{"id":71791,"date":"2025-07-18T05:08:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T05:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/71791\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T05:08:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T05:08:08","slug":"espys-soar-despite-host-shane-gillis-disneyland-at-70-daily-variety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/71791\/","title":{"rendered":"ESPYs Soar Despite Host Shane Gillis; Disneyland at 70: Daily Variety"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe ESPY Awards<\/a> showered kudos on female athletes during Wednesday\u2019s glitzy ceremony at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood.<\/p>\n

\n\tFortunately, the honorees delivered enough inspiration and muscular prowess \u2014 see: rugby star Ilona Maher, who was honored as breakthrough athlete of the year \u2014 to offset the edgy jabs aimed at women in the monologue from ESPYs host Shane Gillis. <\/p>\n

\n\tA rundown of highlights from the ESPY Awards and a salute to Disneyland<\/a> on its 70th birthday are the stories are included in today\u2019s installment of \u201cDaily Variety,\u201d a new podcast that features conversations with Variety journalists about news, trends and personalities making waves in media and entertainment.<\/p>\n

\n\tI ran into ESPN chief Jimmy Pitaro in the Dolby lobby after the ESPYs were over. We talked about the very big, somewhat complicated sales pitch that the Worldwide Leader is preparing to lob at consumers as it launches its standalone ESPN streaming app later this fall. The EPSYs telecast included a 60-second spot that presented the streaming app launch as a great leap forward for sports fans, much as the dawn of the original ESPN cable channel was back in 1979.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThere are two things that are happening this fall. The first is, we\u2019re going direct to consumer. The second is, we\u2019re enhancing the app,\u201d Pitaro tells me. \u201cSo in that spot, we\u2019re basically telling you that there is a new day for ESPN. Come this fall, you\u2019ll be able to access all of our content, all of ESPN, all in one place, and that is the ESPN app. And so whether you\u2019re on a smart television or you\u2019re on your phone or your tablet, we want you to fire up the ESPN app to get the best sports experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tFrom the ESPYs, we turn to a look at Disneyland on the occasion of its 70th birthday.<\/strong><\/a> My Variety colleagues Jazz Tangcay, senior artisans editor, and Carole Horst, deputy editor for features, assembled a package of stories that look at the art and science behind the park. Specifically, they went to Walt Disney Imagineering in Glendale to get a hands-on look at how their cutting-edge work is expressed at Disneyland and other Disney parks. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe sheer scope of the creative and technical activity overseen by Imagineers is impressive, Horst says. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhen we had our tour, we saw all the aspects of Imagineering. We saw how they developed the Spider-Man show that\u2019s on the Avengers campus with the robot that flies through the air, to the sculpture room where they create models and sculptures. This is something that I think is unique to Disney,\u201d Horst says.<\/p>\n

\n\tTangcay says she was struck by how spirit of Walt Disney himself still guides the commitment to R&D and investment in cutting-edge technology.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe really got an insight into their thinking and it\u2019s very much in tune with Walt Disney \u2014 just staying in touch with the inner child,\u201d Tangcay says. \u201cIt\u2019s those tiny details that you never really pay attention to. Even the smell \u2014 they talk about the water smell that you have on Pirates of the Caribbean and It\u2019s a Small World.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tListen to Daily Variety on iHeartPodcasts, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Spotify and other podcast platforms.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

\n\t(Pictured: Rugby star Ilona Maher at the ESPY Awards)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The ESPY Awards showered kudos on female athletes during Wednesday\u2019s glitzy ceremony at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood.…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":71792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[47083,43995,48998,62,38818,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-71791","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-daily-variety","9":"tag-disneyland","10":"tag-espy-awards","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-strictly-business","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114872510322106838","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}