0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/13/2012
The last two days have been crazy for me as I’ve been dealing with family. Nothing major, but it’s taking up a lot of my time. My apologies for not posting as much as you’ve become accustomed. Let’s get to this without further delay. NBC announced this week that it’s released two new Olympic mobile […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/11/2012
Lots of stuff to get to. Let’s not waste time. Sports Illustrated’s Richard Deitsch reports on ESPN’s signing of four of its NFL insiders to long-term contracts. SI’s Tom Verducci gives us some myths and truths about the MLB All-Star Game. Tim Kenneally of The Wrap says the All-Star Game won the night for Fox […]
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Announced today by NBC, the network will have a partnership with Facebook throughout the 17 Days of Glory in London. NBC says it will have exclusive video content on its Olympics Facebook page as well as engage fans in polls, trivia and shareable images. In addition, NBC has launched an Olympics Facebook timeline app so […]
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We have this piece of information from NBC. When we get the full schedule, it’ll be posted, but this is from an NBC press release listing its sports events through August 7 and included in the release is the Olympic schedule through that day. So let’s post what we have so you can plan your […]
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Let’s do a few sports media thoughts and a couple non-sports thoughts. They’re in bullet form, of course. Fox did its usual good job in covering the MLB All-Star Game. The production was spot on. Joe Buck was decent. Ken Rosenthal was good in his role. Fox did not shove Erin Andrews down our throats […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/10/2012
Let’s do some links. Couldn’t get to them yesterday. Time to grind some out today. Michael Hiestand of USA Today says ESPN won’t be an oasis away from political advertising this fall. Michael also has the ratings on Wimbledon and NASCAR. Bill King of Sports Business Journal looks at NBC bringing back boxing to network […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/8/2012
Let’s provide a few sports media thoughts on this Sunday. You know they’ll be in bullet form. ESPN’s live coverage of Wimbledon has been a joy over the last two weeks. Most everything has been shown on the Family of Networks. And in the second week when both ESPN and ESPN2 were deployed for the […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/6/2012
While I was working on the Friday megalinks today, I happened to stumble on this press release from Ithaca College. It says the college will be sending 35 interns to work on NBC’s Olympic coverage. Most will come from the college’s School of Communications with two others spread from other schools within the institution. Ithaca […]
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Time for Friday linkage. The Weekend Viewing Picks have your sports and entertainment suggestions. Let’s get cracking. National Michael Hiestand from USA Today looks at TNT’s plans to go mostly split-screen during breaks for Saturday’s NASCAR race. Tom Perrotta of the Wall Street Journal reports that the one Wimbledon souvenir the players want is the […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/5/2012
This from the NBC Sports Group. The U.S. Women’s Open has begun and both ESPN2 and NBC will share coverage under their contracts with the US Golf Association. NBC will have weekend coverage from Blackwolf Run in Kohler, WI. Dan Hicks will be at the tower on the 18th green with Dottie Pepper. Joining them […]
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So weird to have the 4th of July in the middle of the week. You get the holiday after two work days and then have two work days afterwards. Some of you have the entire week off which is good, but for me, there’s no such thing as a vacation. In fact, I haven’t had […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/4/2012
On this 4th of July holiday, let’s do some All-American sports media thoughts. They’re in bullet form as always. The New York Times’ Richard Sandomir gave us some food for thought in his latest column this week on the MLB rights negotiations. Richard raised the possibility of MLB awarding the entire broadcast contract to one […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/3/2012
What I received from NBC Sports was part of its programming schedule press release for the month of July. I’ve culled the Olympic TV schedule for NBCUniversal and you’ll notice that for the cable networks, Bravo, CNBC, NBC Sports Network among others, everything will be live. On NBC, there will be tape delayed coverage in […]
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Can’t blame NBC about being bullish on the upcoming Olympics. With the U.S. Olympic Trials over, NBC is counting the ratings for gymnastics, swimming and track & field and they are good. NBC won the primetime ratings thanks to swimming and gymnastics over the weekend. Having big names like Michael Phelps, Ryan Lochte, Missy Franklin […]
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Ok, maybe you’re not jonesing for the linkage, but at least you can read them at your leisure. Sometimes I think way too long about the title of the post and this is the case today. Anyway, let’s get to the links. Joel Schectman of the Wall Street Journal reports that NBC and Google are […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/2/2012
It may not be as high profile as Michelle Beadle or Erin Andrews, but one of the better hosts at ESPN, Ryan Burr has announced today is his last day at ESPN and he will leave for NBC Sports Group where he will work mostly for Golf Channel and for NBC Sports. Burr has been […]
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Continuing to sign programming for inventory on both NBC and NBC Sports Network, we find this announcement from the NBC Sports Group that Sports Illustrated magazine will partner to create a new TV newsmagazine. This will air monthly on either NBC Sports Network or NBC. The first edition will premiere on July 24, just three […]
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NBC Sports Group has announced that it has extended its agreement with promoter Main Events to expand the Fight Night boxing series on NBC Sports Network. The deal which was originally for one year will now extend to 2014. In addition, the number of Fight Night cards will expand from the original six this year […]
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Let’s bring out some Monday links today. Starting with Michael Hiestand of USA Today, he talks with Fox’s Erin Andrews (weird to write that) about her decision to leave ESPN. A.J. Perez of Fox Sports has Erin’s reaction to joining the network. Jane Kellogg and Alex Ben Block of the Hollywood Reporter write about Erin […]
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Time for some quick sports media thoughts. As always, they come in bullet form. The free agent frenzy at ESPN is over. Overall, ESPN lost two out of three major free agents, Erin Andrews and Michelle Beadle while keeping Scott Van Pelt. Beadle and Van Pelt were not surprises, but Andrews’ departure can be classified […]
