By David Scott
Boston Sports Media Watch
NESN led off its Wednesday night broadcast with confirmation of Jerry Remy’s lung cancer, a rumor that had been circulating in Boston media circles for several weeks. Remy apparently had surgery “late last year” and is now experiencing setbacks in his recovery. Remy missed portions of spring training and the [...]

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By David Scott
Boston Sports media Watch
Shots is not quite ready to re-start regular Friday posts, but the confluence of buzz surrounding Chad Finn, Dan Shaughnessy, Bill Simmons and Dick Albert offered too many fish in too small a barrel for my blogging soul.
As for my real-life project, we are happy to report a 238-page manuscript [...]

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By David Scott
Boston Sports Media Watch
UPDATE: NESN has posted an “explanation” of its broadcast blunder as well as information on two scheduled re-broadcasts set for today at 1 p.m. and 8 p.m. (The 1 p.m. re-broadcast is oddly void of a regular game clock, using only a score graphic in the lower right-hand corner. This [...]

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By David Scott
Boston Sports Media Watch
In truth I can’t really afford to be coming out of my “book nook” for any amount of time, but two ongoing stories in Boston sports media need some assessing and Shots realizes it’s our official duty to analyze both (and some bonus topics for the new year).
To spice things [...]

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By David Scott
Boston Sports Media Watch
A SHOTS FIELD TRIP TO. . .
This has never been the regular series it should be, but every once in a while Shots does leave Hull and venture into the crowded streets of – and around – Boston. It usually ends poorly with a traffic jam or general bitterness, [...]

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By David Scott
Boston Sports Media Watch
The rapid evolution of WEEI.com continues and we’re not even a month into the new incarnation. Content has been bountiful, integration with the radio side has been almost seamless (see: the John Dennis ’scoop’ from Wednesday AND the dot-com branded Saturday morning show) and there’s even big-name sponsors already jumping [...]

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By David Scott
Boston Sports Media Watch
With a week to digest the rather compelling WEEI.com news that Shots led the way on late last week, it’s clearly time for a Winners and Losers edition of “As the Boston Sports Media Market Turns”:
WINNER
Glenn Ordway
The biggest – in every sense – winner is none other than [...]

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By David Scott
Boston Sports Media Watch
News this week of a Sporting News re-launch and re-focus brought equal parts optimism and pessimism. As we’ve chronicled here before, when Shots was part of the final staff to ever produce SPORT magazine, there were constant rumors that Sporting News would either be our partner in business or our [...]

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By David Scott
Boston Sports Media Watch
Some people sleep out for concert tickets. Others wait for XBox video games to be released. A few need to be the first to see a new release in movie theaters.
As a media critic in the Internet Age, I prefer to wait up late night for the arrival of things [...]

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By David Scott
Boston Sports Media Watch
As if getting beaten by its sister on its own region’s biggest off-field story in years wasn’t enough, Boston.com further embarrassed the Boston Globe brand on Wednesday night when it sent out an ‘email alert’ of breaking news regarding the Matt Walsh fiasco. The mass email arrived at Shots’ inbox [...]

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