Video Gaming News - June 2004
Redwood City, CA (June 30, 2004) - EA today announced that Jill
Arrington will be joining John Madden and Al Michaels on the Madden NFL
sidelines. She spent 2 full-days in the recording booth providing audio for the
game. Arrington currently serves as sideline reporter for ESPN’s ‘College
Football Thursday’ as well as feature reporter on ‘College Gameday’ and ‘Sportscenter’.
Arrington spent three years as the sideline reporter for TNN’s coverage of the
Arena Football League, hosting the halftime show for the AFL on TNN and sideline
reporting the AFL’s national weekly syndicated games. Arrington served as CBS
Sports lead sideline reporter on college football and feature reporter on ‘The
NFL Today’ from September 2000 to January 2004.
Tony Bruno will host the EA Sports Radio show in Madden NFL 2005’s franchise
mode. During the game’s weekly sports talk radio show, he takes calls from fans,
NFL coaches, and NFL players. Bruno spent over 30 hours in the recording studio
to provide material for this feature. Bruno has been a nationally syndicated
radio host for Fox Sports Radio the past four years and prior to Fox, spent
eight years as the anchor host of ESPN Radio. In 1992, Bruno was hired as one of
the original ESPN Radio network hosts and spent three years hosting the WIP-AM
610 morning show in Philadelphia during the week and ESPN "GameNight" on the
weekends. In 1995, Bruno moved to ESPN Radio full time and hosted the morning
show until 1999.
From EA Sports:
In its 15th year and with close to 37 million copies sold, Madden NFL
Football continues its top spot as the most popular football videogame franchise
of all time with a combination of innovative new features and the most authentic
football gameplay. Madden NFL Football is currently displayed in the Pro
Football Hall of Fame—the only videogame to receive this honor. Rated E for
Everyone, Madden NFL 2005 will be in stores August 12 for the PlayStation 2,
Xbox, Nintendo GameCube and GameBoy Advance.
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