Monthly Archives: January 2010

Sirius XM Announces Super Bowl Programming

As the official satellite radio partner of the National Football League, Sirius XM Satellite Radio plans plenty of shows live from Miami, site of this year’s Super Bowl XLIV. Two channels, Mad Dog Radio and Sirius NFL Radio will be live from Radio Row at the Fort Lauderdale Convention Center all next week. Here’s Sirius […]

ESPN Plans for The Pro Bowl and Super Bowl Week

If you thought the NFL Network was going to have Super Bowl Week all to itself, think again. ESPN has made public its plans for the entire week in South Florida. It begins with its return to the Pro Bowl, an event ESPN used to air annually until this current NFL TV contract where Fox, […]

NBC Universal Announces Huge Resarch Initiative Involving Winter Olympics

When I saw my inbox and a press release from NBC Sports, I was hoping it would be the talent roster for the Vancouver Winter Olympics. Instead, this is regarding the viewer research NBC Universal will conduct throughout the 17 day viewing period of the Olympics. The company did similar research during the Summer Olympics […]

Sports Media Weekly Podcast No. XX

In honor of the upcoming Super Bowl, I use Roman numerals to signify that we have reached 20 podcasts. That’s rather impressive. In this week’s podcast, Keith Thibault of Sports Media Journal and I talk about the monster ratings for NFL Championship Sunday. We also talk about the controversy over CBS’ acceptance of an advocacy […]

Primetime & Late Night Viewing Picks

College Basketballmen’sDuquense at Xavier – CBS College Sports, 7 p.m.Wisconsin at Purdue – ESPN, 7 p.m.Seton Hall at South Florida – ESPN2, 7 p.m.St. John’s at Pittsburgh – ESPNUWake Forest at Georgia Tech – Fox Sports Florida/Fox Sports South/NESN, 7 p.m.Mississippi State at Arkansas – ESPN2, 9 p.m.Ole Miss at Auburn – ESPNU, 9 p.m.UCLA […]

CBS Begins Another Season of Golf

This weekend, CBS Sports gets back into the PGA Tour. For as long as CBS has been broadcasting sports, it has aired golf. Other sports have come and gone, MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL, College Basketball and Football, Olympics, but the one constant has been golf. And CBS has 23 golf tournaments including annual coverage of […]

24 Season 8, Hour 6 Promo

If you saw Monday’s 24 episode, you’ll know about Renee being in an extremely dark place, not caring about her life. In this sneak peek for next week’s episode, Jack is concerned and wants Hastings to pull Renee from the mission. However, Hastings is having none of it. We’ll be ready with another grade next […]

Fang's Bites Grade for 24, Season 8, Hour 5, 8 p.m. – 9 p.m.

Opening sequence: Farhad calls a General loyal to him in Kamistan – B. Sergei Bazhaev cares for his younger son, while his other son Josef wants to take him to a doctor – B. Sergei allows Josef to take him to a country house while they think about their next move – B. Farhad tells […]

BBC Sport's Official 2010 Winter Olympics Promo

Two years ago, the BBC put out one of the coolest Olympic promos using animation from the same house that did the Gorillaz videos. It came out just recently with another very cool animation for the 2010 Winter Games using the Vancouver Olympics logo and just like in 2008, shows a combination of sports that […]

NFL Championship Sunday Draws Big Ratings

To say Sunday was a big day for NFL viewing would be like saying lions like to eat meat. Ratings went through the roof for both CBS and Fox for the AFC and NFC Championship Games respectively. I’ll give you three press releases in one post, one from CBS, one from Fox and finally, one […]

NFL Network To Air Senior Bowl

This week, NFL Network will air programming surrounding this weekend’s annual Senior Bowl in Mobile, AL. It helps NFL scouts evaluate incoming talent for this year’s Draft which will be held in New York later this year. So here’s what you’ll see this week on NFL regarding the Senior Bowl, plus look for some comments […]

Programming For The Early Part of This Week

I have a ton of press releases to post and little time to do them so I’ll get to them while I can. Beginning with ESPN, it premieres “Campus Connection Week”, a series of college basketball games that gives viewers the opportunity to see what life is like on college campuses. ESPNU Campus Connection Week […]

Monday's Links

Let’s do the Monday links. Pretty eventful weekend. Conan O’Brien’s last Tonight Show on Friday night, Upset Saturday in college basketball and then NFL Championship Sunday which leaves Vikings fans with a very bitter aftertaste. A couple of reactions before I go to the linkage. Conan O’Brien went out the right way. I saw David […]

AFC Championship Game Draws Big Ratings for CBS

We’re getting the numbers for NFL Championship Sunday on CBS and Fox. I have the numbers for Fox, but I’m waiting for the press release. The ratings for the AFC Championship Game between the New York Jets and Indianapolis Colts drew a 28.4 rating and 50 share which is the best for the game in […]

Primetime & Late Night Viewing Picks

College Basketballmen’s Georgetown at Syracuse – ESPN, 7 p.m.Delaware at Coppin State – ESPNU, 7 p.m.Missouri at Kansas – ESPN, 9 p.m.Alabama State at Southern – ESPNU, 9 p.m.Boise State at Idaho – ESPNU, 11 p.m. women’sOhio State at Purdue – ESPN2, 7 p.m. NBACleveland at Miami – NBA TV, 7:30 p.m.Los Angeles Clippers at […]

NFL Pregame Quotage for Championship Sunday

We only have NFL Network and that may be the only network that sends its quotage for today and that’s ok. Here is what we have thus far. News and Sound Bites From Championship Sunday Edition of NFL GAMEDAY MORNING “This guy is a regular General Schwarzkopf because he can lead a football team. He […]

Some Sunday Quick Links

Since Friday, I’ve been all over the place and haven’t been able to provide linkage for you and I’m currently suck at work right now so I can’t watch the AFC Championship and will probably miss a good portion of the NFC Championship. That’s what happens when the blog is not the full time job. […]

Weekend Viewing Picks

Saturday, January 23 BoxingBoxing After Dark/WBO Featherweight Title, Steven Luevano vs. Juan Manuel Lopez – HBO, 9:45 p.m. College FootballEast-West Shrine Game – ESPN2, 3 p.m. College Basketball Viewing Picks Figure SkatingU.S. Figure Skating Championships/Ladies Free Skate – NBC, 8 p.m.U.S. Figure Skating Championships/Original Dance – Universal Sports, 11 p.m. GolfPGA Tour/Bob Hope Classic, 4th […]

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