0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/31/2011
During tonight’s Giants-Dodgers Opening Night game, ESPN showed a cutaway of the great Vin Scully calling a rare radio-only game. Whenever Vin calls a Dodger game, he does a TV-radio simulcast in the first three and last three innings. The middle innings are TV only. With ESPN doing tonight’s game, Vin is relegated to radio. […]
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This happened late this afternoon. .bbpBox53557509570564100 {background:url(http://a3.twimg.com/a/1301438647/images/themes/theme1/bg.png) #C0DEED;padding:20px;} p.bbpTweet{background:#fff;padding:10px 12px 10px 12px;margin:0;min-height:48px;color:#000;font-size:18px !important;line-height:22px;-moz-border-radius:5px;-webkit-border-radius:5px} p.bbpTweet span.metadata{display:block;width:100%;clear:both;margin-top:8px;padding-top:12px;height:40px;border-top:1px solid #fff;border-top:1px solid #e6e6e6} p.bbpTweet span.metadata span.author{line-height:19px} p.bbpTweet span.metadata span.author img{float:left;margin:0 7px 0 0px;width:38px;height:38px} p.bbpTweet a:hover{text-decoration:underline}p.bbpTweet span.timestamp{font-size:12px;display:block} NESN reported that Joel Feld decided to leave after more than 5 years as executive vice president of programming and executive producer.
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The Group consisting of NBC Sports and Versus will combine for eight games in the last eight days of the NHL regular season. That’s certainly one way to close things out. The coverage includes a doubleheader on Monday night. NBC SPORTS GROUP CLOSES OUT NHL REGULAR SEASON WITH EIGHT GAMES IN EIGHT DAYS ON NBC […]
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This Sunday, TBS is back with a full slate of regular season games. Ernie Johnson, Jr. will be behind the mic once again. Other announcers involved during the regular season will be Brian Anderson of the Milwaukee Brewers and Dick Stockton. On Sunday, MLB on TBS debuts with the Boston Red Sox taking on defending […]
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On Sunday, ESPN will have complete coverage of the NCAA Women’s Final Four® live from Indianapolis, IN. Texas A&M-Stanford and Notre Dame-UConn will be the games that will be aired live on ESPN. Dave O’Brien and Doris Burke will call the games. Rebecca Lobo and Holly Rowe will be on the sidelines for ESPN. Hosting […]
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Been doing some work and also keeping an eye on the Detroit-Yankees game online. It’s been a joy watching games online. It has been a lifesaver when I’ve been at work bogged down with stuff in the office. And MLB.TV is free for Apple iOS users via the iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch. Anyway, let’s […]
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Just received this from the CBS/Turner collaborative regarding this Saturday’s Final Four®. This is the first year that Turner will have a hand in the coverage and an extensive pregame show will be aired on truTV before CBS’ coverage starts at 4 p.m. Eastern. Then the games will air, Butler-VCU at 6:09 p.m. then Kentucky-UConn […]
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You may not know that ESPN’s Dave O’Brien calls Red Sox games on the radio when he’s not working for the Alleged Worldwide Leader. He’s been with the Red Sox since 2007 calling most of the games except on Wednesdays when he’s calling MLB for ESPN and early in the season when he’s calling the […]
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From MLB.com and MLB Advanced Media, we have the news and MLB At Bat ’11, the mobile app for the iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch, Android and Blackberry has been updated in time for Opening Day. Plenty of features for you and lots of good stuff for those who have either platform. In addition, MLB.TV will be free […]
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The Masters® is a real sign that Spring is here. It means the weather should get warmer and the leaves should be coming out soon, depending on where you live. In its fourth year of coverage from Augusta National, ESPN will take over the 3-D coverage which began last year as a collaboration between Comcast […]
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College Basketball National Invitation Tournament, New York, NY Championship Wichita State vs. Alabama – ESPN2, 7 p.m. Slam Dunk & 3-Point Championship – ESPN2, 9 p.m. Golf LPGA Tour/Kraft Nabisco Championship, 1st round – Golf Channel, noon & 6:30 p.m. PGA Tour/Houston Open, 1st round – Golf Channel, 3 p.m. MLB OPENING DAY American League […]
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On Friday, April 1, FSN Pittsburgh, FSN Rocky Mountain and FSN Northwest will be no more. They’ll change their brand and logos to a new name, Root Sports. The owner of all three regional sports networks, DirecTV Sports decided to take the channels on a different route, no longer employing the Fox Sports Net name […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/30/2011
Well, ESPN sent this press release regarding the upcoming MLB season and we have various thoughts from the Alleged Worldwide Leader’s baseball announcers. Let’s look at what they’re saying. ESPN MLB Commentators Share Insights Heading into 2011 Season Several ESPN MLB commentators share their perspective on a variety of topics entering the 2011 season. ESPN […]
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On Thursday, the NBA on TNT doubleheader returns to its regular night with two games all involving 50 win teams. We have the schedule for Thursday and the week after. The NBA on TNT Returns to Thursday Night with Four 50-Win Teams in Action Exclusive Doubleheader Features Celtics @ Spurs and Mavericks @ Lakers TNT’s […]
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Is this the quietest Opening Day you’ve ever seen? Usually, there’s more hype over baseball Opening Day, but I really haven’t seen much promotion except for ESPN’s during the NCAA Women’s Tournament. Anyway, as baseball opens Wednesday, the TV partners for MLB ramp up and get ready for their openers. Fox will have three games […]
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Golf Channel is going to be quite busy as it takes full four round coverage of the first LPGA Major tournament of the year, the LPGA Kraft Nabisco, better known to some as Dinah Shore Weekend. In addition, Golf Channel will be live for the PGA’s Houston Open. Golf Channel will also carry live coverage […]
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Let’s give you one last press release for the afternoon. This is NFL Network’s programming and NFL.com’s chat schedule for the next seven days. NFL NETWORK & NFL.COM PROGRAMMING NOTES (3/30 – 4/5) EAGLES WR DESEAN JACKSON, FALCONS TE TONY GONZALEZ HEADLINE NFL TOTAL ACCESS IN-STUDIO GUESTS Steve Mariucci & Warren Sapp Are Joined By […]
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NBC Sports which had golf covered for the entire Florida swing now goes to Houston to cover this week’s stop and it will be the last for the NBC Mothership for a while. CBS takes over with The Masters® next week, then goes for several weeks straight with the PGA Tour. NBC’s sister network, The […]
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MLB Network is going all in for the first month of the 2011 regular season with a live game every day in April. I find that very cool, of course. So the games begin tomorrow and then on Friday, the regular season really kicks off. We have the press release plus the entire game schedule […]
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Ok, let’s do the Wednesday linkage. Quite a few things to get to. We begin with Fox Sports’ Ken Rosenthal who when we last saw him during the World Series last October, was wearing a bowtie despite his protests to management. Well, we find that Ken will continue wearing a bowtie this season, but rather […]
