NYC Marathon Nationwide TV Live

Five-borough Race Returns to National Live TV for First Time in Almost 20 Years

SportsCenter anchors Hannah Storm and John Anderson will lead the ESPN team of commentators as host and play-by-play for ESPN’s live telecast of the ING New York City Marathon on Sunday, Nov. 4. Nationally, the telecast will be available on ESPN2 and – for fans who receive their video subscriptions from an affiliated provider – on computers at WatchESPN.com and on smartphones and tablets via the WatchESPN app. ABC will also present a two-hour national broadcast at 4 p.m. Locally, New Yorkers can watch the race on WABC-TV and 7online.com. This is the first year of a five-year television package and marks the return of the Marathon to live national TV for the first time in almost 20 years.

ESPN’s Storm and Anderson will be joined by analysts Carrie Tollefson and Tim Hutchings and reporter Lewis Johnson. Tollefson is an Olympian and five-time NCAA champion in track and field and cross country. Hutchings, an Olympian and former international distance runner, and Johnson, an All-American in track, both covered the 2012 Olympic Games. Juli Benson, Ed Eyestone and David Wiley and WABC-TV’s sports anchors Rob Powers and Laura Behnke will also report from the course.

Anderson said, “Short of my first SportsCenter, I have never been more excited about any assignment I’ve had here at ESPN. The New York City Marathon is a 26.2-mile finish line. From gun to tape it’s non-stop exhilaration with support from the entire city. I’ve run the marathon and nothing ever hurt better in my life. It doesn’t matter if you’re in the lead or in 47,358th place, the crowd treats every runner the same – like a champion.”

Storm added, “There is perhaps, no sporting event in America more closely attached to its neighborhoods and city – while at the same time being an instantly recognizable international event – than the New York City Marathon. It’s a part of the fabric of this great city and I’m thrilled to be involved in the broadcast of such an iconic sporting event.”

More than 47,000 runners, including USA Olympians Abdi Abdirahman, Amy Hastings and Meb Keflezighi and Olympic Marathon gold medal champion Tiki Gelana of Ethiopia, are expected to participate

wineturtle wrote:

Sun, Nov 4

7 a.m.-2 p.m.

Pre-Race & ING NYC Marathon

WatchESPN

7 a.m.-2 p.m.

Pre-Race & ING NYC Marathon

WABC-TV, 7online

9 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

ING NYC Marathon

ESPN2

4-6 p.m.

ING NYC Marathon Show

ABC

Typical teenage fan watching marathoning

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editorial comment by noneditor wrote:

Typical teenage fan watching marathoning

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Actually, I remember quite well watching the NYC marathon live on TV in the early 1980s. It got me into running. I joined the XC team in junior high the next year. The live broadcast is huge for the sport. Very glad to see it back on TV.

This should be great.

About 20 minutes of the elite races, the rest commercials, giving verbal head to everything New York and human interest story's of charity runners and cripples.

Hannah:

"It's so inspirational, watching Heather complete the "event" in 5 hours for her charity in the glorious panorama of Gotham!"

Daylight saving time changes at 2AM that day.

Spring ahead and fall back or is it fall ahead and spring back?

Meaningful comment liberated from the troll thread. DM is responding to a post about the race being just a airtime buy by NYRR-

That's not true. The combined WABC/ABC/ESPN2 deal generated a 7-figure rights fee for the race, allowed it to be shown live on television throughout the USA. It is not a time buy.

David Monti, Professional Athletes Consultant

New York Road Runners

The pro athletes forming a union should pay attention to the companies who by ad space on the broasdcast. I'd think ESPNII has sold national reach, regional reach and local adspace during the broadcast and on the replay show. If they buy commercial time they might be willong to use a runner in their promotional plans.

THANK THE LORD they will NOT have Craig Masback as part of the broadcast team.

His "call" of the Olympic Marathon races may have been the lowest point and the worst performance in the history of sports television

already down at my HS track wrote:

Daylight saving time changes at 2AM that day.

Spring ahead and fall back or is it fall ahead and spring back?

eXTRA HOUR OF SLEEP

graseeus senor clam,

How Daylight Saving Time Works

During late Winter we move our clocks one hour ahead and "lose" an hour during the night and each Fall we move our clocks back one hour and "gain" an extra hour. But Daylight Saving Time (and not Daylight Savings Time with an "s") wasn't just created to confuse our schedules.

The phrase "Spring forward, Fall back" helps people remember how Daylight Saving Time affects their clocks. At 2 a.m. on the second Sunday in March, we set our clocks forward one hour ahead of Standard Time ("Spring forward," even though Spring doesn't begin until late March, over a week after the start of Daylight Saving Time). We "Fall back" at 2 a.m. on the first Sunday in November by setting our clock back one hour and thus returning to Standard Time.

The change to Daylight Saving Time ostensibly allows us to use less energy in lighting our homes by taking advantage of the longer and later daylight hours. During the eight-month period of Daylight Saving Time, the names of time in each of the time zones in the U.S. (map) change as well. Eastern Standard Time (EST) becomes Eastern Daylight Time, Central Standard Time (CST) becomes Central Daylight Time (CDT), Mountain Standard Time (MST) becomes Mountain Daylight Time (MDT), Pacific Standard Time becomes Pacific Daylight Time (PDT), and so forth.

History of Daylight Saving Time

Daylight Saving Time was instituted in the United States during World War I in order to save energy for war production by taking advantage of the later hours of daylight between April and October. During World War II the federal government again required the states to observe the time change. Between the wars and after World War II, states and communities chose whether or not to observe Daylight Saving Time. In 1966, Congress passed the Uniform Time Act, which standardized the length of Daylight Saving Time.

I think Craig Masback is the best commentator at the moment.