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`Launched:
`September 3, 1998, as the successor to ESPN SportsZone, which debuted April
`1, 1995
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`Production: ESPN.com is a production of ESPN Internet Group, part of Walt
`Disney Internet Group (NYSE:DIG)
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`Other EIG productions:
`NFL.com (launched September 1, 1996)
`NBA.com (launched November 3, 1995)
`NASCAR Online [nascar.com] (launched February 14, 1996)
`WNBA.com (launched May 14, 1997)
`Soccernet [soccernet.com] (launched August 20, 1999)
`ABCSports.com (launched Aug. 26, 1998)
`Monday Night Football Online [espn.com] (launched Sept. 1, 1997)
`Bowl Championship Series Online [espn.com] (launched Aug. 26, 1998)
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`Revenue streams:
`Advertising and sponsorship sales
`ESPNstore.com
`ESPN Insider subscriptions
`Sportspecific premium services
`Fantasy games
`NASCAR Online Store
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`Honors, awards, etc.
`2000 Webby Award and People's Voice Webby Award, sports, International
`Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, May 2000
`Creative Excellence Award, International Web Page Awards, April 2000
`"Best Overall Quality," (Sports), Brill's Content, April 2000
`"Best Sports Hub," Yahoo! Internet Life's 100 Best Sites For 2000, January
`2000
`Streaming Media West's People's Choice Award for the "Company Using
`Streaming Media To Bring Sports To The Global Audience," December 1999
`HighestRated Sports Site, #5 overall Web Site, P.O.V. Magazine's Top 100
`Web Sites," November 1999
`Topranked sports site in terms of unaided awareness, Zona Research,
`Second Quarter, 1999
`Most popular site among college students, Student Monitor study, 1999
`Most popular sports site among women, NPD Online Research survey, 1999
`Secondmost wellknown Web brand, CBS MarketWatch.com poll, 1999
`"Best Sports Hub," Yahoo! Internet Life, July 1999
`"Top Sports Site Of The Year," Yahoo! Internet Life, December 1998
`"Best Sports News," Yahoo! Internet Life, December 1998
`"Top 100 Web Sites," PC Magazine, 1998
`"Top 100 Web Sites," (#8 overall), P.O.V. Magazine, November 1998
`"Best Sports Site," (People's Voice) Webby Awards, 1998
`One of top corporate Web sites, Fortune, Winter 1998
`"Best Web Site Of The Year," GQ, December 1997
`"Top Sports Site Of The Year," Yahoo! Internet Life, December 1997
`New York Public Library's Best Of Reference List, 1997
`"Best Sports Site," (Judges' Choice and People's Voice) Webby Awards,
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`"Best Sports Fantasy Game (Fantasy Football)," Prodigy Internet Sports
`Awards, February 1997
`"FiveStar Award," Yahoo! Internet Life, January 1997
`"Best Web Site" and "Best Community Site," America Online Member's
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`Choice Awards, December 1996
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`Fantasy leagues and free games:
`In the past 12 months, ESPN.com's free and premium games have attracted
`more than 3.5 million signups.
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`Feebased Fantasy Leagues
`Fantasy football, baseball, basketball, hockey and golf leagues (with regular,
`mid and late season games)
`Fantasy Basketball and Football Playoff Challenges (postseason version of
`Fantasy Basketball and Football)
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`Free Games
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`NCAA Men's Tournament Challenge presented by Pizza Hut and Compaq
`NCAA Women's Tournament Challenge presented by Buick Regal
`ESPY Challenge presented by GM and Pennzoil
`X Games Challenge presented by Starburst
`Gridiron Challenge presented by Visa
`Pigskin Pick 'em presented by Pizza Hut
`Baseball Challenge presented by Pizza Hut
`Super Bowl Over/Under
`Pick 'n' Roll (NBA Playoffs)
`College Pick 'em (football)
`Bowl Pick 'em (college football)
`NASCAR Challenge presented by Ford Racing (NASCAR Online)
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`Milestones:
`Editorial
`A live chat with ESPN.com senior baseball writer Jayson Stark drew more
`than 8000 user questions in one hour (June 2000).
`As part of college basketball's "Midnight Madness," the service boasts chats
`with head coaches Tubby Smith (Kentucky, Steve Fisher [San Diego State],
`Steve Lavin [UCLA], Kelvin Sampson [Oklahoma], Pete Guillen [Virginia]
`and Quinn Snyder [Missouri], as well as AllAmericans Mateen Cleaves
`[Mich. State], Scoonie Penn [Ohio State], Mark Madsen [Stanford] and others
`(October 15, 1999)
`ESPN.com investigative reporter Tom Farrey breaks story about alleged
`academic fraud within Tennessee's football program (September 26, 1999)
`ESPN.com relaunches (September 1999)
`Soccernet launches (August 20, 1999)
`ESPN.com is the only sports site to have a staff reporter filing onsite
`updates from Yankee Stadium during David Cone's perfect game (July 1999)
`ESPN.com and GOLF Magazine's GOLFonline join forces to launch ESPN
`Golf Online, a comprehensive source for golf news and features (April 1999)
`ESPN.com managing editor John Marvel travels to Cuba to cover the historic
`OriolesCuban National baseball game (March 1999)
`ESPN.com breaks the Rick NeuheiseltoWashington college football
`coaching story (January 1999)
`The only online sports service with a reporter onsite when the NBA lockout
`ends, ESPN.com conducts interviews and chats with 10 NBA players as they
`leave the meetings in the GM Building in New York, including Charles
`Barkley, David Robinson and Steve Kerr (January 6, 1999)
`ESPN.com, successor to ESPN SportsZone, launches as the flagship service
`of the ESPN Network (September 3, 1998)
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`An ESPN.com chat with ESPN college basketball analyst Dick Vitale
`generates 105,596 hits, 13,629 visits, and 1,443 peak users (March 10, 1998)
`ESPN Insider premium area launches (February 3, 1998)
`Former LSU men's basketball coach Dale Brown sets an ESPN SportsZone
`record with a 4½hour chat session (March 12, 1997)
`Heavyweight boxer Tommy Morrison reveals that he is HIVpositive during
`an ESPNET SportsZone chat (March 1996)
`ESPNET SportsZone is first sports site to offer premium content (August
`1995)
`ESPNET SportsZone launches (April 1, 1995)
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`Games And Polls
`A poll asking users "Who dominated his sports more in this generation?"
`attracts more than 175,000 votes (November 1999)
`As postseason play gets underway, more than 150,000 fans vote in poll
`asking who will win the World Series (October 1999)
`The NASCAR Championship Challenge Presented By Ford attracts more
`than 140,000 entrants (1999)
`The Tournament Challenges Presented By Pizza Hut and Compaq attract
`more than 430,000 registrants in less than four days (March 1999)
`The Tournament Challenges Presented By Pizza Hut attract more than
`248,000 registrants in less than four days, a record for an interactive online
`contest (March 1998)
`A "Judgment Day" poll the week before the November 8 college football
`weekend, asking fans to vote for the #1 team, results in more than 300,000
`votes being cast (November 18, 1997)
`The Tournament Challenges Presented by Pizza Hut and DoubleTree Hotels
`attract more than 200,000 registrants (March 1997)
`More than 400,000 Fans' Choice ballots are cast online for the 1997 ESPY
`Awards (February 1997)
`The Tournament Challenge Presented by Pizza Hut attracts 105,000
`registrants (March 1996)
`More than 114,000 online ballots cast for Major League Baseball AllStar
`Game (MayJune 1995)
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`Applications
`ESPN.com users interact with onair game analysts and Avalanche and
`Black Hawk players during ColoradoChicago ESPN2 NHL telecast, both
`Internet firsts (January 9, 2000)
`Eventdriven navigational tabs are introduced, enabling fans to quickly view
`the top stories of the day by sport or event (December 1999)
`Scorepost is introduced, bringing fans scrolling scores on their desktops
`(November 1999)
`Sony Sports Jeopardy! Presented By ESPN.com, as well as sportsthemed
`Shockwave games, are introduced (September 1999)
`As part of its X Games coverage, ESPN.com debuts the X Games Raw
`Webcast and the 360degree live Webcam, as well as a live televised chat room
`crawl on latenight ESPN X Games telecasts (JuneJuly 1999)
`ESPN.com places microphones on the two head coaches in the McDonald's
`AllAmerican High School Basketball game, giving users unprecedented
`access. (March 24, 1999)
`Audioformat chats debut with a Dick Vitale chat (March 9, 1999)
`Head2Head competition launches for Fantasy Games (October 1998)
`Fantasy Game Live Drafts debut (November 1997)
`ESPN GameCast, the site's most ambitious interactive application, debuts for
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`Major League Baseball, and consists of realtime, inprogress statistical and
`graphical updates (August 20, 1997); NBA, NFL, NASCAR Winston Cup and
`NHL versions follow shortly thereafter
`Batter vs. Pitcher debuts, providing batter performance vs. any pitcher, any
`team and in any ballpark, including type of hits generated [a single player's
`data can be viewed in more than 1,000 different ways] (May 1996)
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`Traffic & reach:
`EIG's combined home/work reach stands at 7.418 million unique users (July
`200 Media Metrix).
`EIG generates 70% of all page views, up from 66% in June, among the top
`four Internet sports producers EIG, the Sportsline.com sites, CNNSI.com
`and Foxsports.com; our next closest competitor, the Sportsline.com family of
`sites, has an 18% share (July 2000 Media Metrix)
`ESPN.com users also spend and average of 56.9 minutes per usage/per
`month on the site, while a Sportsline.com user spends only 28.7 minutes.
`EIG accumulates more than 8 million unique users for two straight months;
`no other Internet sports entity has achieved more than 4.7 million unique users
`in any given month (Media Metrix)
`On Sunday, October 17, EIG registers 91 million page views and more than
`4 million visits, besting its own category record (internal log files)
`EIG records 1.3 billion page views in October, a 236% yearoveryear
`increase (internal log files)
`EIG generates a record 22.3 million page views and 3.4 million visits on the
`first day of the NCAA men's basketball tournament, March 11, 1999 (internal
`log files)
`EIG averages 11.4 million page views and 1.6 million visits per day over
`fourthquarter 1998 (internal log files)
`ESPN.com sets a sports site record of 11.4 daily million page views
`(September 13, 1998) (internal log files)
`ESPN.com sets a sports site record of 1.4 million daily visits (March 12,
`1998) (internal log files)
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`ESPN Internet Group Management:
`John Skipper, Senior Vice President & General Manager
`John Walsh, Senior Vice President & Executive Editor
`Geoff Reiss, Senior Vice President, Programming and Production
`John Marvel, Vice President & Executive Editor, ESPN.com
`Riley McDonough, Vice President, Advertising Sales
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