0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/11/2011
Schedule courtesy of Matt’s College Sports College GameDay live from Palo Alto, CA — ESPNU, 9 a.m./ESPN, 10 a.m. noon ABC Coverage Map Oklahoma State at Texas Tech — ABC West Virginia at Cincinnati — ABC Pittsburgh at Louisville — Big East Network Big Ten Network Channel Finder Ohio State at Purdue — Big Ten […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/10/2011
This released today, former head of HBO Sports, Ross Greenburg, the man responsible for many of the network’s great documentaries, will be joining NBC Sports Network as a producer of Bob Costas’ new show, and the NHL where he will join forces with the new NHL Original Productions to produce long-form and short-form programming. NHL […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/9/2011
I owe you some links having not been able to do them either Monday or Tuesday. USA Today’s Michael Hiestand talks about the ratings for LSU-Alabama not being as high as the previous #1 vs. #2 college football Game of the Century. The great Richard Deitsch at Sports Illustrated has his Media Power List for […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/8/2011
Following the new “Summer at Saratoga” and “Autumn at Keeneland” horse racing series that premiered this year on both NBC and Versus, the NBC Sports Group has announced a spring horse racing series that will lead up to the First Saturday in May which is when the Kentucky Derby is held and marks the first […]
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The game was mostly close and had a couple of lead changes that resulted in a Baltimore Ravens win over the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday Night Football. It led to the Ravens sweeping the season series over Pittsburgh and also to a big audience for NBC. The rating was a 13.3 with a 21 share. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/7/2011
An exciting Baltimore Ravens-Pittsburgh Steelers game that ended in a Ravens win in the last seconds earned NBC a big ratings win. The National Broadcasting Company received a 14.2 rating with a 23 share. That is up 15% from last year’s Week 9 game between Dallas and Green Bay. In addition, Pittsburgh was the top […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/6/2011
We’re seeing increased backlash on Bob Costas’ halftime commentary on Twitter each week. Unless he provides comments on a subject that appears to interest him like Al Davis, it appears that Costas is either uninterested or just patching things together and hoping something sticks. This appears to be the case this week with his comments […]
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We conclude the Sunday NFL pregame quotage with Football Night in America. We’ll wrap up our night with the transcript of Bob Costas’ inane halftime commentary. But before that post, here’s the quotage from Football Night in America. Once again, an action-packed show. “FOOTBALL NIGHT IN AMERICA” NOTES & QUOTES – WEEK 9 “If he […]
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With tonight’s rivalry blood game between Pittsburgh and Baltimore, NBC’s Football Night in America will interview people from both sides. Bob Costas interviews the Ravens’ Terrell Suggs while two coaches get together, Tony Dungy talks with Steelers head man Mike Tomlin. Check out the quotage below. “FOOTBALL NIGHT IN AMERICA” PREVIEW – WEEK 9 BOB […]
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Let’s provide some linkage on this NFL Sunday. Dennis Dodd at CBSSports.com writes that the SEC plans to reopen its humungous media rights contract with ESPN soon after its admission of Missouri into the conference is made official. Glenn Davis at SportsGrid has video of ESPN’s Kirk Herbstreit losing his concentration as an earthquake hit […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/4/2011
Let’s look at what NBC is saying about the Sunday Night Football game between AFC North Division rivals Baltimore and Pittsburgh. The press release is below. STEELERS HOST RAVENS IN HEATED AFC NORTH BATTLE ON “SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL” “The most electric game that we do every year.” – Collinsworth on Ravens-Steelers COVERAGE BEGINS WITH FOOTBALL […]
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NFL Coverage Maps Blackouts: None Byes: Carolina, Detroit, Jacksonville, Minnesota NFL GameDay Morning — NFL Network, 9 a.m. Fox NFL Sunday — Fox, noon 1 p.m. CBS Cleveland at Houston — Ian Eagle/Dan Fouts (“The Bird” and “The Beard”) Miami at Kansas City — Kevin Harlan/Solomon Wilcots New York Jets at Buffalo — Jim Nantz/Phil […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/2/2011
Let’s provide some mid-week linkage for you. Sports Business Daily recaps how ESPN’s SportsCenter handled NBA highlights on what should have been the Opening Night of the regular season. SBD also looks at Los Angeles Dodgers owner Frank McCourt’s agreement to sell the team at auction. Paul Thomasch with Reuters says MLB is looking to […]
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This Sunday, one of the most popular marathons takes place, the New York City Marathon. Universal Sports will have live coverage of the event both on its authenticated channel and online Sunday morning at 9 Eastern time. NBC Sports will air the event on tape delay in a two hour program at 4 p.m. East. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/1/2011
After losing to the World Series last week, Sunday Night Football went back to its winning ways for Dallas-Philadelphia. An estimated 23 million people watched the game. The rating was 13.8 with a 21 share, up 29% from last year’s Week 8 game which went up against the World Series. The press release. 23.0 MILLION […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/31/2011
Last night with the Northeast and the Mid-Atlantic regions recovering from the weekend’s snowstorm, people stayed in to watch some football. NBC says the overnight rating for last night’s Dallas-Philadelphia game ended at a 14.7 with a 23 share, resulting in the 3rd highest rating for the season. It was way up from last week’s […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/30/2011
Bob Costas somehow wanted to mention the St. Louis Cardinals’ World Championship, so he used the St. Louis Rams’ surprise upset over the New Orleans Saints to do it. Certainly not one of my favorites that Costas has done since beginning the halftime commentaries last season. Here’s the text of this week’s monologue. Bob has […]
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To conclude the Sunday NFL pregame quotage, we have Football Night in America from NBC. We’ll get Bob Costas’ silly commentary later and that will be posted as soon as I get it. “FOOTBALL NIGHT IN AMERICA” NOTES & QUOTES – WEEK 8 “At this midpoint, he should be Defensive Player of the Year.” – […]
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On tonight’s edition of NBC’s Football Night in America, Al Michaels and Rodney Harrison conduct the interviews in advance of the Dallas Cowboys-Philadelphia Eagles game on Sunday Night Football. No Bob Costas. I guess he was in St. Louis watching the World Series. “FOOTBALL NIGHT IN AMERICA” PREVIEW – WEEK 8 AL MICHAELS INTERVIEWS COWBOYS […]
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Let’s some linkage on this Sunday. Mike Reynolds from Multichannel News writes that the NBA lockout has forced the cancellation of the rest of its November games forcing ESPN, TNT, NBA TV and regional sports networks to fill huge programming holes. Michael Malone at Multichannel notes that some Hawaiian viewers lost part of Thursday’s Game […]
