0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/22/2011
When you combine the Sports Emmy Award nominations for ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPN Deportes, and ESPN.com, the sports behemoth has a massive 52 nods. It doesn’t mean that they’ll win them all, but that’s a very big number. In case you’re wondering, ESPN has 22 nominations, ABC with 13, ESPN2 has 9, and both […]
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The NFL’s official outlets received their share of Sports Emmy nominations today. A first time nomination for NFL GameDay Morning in the Outstanding Weekly Studio Show category goes to NFL Network. NFL Films received nominations for the co-produced “Lombardi” documentary with HBO Sports. And NFL Films received two nominations for its work on the Showtime/CBS […]
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CBS Sports had its lion share of Sports Emmy nominations today including for Outstanding Studio Host (James Brown), Outstanding Play-by-Play (last year’s winner Jim Nantz and Verne Lundquist), Outstanding Game Analyst (Phil Simms) among others. We have the entire list of CBS nods below. JIM NANTZ, VERNE LUNDQUIST, JAMES BROWN AND PHIL SIMMS LEAD CBS […]
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Combined with NBC Sports, NBCSports.com, NBCOlympics.com and Versus, the Group can say it received 25 total nominations from the Sports Emmys. By itself, NBC Sports received 20 nominations including those for Bob Costas and Dan Patrick (Outstanding Studio Host), Al Michaels ( Outstanding Play-by-Play), Cris Collinsworth (Outstanding Game Analyst), Football Night in America (Outstanding Weekly […]
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Receiving the first of the Sports Emmy Awards nominations press releases. MLB Network celebrates eight nods including two for Bob Costas (Outstanding Studio Host and Outstanding Play-by-Play), two for MLB Tonight (including Outstanding Daily Studio Show), one for Harold Reynolds (Outstanding Studio Analyst) and another Studio 42 with Bob Costas. So the MLB Network has […]
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Let’s do some linkage while I still can on this Tuesday. Lots of stuff to get to provided I don’t get interrupted. Mike McCarthy of USA Today writes about Louisville coach Rick Pitino making the media rounds this week. I may have linked to this so if I have already, I apologize. Nate Davis of […]
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The National Academy Television Arts and Sciences released the Sports Emmy Award nominations today. Here’s the press release from the Academy on the announcement which also tells us this year’s recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award. Last year it went to John Madden. This year, it will go to his Monday Night Football and Sunday […]
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Let’s look at the breakdown of nominations by network and then by series. We have the numbers for you. 32nd Annual Sports Emmy Award Nominations by Network Network Nominations ESPN 36 HBO 22 NBC 20 CBS 17 ABC 13 FOX 12 ESPN2 9 MLB Network 7 TNT 6 NFL Network 4 Showtime 4 DIRECTV 2 […]
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The Sports Emmy Nominations are out. Just released by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. The awards will be handed on May 2 at Lincoln Center in New York. Our list of nominees is below. Best Play-by-play has the usual suspects, last year’s winner Jim Nantz, Al Michaels, Joe Buck, even Bob Costas, […]
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This Saturday, ESPN2 airs the match between the US Men’s National Team and Argentina. It’ll be held at the New Meadowlands Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ. Calling the match will be ESPN’s soccer voice Ian Darke and analyst John Harkes. Details are below. Soccer: U.S. vs. Argentina Saturday; Ian Darke and John Harkes in the […]
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He worked the NCAA Tournament last weekend on CBS/Turner. Now that he’s finished that, Louisville coach Rick Pitino heads from CBS’ headquarters in New York to ESPN’s World Headquarters in Bristol, CT where he will again be a guest analyst. Pitino will appear on various outlets including SportsCenter, ESPN Radio, ESPNews and on various ESPN […]
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Coming up this summer, the networks of ESPN (ESPN and ESPN2 mostly) will air the FIFA Women’s World Cup from Germany. The month-long event will be held in nine cities throughout Germany starting on June 26 and ending on July 17. Some 32 matches will be staged and the networks of ESPN will all of […]
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College Basketball NCAA Women’s Tournament 2nd Round Dallas Regional Baylor vs. West Virginia – ESPN2, 9:30 p.m. Wisconsin-Green Bay vs. Michigan State – ESPN2, 9:30 p.m. Georgia vs. Florida State – ESPN2, 9:30 p.m. Rutgers vs. Florida A&M – ESPN2, 9:30 p.m. Dayton Regional Oklahoma vs. Miami – ESPN2, 7 p.m. Philadelphia Regional UConn vs. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/21/2011
We may be in college basketball mode with the NCAA Tournament, but it’s getting close to baseball Opening Day. ESPN will air three games on Opening Day. This includes the Season Opening Night game between the defending World Champion San Francisco Giants and the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium. ESPN will use Opening Day […]
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Just in from Turner Sports, the success of March Madness on Demand is staggering. People have found it at NCAA.com in droves. Traffic is up considerably from last year when we thought it was a big success. Visits have jumped 47% from last year with a total of 26.7 million hits from the start of […]
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Just received this from CBS/Turner in regards to the final ratings and viewership numbers for Sunday’s third round NCAA Tournament games. CBS/TBS/TNT/truTV had a combined average rating of 6.6 with a 14 share. That’s 16% higher than last year when the games on CBS received a 5.7/13. Average viewership for the games was 10.5 million […]
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Getting a late start on the Monday links. Part of it was due to the Masters thesis I wrote on the NCAA Tournament earlier today. Let’s do the links for you. From USA Today’s Michael Hiestand, we have him saying that having the NCAA’s National Director of Officiating on to explain controversial calls only added […]
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Once again, we get a press release from CBS/Turner about the increased ratings for the NCAA Tournament. Combined overnight ratings for CBS/TBS/TNT/truTV on Sunday grew to a 7.3 with a 14 share which is 14% higher than last year. Overall, the tournament’s ratings are up 17% from 2010. We’ll get the final numbers on Sunday […]
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I have to tip my cap to CBS/Turner. They promised us four national telecasts of the NCAA Tournament and they delivered. They provided a scoreboard bug on top of the screen informing viewers of scores of other games and what network they could be found. In addition, the use of social networks like Facebook and […]
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Yes, the podcast that Keith Thibault and I recorded regularly into 2010 is back. Our last regular podcast was recorded in August of last year when Keith and I interviewed Scott Ackerson of Fox Sports in advance of the NFL season. Now, after Keith took care of some professional business (all good, I can assure […]
