ABC/Yahoo

[BrianGriffin]

Sorry if this is Germans, but this is interesting stuff to me and I didn't see a discussion:
http://abcnews.go.com/US/abc-news-yahoo-news-announce-online-alliance/story?id=14650998

I wonder what impact this will have on ESPN.com and Yahoo! Sport? Will they become redundant and one be phased out?

Curious.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

I think ESPN will be phased out.

 

[BrianGriffin]

I think ESPN will be phased out.

Ha. There are areas though where Yahoo tends to excel, but ESPN has merely dabbled. And there is obviously some big-name talent on the Yahoo side too.

 

[DanOregon]

Probably zero impact - considering this is the third time ABC and Yahoo have announced a partnership in the last decade. And it's just ABC News - nothing else.

I understand what ABC gets out of it. Yahoo not so much.

Speaking of ESPN...whatever happened to that Poynter thing?

 

[MileHigh]

Yup. This is strictly news. Sports is not affected.

 

[BrianGriffin]

I understand what ABC gets out of it. Yahoo not so much.

A mention on Good Morning America?

 

[MileHigh]

I understand what ABC gets out of it. Yahoo not so much.

A mention on Good Morning America?

ABC's on-air talent doing more Web-only stuff for ABCNews.com and Yahoo, starting with an interview today with President Obama.

 

[LongTimeListener]

I am very happy about this because it aggregates two groups that I completely ignore into one group that is even easier to ignore. If they could cut a deal for exclusive coverage of the NBA, it would be just perfect.

 

[MileHigh]

And here's a good analysis.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/04/technology/yahoo-aims-to-produce-more-original-reporting.html?_r=1

 

[SF_Express]

I understand what ABC gets out of it. Yahoo not so much.

http://gma.yahoo.com/

 

[SF_Express]

This doesn't sound like a company ready to do anything bad to Yahoo Sports. From the NYT:

So how does Yahoo get people to stick around longer? It thinks Yahoo Sports is the model. Over the last few years, sports, more than any other Yahoo media site, bet big on original coverage by hiring reporters and writing original articles.

The investments have led to several prominent scoops. The latest was a yearlong investigation, published in August, that showed widespread violations of N.C.A.A. rules by the University of Miami’s football team. The article received 38 times as many page views as a typical sports article, according to Yahoo.

“There’s nothing like sitting a hotel room, turning on ESPN and seeing on a ticker that Yahoo Sports breaks a story,” Ms. Rosen said. Such citations by other media outlets helps to lift Yahoo’s reputation in news, she said.

Yahoo Sports also produces a number of online video shows, including game highlights and Fantasy Football Live.