1.  ESPN president Steve Bornstein, then the programming director, remembers getting rebuffed by the SWC in favor of a more-established regional syndicator, Mizlou.

2.  Liz Opoka, right, a senior manager of Music Choice, and Damon Williams, its programming director, in their Manhattan office.

3.  Phil Boyce, the programming director there, said Cafasso approached the program claiming to have leads on stories but quickly began to overstep his bounds.

4.  Its programming director, Jorge Mier, did not answer requests for an interview.