0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/16/2011
Let’s do some mid-week linkage on a very rainy Wednesday in Southern New England. Here we go. Michael Hiestand of USA Today says even with all of the NCAA Tournament games being nationally televised, CBS and Turner still have to figure out which games go where. Sports Business Daily looks at the overnight ratings for […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/15/2011
Not sure how much I’ll be able to get done today so I’ll do as many links as I can. I expect to get interrupted in the middle so don’t be surprised if there are just a few links here. Brian Lowry at Fox Sports says you’re now in control of what you watch at […]
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Just received this from the fine people at CBS/Turner Sports. Seton Hall coach Kevin Willard will be a guest analyst for the March Madness on Demand portion of the NCAA Tournament. That means he’ll be seen during halftime and other studio segments online whether it be on the March Madness on Demand website or the […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/14/2011
For Tuesday and Wednesday, Turner Sports will bring in current Indiana coach Tom Crean to compliment the studio coverage for the NCAA Tournament’s FIRST FOUR® games. Crean will join host Matt Winer and analysts Seth Davis and Steve Smith in the Turner Atlanta studios. We have the press release from CBS and Turner Sports. THIS […]
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Let’s do some links on this back to work Monday. Many of the links will focus on the NCAA Tournament so let’s get cracking. Starting with John Ourand and Michael Smith of Sports Business Journal, they report that Fox is about to sign a new cable rights deal with the Big 12 Conference that would […]
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CBS may have added TNT’s Charles Barkley and Kenny “The Jet” Smith to its NCAA Tournament Selection Show, unveiled a new set, new graphics and a jazzed up theme, but it was the same old, same old when it came to unveiling the teams for the expanded 68 team tourney. We had an energized Greg […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/13/2011
I just love when Turner Sports is involved in a major sports property because it means plenty of press releases. With Turner on the NCAA Tournament, it means great releases like this one highlighting a conference call that took place shortly after the NCAA Tournament Selection Show. CBS’ Clark Kellogg and Greg Anthony were on […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/12/2011
There have been articles written by various sports media critics regarding the way the NCAA Tournament will be handled by CBS Sports and new partner Turner Sports starting this year. Some are salivating over all of the games being aired nationally. Others are lamenting the end of the old way CBS aired the tournament, cutting […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/10/2011
Let’s do the Thursday links. Been up since 4 a.m. and I’m already dragging, but you don’t care. You want links so let’s provide them. USA Today’s Mike McCarthy has ESPN’s Mel Kiper really down on NFL quarterback prospect Cam Newton. Mike says ESPN and Sunday NFL Countdown analyst Cris Carter are negotiating a new […]
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Over the last two weeks, we’ve seen a few previews of the CBS/Turner partnership for the NCAA Tournament. I’ll write a column on how I think this will go, but the first real indication of what we’ll see between the two will come this Sunday during the NCAA Tournament Selection Show on CBS. As in […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/9/2011
Too many things going on today both at work and in sports media. Trying to figure out a balance. I’ll do my best. We have some linkage for you. From Wayne Friedman of MediaPost, he hears from an ESPN executive who’s optimistic the network will have enough programming to survive a potential NFL lockout. USA […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/3/2011
In keeping with a Turner Sports tradition of tapping musical acts to help promote its major sports properties, Kings of Leon will be used for the NCAA Tournament on the consortium that will be airing all 67 games in March and April. Their song, “The Immortals” will be used in videos and background music throughout […]
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I left the conference early today so I’ll do a few quick links for you. Just glad I left before the traffic got bad. Here are some links. Pete Barlas of Investor’s Business Daily has a look at Turner Sports taking over March Madness on Demand from CBS Sports which had been running the NCAA […]
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This just in from the CBS/Turner consortium for the NCAA Tournament. Turner Sports which has the digital rights for the Tournament has unveiled new features for March Madness on Demand which has been run by CBS for seven years. Lots of new stuff. Take a look. Turner Sports, CBS Sports and the NCAA® Announce a […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/2/2011
As part of its new partnership with the NCAA, Turner Sports is hoping to fill the void with the day in between NCAA Tournament Selection Sunday on March 13 and the FIRST FOUR® games which begin on March 15 (Tax Deadline Day©, by the way), by declaring Monday, March 14 as “National Bracket Day™”. Notice […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/1/2011
Time for the links. Lots of stuff to get to. From Sports Business Daily, we learn that the Sporting News has officially taken over Fanhouse. A sad day really as the Fanhouse site was very good and had many good writers on staff (Jay Mariotti excepting). Many writers have lost their jobs while others have […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/23/2011
It’s Wednesday. It means we’re midway through the week which is a good thing. It also means time for the linkage. I hope to get this done before I have an appointment so let’s get cracking. USA Today’s Michael Hiestand talks about the NBA’s ratings increases on ESPN and TNT. Mike McCarthy at USA Today’s […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/22/2011
Time for linkage now. Jun Yang at Bloomberg Businessweek reports that YouTube is in talks with the NBA and NHL to stream live games. Now that would be cool if it happens, but I’m skeptical that it will. At MediaPost, Barry Janoff looks at some of the particulars of CBS/Turner’s NCAA Tournament programming and marketing […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/18/2011
Ok, I have some time to do some blogging this evening and I figure I’ll do the Friday megalinks, something which has been sorely lacking here. Let’s get cracking on the links. As always, you can check the Weekend Viewing Picks for all of your weekend in sports and primetime TV. Now let’s do your […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/10/2011
Let’s do some links for you on this Thursday. I hope to be able to do a bit more in the later part of the week unlike previous weeks where the links stop on Wednesday. Plenty of stuff to go over. Michael Hiestand has a couple of articles on CBS/Turner changing the way we’ll watch […]
