0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/9/2011
Here’s a press release from NBC Sports crowing about the ratings for last night’s regular season opener between the New Orleans Saints and the Green Bay Packers, a track meet that ended with the defending Super Bowl champs winning over the Super Bowl Champs from two seasons ago, 42-34 and the game was decided on […]
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NFL Coverage Maps NFL GameDay Morning — NFL Network, 9 a.m. Fox NFL Sunday — Fox, noon 1 p.m. CBS Buffalo at Kansas City — Marv Albert/Rich Gannon Cincinnati at Cleveland — Kevin Harlan/Solomon Wilcots Indianapolis at Houston — Greg Gumbel/Dan Dierdorf Pittsburgh at Baltimore — Jim Nantz/Phil Simms Tennessee at Jacksonville — Ian Eagle/Dan […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/8/2011
I was in between offices yesterday and could not do the links as I had wanted. Let’s provide some now while I can. Nate Davis at USA Today writes about ESPN extending the rights to air Monday Night Football and keep the series on cable through 2021. The Hollywood Reporter notes that tonight’s Presidential jobs […]
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Perhaps this is a harbinger of things to come. NBC and NFL Network are jointly producing an NFL Kickoff 2011 special that airs this Saturday night at 8 Eastern time. NBC’s Football Night in America cast of Bob Costas, Dan Patrick, Tony Dungy, Rodney Harrison, Peter King and Mike Florio will all be featured in […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/7/2011
This in from the National Football League, four NBCUniversal networks and NFL Network will simultaneously air the NFL Kickoff Pregame show Thursday night at 7:30 ET. NBC will join in progress after its coverage of President Obama’s address to a joint session of Congress is finished. So G4, Syfy, USA Network and Versus are the […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/6/2011
We have some linkage for you. It’s a bit late, but better late than never. First, Mike McCarthy at USA Today writes that former NBC Football Night in America analyst Tiki Barber is reportedly “devastated” that no NFL team called him to inquire about his comeback. Sports lllustrated’s Richard Deitsch provides his annual NFL broadcasting […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/5/2011
A nice day here in Southern New England and I’m at home watching some good sports action as we have afternoon MLB games, the U.S. Open, a little CFL and some college football later. A good sports day for the Labor Day holiday. Before I do the links, let’s go into one of the stranger […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/4/2011
I’m linking in the middle of doing some badly needed DIY projects here at the Fang’s Bites abode so I might be a bit scarce today. I’ll do what I can on this lazy Sunday, the middle of the Labor Day Weekend. The ESPN Ombudsman, Kelly McBride of the Poynter Institute responds to Bruce Feldman’s […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/3/2011
The Notre Dame season begins today in South Bend, IN as the Fighting Irish host South Florida. And the matchup is a bit intriguing as South Florida coach Skip Holtz is the son of former Notre Dame coach Lou Holtz and he’s an alum of the school. NBC airs the game at 3:30 p.m. today […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/2/2011
This is like when the Red Sox equipment truck goes to Fort Myers, FL every year. It’s kind of silly, but you know it’s a sign that the season is about to begin. NBC has announced that Faith Hill will return for her 5th season as the singer of “I’ve Been Waiting All Day For […]
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Let’s get these megalinks done as I hope to give you a weekend full of posts for the three day holiday. That’s my plan, at least. They could get changed due to family or weather. You never know. I have the sports and entertainment programming in the Weekend Viewing Picks. Let’s get to the linkage […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/1/2011
Came home a bit early from work so let me provide you with some linkage today. Michael Hiestand of USA Today writes that Marcus Allen will join Fox Sports Media Group’s coverage of college football. Ryan Ballengee of Pro Golf Talk discusses the new 9 year deal signed between the PGA Tour and its TV […]
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Just announced by PGA Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem at the Deutsche Bank Championship in Massachusetts today, CBS and NBC have renewed their rights deal to continue airing golf tournaments for the next 10 years. CBS will continue to air 20 PGA Tour events and does not include the two majors it airs as rights to […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/31/2011
I’m going to try to do some Wednesday linkage here. Also have a lot of end of the month/beginning of the month crap to do at work some I’m balancing the two off. Here are the links that I have for now. USA Today’s Michael Hiestand looks at NBC’s plans to provide live online coverage […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/30/2011
This in from the NBC Sports Group, Golf Channel will produce a live pregame show for NBC that will a half-hour prior to the third and final rounds of the Tour Championship, the year-ending tournament that will “crown” a winner of the PGA Tour’s playoffs that no one really understands or gets. In any event, […]
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Earlier today, NBC’s Al Michaels and Cris Collinsworth from Sunday Night Football and Tony Dungy and Rodney Harrison from Football Night in America talked about the 2011 schedule as well as what they expect to see in the upcoming season. NBC’s season begins with the Thursday night regular season opener on September 8 between the […]
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Yesterday about 2 p.m., I got the power back at the Fang’s Bites abode and after walking around the neighborhood, I saw that I was quite lucky in not getting any tree limbs falling on my house or any leaks in the basement. So while Hurricane Irene was quite deadly and caused major damage up […]
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This just in from NBC Sports, we learn that Dick Ebersol protégé, Jim Bell, has been tapped to produce the 2012 London Olympics. Bell’s current duties are with the Today show as Executive Producer, but before he went to NBC News, he was with NBC Sports working under Ebersol on the Olympics from 1992 until […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/27/2011
Yup, the New Orleans Saints which will be part of the NFL’s regular season opener with defending Super Bowl champion Green Bay. And yes, that game on September 8 will be on NBC. On Sunday, the Saints will be in Oakland to take on the Raiders and the Sunday Night Football crew of Al Michaels, […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/26/2011
As the Northeast battens down the hatches for the impending hit of Hurricane Irene this weekend and it’s not a matter of if it’s coming, but when, I’ll probably won’t be blogging much over the next few days. I’ll do my best as long as I have power, but disaster preparation will be high on […]
