ESPN wins Media Eclipse Award for Breeders' Cup

[hoovesupsideyourhead]

having jerry bailey and moss on the broadcast is not worthy of an award imo

[NTamm1215]

The beat goes on.

WRIGHT THOMPSON OF ESPN.COM WINS MEDIA ECLIPSE AWARD FOR FEATURE/COMMENTARY WRITING

The National Thoroughbred Racing Association (NTRA), Daily Racing Form and the National Turf Writers And Broadcasters (NTWAB) today announced that Wright Thompson has won the 2010 Media Eclipse Award for Writing in the Feature/Commentary category for “The Legend of Zenyatta” which appeared on espn.com on October 10.

This is the first Media Eclipse Award for Thompson, 34, of Oxford, Miss., who has been a senior writer for espn.com since 2006.

[Patrick333]

Originally Posted by Gate Dancer

The 6-7 different camera angles that did nothing but obscure the actual races must have sealed it for them.................pathetic.

The voters were probably all at Churchill Downs so they didn't have to watch it on TV.

[OTM Al]

Wonder how close it was to being 4-4. HRTV won for a feature broadcast with their story about Swale but....

"Honorable mention in the television feature programming category went to CBS News’ “60 Minutes” for its feature “Zenyatta,” which aired Oct. 31, and to WIPB in Muncie Ind., for its documentary “Sculpting the Wind,” about the creation of the Barbaro statue at Churchill Downs, which aired July 10."