James Andrew Miller. (2011). Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN. Unabridged Hachette Audio.

James Andrew Miller. 2011. Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN. Hachette Audio.

James Andrew Miller, Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN. Hachette Audio, 2011.

James Andrew Miller. Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN. Unabridged Hachette Audio, 2011.

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In the exclusive behind the scenes look, sports fans can unlock the fascinating history of the channel that changed the way people watch and interact with their favorite teams.
It began, in 1979, as a mad idea of starting a cable channel to televise local sporting events throughout the state of Connecticut. Today, ESPN is arguably the most successful network in modern television history, spanning eight channels in the Unites States and around the world. But the inside story of its rise has never been fully told-until now.
Drawing upon over 500 interviews with the greatest names in ESPN's history and an All-Star collection of some of the world's finest athletes, bestselling authors James Miller and Tom Shales take us behind the cameras. Now, in their own words, the men and women who made ESPN great reveal the secrets behind its success-as well as the many scandals, rivalries, off-screen battles and triumphs that have accompanied that ascent. From the unknown producers and business visionaries to the most famous faces on television, it's all here.

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   • content: This lengthy history of ESPN, which has only existed since 1978, will be as addictive to listeners as the 24-hour network is to sports junkies. James Miller, Matt McCarthy, and Joan Baker alternate delivering the memories of virtually every person who has helped make ESPN the force it is. This troika provides excellent changes of pace and prevents the various speakers from sounding alike. ESPN fans will love hearing all the inside stories, told with emotion and candor, and will savor the book as much as they enjoy a sudden-death playoff. D.J.S. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award (c) AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine
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     July 15, 2011
     

     The massive, eagerly anticipated oral history of ESPN.

     Journalist Miller and Pulitzer Prize-winning TV critic Shales (Live from New York: An Uncensored History of "Saturday Night Live," 2003) chronicle the unfathomable growth of the self-proclaimed "Worldwide Leader in Sports." In 1979, the entrepreneurial father/son tandem Bill and Scott Rasmussen hatched a hair-brained business plan: a 24-hour cable "entertainment and sports programming network"--or, as it came to be known, ESPN. The improbable rise from fly-by-night operation in the backwater of Bristol, Conn., to the world's most powerful sports brand is an epic tale, replete with scandals and skeletons the authors dutifully cover. Many of these will be old news to fans of blogs like Deadspin that are dedicated to bringing down the ESPN juggernaut, but it's the cutthroat negotiations with partners and sponsors, the ingenious (and occasionally disastrous) attempts to innovate and the ongoing clash of conservative company policy with flamboyant on-air talent that will hook readers. The interviewees--who include former chairman Steve Bornstein, current president George Bodenheimer, fan favorites Chris Berman, Dan Patrick and Keith Olbermann, and dot-com star Bill Simmons--range from closely guarded to bluntly self-interested in their commentary, requiring the authors to find the right mix of breadth of opinion and storytelling acumen--a balance they strike with admirable consistency over the course of nearly 800 pages. Inevitably, repetition creeps in as subjects hammer home the same themes, and the authors sometimes shift topics when more commentary is called for on the prior one. These are minor quibbles, however, in a definitive account that not only manages to offer insight into a pop-culture phenomenon's seemingly impossible success (sometimes in spite of itself), but also highlights how that success irrevocably altered the cable landscape.

     A championship effort by two men who can rightfully lay claim to having written the book on ESPN.

     (COPYRIGHT (2011) KIRKUS REVIEWS/NIELSEN BUSINESS MEDIA, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.)

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