0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/9/2011
With no Triple Crown winner assured for this year, NBC is trying to make the Belmont a showdown between Kentucky Derby winner Animal Kingdom and Preakness Stakes winner Shackleford. Just watch another horse take the race giving us three different winners. Anyway, Versus and NBC will combine for the coverage which starts Friday and culminates […]
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If it’s Father’s Day weekend, it means U.S. Open golf. And it also means ESPN is all over it. It also means we get to hear Chris Berman’s irritating play-by-play for the first two rounds, “Eh, ah, uh, let’s send it to Roger “Chocolate” Maltbie!” I can’t wait for the social media reaction to Berman […]
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Golf LPGA Tour/State Farm Classic, 1st round — Golf Channel, 6:30 p.m. (same day coverage) PGA Tour/St. Jude Classic, 1st round — Golf Channel, 3 p.m. Minor League Baseball Louisville Bats at Syracuse Chiefs — MLB Network, 10:30 a.m. MLB American League Toronto at Kansas City — Rogers Sportsnet, 4 p.m. Boston at New York […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/8/2011
Yup, for the first time, ESPN’s networks, ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPNU will be all over the Division I Super Regionals, a possible 24 games from eight sites this weekend. The best two out of three series will be aired starting this Friday. This will lead up to the eight teams that will play in the […]
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This weekend, both CBS Sports Network and the CBS Sports mothership combine to air the NCAA Men’s and Women’s Division I Track & Field Championships from Drake Stadium in Des Moines, IA. CBS Sports Network airs primetime coverage on Friday. CBS has the coverage Saturday afternoon. Ian Eagle will have the call and he’ll be […]
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This coming in today from ESPN, a new eight year agreement with the West Coast Conference for mostly men’s basketball. Women’s basketball, baseball as well as various Olympic sports are also included in this new deal. The contract calls for at least 48 appearances of WCC teams across ESPN platforms (mostly on ESPN2 and ESPNU). […]
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Yup, BTN announces it’ll have 15 games in the first three week of the college football season, including two tripleheaders in that period. Let’s take a look at what it will air. BTN TO AIR 15 FOOTBALL GAMES DURING FIRST THREE WEEKENDS Network to air first-ever college football tripleheaders on Sept. 10 and 17 CHICAGO […]
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ESPN has announced the addition of seven more Big Ten football games to its schedule. These games will be seen Saturday afternoons either on ESPN, ESPN2 or ABC. The schedule and selections are below. Additional 2011 Big Ten College Football Telecasts Selected ESPN has selected seven additional Big Ten Conference college football games for Saturday […]
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Received this press release from ESPN regarding last night’s overnight ratings for Game 4 of the NBA Finals. It won the night with an 11.1 rating. Very good and good enough to win the night over all network competition. But it’s still down from last year’s 11.6 which involved the Lakers and the Celtics. Still […]
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Been to a couple of jobsites already today on this scorcher of a day. I hope you’re inside and not working. Not easy to be working out of doors with temperatures in the 90’s. Don’t overexert yourself and drink plenty of fluids. And most of all, stay cool. Of course, the big story is still […]
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Last Saturday, George Couture married his sweetheart Alley Jablonski at Fenway Park. They were supposed to be married during the afternoon. The problem was the Red Sox moved their game against the Oakland A’s to an afternoon start to accommodate fans who wanted to see the Boston Bruins play the Vancouver Canucks that night. So […]
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Let’s take a look at what NBC will be paying for the Olympics starting in 2012 and going through 2020. The 2012 rights were awarded to NBC in earlier bidding. The rights for 2014 — 2020 as we know were handed out Tuesday. 2012 (London) — $1.181 billion 2014 (Sochi) — $775 million 2016 (Rio […]
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MLB American League Minnesota at Cleveland — MLB Network/Fox Sports North, noon Boston at New York Yankees — ESPN/NESN/YES, 7 p.m. Oakland at Baltimore — Comcast SportsNet California/MASN, 7 p.m. Detroit at Texas — Fox Sports Detroit/Fox Sports Southwest, 8 p.m. Seattle at Chicago White Sox — Root Sports Northwest/Comcast SportsNet Chicago, 8 p.m. Toronto […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/7/2011
While the lockout continues former NFL players looking for a second career in broadcasting will get the opportunity to see what it is like to be in front of the camera for an extended period of time. Instructors from all of the NFL’s broadcast partners will be on hand as well as ex-players Antonio Freeman, […]
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Starting this Sunday, TNT will begin the first of six NASCAR races as part of its Summer Season. TNT brings back Adam Alexander, Kyle Petty and Wally Dallenbach as its announcing team. Lindsay Czarniak will host the network’s 60 minute pre-race show, Countdown to Green. Let’s take a look at some of the features TNT […]
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No guest this week for the latest edition of the Sports Media Weekly, but because of the breaking news of the Olympic TV rights being awarded to NBC, Keith Thibault of Sports Media Journal and I jumped in early to record our podcast. Yes, we talked mostly about the International Olympic Committee handing out all […]
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I think we have all of the numbers for each of the bids for the three networks that presented to the International Olympic Committee in Lausanne, Switzerland this week. This is gathered from the reporters who have been covering the bidding quite closely, Richard Sandomir of the New York Times and from the Sports Business […]
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We’ve given you ESPN’s and Fox’s statements on the Olympic bidding for 2014 and beyond. It’s NBC’s turn. Here’s their statement as sent unedited. NBCUNIVERSAL ACQUIRES U.S. MEDIA RIGHTS TO UNPRECEDENTED FOUR FUTURE OLYMPIC GAMES LAUSANNE – June 7, 2011 – The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced today that it awarded the U.S. media rights […]
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A news conference is underway between NBC and the International Olympic Committee formally announcing the new four Olympiad agreement that keeps the Games on NBCUniversal through 2020. NBC’s bid totaled about $4.38 billion with a sponsorship likely thrown in by minority owner General Electric which has said it has wanted NBC to remain in the […]
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As the news comes that NBC won the rights for four Olympic Games from 2014 — 2020, we’re learning quite a bit about the bid process. Stephen Wilson of the Associated Press who broke the story says NBC/Comcast apparently bid more than $4 billion for the four Games, breaking down to about $1.1 billion per […]
