0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/3/2011
Tonight is another edition of the Sports Media Weekly podcast with Keith Thibault of Sports Media Journal and your humble blogger. Our guest is Andrew Catalon, sports anchor for WNYT-TV, Newschannel 13 in Albany, NY as well as freelancer for NBC Sports and CBS Sports. I’ll go into our segment with Andrew later, but as […]
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Was out of the office again earlier today so I’m getting to these rather late. Let’s look at what we have today. USA Today’s Michael Hiestand says the new CBS Sports/Showtime documentary on this year’s Army-Navy football game will have touches of reality TV. Mike McCarthy of USA Today notes that TNT’s Shaquille O’Neal and […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/2/2011
Let’s get your Tuesday linkage up and posted today. Good stuff to get to. Variety’s Stuart Levine talks with NBC Sports Chairman Mark Lazarus about the Versus rebrand to NBC Sports Network and other subjects. The Associated Press has Lazarus hopeful that he can make former NBC Sports Emperor Dick Ebersol proud. Brian Steinberg at […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/1/2011
It won’t happen until January 2, 2012, but one of the worst-kept secrets has finally been announced. At the Television Critics Association Meetings in Los Angeles, NBC Sports Group Chairman Mark Lazarus made the official announcement that Versus will be rebranded as NBC Sports Network. It’ll occur on the same day as NBC airs the […]
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We have this video from NBC at the Television Critics Association 2011 Summer Press Tour in Los Angeles. It was there that NBC formally announced the rebranding of Versus to NBC Sports Network beginning January 2, 2012. New NBC Sports Group Chairman Mark Lazarus discusses the new marketing opportunities and what the new name means […]
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Lots of stuff coming out today. Rebranding news galore as we found out that Versus will undergo a name change on January 2, 2012. Then there’s Sporting News Radio changing its name to Yahoo! Sports Radio as of today. And Westwood One Radio has merged with Dial-Global today. Crazy day. Let’s do some linkage and […]
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Reported in this morning’s edition of USA Today, Mike McCarthy says Versus will be rebranded as NBC Sports Network as of Monday, January 2, 2012. The development is not a surprise as former NBC Sports Emperor Dick Ebersol made hints to the name change earlier this year. As Comcast took over NBC, the company decided […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/31/2011
Ok, I have some free time to do some linkage now. I was hoping to get this posted in the morning, but recently, weekends have become busier than my workweek. I really don’t understand how this happened. However, with the next few hours free, I should be able to give you some good posts here. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/30/2011
I’ll post two press releases that pertain to The Group, one for NBC Sports and the other for Versus. One has to do with the U.S. Senior Open and the other to the second installment of Summer at Saratoga. You can guess which event goes where. Here’s NBC Sports’ release on what it’s airing today […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/29/2011
I’m hoping to get this entire Megalink session finished in one sitting. It’s been a crazy day thus far. Of course, all of your weekend sport and entertainment programming are featured in the Weekend Viewing Picks. Let’s get to the linkage now. National Michael Hiestand of USA Today speaks with noted baseball announcing author Curt […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/27/2011
On Tuesday, I did the links in the evening, but today, the linkage is coming out early. Let’s get to them. Michael Hiestand of USA Today writes that Fox plans to use its college football sideline reporter more as an analyst on the field, rather than give injury updates. To the Wall Street Journal where […]
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At 8 p.m. Eastern time, all of NBCUniversal’s 20 networks will air this video as a way to inform viewers that one year from today, 366 days from now (2012 is a leap year, don’t forget), that NBC will launch its 17 days of coverage of the London Olympics. There are a lot of scenes […]
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Man, this has gone on much longer than I thought. When I started this whole series, I thought I could do it all in one sitting, but boy, was I wrong. It’s now spanned eight installments and will actually have a ninth on Wednesday. But I can assure you it will be the last one. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/26/2011
Today was just too busy as I was in between two offices and had to run errands for most of the day. I apologize for not bringing these links earlier, but I do have time now so let’s get to them. Steve Wieberg of USA Today writes that the NCAA is now looking into the […]
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As mentioned in the previous post, to make up for NBC losing the annual Hall of Fame Game, the NFL has moved the San Diego Chargers-Dallas Cowboys game from Saturday, August 20 to Sunday, August 21. It gives NBC a total of two NFL exhibition games as it will air New Orleans at Oakland the […]
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Now that the lockout is over and teams have opened their doors to the players, the NFL has now announced the times for the 2011 Preseason. As the Hall of Fame Game was canceled and NBC lost one game to air, the NFL decided to move the San Diego-Dallas game from Saturday, August 20 to […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/25/2011
This is the promo NBC will be running starting tonight to get you ready for the new NFL season. I’m pumped. Are you? And the first NFL regular season game is on Thursday, September 8 between New Orleans and Green Bay at Lambeau Field on NBC. You didn’t think NBC would have Aaron Rodgers in […]
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This includes the games all of the NFL TV partners will air nationally and live. The Hall of Fame Game has been removed as it was canceled last week by the NFL. But the other games are intact. I don’t know if the NFL will give another preseason to NBC to make up for the […]
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With the news that the NFL owners and players have finally reached an accord on a new collective bargaining agreement, it means the silly bickering, lawsuits and stakeouts outside meetings can finally end and we can get back to the business of football. It means the season will start on-time, but it also means the […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/23/2011
Summer at Saratoga premieres today and will be shown on both NBC Sports and Versus over a 7 week span from now through September 3. There will be eight hours of programming. NBC will air three hours while Versus gets the rest. Races like the Travers and Woodward Stakes will be shown as part of […]
