Sometimes You Wanna Go Where Everybody Knows Your Name: ESPN.com EIC Knows What The Kids Want

Published: August 14, 2007, 5:35 pm

Tags: espn, media, rob king, sometimes you wanna go where everybody knows your name

A couple of weeks ago, we helped rid you of the annoying video on the front page of ESPN.com. Well, good news: If you weren't able to figure out how to do that, new ESPN.com editor-in-chief Rob King is gonna take care of that for you. One of his first orders of business is to kill the video that automatically plays whenever users visit the site's home page, a change that could happen as early as late August. Eventually, users will be able to opt out of having that video play when visiting the site. "We've all heard some expression of discomfort," King said in his first extensive public comments since getting the site's top editorial job. "We're addressing it." So, thanks, Rob. But that's not all! No, ESPN is about to get a "bloggy" feel. Well, we wouldn't say "bloggy." We'll call it "serious bloggy, with a partial chance of whimsy." And apparently he's been reading up. "We're still charged with treating serious stuff seriously, which I think [Deadspin Editor Will Leitch] is

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