ESPN Hosts 'Charlie' on Location.(Brief Article)
Multichannel News, September, 2000 by HOGAN, MONICA
EchoStar Communications Corp. chairman Charlie Ergen helped program-mining partner ESPN break in its two-week-old SportsCenter studio last week when he broadcast his monthly subscriber "Charlie Chat" from the network's headquarters in Bristol, Conn. ESPN senior vice president of affiliate sales and marketing Sean Bratches pitched the on-location idea to Ergen about six months ago.
"It took a snowball effect" from there, Bratches added. Last week's chat opened with a tape from ESPN on-air personality Chris Berman, who introduced Ergen as "Choo-Choo Charlie Ergen" and EchoStar executive vice president Jim DeFranco as "Jim DeFranco American." Later in the one-hour chat, Ergen and DeFranco were visited by ESPN sportscaster Rece Davis, who discussed...
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