0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/26/2011
We have your original programming on Golf Channel for this week. Coming up on Golf Channel…June 27-July 3 David Feherty Sits Down with Actor Don Cheadle on ‘Feherty’ Piri Borja Returns to Competition on Big Break Indian Wells The Golf Fix On-Site at the PGA Professional National Championship Monday’s Golf Central Includes Special Golf in […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/25/2011
Just learned of the passing of original CNN Sports Tonight co-anchor Nick Charles. CNN reported on Nick’s death this morning. Nick and Fred Hickman were on the first night CNN signed on back on June 1, 1980. He remained with CNN until 2001. Among his co-anchors on CNN Sports Tonight including Hickman were Jim Huber, […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/24/2011
Yup, time for the Friday megalinks. As long as I don’t get interrupted, I should be able to do this all in one shot for you. Your Weekend Viewing Picks have a whole lot of sports and entertainment programs so take a gander and see what suits your fancy. To the links. National USA Today’s […]
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Here’s a short blurb from ESPN regarding last night’s NBA Draft coverage. The network says it received a 2.5 overnight rating, the highest since 2007. It was up 9% from last year’s 2.3 rating. We have this quick statement from ESPN. ESPN’s 2011 NBA Draft Telecast Highest Rated Since 2007 ESPN’s telecast of the 2011 […]
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Saturday, June 25 Boxing Boxing After Dark/Super Lightweights: Devon Alexander vs. Lucas Matthysse — HBO, 9:45 p.m. College Baseball College World Series, Omaha, NE ESPN, 2 p.m. (if necessary) ESPN2, 7 p.m. (if necessary) ESPN Sports Saturday 30 for 30 — ABC, 4 p.m. Winners Bracket — ABC, 5 p.m. Gold Cup Soccer Championship, Pasadena, […]
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Arena Football Kansas City at Utah — NFL Network, 8 p.m. College Baseball College World Series, Omaha, NE Vanderbilt vs. Florida — ESPN, 2 p.m. Virginia vs. South Carolina — ESPN, 7 p.m. Golf Champions Tour/Dick’s Sporting Goods Open, 1st round — Golf Channel, 6:30 p.m. (same day coverage) LPGA Championship, 2nd round — Golf […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/23/2011
Yup, it’ll have nine days of coverage starting on Saturday. And during the weekday coverage, plenty of tape delayed shenanigans as next Monday through Wednesday, coverage begins at 10 a.m. in all time zones, then the semifinals on Thursday and Friday will begin at noon in all time zones. So people in the Central through […]
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This Golf Channel press release has been coming too few and far between lately. This used to come every Wednesday and I would try to post this before the golf tournaments began on Thursday. However, this release came this afternoon after two tournaments started airing. But out of loyalty to the good people at the […]
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On Saturday, Fox Soccer will air the CONCACAF Gold Cup Final between bitter rivals the USA and Mexico. The final will be held at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, CA and that might draw more of pro-Mexico crowd. It will be an electric atmosphere when the game kicks off at 9 p.m. Fox Soccer will […]
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Two former NFL players will get gigs analyzing games for Sky Sports in the UK starting whenever the 2011 season begins. We have details from the NFL from this year’s Broadcasting Boot Camp which just wrapped up in Mount Laurel, NJ. FORMER PLAYERS ROCKY BOIMAN & NICK FERGUSON EARN U.K. STUDIO ANALYST POSTS FOR 2011 […]
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This just coming in from ESPN, the announcing assignments for the Women’s World Cup. We know that Ian Darke and Julie Foudy are the top team and will call games through the championship game on July 20 in Frankfurt, Germany. We have the rest of the teams and games they’ll call through Group Play. ESPN […]
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Let’s provide a few links on this Thursday. Another rainy day in Southern New England. What joy. R. Thomas Umstead of Multichannel News reports that HBO Pay Per View has signed Floyd Mayweather to his next fight in September. Anthony Crupi at Adweek writes that the NBC Sports Group will make GolfChannnel.com into a more […]
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The National Hockey League is releasing the schedule for the upcoming season. We’ll get the TV network slates for NBC, Versus, CBC, TSN and NHL Network next month. In the meantime, here are some key dates in the new season. SEASON OPENING NIGHT (THURSDAY, OCT. 6) Flyers @ Bruins (most likely Versus), Habs @ Leafs […]
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College Baseball College World Series, Omaha, NE Elimination Game Cal vs. Virginia — ESPN2, 7 p.m. Golf LPGA Championship, 1st round — Golf Channel, 12:30 p.m. PGA Tour/Travelers Championship, 1st round – Golf Channel, 3 p.m. MLB Interleague Oakland at New York Mets — MLB Network/Comcast SportsNet California/SNY, 1 p.m. Seattle at Washington — MLB […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/22/2011
In a very interesting twist of fate, both Joe Buck and Tim McCarver get the week off and that’s with four games this Saturday. So with another week off, Joe will have called 8 out of a possible 13 games this season. Let’s see what the announcing assignments and regional splits are this week. FOX […]
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Normally, I would not post an individual radio press release, but this is big. This would be similar to CBC losing Hockey Night in Canada to TSN. Today, the Montreal Canadiens announced they’re leaving their long-time home of news/talk CJAD and moving to all-sports radio The Team 990. The Canadiens and station owner, Bell Media […]
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On Wednesday, embattled former New York Giants running back Tiki Barber gave an interview with WFAN’s Mike Francesa. The first 20 minutes of this interview were as contentious as you could get. It really got fiery when Francesa brought up Barber’s time at NBC which was less than stellar. Several times, Barber’s agent intervened. The […]
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On this rainy Wednesday in Southern New England, let me do some links. I hope the weather where you are is dry and sunny. I’ll start today off with John Ourand of the Sports Business Journal who says Comcast may have appeared to have overbid for the Olympics, but it may pay off in the […]
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This development came last night when it was learned that Los Angeles Lakers radio voice Spero Dedes, certainly on the fast track to be one of the signature voices of the next generation, decided not to take the job as the team’s TV voice. He was to replace Joel Myers this upcoming season and also […]
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College Baseball College World Series, Omaha NE Elimination Game Vanderbilt vs. North Carolina — ESPN2, 7 p.m. Gold Cup Soccer Semifinals United States vs. Panama — Fox Soccer/Univision, 7 p.m. Honduras vs. Mexico — Univision, 10 p.m. MLB Interleague Baltimore at Pittsburgh — MASN/Root Sports Pittsburgh, 12:30 p.m. New York Yankees at Cincinnati — YES/Fox […]
