Like the Kayne West song, Winter X Games finals will be held under the lights. It will add a much different feel to the event and make it more like a primetime sport contest. Check out the ESPN article below.
In January, the men’s ski and snowboard slopestyle finals at Winter X Games Aspen 2012 will be held at night. This marks the first time that a Winter X slope competition, and any slope competition of its caliber, has been conducted at night.
That means we’ll be watching them on primetime TV, instead of the daytime slots where they have traditionally aired. According to ESPN, it was burgeoning interest and participation in the discipline that resulted in the time change. “It is hard to argue with the fact that slopestyle is driving a lot of interest in both ski and snowboard,” says Tim Reed, Senior Director of Content Strategy for the X Games. “The Olympic inclusion clearly shows what has been built over the first 15 Winter X Games. In addition, we were the first to do a major lighting operation with the superpipe and we believe slopestyle now deserves the same treatment.”
Check out this X Games teaser featuring our man, Torstein as a cartoon character. The excitement is brewing. This years contest is going to be the best yet. You can bet the athletes are going to be throwing down and setting the bar higher than ever before.
All the madness of Winter X Games Aspen starts on January 26 – 29, from beautiful Aspen, Colorado! Can’t make it? No worries, you can watch all the action on ESPN / ESPN2 / ESPN3.com / ABC. Here’s a full listing of TV and video for Winter X Games Aspen: http://es.pn/utUMR1
For more event info check out http://xgames.com and see you in Aspen!
X Games has grown into the pinnacle event for snowsports, rivaling the olympics and arguably much more fun to watch. It hasn’t always been the X Games we’ve grown to know and love/hate. ESPN put together a little history lesson of where it has come from and how it has grown, along with the people who have helped shape it. It’s an interesting read and there are some great facts you can drop on your friends and annoy them as they are trying to watch the contest. We highly recommend doing this. Hit the jump to read the article…
Slopestyle Disciplines Move Under the Lights and into Prime Time; First Wave of Invited Athletes Announced
Winter X Games Aspen 2012 will return to Aspen/Snowmass, Colo., January 26-29, 2012, with live coverage on ESPN, ESPN2 and ABC. This year will mark the 11th consecutive year the event will be held in Aspen and will feature more than 200 of the world’s best athletes in the sports of Skiing, Snowboarding and Snowmobile. For the first time at Winter X Games, the Slopestyle competitions will be held under the bright lights and in prime time – a first for any large-scale Slopestyle competition in history. In addition to 16 hours of live programing on ESPN, ESPN2 and ABC, more than nine hours of Winter X Games Aspen content will be offered on ESPN3.
ESPN Winter X Games 14 and Athletes Set New Records
Record TV Viewership, Attendance and Groundbreaking Performances
A record number of fans and spectators enjoyed the unprecedented hours of Winter X Games 14 content across ESPN’s numerous global platforms. The annual winter action sports event welcomed 200 world-class athletes for a ninth straight year to Aspen/Snowmass at Buttermilk Mountain where a record number of spectators saw a number of record performances while more people than ever watched on television.
“It is always our goal as a network and event to deliver the best in action sports to fans worldwide,” said Rick Alessandri, senior vice president, X Games Franchise. “The continued success of Winter X Games, coupled by our increase to an all-time high in programming hours, speaks to the amazing talents and dedication of the athletes competing at Winter X.”
For the third straight year, the Winter X Games was ESPN’s highest-rated and most-viewed, and more than 43 million viewers tuned in to watch on ESPN and ESPN2. The ESPN telecasts posted a 1.2 household rating, representing an average of 1,147,000 households. In addition, both ESPN and ESPN2 recorded their highest-rated and most-viewed individual Winter X telecasts (1.3 on ESPN and a 0.8 on ESPN2).
ESPN and ESPN2 televised 24.5 hours of live high-definition programming Jan. 28 – 31. Additionally, the Winter X Games were also televised on ESPN’s International networks to 172 countries and territories in Latin America, the Pacific Rim, Middle East, Africa, Israel and Canada.
Winter X Games 14 set a new attendance record in Aspen with a total of 84,100 spectators over four days, beating the previous Aspen best of 76,150 set in 2007 – an increase of nine percent.
The world watched Shaun White make history as he won Men’s Snowboard SuperPipe for the third time in a row, despite a scary fall during practice. Athletes who broke Winter X Games records:
Ophelie David: Four-peat in Women’s Skier X. It was the first four-peat in Skiing history.
Tucker Hibbert: Four-peat in Snowmobile SnoCross. It was the first four-peat in Snowmobile history.
Nate Holland: Five-peat in Men’s Snowboarder X. It was the first five-peat in Winter X Games history.
Lindsey Jacobellis: Three-peat in Women’s Snowboarder X. Jacobellis was the first person to three-peat twice in the same discipline.
Shaun White: Three-peat in Men’s Snowboard SuperPipe. It was the first three-peat in Snowboard SuperPipe, Men or Women. White is also the second person to three-peat in two separate disciplines.
Snowboard Slopestyle Women’s Final Results from Aspen/Snowmass on Sunday, January 31, 2010
Name Bib # Hometown Score 1. Jenny Jones 309 Bristol, Great Britain 92.66
2. Jamie Anderson 321 South Lake Tahoe, Calif. 89.33
3. Janna Meyen-Weatherby 342 Bend, Ore. 75.66
4. Kjesti Oestgaard Buaas 325 Trondheim, Norway 43.33
5. Hana Beaman 340 Salt Lake City, Utah 35.00
6. Cheryl Maas 390 Biarritz, France 17.33
For Winter X Games media information, including press releases, logos and additional images from past events, log on to www.espneventmedia.com <http://www.espneventmedia.com/> .
ESPN and ESPN2 will televise 24 ½ hours of LIVE high-definition programming Jan. 28-Jan 31.
