0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/22/2010
Received this notice yesterday from the MLB Network. Nice of them to send this release. On Wednesday, the official network of Major League Baseball will co-produce the Cincinnati Reds-Oakland A’s game with MLB.com and air the game across the country with no local blackouts. In addition, MLB Tonight host Matt Vasgersian comes out of the […]
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College World SeriesArizona State vs. South Carolina – ESPN2, 4:30 p.m.Oklahoma vs. Clemson – ESPN2, 9 p.m. MLBInterleagueCleveland at Philadelphia – STO/Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia, 7 p.m.Detroit at New York Mets – Fox Sports Detroit/SNY, 7 p.m.Florida at Baltimore – Fox Sports Florida/MASN2, 7 p.m.Kansas City at Washington – Fox Sports Kansas City/MASN, 7 p.m.San Diego […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/21/2010
We have the rest of the announcer assignments for Group play in the World Cup. This lasts until Friday. Now from Tuesday until Friday, there will be two games played simultaneously at 10 a.m. Eastern Time and two played at 2:30 p.m. ESPN and ESPN2 will air those games. Because of the scheduling, ESPN brings […]
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Coming this Thursday, ESPN’s various platforms will present the NBA Draft live from The Theater from Madison Square Garden in New York. It’ll be seen live on TV, heard on radio, presented live online, on your cell phone and anywhere else ESPN wants to offer it. Read the release. ESPN, Inc. to Present 64th Annual […]
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Tennis Channel is being picked up by the AT&T U-Verse service and it’s just in time for Wimbledon. Take a look at the press release. AT&T U-VERSE TV LAUNCHES TENNIS CHANNEL WITH COMPREHENSIVE CROSS-PLATFORM DEAL DALLAS, June 21, 2010 — In time for Wimbledon, AT&T* and Tennis Channel today announced the addition of Tennis Channel […]
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This coming in while I was away this morning speaking at a sports journalism class at Boston University. Turner Sports announces that the NASCAR Sprint Cup race on July 3 at Daytona will be produced in 3-D. Not only will the telecast be available for those watching 3-D TV sets, but also online. Now that’s […]
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The U.S. Open in primetime is definitely a success. With the 3rd and 4th rounds going well into the evening hours on the East Coast and in the Midwest, there were plenty of people watching as the final round went down to the last hole. Certainly a good thing for NBC and with Tiger Woods […]
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College World SeriesArizona State vs. Clemson – ESPNU, 11 a.m.Florida vs. Florida State – ESPN2, 4:30 p.m.TCU vs. UCLA – ESPN2, 9 p.m. MLB InterleagueKansas City at Washington – Fox Sports Kansas City/MASN, 7 p.m.Cincinnati at Oakland – Fox Sports Ohio/Comcast SportsNet California, 10 p.m.New York Yankees at Arizona – ESPN/YES/Fox Sports Arizona, 10 p.m. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/20/2010
Kind of strange to see a press release from ESPN on Wimbledon on the night before the event is to take place, but with ESPN in World Cup mode, it’s kind of understandable. Let’s take a look at the coverage as ESPN2 and ESPNU will have coverage this week. ESPN2 is airing World Cup games […]
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This is your programming on Golf Channel on the days leading up to its tournament coverage later this week. Coming up on Golf Channel…June 21-27 Season Premieres of Big Break Sandals Resorts and Golf in America Original Programming Premieres and Highlights (All Times Eastern) Big Break Sandals Resorts (Season Premiere) Airtime: Monday, 9-10 p.m. Hosts: […]
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Let’s do some quotage from TNT’s Sprint Cup coverage from Sunday. Notes from TNT’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Coverage from the Toyota/Save Mart 350 in Sonoma, Calif. – Sunday, June 20, 2010 TNT’s coverage of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series continues on Sunday, June 27 with the Lenox Industrial Tools 301 presented by Captain Morgan […]
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After a two week hiatus, the Videos of the Week return continuing a theme I started last month, Best Sports TV Themes. You can check them out here, here, here, here and here. There are a good many sports themes, but there are also some bad ones. Not every sports theme is a home run […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/19/2010
During a Sports Media Weekly Podcast with Paulsen of Sports Media Watch as the guest, Keith Thibault, Paulsen and myself all predicted that the ratings for the World Cup on ESPN/ABC would be very good. This is turning out to fruition with the ratings for USA-England and now, USA-Slovenia. ESPN has announced this evening that […]
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After eight days of watching World Cup coverage on both ESPN, ESPN3.com, Univision and Univision.com and listening to ESPN Radio, it’s time to give a review of the multimedia coverage of one of the World’s Greatest Sports Events. I’ll break it down by Studio, Game, Online and Radio. Studio ESPN This is an area where […]
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We have some interesting quotes from ESPN Executive Vice President John Skipper regarding his network’s coverage of this year’s World Cup. Under this current contract, ESPN not only has this year’s event, but the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, plus the Women’s World Cup next year and in 2015. So there will be plenty of […]
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NASCAR heads to California for the Toyota/Save Mart 350 this week. It means that after Sunday, TNT will be in the second half of its schedule. The coverage begins at 2 p.m. East/11 a.m. West. Here’s the TNT preview. TNT Heads to California for Exclusive Coverage of NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Racing in Sonoma on […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/18/2010
Time to put up the schedule for MLB games on the sport’s TV partners. Plenty of games. Dodgers-Red Sox will be featured on both Fox and ESPN. In a rare case of scheduling, neither Fox or ESPN are picking up any of the Mets-Yankees series, but TBS is. And MLB Network has its usual Saturday […]
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Whenever there’s a Game 7 in any playoff series, you’re going to get heightened interest. But when it’s for a finals, whether it be in baseball, hockey or basketball, you hook casual viewers and you certainly watched Thursday’s Game 7 between the Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers. A total of 28.2 million viewers watched […]
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If you have been with Fang’s Bites, you’ll know that I was a fan of the series, “The L Word”. At first, I was excited about seeing lesbians on television. But then, the show became about relationships and the storylines for me and I forgot the show was about lesbians. I loved the characters, but […]
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Last night’s Game 7 between the Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers generated lots of viewership. Overall, it was an 18.2, up 32% from the last Game 7 in 2005. We have the numbers thanks to this press release from ESPN. NBA Finals Game 7 Generates Highest Overnight Rating Since 1998 Record-Setting 18.2 Overnight Rating […]
