ESPN Magazine Analysis

15-Page Magazine Analysis The first 15 pages of ESPN: The Magazine attempts to make readers feel like they’re a TV audience. The magazine’s structure seems to mirror an episode of SportsCenter. The first fifteen pages of the magazine resemble the opening sequence of the TV show, which opens with the broadcasters previewing all the sports news to be covered in the episode and setting the humorous, G-rated locker room tone for the show with …

…serve the dual purpose of giving readers that TV feeling and keeping the pace in these opening 15 pages snappy. Reading ESPN: The Magazine is a lot like watching the channel. Fans of SportsCenter can read a magazine that looks and sounds just like the television show they watch every day. For the most part, the magazine successfully simulates the experience of watching sports TV, the ESPN way, and presumably, its readers like it that way.