ESPN Launches Local Site in Los Angeles
ESPN (NYSE: DIS) has launched the latest in growing network of local Web sites, this time in Los Angeles. ESPNLosAngeles.com presents exclusive, original content, content from local contributors, and original locally relevant content created from ESPN’s multiple platforms, branded programming and award-winning contributors.
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The site, which also features local content on the homepage from KABC-TV, as well as The Huffington Post Lost Angeles, via a syndication agreement, is headed by managing editor Eric Neel, an eight-year veteran of ESPN and ESPN The Magazine. ESPN has launched market specific sites in Chicago, Boston and Dallas, and is looking to roll out similar online areas in New York and other markets. More on Multichannel.
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