0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/18/2010
CyclingTour of California, Stage 3 – Versus, 5 p.m. MLBAmerican LeagueMinnesota at Toronto – MLB Network/Rogers Sportsnet, 12:30 p.m.Chicago White Sox at Detroit – Comcast Sportnet Chicago/Fox Sports Detroit 1 p.m.Cleveland at Tampa Bay – STO/Sun Sports, 1 p.m.Red Sox at New York Yankees – MLB Network/NESN/WWOR, 7 p.m.Kansas City at Baltimore – Fox Sports […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/17/2010
Versus and NBC may have exclusivity for the NHL Eastern Conference Finals between Montreal and Philadelphia, but that won’t stop Comcast SportsNet Philly from covering the series like a blanket. It’ll have wraparound programming on both Comcast SportsNet and during conflicts with the Phillies, the pre and postgame shows will spillover to The Comcast Network. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang
We have your segments for this month’s edition of Real Sports. Thanks to HBO for sending this over. REAL SPORTS WITH BRYANT GUMBEL GOES ONE-ON-ONE WITH USC TROJANS HEAD FOOTBALL COACH LANE KIFFIN; EXAMINES THE BAREFOOT RUNNING MOVEMENT; PROFILES DOG SLEDDING LEGEND LANCE MACKEY; AND REVISITS INSPIRATIONAL CONGENITAL AMPUTEE ATHLETE KYLE MAYNARD WHEN THE EMMY®-WINNING […]
0 comments by Ken Fang
I told you last week that I had an announcement to make and I can do it now. Fang’s Bites is now part of the Fantasy Sports Ventures network. Fantasy Sports Ventures is one of the largest bloggers networks and has many independent blogs under its umbrella including The Big Lead, Midwest Sports Fans, Baseball […]
0 comments by Ken Fang
ESPN has given us its Sunday Night Baseball schedule for next month. We have three interleague matchups. Sunday Night Baseball June Schedule Announced ESPN’s Sunday Night Baseball will spotlight the following matchups in June (all games begin at 8 p.m. and are available via ESPN Radio, ESPN Deportes, ESPN3.com and ESPN Mobile TV): June 6 […]
0 comments by Ken Fang
MLB Network continues to pick up games this week and you’ll see plenty of Yankees and Red Sox. Plus, you’ll see a rare Saturday afternoon game as Fox goes primetime this week. More on that either Thursday or Friday. But here’s your live game schedule which begins on Tuesday. AL East Showdown Between the Tampa […]
0 comments by Ken Fang
The Bruins completing their historic choke against the Flyers on Friday was like watching a major disaster happen in front of my eyes. As a Bruins fan, it was a helpless feeling seeing this collapse on Friday night and the ratings for NESN were very good. Overall, it was the second highest rated Bruins game […]
0 comments by Ken Fang
Both Tennis Channel and ESPN2 will be all over the French Open which starts on Sunday. For this Grand Slam tournament, Tennis Channel is the main rightsholder and will go from 5 a.m. until noon daily. ESPN2 sublicenses from Tennis Channel and starts its coverage at noon in the East. Two releases, one from Tennis […]
0 comments by Ken Fang
Ok, we haven’t done linkage since Thursday. Was busy Friday and Saturday and on Sunday, I rested. So it’s time to give you stuffage today. You deserve it. I am experimenting with logos on the top of the page so if you see something different over the next few days, you’ll know that I’m trying […]
0 comments by Ken Fang
The Atlantic Coast Conference and ESPN have had a long standing relationship dating back to the network’s inception in 1979 and it appears they’ll continue that relationship well into the twenties. Sports Business Journal’s John Ourand breaks the story today and we’ll be able to link to it later, but we have details on Twitter. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang
Cycling Tour of California, Stage 2 – Versus, 5 p.m. MLBAmerican LeagueRed Sox at Yankees – ESPN/NESN/YES, 7 p.m.Chicago White Sox at Detroit – WCIU/Fox Sports Detroit, 7 p.m.Cleveland at Tampa Bay – STO/Sun Sports, 7 p.m.Kansas City at Baltimore – Fox Sports Kansas City/MASN2, 7 p.m.Minnesota at Toronto – Fox Sports North/Rogers Sportsnet, 7 […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/16/2010
Last week, I did a Videos of the Week on the Best Sports TV themes and it was so popular that it warranted a follow up that same day. And it’s now time to do a Part II and give you some more themes. I’ll do some college basketball, pregame shows and soccer. Let’s get […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/15/2010
Usually, I embed both the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes within hours of the race, but this year, I was in Ithaca on the day of the Derby and went out again the next day to Boston Sports Blogapalooza so I totally forgot to embed it. But I won’t forget the Preakness Stakes and we […]
0 comments by Ken Fang
I am in entertaining mode with the family as relatives are over, but I’ve sneaked away long enough to post a couple of press releases here. Tomorrow, I’ll continue last Sunday’s Videos of the Week which focused on Best Sports TV Themes. Right now, two more releases, this time on the NHL and the upcoming […]
0 comments by Ken Fang
A couple of golf notes for you this weekend. First from CBS Sports, it will carry the final two rounds of the Texas Open this weekend, the start of the Texas Swing for the PGA Tour. ZACH JOHNSON LOOKS TO LASSO THIRD STRAIGHT “TEXAS OPEN” AS PGA TOUR TEES OFF IN LONE STAR STATE ON […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/14/2010
CBC has made its choice for the NHL Conference Finals and you know it’s going to pick Philadelphia-Montreal for its main series. It will also carry the final four games of the San Jose-Chicago series provided it goes the full seven. Kind of interesting to see the announcing assignments as Bob Cole who called the […]
0 comments by Ken Fang
Here are the Conference Final schedules. There will be no local television as Versus and NBC have exclusivity in the US. CBC and TSN will air the games in Canada. These schedules are set in stone. Let’s check them out below. EASTERN CONFERENCE FINALS#7 Philadelphia Flyers vs. #8 Montreal Canadiens Game 1/Sunday, May 16 – […]
0 comments by Ken Fang
The final ratings for ESPN are in and they’re lower than the overnights, but they’re still good for the Alleged Worldwide Leader as Celtics-Cavs Game 6 becomes the second highest viewed basketball game, college or pro on the network. The average viewership was almost 9 million viewers plus the ratings in Cleveland, Boston, Orlando, Chicago […]
0 comments by Ken Fang
Just received this press release from the National Hockey League regarding the ratings for the Conference Semifinals for CBC, RDS, Versus and various local regional sports networks. I’ll clean this up later, but I wanted to post this as soon as possible for you the reader. CBC, RDS REACH MILESTONES FOR PENS-HABS GAME 7 Records […]
0 comments by Ken Fang
We have your group of games on national TV this weekend so let’s get to them. Fox has regional coverage of three games. This weekend, Joe Buck has the weekend off, so this makes four of the first six games that he has worked. Buck took April 17 off and he’s also taking this weekend […]
