From The Athletic;
Linda Cohn will be anchoring some SportsCenters as well as doing features and special projects for ESPN. She'll now be doing that in Connecticut following the end of Los Angeles-based SportsCenter.
She will be much farther away from Seattle to be a part of the Kraken Hockey Network come fall. So we will have to wait for an update on her status with Ian Furness and Alison Lukan. She tri-anchored a handful of home games last year. Hockey fanatic.
Guess here sir is she will continue her KHN work. I'm thinking this is probably going to be similar to what ESPN did with Kenny Mayne to allow him to live here full-time in Seattle - Linda will probably commute back there every so often and do a string of those shows then be done for a while at a time while doing those other projects for them. Would have to assume that it will be this way until her contract is up
ReplyDeleteCosts a lot more round trip from Hartford to SeaTac than LA, so KHN has to foot that bill. I would posit that her presence on 10 or so pre-games was not difference maker to Seattle hockey fans. Or was it? No numbers available apparently either way. They pay for her name recognition to make the Kraken feel bigger, but will that continue? She might have a two-year deal anyway, so who knows.
ReplyDeleteCould Cohn do some or all of her KHN work remotely from Conneticut to cut down on travel costs?
ReplyDeleteCertainly, but it cuts the Climate Pledge fan environment/excitement, where she was most effective. We won't know for a while. But the Kraken have been active, so they may up the ante for her. I am really looking forward to see if they upgrade the look and set for next season.
ReplyDeleteI thought she was going to do all the KHN broadcasts this season now that she has more time. Not sure what the means for Lukan and Furness.
ReplyDeleteIf she is going to be more involved they may need to use Zoom/Cisco etc. to bring her on the shows from Bristol Traveling coast to coast in winter is very dicey. We shall see.
ReplyDeleteHeard she got let go by the Kraken.
ReplyDeleteNice tip, will have to dig around on that one. I doubt she had any impact on viewing for only a handful of games on KING/KONG which I don't think promoted her appearance very much, if at all.
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