ESPN the Magazine, like the industry leader in sports television that created it, is big, bold and brash like most of the athletes that it portrays and it uses its oversize format to show off very striking full page images and splashy sidebars. When we sell magazine subscriptions to ESPN through our online magazine subscription service we know that subscribers come from a variety of backgrounds like libraries, students, consumers, professionals and teachers.
We’ve started including more details about our magazines so that our corporate customers who buy subscriptions for their reception areas or waiting rooms will be more informed. We don’t just want to save you money by offering cheap discount prices, we want you to choose the right magazines.
Contributors to the magazines include familiar on-air talent such as Dan Patrick, Chris Berman, Stuart Scott, Rich Eisen, Linda Cohn, Peter Gammons, John Clayton and many others (including the athletes themselves).
In comparison to other sports magazines, ESPN gives you broader features such as playoff previews, personality profiles, photo spreads with a major emphasis on basketball, football, baseball, hockey, soccer and some newer extreme sports. ESPN mainly targets young, active men whose lifestyles include watching sports, attending games and participating in different types of athletics. The editorial focus of ESPN Magazine plays off the news and includes what happens in sports and which match-ups and young players to look out for. Also, ESPN emphasizes both the humor and fun of both mainstream and off-beat sports.
Being a worthy competitor towards both The Sporting News and Sports Illustrated, ESPN Magazine’s large and colorful format would make the biggest splash towards the late teen and early adult age groups (not that older adults wouldn’t also love their complex coverage of the college football and basketball brackets). Remember that a one year, twenty-six issues subscription to ESPN Magazine is only $14.97 through our wonderful website.
We covered a lot of ground on magazine subscription services in the last few weeks and spent a good amount of time describing how we sell magazines to different customers like libraries, students, individual consumers and businesses. The cool part about selling magazines - even corporate subscriptions - is that not only can we help subscribers save money because we’ve got cheap discount magazines, but we get to offer a wide variety of popular titles at the same time.
One of the more popular titles is ESPN (the magazine), formerly an abbreviation of Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, is published bi-weekly and owned by an American cable television network dedicated to broadcasting mostly sports-related programming twenty-four hours a day. The company was founded by Scott Rasmussen and his father Bill Rasmussen, along with Donny Stanley and his son Cardell and was first launched on September 7, 1979 with the show SportsCenter (which aired its 25,000th episode on August 25, 2002).
ESPN was originally owned by a prestigious joint venture between the Getty Oil Company (which was purchased by Texaco later on) and Nabisco. As of 1984, the entire family of ESPN networks and franchises are owned by ABC and the Hearst Corporation. ESPN was started as an alternative to standard television news broadcasts and the information that is usually found in the “Sports” sections of newspapers. It was begun as a fairly small-fry operation at first and they had to broadcast unorthodox sporting events such as the World’s Strongest Man Competition, the short-lived United States Football League (USFL) before ESPN landed a contract to show National Football league games on Sunday evenings in 1987.
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