0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/21/2011
I was watching the NESN feed of the Boston Bruins’ amazing comeback win against the Montreal Canadiens so I did not get to see Versus at all tonight. I’m still coming down from Michael Ryder’s goal early in the overtime goal. This happened after the Bruins were behind throughout the game and when they went […]
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Since Tuesday, there have been plenty of articles and blog posts written about the NBC Sports Group retaining the NHL so if I brought one to the table at this point, it would not add anything new to what has already been published. So instead of me talking about the benefits of the new TV […]
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This from The Group. NBC Sports and Versus will combine for as many as six NHL Conference Quarterfinal games. Four games will be shown Saturday on the two networks. Versus gets a tripleheader with NBC airing one game. This is a preview of what we’ll see with The Group when the new contract with the […]
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ESPN is announcing that it will mark the 50th anniversary of the program that put ABC Sports on the map and became one of the most important in the history of sports television. Wide World of Sports not only gave us our first glimpses of the Daytona 500, the Indianapolis 500, the NCAA Final Four, […]
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Let’s provide the links on this very Spring-like Thursday. The sun is out in Southern New England after the April showers of this week. Nice to see the skies bright instead of being gray and drab as like the last few days. We begin with Kelly McBride of the Poynter Institute writing in her role […]
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Got this blurb from ESPN in regards to the final ratings for the opening weekend of the NBA Playoffs. To say the ratings were up from last year would be an understatement. Let’s say the people at Disney are very happy over this development. NBA Playoff Viewership up 19 Percent on ABC; 15 Percent on […]
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As the rightsholder to all NFL games, it’s only natural that Sirius XM will go all Wu-Tang over the NFL Draft. Not only will Sirius NFL Radio air coverage of the Draft when it begins on Thursday, April 28 and continue until the following Saturday, but Mad Dog Radio will be hosting live shows from […]
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Over the next two weeks, Fox Sports platforms will have exclusive coverage of the UEFA Champions League semifinals. Fox Soccer Channel will air one semifinal leg while FX joins in to cover the other. The two channels will alternate matchups. Coverage begins April 26 and continues the following week. It marks the first time that […]
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Marking his return to Fox Saturday Baseball after a week off, Joe Buck will be in his hometown of St. Louis to call the Reds-Cardinals game which interestingly goes to only 19% of the country in the regional breakdown. The main game this week is Atlanta at San Francisco which will be manned by Josh […]
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College Baseball Mississippi at Auburn – ESPNU, 7:30 p.m. Golf PGA Tour/The Heritage, 1st round – Golf Channel, 3 p.m. MLB American League Chicago White Sox at Tampa Bay – MLB Network/Comcast SportsNet Chicago/Sun Sports, 6:30 p.m. Minnesota at Baltimore – MLB Network/Fox Sports North/MASN, 7 p.m. Cleveland at Kansas City – STO, 8 p.m. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/20/2011
We bring you NFL Network’s schedule from now until the beginning of Draft Week. NFL NETWORK & NFL.COM PROGRAMMING NOTES (4/20 – 4/26) ‘DRAFT WEEK’ COVERAGE KICKS OFF MONDAY, APRIL 25 AT 4:00 PM ET Auburn DT Nick Fairley, Packers DT Cullen Jenkins Live In-Studio on NFL Total Access Top 100: Players of 2011 Preview […]
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I have to give props to Ken Schott of the Schenectady Gazette for bringing this to my attention. He found it at the Fox Sports Facebook page. This is the latest promo for Fox Saturday Baseball involving Joe Buck and Tim McCarver. It involves reaching out to a younger demographic and having Tim McCarver in […]
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Ok, since Mad Men’s new season is not going to premiere this year, I need a TV program to promote for the Spring and that is going to be Doctor Who. Thank goodness the show is returning this Saturday. Not only is the show premiering in the UK on Saturday, but also on BBC America […]
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Last summer, the world was engaged in the World Cup in South Africa. It was where “Vuvuzuela” became a household name. This summer, it will be the women’s turn to play for their World Cup. ESPN will provide coverage of all the games and just like last year, it will send a team to host […]
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Let’s do some links today. I hope to get some other things done today and some time down the road, I need to do some work. We begin Sports Illustrated’s Richard Deitsch who gives us his March Media Power List. Some good names on it. Some links from USA Today and lots of good ones […]
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This week, Sports Illustrated goes extensive on the NFL Draft which will take place next week at Radio City Music Hall in New York. Three days of draft picks will help to temper the silly fixation on the Royal Wedding that takes place next week as well. SI not only looks at some of the […]
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When I posted the video of NESN’s Jack Edwards yelling at Montreal’s Roman Hamrlik to “GET UP!” after what he felt was a dive, never in my wildest dreams would I expect the whole thing to become the single most visited post in the history of this blog.. Thanks to several national sites and Google […]
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College Baseball Michigan at Penn State, doubleheader – Big Ten Network, 5:30 p.m. Florida State at Virigina Tech – Fox Sports South, 7 p.m. CONCACAF Champions League Soccer Finals, 1st Leg Monterrey vs. Real Salt Lake – Fox Soccer Channel, 10 p.m. English Premier League Tottenham Hotspur vs. Arsenal – ESPN2, 2:30 p.m. Chelsea vs. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/19/2011
I did not see this press release until just now and I’m going to post it in advance of tonight’s ending of Real Sports which I have yet to see. Here’s what Bryant has to say about college football and the corrupt state the sport is in currently. BRYANT GUMBEL CLOSING COMMENTARY REAL SPORTS WITH […]
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NFL Network has the late season schedule with 9 games mostly on Thursday nights and one on Saturday night. Here’s the schedule. NFL Network 2011 Thursday Night Football Schedule Week 10: Thursday, November 10 at 8:00 PM ET Oakland Raiders at San Diego Chargers Week 11: Thursday, November 17 at 8:00 PM ET New York […]
