and showed me around the studios, I felt I was in my element. Studios, cameras, SportsCenter set, all seemed very similar to those found in ESPN’s Bristol, Conn. headquarters. continue reading…

Filed in: Behind The Scenes

posted by on September 4, 2012 3:03 PM

A look at 2012 Paralympic Games, airing on ESPN International

An athlete competing in Javelin at the London 2012 Paralympic Games. (Credit: Getty Images)

Editor’s note: The author of this piece, David Kelly, works for ESPN in Affiliate Finance and is vice-president of the ENABLED ERG, ESPN’s Employee Resource Group. Part of ENABLED’s mission is to create employee programs, content and outreach that supports ESPN employees with challenges, and employees who are touched by those with challenges.

Through Sept. 12, ESPN International is presenting daily coverage of the London 2012 Paralympic Games. The Paralympic Games, which started Aug. 29, are airing on ESPN throughout the Caribbean and Spanish-speaking Latin America.

Here in the U.S., two daily, one-hour wrap up shows air on ESPN3 in primetime and some highlights will air on SportsCenter (a highlight from men’s table tennis was in the No. 1 spot in Tuesday’s SC Top 10).

The London 2012 Paralympic Games feature 4,200 athletes from 160 countries competing in 21 sports. Some of those athletes have been featured speakers for visits to our Bristol, Conn. campus as guests of ENABLED.

Alana Nichols, who won six medals (including three golds) in the IPC Alpine Skiing World Cup Finals this winter, also is competing in London as a star on the U.S. women’s wheelchair basketball team. The only woman to win gold medals in both the Summer and Winter Paralympics, Nichols was profiled on Front Row during her 2011 ESPN visit.

One ESPN employee especially invested in the Paralympics movement is Steve Raymond, senior vice president of national accounts for Disney and ESPN Networks. After spurring fundraising for a friend who was competing for the U.S. Disabled Ski Team a few years ago, Raymond eventually became the “Chef de Mission” — or honorary head — of the 2010 Winter Paralympic team. continue reading…

Filed in: Behind The Scenes

posted by on August 9, 2012 1:06 PM

ESPN International airs 1,700 hours of London Olympics to Latin America

LONDON — For the past two weeks, ESPN International has broadcast 1700 event hours of the 2012 Olympic Games in Portuguese and Spanish throughout Latin America.

With one of the widest, multichannel coverage plans ever of the Olympic Games in the region, ESPN has dedicated six networks — at least three per country — to fulltime, high definition coverage of London 2012 in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela.

ESPN Argentina is charged with the huge task of serving all the Spanish-speaking territories. To accomplish this, close to 100 ESPN employees from South America and Bristol traveled to London to cover the Games.

As rights-holders, the Argentine production team is based in the International Broadcast Center. Their analysts, reporters, camera crews, and more are working inside the Olympic Park and at sites throughout London.

All content from the Games is being sent to Argentina where additional enhancements are made. In Buenos Aires, a second dedicated Olympics team supplements the coverage with news and information and commentary. Both teams are working around the clock to provide the best coverage for their 200 million households.

“ESPN is proud of the coverage we have been providing for the Olympic Games in Latin America,” said Tim Bunnell, senior vice president of production, programming and marketing, ESPN International.

“Our ability to dedicate multiple networks in-region to London 2012 is truly exceptional. Our signature team of journalists and correspondents, many of whom have covered numerous Olympic Games, are making this one of the most memorable and rewarding Olympic Games of recent times.”

Filed in: Behind The Scenes, On The Road

posted by on July 27, 2012 4:56 PM

ESPN’s 2012 Summer Olympics operations in London

From ESPN’s London Olympics headquarters, Jose Ramon Fernandez (l), host of ESPN Deportes’ Olympics coverage, works with co-presenter Jacobo Zabludovsky. (Credit: ESPN)

As the 2012 Summer Olympic Games begin, ESPN is in London with its largest ever on-site production team.

Domestic and International entities will be broadcasting from Marshgate Lane and the International Broadcast Center (IBC). Settling on the IBC was easy. Finding the right location outside of the Olympic stadium was a bigger challenge.

It has been 16 months since senior coordinating producer Maria Soares and other employees from ESPN’s International production department visited London in search of a broadcasting hub.

With rights in 10 countries throughout South America (roughly 200 million homes), ESPN needed a location capable of supporting its standing as both a rights holder in these countries, as well as a non-rights holder in the U.S. and other regions.

Being close to the Olympic Village was key, and space was tight.

(L-R:) Producer Yoyotzin Zuniga, director Luis Zuniga, and Armando Benitez, senior director of production, ESPN Mexico, help coordinate London coverage. (Credit: ESPN)

After considering several potential spots, Soares and her team found just the place — a parking lot.

For Soares, the months of construction were out of sight but never out of mind as she returned to work in Bristol, Conn., following the scouting trip.

Now that the ESPN London Hub is fully operational, the enormity of the project has sunk in. continue reading…

Filed in: Behind The Scenes, Top Stories