0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/24/2011
This in from NBC Sports Group, the college football schedules for Notre Dame football on NBC; Ivy League, Mountain West and Pac-12 on Versus; as well as the announcers calling the games plus various other college football programming on the networks. NBC Sports Group officially announces a new weekly college football studio show that will […]
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The last couple of days have been tough to provide links as I was out of the office. Glad to be back linking again, although you never know if I’ll be called away again. I’ll try to do what I can. Mike McCarthy of USA Today attended the NFL on CBS media day on Tuesday […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/23/2011
On Sunday, NBC had an audience of 10.7 million watch part or all of the San Diego Chargers-Dallas Cowboys exhibition NFL game on Sunday Night Football. That’s a very impressive figure considering the game doesn’t count in the standings. And it was the most watched primetime program of the week on network television. Overall, the […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/22/2011
NBC’s first Sunday Night Football game pitting the San Diego Chargers against the Dallas Cowboys gave the NFL its best overnight TV ratings of the preseason. The 7.1/12 rating was slightly down from last year’s 7.2/12 rating for the Minnesota Vikings-San Francisco 49ers game which came about the same time last year. Naturally Dallas and […]
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If you saw the San Diego Chargers-Dallas Cowboys NFL preseason game on NBC last night and stayed through halftime, then you might have caught a promo for a new show on Versus premiering Thursday, September 15 at 10 p.m. NFL Films will produce the program and focus on two games from the previous week, giving […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/21/2011
Time for some Sunday links. I’ll also attempt some Sunday thoughts later. Todd Spangler of Multichannel News writes that Comcast has dropped a lawsuit against DirecTV over its NFL Sunday Ticket ad campaign. Tom Weir of USA Today explains how ESPN’s Dick Vitale got so angry at a sports radio talk show that he hung […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/19/2011
I’ve been to Newton, MA and back, South Kingstown, RI and back and all over my hometown of North Kingstown, RI and all of this today. It’s time to do the megalinks and get them all done in one sitting. There’s the Weekend Viewing Picks for your sports and entertainment programming. National Sports Business Daily […]
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The “Summer at Saratoga” series on the NBC Sports Group, this time airing on the “Mothership” with the Alabama Stakes being the featured race. The NBC Sports horse racing crew of Tom Hammond, Gary Stevens, Mike Battaglia and Kenny Rice will all be on hand. Calling the race will be the Voice of Saratoga, Tom […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/18/2011
We have this press release from the NBC Sports Group talking about the start of its new 10 year contract with the National Hockey League. Overall, over 100 games will be aired among NBC Sports and Versus/NBC Sports Network. NBC starts a “Black Friday” game on the day after Thanksgiving and it will continue to […]
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The NHL National TV schedules have been released. We’re going to do the US TV networks first followed by Canada. First, the NHL on NBC schedule which includes a game on “Black Friday”, the day after Thanksgiving for the first time, the NHL Winter Classic on January 2 between the New York Rangers and Philadelphia, […]
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Just as it did for “Summer at Saratoga”, the NBC Sports Group has announced today a fall horse racing series that will take place over two weekends from the Keeneland Race Course in Lexington, KY. Versus will air most of the races with NBC Sports coming in for the last weekend of racing. This “Autumn […]
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Today is going to be a busy day with the UFC on Fox press conference and the NHL TV schedule announcement. I figure now would be a good time to linkage and I hope I don’t get interrupted here at work. The big news that broke late yesterday was DirecTV announcing that it would offer […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/17/2011
To make up for the one game lost due to the NFL lockout, NBC will get a make up game and that will be played this Sunday night between the San Diego Chargers and the Dallas Cowboys at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, TX. Al Michaels and Cris Collinsworth will be in the booth to call […]
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This week, both Universal and NBC Sports will air live coverage from the Visa Championships, USA Gymnastics national championships starting on Thursday and lasting until Saturday. NBC’s Olympic gymnastics announcing team of Al Trautwig, Elfi Schlegel and Tim Dagget will call the action on both networks. It culminates with NBC airing the women’s competition in […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/16/2011
Well, yesterday I was two jobsites. Today, I forgot to bring my computer AC adapter and my phone so for several hours, I was without any communication to the outside world. Ok, that’s an exaggeration, but it certainly felt strange not to have connection to the internet or Twitter. Now that I’m back, I can […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/14/2011
It’s been a while since I’ve written a Sunday thoughts column and you certainly deserve one here. My apologies for not writing one in a long time. Let’s get cracking. ESPN vs. NBC Is Starting To Heat Up This battle is going to quite interesting. While the book “Those Guys Have all The Fun: Inside […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/10/2011
Any time I put “Quick” in the title, it appears I find more linkage than I set out to. Nothing wrong with that. Again, I ended up being outside of the office for an extended time and it looks like that will happen again tomorrow. Don’t know work is so crazy all of a sudden. […]
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In a takeover of a sports property, MLS and NBC Sports Group have signed a deal to put 49 soccer games across NBC Sports and the NBC Sports Network (Versus) over the next three years. This also includes four games involving the U.S. Men’s Soccer team. The deal begins in 2012. NBC will have two […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/8/2011
NBC Sports has obtained the rights to the annual Bayou Classic, the great rivalry game between two Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Grambling State and Southern University. And as has been its tradition, NBC will also air the halftime “Battle of the Bands” as Grambling and Southern both have spectacular bands and both always put […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/4/2011
Let’s get the linkage out on this Thursday. The weekend is almost here. Here’s an interesting article and I’m watching to see how it plays out. Eriq Gardner at Hollywood Reporter writes that Comcast is suing DirecTV over “deceptive claims” of free televised NFL games and exploiting the end of the lockout to conduct a […]
