0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/24/2013
The NHL lockout seems to have built anticipation for hockey. On Wednesday, NBC Sports Network began what it called “Wednesday Night Rivalry”, pitting the Boston Bruins against the New York Rangers. And while the B’s and Rangers haven’t been true rivals in decades thanks to the NHL’s division alignments, the teams did play a very […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/23/2013
The Chicago NHL team is back in action and Comcast SportsNet couldn’t be happier. Tuesday night’s game between Chicago and St. Louis drew the regional sports network’s best-ever ratings for a regular season NHL game. Overall, CSN Chicago drew a 5.4 household rating for the team’s home opener at the United Center. It breaks the […]
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Yup, for the NHL, these are stellar numbers. Of course, they don’t draw a candle to the NFL or even Major League Baseball, but for the sport which has been constantly been beat up in the media and by its own executives, this comes as good news. The season opening game on NBC, regional coverage […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/21/2013
The Boston Bruins season opener occurred four months late, but it did not damper the audience for the game. The New England Sports Network, a.k.a. NESN, received a spectacular 9.4 household rating in Boston for the game and a 17.4 share for the Bruins game against the New York Rangers. The previous high was an […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/20/2013
Having regional coverage involving three hockey-friendly markets and a defending Stanley Cup Champion, NBC saw its best overnight ratings for a non-Winter Classic telecast since it began re-airing the league in 2006. And the overnights are the best on any network for an NHL regular season game dating back to 2002. Regional coverage of the […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/17/2013
This has been a rather bizarre 24 hour period trying to follow this Manti Te’o story. I’m going to provide some linkage for you. Timothy Burke and Jack Dickey at Deadspin provide some information on what the media missed on the Manti Te’o fake girlfriend story. Ty Duffy at The Big Lead says it’s time […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/16/2013
I keep getting bogged down with family stuff. I’m going to try and provide some linkage now. Deadspin’s Timothy Burke and Jack Dickey have the story of the day exposing the inspirational Manti Te’o’s girlfriend story as one huge hoax. Matt Yoder at Awful Announcing has Twitter reaction to the Te’o girlfriend hoax. Michael Hiestand […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/15/2013
This came to the Fang’s Bites inbox and is quite welcome news. While we await word of the NHL Center Ice out-of-market pay-per-view cable package, the National Hockey League has announced that its popular mobile and tablet app, GameCenter Live, will be discounted for the 2013 season at $49.99. Compare that to last season when […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/14/2013
Time for some Monday links. Let’s get to them. Sports Illustrated’s Richard Deitsch talks with CBS Evening News anchorman Scott Pelley about interviewing President Obama for the network’s Super Bowl coverage and also reviews the performances of the NFL “B” analysts during the weekend. Michael Smith and John Ourand at Sports Business Journal note that […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/13/2013
To pick up the slack of NBC Sports Network when it’s not airing games, NHL Network in the United States will carry 78 regular season games. Some will include Hockey Night in Canada games on Saturday evenings. Others will be local broadcasts of various games. In addition, various studio shows will return like NHL Live […]
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Here’s the NHL on TSN schedule. Games will showcase 42 games including at least one Canadian team in each contest. We have the schedule for you below. 2013 NHL on TSN Schedule Tuesday, January 22 GAME TIME ET/PT NETWORK Winnipeg at Washington 7pm/4pm TSN San Jose at Edmonton 10pm/7pm TSN Wednesday, January 23 GAME TIME […]
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We have the NHL on NBC Sports Network schedule for the truncated 2013 season. Overall, 55 games on NBC Sports Network starting on Sunday, January 19. NBCSN will have games from Sunday through Wednesday with exclusive games on Wednesday nights. Overall, the network will have 26 exclusive windows on 24 nights. I’ll first post the […]
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Here’s the press release from CBC which celebrates the 60th season of North America’s longest running sports series on television, Hockey Night in Canada. On Saturday, January 19, CBC will have a season opening tripleheader which will include Ottawa at Winnipeg at 3 p.m. ET and then Toronto at Montreal at 7 p.m. which will […]
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I’ll have the official release from NBC on Sunday, but here’s the 2013 NHL on NBC regular season schedule. Next weekend, NBC will air two games on Opening Weekend on Saturday, January 19 and Sunday, January 20. NBC will regionalize two games on Saturday, Pittsburgh-Philadelphia and Chicago-Los Angeles and then during its usual 12:30 p.m. […]
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Damned straight it is. Now no more labor strife, okay? Great video from NHL.com. The network schedules are coming up.
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/7/2013
It’s been way too long since you’ve seen linkage on this site. This has been the main mission of Fang’s Bites since the beginning, but too often, I get roped into doing family stuff and it prevents me from getting on here until late. I hope to rectify that. So without further delay, here’s the […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/6/2013
Nobody won. Really, nobody. The fans lost because they were left hanging and lost a half-season including the Winter Classic at the Big House in Michigan. NBC Sports Network whose ratings fell into abyss with no NHL games from October through now has been “The Biggest Loser” through all this. Regional sports networks across the […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/1/2013
Time for the look back at the Year in Sports Media in 2012. Lots of great stuff. The year has been very interesting and we have seen a lot of things. Just doing a Top Ten is never enough for the Year in Review. It’s always an even dozen with some honorable mentions mixed in. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/5/2012
I’ll do a few links for you this evening. I’ll start with a strange story that surfaced today from a University of Maryland journalism class during which ESPN Vice President and Executive Editor John Walsh made some rather strange statements about Deadspin’s John Koblin over the Lynn Hoppes plagiarism situation. Deadspin has raised issues of […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/4/2012
Let’s do some Tuesday links. Lots of stuff to get to. Michael Hiestand of USA Today writes that Bob Costas is receiving his share of criticism for his anti-gun commentary during halftime of Sunday Night Football. Busted Coverage has video of Bob Costas telling Dan Patrick that he’s not backing off on his anti-gun comments. […]
