0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/31/2011
ESPN put out a press release wishing a Happy 80th Birthday to college football analyst Beano Cook. Beano has been with the network dating back to 1986 and while he doesn’t appear on TV like he used to, he’ll be making the rounds on various ESPN Radio stations across the country during the college football […]
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College football begins in earnest on Thursday night and CBS Sports Network will start its season with a two New England rivals, Holy Cross taking on the University of Massachusetts live from Worcester, MA. And on Saturday, CBS Sports Network carries Delaware at Navy from Annapolis, MD. Both games will be live. We have the […]
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On Wednesday, lead NFL on Fox analyst Troy Aikman along with Jimmy Johnson and Michael Strahan of Fox NFL Sunday took part in a media conference call to talk about the upcoming NFL season. In addition, Fox Sports Media Group President Eric Shanks and Fox Sports El Jefe del Mundo David Hill were also in […]
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Golf Channel will have three tournaments to air this weekend including the PGA Tour’s Deutsche Bank Championship in Norton, MA which is about 40 minutes away from me. It’ll be the second leg of the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup. And there will be a second PGA Tour stop as well. We have everything you need […]
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This week on NFL Network will conclude the NFL preseason. The network will have three live games and finish the rest of the preseason with taped games over the weekend. Then it’s time to get ready for the regular season. Here’s the schedule. NFL NETWORK & NFL.COM PROGRAMMING NOTES (8/31 – 9/6) COLTS-BENGALS, BRONCOS-CARDINALS & […]
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The inaugural season of Fox College Football Game of the Week kicks off Saturday on FX. Gus Johnson along with Charles Davis and Tim Brewster will be on hand for the first of 14 regular season games on the network. In addition, there will be games on other Fox networks including Fox Sports Net and […]
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Fans won’t see all three, but one of the trio of games being offered by the Fox Television Network. Most of the country, almost ¾ of the country will see a potential postseason matchup between the Texas Rangers and the Boston Red Sox live from Fenway Park. With this being another off week for Joe […]
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This was unveiled today by Fox Sports. It’s the new open for Fox NFL Sunday complete with Cleatus the Robot, who by the way
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I’m going to try to do some Wednesday linkage here. Also have a lot of end of the month/beginning of the month crap to do at work some I’m balancing the two off. Here are the links that I have for now. USA Today’s Michael Hiestand looks at NBC’s plans to provide live online coverage […]
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The rumors about Fox Sports airing English Premier League games during NFL season are indeed true. On three Sundays, Fox will air EPL games either at 2 p.m. or 4:30 p.m. Eastern time to fill holes when it has regional NFL coverage. The games will go opposite games on CBS, but Fox is not concerned […]
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Might as well complete the sequence as ESPN continues to pump out college basketball schedules. This is for the women’s side of Big Monday which usually airs on ESPN2. There will be 12 games shown on ESPN2 including three doubleheaders in February and one tripleheader on President’s Day. UConn will be shown four times which […]
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Continuing a partnership that dates back to 1979, ESPN and the Big East Conference have announced the 2012 Big Monday and the entire 2011-12 men’s basketball schedule on the network’s various platforms. With ESPN having the rights to all of the men’s basketball games, games will be seen either on ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU or the […]
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This just in from the NBC Sports Group and I thank the fine people at its PR department for sending this press release to me. We’ve been hearing drips and drabs about Versus’ new original programming that will premiere in September. We heard about Liam McHugh hosting a college football studio show on Monday afternoons, […]
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Continuing its policy of announcing its live game schedule for the final two months of the regular season to assure the best possible matchups, MLB Network has just announced what it will air for the Labor Day holiday doubleheader and the Tuesday Night game the following night. On Labor Day, September 5, MLB Network will […]
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With the other NFL TV partners finished with their preseason schedules, it’s up to NFL Network to take care of your football jones this week. NFL Network will have three live games, a Thursday night doubleheader and then a live game on Friday night and that will be it until the following Thursday when the […]
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Cycling Vuelta a España, Stage 11 — Universal Sports, 10 a.m. MLB American League Kansas City at Detroit — Fox Sports Detroit, 1 p.m. Minnesota at Chicago White Sox — Fox Sports North/WGN America, 2 p.m. New York Yankees at Boston — ESPN/YES/NESN, 7 p.m. Oakland at Cleveland — Comcast SportsNet California/STO, 7 p.m. Toronto […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/30/2011
This in from the NBC Sports Group, Golf Channel will produce a live pregame show for NBC that will a half-hour prior to the third and final rounds of the Tour Championship, the year-ending tournament that will “crown” a winner of the PGA Tour’s playoffs that no one really understands or gets. In any event, […]
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So due to Hurricane Irene, the New York Jets-New York Giants game at the New Meadowlands Stadium had to be rescheduled from Saturday to Monday. And with the move, the game received a national audience thanks to NFL Network. With it being the only NFL game of the night, an average of 1.78 million people […]
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On Wednesday, HBO will air a retrospective looking back at 10 years of “Hard Knocks”, the reality show produced by NFL Films that looks inside various training camps. The show debuted in 2001 with NFL Films going into the Baltimore Ravens training camp with then-coach Brian Billick and linebacker Ray Lewis. The show has evolved […]
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I hope I get this weekly because this is a good press release from ESPN regarding its upcoming college sports programming. We get plenty of updates on the studio shows, where College GameDay is heading and the games that will be shown. Plus, we get some news and notes here. I’ll post this verbatim. You […]
