20 March, 2010

Category Archives: Comcast SportsNet

More Great Media Emerges To Cover the Caps

19 March, 2010

Two promising and appealing new media products have debuted recently and are worth highlighting.
On February 3, the Capitals began a partnership with the Examiner, running an advertisement section wrapped around the cover of the daily titled ‘Caps Extra.’ It’s an eye-catching, highly visual, four-page, color supplement that features color photos, four feature files bylined by [...]

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Lisa Hillary Sits Down with Ted Leonsis

13 March, 2010

In a two-part interview series Comcast Sportsnet’s Lisa Hillary visited with Capitals’ majority owner Ted Leonsis this week and honed in on some real meat and potatoes issues with him: his satisfaction level with where the Caps are in the league and locally, the participation of NHLer’s in the Olympics, past and future, his role [...]

Also filed in Alexander Ovechkin, Kettler Capitals Iceplex, Lisa Hillary, National Hockey League, Sidney Crosby, Ted Leonsis, USA Hockey, Vancouver Olympics, Video Clips, Washington Capitals | Comments (0)

New Media Convergence on the Farm

19 February, 2010

This weekend OFB embarks on a roadtrip we’ve sought since our start — to Hershey, but hauling along with us a hearty contingent of D.C. hockey bloggers. We’ve long wanted to take our new media party up to Chocolatetown for a weekend and see if we could just blow the lid off the terrific puck [...]

Also filed in American Hockey League, Corey Masisak, Giant Center, Hershey Bears, Hockey Towns, John Walton, Media, Prospects, Tim Leone, Washington Capitals, hockey blogging | Comments (1)

The TV Numbers Don’t Lie

13 February, 2010

Word late this week arrived of just what all this stylized winning by Washington’s hockey team translates to: Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic delivered the highest-rated Washington Capitals game in network history for its coverage of the team’s game in Montreal on Wednesday night. The game earned an average household rating of 5.8 in the Washington [...]

Also filed in Alexander Ovechkin, Hockey, National Hockey League, TV, Washington Capitals, Washington the Hockey Town | Comments (1)

Coverage Pressure from the Family Dining Table

8 February, 2010

Comcast Sportsnet’s Russ Thaler has used his blog at times to detail his family’s growing puck passion, and he does so again today with ‘Thaler’s Thoughts: Snow Caps Making Memories.’ In it Thaler likens the memories he’s forging taking his three sons, Max, Nate and Will, to Caps’ games with those he holds dear from [...]

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Alan May Makes Radio Waves

2 February, 2010

In his enforcer’s treatment of Comcast Sportsnet Capitals’ commentator Alan May today, Greg Wyshynski begins with a powerful and, in our judgment, accurate overview of the big-picture media climate for hockey in the nation’s capital:
“There is a persecution complex the size of the National Mall that hovers around the Washington Capitals when it comes to [...]

Also filed in Alan May, Media, Puck Daddy, Radio, Washington Capitals, Washington the Hockey Town, hockey blogging | Comments (3)

The Arrival of ‘Obama Ice’

2 February, 2010

You may have noticed while watching Sunday’s game that world-class skaters had difficulty skating, frequently falling without contact; that the puck persistently insisted on sticking to its position on the playing surface, despite sticks’ efforts to move it; and that play overall was distinctly uninspiring. Such is the hockey game that follows rather near a [...]

Also filed in Blogging, Ice, Morning cup-a-joe, National Hockey League, New media, Southeast Division, Verizon Center, Washington Capitals, Washington the Hockey Town | Comments (9)

Comcast Correspondent at a Classic New Year’s Weekend in Beantown

4 January, 2010

You know how the next best thing to owning a beach house is having a friend who does? Well, we didn’t have  tickets to this year’s Winter Classic, but Comcast Sportsnet’s Lisa Hillary did. Actually, she also worked the system a bit to get an invite to the league’s New Year’s Eve bash as well. Anyway, she [...]

Also filed in Hardcore Hockey Fans, Lisa Hillary, National Hockey League, Pond Hockey, Puck Sodas, Winter Classic | Comments (0)

Gold Medal Rematch

4 January, 2010

I have a strong hunch that Verizon Center’s media room televisions will be showing a lot of hockey tomorrow night, seeing as how the U.S. defeated Sweden 5-2 last night at the World Junior Championships, setting up a rematch showdown with Canada at 8:00 Tuesday.
I think there’s a Canuck broadcaster in town I need to extend [...]

Also filed in American Hockey, Lisa Hillary, USA Hockey, WJC, Washington Capitals | Comments (0)

Meet Washington’s Hanson Sisters

24 December, 2009

Earlier this season we schemed what we thought would be good fun for OFB’s Christmas card in 2009: outfit three of our favorite hockey lovers among local media — Comcast Sportsnet’s Tara Wheeler, Lisa Hillary, and Michelle Scalise — in Charlestown Chiefs’ sweaters and Santa’s caps at one of Washington’s most scenic skating locales, and [...]

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