0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/31/2008
Saturday, April 5 The Final Four Show – CBS, 4 p.m. (hosted by Greg Gumbel, Clark Kellogg and Seth Davis)The NCAA Tournament Today – Westwood One Radio, 5 p.m. (hosted by Tommy Tighe and Jim Gray)UCLA vs. Memphis – CBS/Westwood One Radio, 6:07 p.m, Jim Nantz/Billy Packer (CBS), Kevin Kugler, John Thompson and Bill Raftery […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/20/2008
Just a few links for this afternoon. It appears CBSSports.com has fixed its glitches for the second games this afternoon. No audio problems or buffering. And even though I wanted to dislike Carter Blackburn in his NCAA Tournament debut, he’s doing a pretty decent job in the Anaheim subregional working with Jay Bilas. Not bad […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/19/2008
I’ll give you some more links today. When I started this morning, I really did not want to update things, but it ended up being quite busy, so you just never know when you start. Let’s get to the linkage. The Sports Media Watch has the final weekend ratings. Joe Favorito’s Sports Marketing and Public […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/16/2008
The Road to the Final Four – CBS, noon – 3:30 p.m. ACC ChampionshipClemson vs. North Carolina – ESPN/Raycom, 1 p.m. Big Ten ChampionshipIllinois vs. Wisconsin – CBS, 3:30 p.m. Big 12 ChampionshipKansas vs. Texas – ESPN, 3;30 p.m. SEC ChampionshipGeorgia vs. Arkansas – ESPN2/CBS (in Atlanta and Fayetteville only), 3:30 p.m. Southland ChampionshipUT-Arlington vs. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/15/2008
A-10 ChampionshipSt. Joseph’s vs. Temple – ESPN, 6 p.m. ACC TournamentNorth Carolina vs. Georgia Tech – ESPN/Raycom, 1:30 p.m.Duke vs. Clemson – ESPN/Raycom, 4 p.m. Big East ChampionshipGeorgetown vs. Pittsburgh – ESPN, 8 p.m. Big Ten TournamentMichigan State vs. Wisconsin – CBS, 1:30 p.m.Minnesota vs. Illinois – CBS, 3:45 p.m. Big 12 TournamentOklahoma vs. Texas […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/8/2008
Let me give you a Friday night update before shutting down. The Sports Media Watch is not happy over ESPN/ABC’s choice for opening musical act for its NBA games. And the SMW has some quick ratings blurbs including the sinking ship that is known as the NHL on NBC. Paul Gough of the Hollywood Reporter […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/28/2008
Time to give you an afternoon update. North Myrtle Beach, SC police say someone placed a noose the sign of the former home of Golf Channel host Kelly Tilghman. In the wake of today’s announcement of CBS picking up four Mixed Martial Arts events, David Meltzer of Yahoo Sports says this move could change MMA […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/14/2008
Here’s some more linkage for you. Pete Dougherty of the Albany Times Union writes in his blog that the first instance of CBS with the recently rebranded CSTV comes next Wednesday when Billy Packer works his first game for the channel. From the police blotter, Justin Terranova from the New York Post reports that former […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/12/2008
Some videos for you as we get ready for the premiere tonight. You may seen these already. First, the cast and crew thank the fans for bringing the show back. CBS put together a video on the Battle for Jericho. If you’ve forgotten, here’s the first season in a nutshell. And here’s a behind the […]
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I’m definitely getting ready for Jericho tonight. I’ll give you some more links related to the premiere at 10 p.m. Lynette Rice of Entertainment Weekly talks with Jericho co-executive producer Karim Zreik about the show’s return. And EW’s Marc Vera has a photo gallery which gives you what’s happened in the show thus far. Jonathan […]
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After what has seemed to be 7 years, the series, “Jericho” returns to CBS on Tuesday. After a hairy situation last year after the network canceled the show, a large letter writing campaign plus the “NUTS” campaign helped to bring the series back. Now, this is for a limited run, just 7 episodes, but that […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/27/2007
Time to give you your links for today. I’m sure there will be plenty of stuff on the NFL contracting Saturday’s Patriots-Giants game to CBS and NBC. Let’s get to them now. Darren Rovell of CNBC wonders who will win the ratings battle between CBS and NBC. Gary Mihoces of USA Today writes about the […]
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As the news broke late this afternoon that the NFL was going to have CBS and NBC simulcast NFL Network’s feed of Saturday’s Patriots-Giants game, I was thinking who won and who lost. Right off the bat, you can see some obvious winners like the majority of NFL fans who now won’t have to resort […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/26/2007
This is totally unprecedented. The NFL has just announced that CBS and NBC will simulcast the NFL Network’s feed of this Saturday’s Patriots-Giants game. This means that local affiliates throughout the New England area and in New York will be able to show the game without any problems. This is the press release from the […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/10/2007
Let’s give you an update for today. Neil Best of Newsday blogs that the Giants-Bills game was not chosen for primetime on December 23 and the Redskins-Vikings has been put on NBC in its place. Neil laments that WFAN’s Mike & the Mad Dog didn’t read his blog and yelled about putting the Packers-Bears in […]
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I have a lot of work to get to this morning and this week may be a bad week for me link-wise as I may be out of the office quite a bit. I’m just preparing you if you don’t see linkage on the site in the mornings. I’ll try to provide them to you […]
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I know these are late, but because I was out for the day, I wasn’t able to get to them, but better late than never. We start with Newsday’s Neil Best who writes about former NFL player Bo Eason who has a one-man play off-Broadway. And Neil adds some stuff from his column in his […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/19/2007
Let’s do some links. From zap2it.com, NBC’s Sunday Night Football won the overnight ratings in the 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. timeslots. The Amazing Race on CBS finished second in the 8 p.m. hour. Newsday’s Neil Best blogs that Dick Lynch was absent from the New York Football Giants radio broadcast yesterday because of a […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/24/2007
CBS has aired its first promo for the latest version of The Amazing Race 12 which premieres on November 4. And the teams have been announced and their pictures are up at a CBS alpha site. I’ll have more details plus stuff on The Amazing Race Asia which will premiere on AXN-Asia on November 1 […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/23/2007
Giving you some links on this Monday night. We start this update with a blog entry from Neil Best of Newsday. He has some quotes from Joe Buck and Tim McCarver from a Fox conference call and both men discussed the future of Joe Torre. And thanks to Best who got the link from Awful […]
