Comments on: Comcast SportsNet Adds Art Martone http://www.bostonsportsmedia.com/2009/10/comcast-sportsnet-adds-art-martone Watching The New England Sports Media Sat, 20 Mar 2010 02:58:26 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Breer hired to replace Reiss « bases full http://www.bostonsportsmedia.com/2009/10/comcast-sportsnet-adds-art-martone/comment-page-1#comment-15402 Breer hired to replace Reiss « bases full Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:31:39 +0000 http://www.bostonsportsmedia.com/?p=6846#comment-15402 [...] might Gasper be fielding offers from one of the (many) new online outlets in town? Yesterday, Bruce posted about Art Martone, the sports editor of the Providence Journal, leaving for Comcast Sports Net [...] [...] might Gasper be fielding offers from one of the (many) new online outlets in town? Yesterday, Bruce posted about Art Martone, the sports editor of the Providence Journal, leaving for Comcast Sports Net [...]

]]> By: JayCee http://www.bostonsportsmedia.com/2009/10/comcast-sportsnet-adds-art-martone/comment-page-1#comment-15390 JayCee Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:56:06 +0000 http://www.bostonsportsmedia.com/?p=6846#comment-15390 After repeated increases in price & decreases in content, I recently canceled my subscription to the ProJo after 32 years of reading the paper on a daily basis. The loss of Martone is another nail in the ProJo coffin. Hopefully he'll revive his morning tour of the various baseball websites, once a ProJo online staple, over at ComCast. Good luck to him. After repeated increases in price & decreases in content, I recently canceled my subscription to the ProJo after 32 years of reading the paper on a daily basis. The loss of Martone is another nail in the ProJo coffin. Hopefully he’ll revive his morning tour of the various baseball websites, once a ProJo online staple, over at ComCast. Good luck to him.

]]> By: KF http://www.bostonsportsmedia.com/2009/10/comcast-sportsnet-adds-art-martone/comment-page-1#comment-15388 KF Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:58:18 +0000 http://www.bostonsportsmedia.com/?p=6846#comment-15388 If Comcast SportsNet, is able to secure all four of those writers, to go along with Felger, that will immediately catapult them to the top of the of the local coverage print/web media mountain. Martone, McAdam, Dupont, Curran, and Felger is a Murderer's Row of writing talent. If you're not familiar with Martone's work with the Providence Journal, he's excellent - writes with a lot of passion. ESPN Boston has Reiss and occasionally Gammons, so that's pretty good right there. However, who will want to read the Globe Sports anymore? Same goes for the Herald. Who does WEEI have for a web presence to compete with these writers? Rob Bradford is good, but isn't in their class. The Globe has lost Edes, Spears, Reiss, and now maybe Dupont. That is catastrophic. The Standard Times out of New Bedford has better sports writing talent now than the Globe. Seriously. - check them out - http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=SPORTS Jonathan Comey, Tim Weisberg, Mick Colageo, and Jon Couture do a bang up job covering the 4 major sports teams. If Comcast SportsNet, is able to secure all four of those writers, to go along with Felger, that will immediately catapult them to the top of the of the local coverage print/web media mountain. Martone, McAdam, Dupont, Curran, and Felger is a Murderer’s Row of writing talent. If you’re not familiar with Martone’s work with the Providence Journal, he’s excellent – writes with a lot of passion.

ESPN Boston has Reiss and occasionally Gammons, so that’s pretty good right there.

However, who will want to read the Globe Sports anymore? Same goes for the Herald. Who does WEEI have for a web presence to compete with these writers? Rob Bradford is good, but isn’t in their class.

The Globe has lost Edes, Spears, Reiss, and now maybe Dupont. That is catastrophic. The Standard Times out of New Bedford has better sports writing talent now than the Globe. Seriously. – check them out – http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=SPORTS Jonathan Comey, Tim Weisberg, Mick Colageo, and Jon Couture do a bang up job covering the 4 major sports teams.

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