ESPN/ABC spreads its bowl talentCourtesy
USA Today
(November 30, 2009) ESPN/ABC's college bowl buffet represents one big slab of TV tonnage. Rather than simply focusing on the game you're watching — and, maybe, include some color like the bowl's princesses or schools' bands — ESPN/ABC's 27 televised bowls become one really long show where, say, halftime of the San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl is a perfect time to look ahead to the Little Caesars Pizza Bowl.
It might have been tempting for ESPN/ABC, which also has radio coverage of 18 bowl games, to send its top announcers to star in lots of bowls. But it won't. In on-air assignments that will be formally announced this week for bowls beginning with ESPN's Dec. 19 New Mexico Bowl, ESPN/ABC isn't taking any chances that their best-known voices will blow a lung. Assignments, says ESPN spokesman Josh Krulewitz, include: •Matt Millen calls ESPN's Dec. 27 Gaylord Hotels Music City Bowl and Dec. 31 Chick-fil-A Bowl, and ESPN Radio's Jan. 5 FedEx Orange Bowl. •Famed sideline reporter Erin Andrews works ESPN's Dec. 30 Pacific Life Holiday Bowl, ABC's Jan. 1 Capital One Bowl and ESPN Radio's Jan. 4 Tostitos Fiesta Bowl. •Todd Blackledge works ESPN's Dec. 29 Champs Sports Bowl, ABC's Capital One Bowl and ESPN Radio's Fiesta Bowl and its Jan. 7 Bowl Championship Series title game. •NFL analyst Jon Gruden works ESPN Radio's Jan. 1 Rose Bowl and its BCS title game. •ESPN/ABC's top on-air team of Kirk Herbstreit, who'll also log lots of bowl studio time, and Brent Musburger, who'll be juggling college hoops, work just ABC's Rose Bowl and ABC's BCS title game. New wrinkles include veteran Bob Griese and son Brian, a rookie broadcaster, both calling the Jan. 1 Outback Bowl — albeit separately, as Bob works TV and Brian does radio. The bowl ironman: Dennis Franchione, the ex-Texas A&M coach, calling six bowl games for ESPN Radio. _______________________
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