0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/26/2011
In the wake of ESPN’s recent renewal with the Women’s Tennis Association to put 11 tournaments a year on ESPN3.com, Tennis Channel has reached an agreement with the WTA through 2016. This also includes “TV Everywhere” rights meaning Tennis Channel will have the ability to stream its coverage on computers, mobile phones and tablets. The […]
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Big Ten Network, a.k.a. BTN, will air 175 college basketball games, 115 of them will be men’s contests. Gus Johnson will call about 30 games. The press release. Gus Johnson Scheduled to Call Nearly 30 Basketball Games on BTN Big Ten Digital Network to offer free, live streaming coverage of Basketball Media Day on Thursday […]
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Carling Cup Wolverhampton vs. Manchester City — Fox Soccer Plus, 2:40 p.m. College Football UConn at Pittsburgh — ESPN, 8 p.m. College Volleyball women’s Indiana at Michigan State — Big Ten Network, 8 p.m. LSU at Arkansas — ESPNU, 8 p.m. St. Mary’s at San Diego — ESPNU, 10 p.m. Mixed Martial Arts The Ultimate […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/25/2011
Next month, a group of MLB All Stars including Boston Red Sox outfielder Josh Reddick, Detroit Tigers reliever Phil Coke, Florida Marlins outfielder Logan Morrison New York Yankees Robinson Cano and Curtis Granderson among others will be heading to my parents’ native country of Taiwan to take on the TAIWANESE National team. Washington Nationals pitcher […]
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Just made official this morning, NBC Sports and the State of Connecticut have announced the network division’s move to the Nutmeg State. Some 450 jobs will be moved from NBC’s headquarters at 30 Rockefeller Center in midtown Manhattan to Stamford, CT. This affects most of NBC Sports’ operations including the main network, Versus/NBC Sports Network, […]
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Just saw this tweet from the great John Ourand of Sports Business Journal: [blackbirdpie url=” We’ll get final numbers later, but both MNF and the World Series got their lowest overnight ratings respectively. Fox will take the win, however. I’ll check later to see if the World Series beat ABC’s Monday juggernaut, Dancing with the […]
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Trying to piece together the coverage for the Theo Epstein news conference in Chicago introducing him as President of the Cubs and then the one in Boston formally announcing Ben Cherington as General Manager of the Red Sox. The Cubs press conference is expected to start around noon Eastern. The Red Sox presser is slated […]
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Carling Cup Aldershot Town vs. Manchester United — Fox Soccer Plus, 2:40 p.m. College Football Troy at Florida International — ESPN2, 9 p.m. MLB Path to the Championship: Games 3, 4 & 5 — MLB Network, 4 p.m. MLB Tonight – World Series Edition — MLB Network, 6 p.m. NHL Detroit at Columbus — Fox […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/24/2011
Games are being played from Tuesday and the way through early Sunday morning on the ESPN family of networks. ESPN2 has a game on Tuesday, ESPN airs one game each from Wednesday through Friday. And of course, Saturday has a whole plethora of games. Among the highlights on Saturday, Michigan State taking on Nebraska on […]
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We have a press release from Fox based on the overnight numbers for Saturday and Sunday. We should have final numbers tomorrow and because of sports overruns on Saturday, Nielsen’s final numbers for the night are delayed. But Fox is claiming victory for Saturday night for Game 3 which was a 16-7 blowout for St. […]
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On the heels of Sunday’s announcement regarding the move of LSU-Alabama on November 5th to primetime, CBS has made official that it will slot Army at Air Force into the 3:30 p.m. window, making the date a college football doubleheader. Calling the game for CBS will be Spero Dedes and Steve Beuerlein. The game had […]
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Ok, I won’t be in all day on Tuesday, although I will have my iPad and I’ll try to post any breaking news from a conference in Taunton, MA tomorrow. But while I’m in the office now, it’s time for some linkage. Starting with Sports Business Daily, we learn that Game 4 of the World […]
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When the World Series is over, MLB Network will begin covering the Hot Stove, the Free Agent signings, the Winter Meetings and eventually Spring Training, but we’re a little ways off from that. Among the shows that will premiere in November will be a new program hosted by Brian Kenny and based on sabremetrics. It’ll […]
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Before the season, Indianapolis-New Orleans, a rematch of Super Bowl XLIV was quite the attractive matchup to go head-to-head against the World Series. But when Peyton Manning announced he could not play and the Colts acknowledged he would be lost for the season, the game became less sexy. Then the Colts started losing and by […]
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ESPN has signed a new deal with the Women’s Tennis Association to carry all of the WTA Tour events on ESPN3, the network’s online platform. This new agreement spans six years and will last through 2016. Included in the deal are 11 premier tournaments and 70 matches from around the world. The deal takes effect […]
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We’re hearing that Game 4 of the World Series on Fox outrated the Sunday Night Football blowout on NBC last night. The World Series which ended at a 4-0 win for the Texas Rangers over the St. Louis Cardinals stayed close for most of the night while Sunday Night Football resulted in a lopsided 62-7 […]
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Back to Eastern Time MLB Postseason World Series Game 5: St. Louis Cardinals at Texas Rangers — Fox, 7:30 p.m. (Series tied 2-2) MLB Tonight – World Series Edition — MLB Network, 3 p.m. & 6 p.m. Baseball Tonight — ESPN2, 7 p.m. MLB Tonight – World Series Edition — MLB Network, 11 p.m. Baseball […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/23/2011
Just when you think Bob Costas would take a stand, he comes off with an extremely wishy-washy commentary on Tim Tebow’s future. Not my favorite commentary and certainly not as strong as his Al Davis comments two weeks ago. We also have the Football Night in America talking about dirty hits and the AFC West. […]
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We close out the Sunday NFL pregame quotage with Football Night in America from NBC. “FOOTBALL NIGHT IN AMERICA” NOTES & QUOTES – WEEK 7 “He’s going to have to throw the ball a lot better, but he makes plays to win games.” – Dungy on Broncos QB Tim Tebow “The Bears have to pay […]
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In a trade with ESPN, CBS gets an extra SEC primetime this season. It already aired Alabama-Florida and normally is allowed one primetime game a year. But with LSU and Alabama ranked 1 and 2 respectively in college football, it would only be natural that CBS would want the game in primetime. As Michael Hiestand […]
