0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/3/2011
Just as I speculated and then confirmed by Al Michaels last night, and now made official by NBC Sports, the Notre Dame announcing crew of Tom Hammond, Mike Mayock and sideline reporter Alex Flanagan will be on the call for the New Orleans-Seattle NFL Wild Card playoff game on Saturday. This only makes sense. No […]
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Al Michaels broke the news at the end of tonight’s Sunday Night Football finale. Good news for fans who especially hated NBC’s choice of having Joe Gibbs and Joe Theismann call the early Wild Card game with Tom Hammond last year. We won’t have a repeat of that this year. Here’s the schedule complete with […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/2/2011
We complete the quotage for the NFL regular season with NBC’s Football Night in America. There seems to be a lot of quotes from tonight. This is long. “FOOTBALL NIGHT IN AMERICA” NOTES & QUOTES – WEEK 17 “I don’t think you can beat Peyton Manning with a defense that’s just trying to fool you.” […]
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I already posted the schedule of games for NFL Wild Card Weekend, twice in fact, but never a bad time to post NBC’s schedule again. This is the official announcement from NBC Sports. It’s pretty safe to assume that the Sunday Night Football crew of Al Michaels, Cris Collinsworth and Andrea Kremer will head to […]
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We have the entire playoff schedule including Divisional Rounds. NFL WILD CARD & DIVISIONAL PLAYOFF SCHEDULE ANNOUNCED Commissioner ROGER GOODELL announced today the schedule of sites, dates and times for the National Football League Wild Card Playoffs of January 8-9 and Divisional Playoffs of January 15-16 (all times Eastern): NFL WILD CARD WEEKEND Saturday, January […]
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It’s official. Just announced by the NFL. Saturday, January 8, 2011 New Orleans Saints at Seattle, 4:30 p.m. – NBCNew York Jets at Indianapolis Colts, 8 p.m. – NBC Sunday, January 9, 2011Baltimore Ravens at Kansas City Chiefs, 1 p.m. – CBSGreen Bay Packers at Philadelphia Eagles, 4:30 p.m. – Fox More later – Posted […]
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Blogging from as Asian buffet. I’m truly a sick man. Looks like we have a hit on our hands. According to TV By The Numbers, the Winter Classic won the night in the coveted 18-49 demo with 4.56 million total viewers. CBS and Fox had more viewers, but among younger demos, NBC was the winner […]
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And we give you the NBC preview of the last game of the NFL regular season, the NFC West play-in game between the St. Louis Rams taking on Seattle live from the Great Northwest. This is the press release. RAMS-SEAHAWKS MEET FOR WEEK 17 WIN-AND-IN “SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL” FLEX GAME COVERAGE BEGINS WITH “FOOTBALL NIGHT […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/1/2011
Usually I don’t do sports media predictions because everyone else does them and they usually come out better than what I would generate, but these have been on my mind for a couple of days so I’ll give you a few before wrapping up the blog for New Year’s. Comcast takes over NBC and Starts […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/31/2010
All Times Eastern Coverage Maps courtesy of the506.com Blackouts: None Fox NFL Sunday – Fox, noonThe NFL Today – CBS, noon 1 p.m.CBS Coverage MapBuffalo at New York Jets – Gus Johnson/Steve TaskerCincinnati at Baltimore – Kevin Harlan/Solomon WilcotsMiami at New England – Bill Macatee/Rich GannonOakland at Kansas City – Spero Dedes/Randy CrossPittsburgh at Cleveland […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/30/2010
We all know that Sunday Night Football was delayed until Tuesday due to the snow in the Northeast. The game between Minnesota and Philadelphia was a big hit on Tuesday with a 13.8 rating and a 23 share. That’s up 27% from last year’s Week 16 game between Dallas and Washington. An average of 23.7 […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/29/2010
On Saturday, NBC Sports airs the NHL Winter Classic live from Heinz Field in Pittsburgh. This is a dream matchup for NBC with Sidney Crosby of the Pittsburgh Penguins hosting Alexander Ovechkin and the Washington Capitals. The two teams played last week to a stellar game and it’s hoped that result will be repeated on […]
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Overnight ratings show that the NFL once again won in primetime and this time on a Tuesday. The 15.2 rating was head and shoulders above the competition which was mostly repeats on the other networks except for the tedious Kennedy Center Honors on CBS. While the Minnesota Vikings-Philadelphia Eagles game was hardly a masterpiece, it […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/28/2010
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With the digging out from the Great Northeast Blizzard yesterday, plus having to finish some year-end work, I wasn’t able to provide linkage, but now with things slowly getting back to normal, it’s time to give you the sports media links once again. The great Richard Deitsch of Sports lllustrated lists his best and worst […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/26/2010
Without an NFL game, Football Night in America extended to 90 minutes and the show ended up being very good. Not having to rush at 75 minutes, the highlights did not seem rushed and there was plenty of time for football talk. In a perfect world, Sunday Night Football would start at 8:30 p.m., but […]
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NBC talks how tonight’s postponement of the Minnesota Vikings-Philadelphia Eagles game will affect its Football Night in America broadcast and the move of the game to Tuesday. NFL PROGRAMMING NOTE NFL POSTPONES TONIGHT’S VIKINGS-EAGLES GAME UNTIL TUESDAY NIGHT AT 8 P.M. ET; WILL AIR NATIONALLY ON NBC 90-MINUTE “FOOTBALL NIGHT IN AMERICA” TO AIR TONIGHT […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/24/2010
We move to Sunday Night Football and NBC’s preview for the first flexed game of the season, the Minnesota Vikings taking on Philadelphia. Let’s take a look. MIKE VICK & FIRST-PLACE PHILADELPHIA EAGLES HOST MINNESOTA VIKINGS IN A “SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL” FLEX GAME COVERAGE BEGINS WITH “FOOTBALL NIGHT IN AMERICA” AT 7 PM ET “He’s […]
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All Times Eastern Coverage Maps Courtesy of the506.com Blackouts: Cincinnati, Oakland, Tampa-St. Petersburg Fox NFL Sunday – Fox, noon 1 p.m.CBS Coverage MapBaltimore at Cleveland – Ian Eagle/Dan FoutsNew England at Buffalo – Kevin Harlan/Solomon WilcotsNew York Jets at Chicago – Jim Nantz/Phil SimmsTennessee at Kansas City – Bill Macatee/Rich Gannon Fox Coverage MapDetroit at […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/23/2010
Just got this in from the National Hockey League which seems to be doing quite a few things right as far as marketing this last few months. The NHL and NBC Sports have announced they’ll be using social media for the NHL Winter Classic between Washington and Pittsburgh. Facebook will be used to hand out […]
