Lights, cameras, the annual holiday SportsCenter ESPN employee credit roll
ESPN’s end-of-the-year credit roll, which runs annually around the holidays, is a way to acknowledge the many individuals who contributed to ESPN’s success throughout the year. The tradition began many years ago as a public acknowledgement of all the dedicated people both in front of the cameras and behind the scenes, although what used to take under a minute to display now lasts 30 minutes.
This year’s roll debuted at the end of the 11:30 p.m. ET edition of SportsCenter on Saturday, Dec. 24 (credits began at approximately 12:30 a.m., depending on the conclusion of the Hawaii Bowl that precedes SportsCenter). As has been the tradition, the roll features a continual stream of “This is SportsCenter” commercials. A background scene refresh this year includes some of ESPN’s on-air talent in various, animated holiday scenes.
Director/editor: Jason Sharkey and Joe Frady
Creative Services design team: Carol Boyle (Bristol), Christopher Pelczynski (LAPC), Anthony Perez (LAPC) and Matthew Metoyer (LAPC)
This is SportsCenter commercials: Emma Suojanen, Jack Courage, Amanda Marcotullio
Music: Claude Mitchell, Kevin Wilson, Joanne Strange, Alex Santana, Mark Bonds and Roland Mathews
Application support: Stephen Berntsen, Mike Flannery and Jeff Miles
Name List Procurement: Sandy Maier
Number of names displayed:
8,316
Longest Name (33 letters):
Mohanraj Naidu Colnal Ramaswamy Naidu (Enterprise Software Engineering)
Shortest names: (Five letters):
- Ed Eck (Production)
- Li Shi (Advanced Technology)
- Yun Lo (Production Operations – LA)
- Josslyn Meyer (Studio Directing)
- Kimberly Meyer (Stats & Information)
- Lucas Meyer (International – Brazil)
- Michael Meyer (Remote Operations)
- Chris Petersen (Washington)
- Brady Petersen (Operations)
- Aaron Watson (Operations)
- Amie Watson (Human Resources)
- Bruce Watson (Event & Single-Sport Studio Production)
- Cassandra Watson (Product Development)
- Chris Watson (Studio Design & Development)
- Lindsay Watson (Motion Graphics)