0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/30/2012
If you kept the NBC Olympics Live Extra app on your mobile or tablet, then you may have noticed an update today. It now becomes the NBC Sports Live Extra App. NBC will stream many of its properties live on the app including the NHL, Notre Dame football, the French Open, the Ryder Cup, MLS, […]
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Here we go, the entire NHL on NBC and NHL on NBC Sports Network schedule for the 2012-13, provided the lockout doesn’t wreak havoc on the games. If the season starts on time and that’s a big “if”, the combined NBC/NBC Sports Network entity will air over 100 regular season games. NBC’s schedule includes its […]
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This is like last year when the NBA released its national TV schedules in the midst of its lockout and nobody cared. Now, it’s the NHL’s turn to release this and until the lockout is settled between the league and its NHL Players Association, this means nothing. After all the momentum the NHL built at […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/29/2012
I’ll provide a few thoughts as we hit midweek. They’ll be in bullet form, of course. First, here’s hoping the people of New Orleans will be ok in the midst of Hurricane Isaac. They’ve put up with way too much from Hurricane Katrina to Hurricane Gustav and the BP oil spill, I pray they endure […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/28/2012
Earlier today, I had the opportunity to monitor the ESPN/MLB conference call announcing the new deal that lengthens the relationship between the two entities to 30 years when the contract expires in 2021. In this new eight year deal, ESPN will return to the MLB Postseason with one Wild Card Playoff game starting in 2014. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/19/2012
Well, the Olympics have been over for a week, but in the time since the flame was extinguished in the Olympic Stadium in London, it’s meant the start of a whole slew of montages being uploaded from all over the globe. We have several videos from BBC’s extensive coverage, one from CTV and one from […]
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Sunday Night Football returns to NBC tonight with the Pittsburgh Steelers hosting the new look Indianapolis Colts with new quarterback Andrew Luck. In a twist, Dan Hicks who called swimming in the first week of the Olympics will call the game with Cris Collinsworth and sideline reporter Michele Tafoya as Al Michaels has the week […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/15/2012
It’s time to finally wrap up the coverage of the 2012 Olympics on Fang’s Bites. The medals posts have taken too long, but sometimes life gets in the way and I had to divide them into three parts. This will complete the coverage and I can move on to other sports. Part I focused on […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/14/2012
On Monday, we had Part I of our medals for the 2012 London Games. We now wrap up coverage of the 2012 Olympics today before going into football mode. Like in Part I, there will be gold, silver and bronze medals distributed to NBC’s commentators. And as in Part I, those undeserving of reaching the […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/13/2012
We have a very long press release, 3,877 words, from NBC talking about the 2012 London Olympics. Not only were they successful on the networks of NBCUniversal, but they spread their wings to other parts of the NBCUniversal family that had Olympic-related programming. First things first. The Closing Ceremony turned out to be the most […]
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Time to hand out the medals for NBC’s coverage for the Games of the XXX Summer Olympiad in London. This was a largely successful Olympics for NBC as it outdid its own expectations for ratings, profits and viewership. I’ll do the same as I did back in 2008 for Beijing and 2010 in Vancouver. For […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/12/2012
As we’re about to wrap up the Olympics with a nice red bow, let’s finish up a few things here. First NBC has sent Friday’s primetime numbers that were delayed yesterday. NBC’s Friday Olympic primetime finished with a 13.2 rating and a 24 share. That’s way up from Beijing’s Final Friday which had a 10.7/19. […]
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As the Olympics come to a final close, NBC can look at its ratings as a true triumph. While the network was criticized for tape delays, failure to show certain events live, not streaming the Opening Ceremony live online saying Americans needed “context” from a rambling Matt Lauer and Meredith Viera, it still finished above […]
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Ok, Day 16 has become a bit of a mess on NBC. If I put this up earlier in the day, I would have to edit the hell out of the post, but luckily, I was watching NBC’s primetime coverage and in came an announcement that affects Sunday’s daytime programming. First, NBC will hit the […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/11/2012
In a reversal of its original declaration, NBC has announced that the 2012 Olympics Closing Ceremony will be streamed live online when it kicks off at 4 p.m. ET. So those who want to see the entire enchilada without the TV commentary will be able to do so. Remember on the day of the Opening […]
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We don’t have the final ratings for the 2012 Olympics on NBC for Friday’s primetime show. NBC says Nielsen’s process and data gathering had issues on Saturday so we won’t have final ratings and viewership numbers until Sunday morning. Once that comes in, I’ll post it here. This is what NBC is saying about the […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/10/2012
Let’s see what the networks of NBCUniversal have in store for us on Saturday. NBC’s daytime coverage which will include the women’s basketball gold medal game between the United States and France will be live in all time zones starting at 10 a.m. ET/7 a.m. PT. Primetime on NBC will include the final day in […]
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NBC is combining two announcements in one press release. It’s a good news-bad news release and any good PR department will bury the bad news and that’s certainly the case here. We’ll work with NBC and announce their good news first. The USA-Japan women’s football gold medal match on Thursday became the most watched event […]
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Haven’t been able to provide the Friday megalinks in a while. Let’s do an edition today. Normally I include a link to the Weekend Viewing Picks, but I’ll be doing that tonight so you can find it on my site when it’s posted. If you follow me on Twitter or have an RSS feed, you’ll […]
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The networks of NBC will be ready to wind down as we approach the final weekend of the Olympics. On Friday, there will be the women’s 4×100 meters relay and men’s 4×400 meters relay. The USA men’s basketball team will be in the semifinals on Friday taking on Argentina, a team it already defeated earlier […]
