0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/5/2014
As part of the TV Everywhere initiative that’s being pushed by cable and satellite providers, NBC’s Olympic coverage will require viewers to authenticate to watch its online streams. Now for those who have not verified their cable and satellite subscriptions on the NBC Sports Live Extra App, they’ll be allowed a one-time and one-time only […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/4/2014
Fronted by decorated short track speed skater Apolo Anton Ohno, NBC airs Winter Gold: NBC’s First Look at the Sochi Olympics Broadcast tonight at 8 ET/PT. This one-hour special will go behind-the-scenes of NBC’s comprehensive broadcast of the Olympics in Sochi, a warm water port city in Russia that averages 50 degrees in February and […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/3/2014
As we transition from the Super Bowl to the Winter Olympics, we note that NBCUniversal will go all out to ensure you know that’s it’s covering the games. As it did with the 2012 Summer Games in London, NBCU will utilize its various resources to promote the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. Sochi is a […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/31/2014
As with the MLB Trading Deadline and NHL Trade Deadline shows, one of the more compelling days in sports is the English Premier League Transfer Deadline. It’s today and NBCSN will have a one-hour wrap-up of the day’s transfers at 6:30 p.m. ET today. With Rebecca Lowe in Sochi, the program will be hosted by […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/27/2014
Well, you knew this was coming. Earlier this month, Olympic gold medalist skier Lindsey Vonn withdrew from the 2014 Sochi Olympics citing a knee injury which wasn’t healing as quickly as she had hoped. This put a big dent in NBC’s promotions as the Peacock was relying on her as a draw to its primetime […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/25/2014
Time to do a quick notebook for you on this early Saturday morning. They’ll be bullet form. Fox has increased its stake in the YES Network. In late 2012, it purchased a 49% share in the regional sports network. On Friday through a press release from parent company 21st Century Fox, YES will become a […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/24/2014
NBC will air the last Pro Bowl on broadcast television until 2022 at least. Starting in 2015, ESPN will get the Pro Bowl every year like it used to from 1989 until 2006. Since the 2007 game, the Pro Bowl has been on broadcast TV except for 2010 when CBS relinquished the rights to ESPN. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/23/2014
NBC Sports won’t be airing NASCAR until 2015, but it’s not stopping the network from hiring on-air talent for its upcoming coverage. Two reporters have been hired to contribute to NBC’s NASCAR studio programming as well its IndyCar coverage. Marty Snider is a familiar face to NBC Sports as he has been a pit reporter […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/22/2014
This from NBC Sports Group, the cable networks carrying NHL Stanley Cup Playoff games, CNBC and NBCSN are seeing significant increases from the year before. For the 2014 postseason, CNBC and NBCSN have had viewership increase by 63% from 2013 to an average audience of 521,000 people for the first five days of the 2014 […]
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The NHL Stadium Series, games played in outdoor arenas, begins this weekend as games are played in Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles and Yankee Stadium in New York. Both games will be aired nationally through the auspices of the NBC Sports Group. NBCSN will provide coverage of the game from Chavez Ravine on Saturday at […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/21/2014
It’s amazing how a turn of events can occur and bring you back full circle. Sometimes, you can go home again. Sports Illustrated’s Richard Deitsch reports that Michelle Beadle will be returning to ESPN when she is let out of NBC contract in mid-March. It was back in September when Beadle appeared on the Sports […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/19/2014
Time to do some thoughts before the NFL Conference Championship Games. Once they start, I won’t be able to get this done. As usual, they come in bullet form. Last week, Grantland put forth a story by Caleb Hannan on the science behind a golf putter and the person who invented it. And while it’s […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/14/2014
Ok, NBC has finally set its lineup for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Sochi is a warm water city in Sochi which averages 50 degrees in February and cost over $51 billion to construct. This are a few revisions from the lineup I posted earlier this month from the NBC Sports Pressbox website. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/13/2014
Here are a couple of notes that you may have missed from the last couple of weeks: Right at the start of the new year, the Philadelphia Phillies and Comcast SportsNet announced a new 25-year agreement that keeps the team on the RSN well past the current agreement that expires in 2015. Sports Business Daily […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/10/2014
This weekend, NBC Sports will have live coverage of the 2014 U.S. Figure Skating Championships live from TD Garden in Boston, MA. The competition will decide Team USA’s representatives at the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Sochi is a warm water port city which averages 50 degrees in February. NBC will have live coverage of […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/9/2014
Just announced by NBC Sports Group, crew chief Steve Letarte will join the network’s NASCAR broadcast team when NBC/NBCSN begins airing the sport in 2015. He’ll join lap-by-lap announcer Rick Allen and fellow analyst Jeff Burton in the broadcast booth for the second half of the Sprint Cup season. Letarte was the crew chief for […]
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NBC continues to make daily announcements about its Olympic programming. Coming in February, NBCOlympics.com will debut several new online features for its site and the NBC Sports Live Extra App. One particular feature that returns from London is Gold Zone which will take viewers to wherever the action is in Sochi. Unlike London, there will […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/7/2014
This announced at NBC’s Olympic press tour event in New York today, former U.S. Olympic figure skater Nancy Kerrigan will be part of the Peacock’s team that will be in Sochi, a warm weather city in Russia that averages 50 degrees in February. Kerrigan who was involved in one of the most sensational stories of […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/6/2014
We don’t have a press release yet, but based on the information from NBC Sports’ public relations website, we’re able to cull the announcers for each sport for the 2014 Winter Olympics which will be held in Sochi, a warm weather city in Russia that averages 50 degrees in February. I’ll list the on-air commentators […]
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NBC’s Wild Card Saturday doubleheader averaged 30.8 million viewers with two very compelling games. The Kansas City-Indianapolis game ended with a 45-44 Colts win and the second largest comeback in the history of the NFL Postseason. And the nightcap between New Orleans and Philadelphia gave the Saints their first road playoff win in the team’s […]
