0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/29/2010
BoxingBest of 2010Marquez vs. Katsidis – HBO, midnight College BasketballSt. John’s at West Virginia – Big East Network, 7 p.m.Boston College at URI – Cox Sports, 7 p.m.Georgetown at Notre Dame – ESPN2, 7 p.m. Duke at North Carolina – ESPNU, 7 p.m.LSU at Rice – CBS College Sports, 8 p.m.Illinois at Iowa – Big […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/28/2010
It’s a long headline, but it’s part of the story here. ESPN ends on a high note as a compelling New Orleans-Atlanta game went right down to the wire with the Saints winning last night. The game received an 11.2 rating with 19.1 million viewers. Very impressive. This becomes the third largest audience in the […]
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On New Year’s Eve, CBS airs one of two bowls not being aired on the ESPN Family of Networks and that’s the Sun Bowl live from El Paso, TX. It will be the matchup between Notre Dame and Miami, two schools that once had an extremely bitter rivalry back in the 1980’s. Now, we have […]
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Announced earlier this month, Comedy Central and comedy website, The Onion are forging a new partnership to launch what will be known as “The Onion Sports Network”. This will be an extension of the new show from The Onion that will launch on Comedy Central in January. We have the details of this partnership in […]
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There are going to be plenty of college basketball games on ESPN’s platforms this week, except for the Mothership itself. Games will be aired mostly on ESPN2 and ESPNU with a few on ESPN3.com sprinkled in. Here’s the schedule. College Hoops Present on ESPNU & ESPN2 The men’s college basketball season is in full swing […]
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Due to Tuesday Night Football, NFL Network has slid the NFL Replay games to a special time at 3 a.m. Wednesday in the East, midnight in the West. So it means you won’t be able to watch them “live” so to speak, but you’ll probably want to DVR them if you like watching the games […]
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During a special edition of NFL Total Access on the NFL Network tonight, the entire rosters for the AFC-NFC Pro Bowl will be announced. You may recall that this season’s Pro Bowl will be played back in its usual home of Hawaii, a week before the Super Bowl. Fox will air it from Honolulu. Here […]
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Just received this press release on CBS’ ratings for its NFL regional coverage on Sunday and they were up almost 30% from regional coverage during Week 15 from last season. A lot of it might have had to do with the Sunday blizzard in the Northeast, but no matter, there were a lot of viewers. […]
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With the digging out from the Great Northeast Blizzard yesterday, plus having to finish some year-end work, I wasn’t able to provide linkage, but now with things slowly getting back to normal, it’s time to give you the sports media links once again. The great Richard Deitsch of Sports lllustrated lists his best and worst […]
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Boxing Best of 2010 Pavlik vs. Martinez – HBO, 11 p.m.Martinez vs. Williams II – HBO, midnightForeman vs. Cotto – HBO, 12:20 a.m. College BasketballPurdue at Michigan – Big Ten Network, 2 p.m.South Florida at Seton Hall – Big East Network, 7 p.m.Minnesota at Wisconsin – ESPN2, 7 p.m.DePaul at Cincinnati – ESPNU, 7 p.m. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/27/2010
Another former NFL’er joins NFL Network as an analyst. It appears NFL Network is trying to hire as many analysts as possible. We have the announcement of former St. Louis Rams wide receiver Torry Holt being picked up by NFL Network right here. FORMER ST. LOUIS RAMS GREAT TORRY HOLT JOINS NFL NETWORK Seven-Time Pro […]
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Throughout this week, the bowl games continue on the networks of ESPN. All but two bowls, the Sun (CBS) and the Gator (ABC) will be on ESPN. Check out the schedule for this week on the Alleged Worldwide Leader. Bowl Coverage Continues on Various ESPN Platforms ESPN will continue the most comprehensive and in-depth college […]
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Los Angeles Lakers at San Antonio Spurs. Fans Select Los Angeles Lakers @ San Antonio Spurs for NBA TV’s Fan Night on Tuesday, Dec. 28 NBA TV’s Tuesday Fan Night game will feature the Los Angeles Lakers at the San Antonio Spurs winning with 51-percent of the fan vote on NBA.com. The game will air […]
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The five NBA games on ESPN and ABC during Christmas Day received a big audience. Here’s the press release from ESPN. Largest Audience Ever for NBA Christmas Day on ABC & ESPN Based on fast national ratings, NBA Christmas Day games airing on ABC and ESPN delivered its highest cumulative audience ever. ABC’s doubleheader averaged […]
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Thanks to increased distribution, NFL Network got its highest audience for a Christmas night NFL game, reaching an average of 7.8 million, getting a peak of 10.2 million. This is strictly cable-only and doesn’t include the over the air audience in Dallas and Phoenix. In addition, the game was the most watched program in the […]
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Let’s check what’s on tap for the third installment of 24/7 Penguins/Capitals: Road to the NHL Winter Classic airing on Wednesday. 24/7 PENGUINS/CAPITALS: ROAD TO THE NHL WINTER CLASSIC DEC. 29 EPISODE Episode #3 Debut: WEDNESDAY, DEC. 29 (10:00-11:00 p.m. ET/PT) with an immediate encore at 11:00 p.m. ET/PT. HBO On Demand […]
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Boxing Best of 2010Mayweather vs. Mosley – HBO, midnightKhan vs. Maidana – HBO, 1 a.m. College BasketballPenn State at Indiana – Big Ten Network, 6:30 p.m.Morgan State at Louisville – Big East Network, 8 p.m.Tennessee-Martin at Ohio State – Big Ten Network, 8:30 p.m.UConn at Pittsburgh – ESPN2, 8:30 p.m. College FootballIndependence Bowl, Shreveport, LAGeorgia […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/26/2010
Without an NFL game, Football Night in America extended to 90 minutes and the show ended up being very good. Not having to rush at 75 minutes, the highlights did not seem rushed and there was plenty of time for football talk. In a perfect world, Sunday Night Football would start at 8:30 p.m., but […]
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Yup, the NFC West play-in game featuring two teams with losing records between St. Louis and Seattle is moved to the primetime slot on NBC. In addition, a slew of 1 p.m. games have been moved to 4:15 p.m. including Giants at Washington and Tennessee at Indianapolis, both of which are also play-in games for […]
