Monday, November 12, 2012

All NBA Media is Local- Detroit Pistons

http://sportsmediajournal.com/ Off to the Motor City to check out the local media covering the DETROIT PISTONS Newspaper- Detroit is primarily a two paper town, sharing one owner with two editorial staffs. The Detroit Free Press has a fairly well laid out online sports section which includes content dedicated to the Pistons. Vince Ellis (Twitter) is the lead Pistons beat reporter for the paper. Expect columnists Mitch Albom (Twitter), Drew Sharp (Twitter) and Jeff Seidel (Twitter) to chime in on the Pistons from time to time. The Detroit News also has a good layout for its sports section. Its’ Pistons-specific page also mixes in other news from around the NFL. Beat reporter Vincent Goodwill, Jr. (Twitter) keeps readers up to date on the paper’s Pistons Blog. Bob Wojnowski (Twitter), Jerry Green, John Niyo (Twitter) and Terry Foster (Twitter) are the columnists for the News. Sports Radio- WYXT The Ticket serves as the flagship in the Pistons Radio Network. Mark Champion (Twitter) is the voice of Pistons with legend Rick Mahorn (Twitter) adding color. You can also talk Pistons on WDFN. Television- Fox Sports Detroit is the local TV home for the Pistons. George Blaha and Greg Kesler make-up the broadcast team. WDIV, WJBK, WXYZ, and WWJ handle the local network television coverage of the Pistons. Blogs- Looking for independent Pistons coverage? Try Detroit Bad Boys, Need for Sheed, Piston Powered, and Life on Dumars.

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