0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/25/2011
College Basketball 76 Classic, Anaheim, CA Semifinals St. Louis vs. Villanova — ESPN, 2:30 p.m. Santa Clara vs. Oklahoma — ESPN, midnight Consolation Round Boston College vs. UC-Riverside — ESPNU, 5 p.m. New Mexico vs. Washington State — ESPNU, 9:30 p.m. Battle 4 Atlantis, Paradise Island, Bahamas Semifinals Central Florida vs. UConn — Versus, 2 […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/24/2011
Another piece of quotage for you this evening. NFL Network sends us the quotage from Thursday Night Kickoff, the pregame show for the Thursday Night Football game between San Francisco and Baltimore. Lots of stuff from NFL Network today. Thanksgiving Edition Thursday Night Football Pregame Notes & Quotes San Francisco 49ers vs. Baltimore Ravens Nov. […]
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Let’s move to the NFL Today on CBS with the quotage from today’s pregame show before the Miami-Dallas game. Check it all out. NEWS, NOTES & QUOTES FROM CBS SPORTS’ “THE NFL TODAY” WITH JAMES BROWN, DAN MARINO, SHANNON SHARPE, BILL COWHER AND BOOMER ESIASON FOR WEEK 12 ON THANKSGIVING DAY, NOVEMBER 24 THE NFL […]
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We have two rounds of NFL pregame quotage from the networks today. Thanks to NFL Network and CBS Sports, we have two press releases to post for you. We begin with NFL GameDay Morning which did a Thanksgiving Day pregame show at 10 a.m. Thursday. check out the quotage. News and Sound Bites From Special […]
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College Basketball 76 Classic, Anaheim, CA Quarterfinals Boston College vs. St. Louis — ESPNU, 2 p.m. Villanova vs. UC-Riverside — ESPN2, 4:30 p.m. New Mexico vs. Santa Clara — ESPNU, 9 p.m. Oklahoma vs. Washington State — ESPN2, 11:30 p.m. Battle 4 Atlantis, Paradise Island, Bahamas Quarterfinals Central Florida vs. College of Charleston — Versus, […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/23/2011
Let’s do a few links for you on this day before Thanksgiving. And my best to you. Be safe in your travels. We begin with John Ourand of Sports Business Daily who convenes a roundtable of fellow SBD writers to look at ESPN’s new NFL studio shows. Mason Levinson of Bloomberg News says ESPN college […]
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Ok, let’s give you the last game on Thanksgiving, the San Francisco 49ers traveling cross country to Baltimore. Asides the fact that the two teams are both jockeying for a postseason spot, there’s the storyline of the two coaches, brothers Jim Harbaugh of the 49ers and John Harbaugh of the Ravens. I’m sure NFL Network […]
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CBS has mostly set in stone its announcing assignments for the NFL through Week 14. I say mostly because two game in Week 14, New England at Washington and Oakland at Green Bay are “TBD”. The only two announcing teams not listed are Jim Nantz/Phil Simms and Greg Gumbel/Dan Dierdorf. You may also notice that […]
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Let’s take a gander at the NFL previews for Thanksgiving Day. Three networks will be airing games on Thursday. We go first to CBS Sports which will air the Miami-Dallas game at 4 p.m. ET. CBS gives us preview quotage from analysts Phil Simms, Dan Marino and Boomer Esiason. All talk about what’s in store […]
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On Thursday, Fox kicks off our Thanksgiving Day football menu with a good game in Detroit, Green Bay Packers at the Lions. The game kicks off at 12:30 p.m. ET. Fox NFL Sunday starts it all off with a special edition of its pregame show at 11:30 a.m. ET. Joe Buck, Troy Aikman and Pam […]
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According to the NFL, 22 regular season games have had over 20 million viewers. That’s a lot. And the two top rated programs of the week are NFL games including Chargers-Bears on CBS and Eagles-Giants on NBC. So it means that people love to watch the Sunday national windows at 4:15 p.m. ET and 8:30 […]
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Can’t believe we’ve hit podcast number 80! And we’ve had plenty of good guests throughout the time. This week, we have John Daly of the Daly Planet NASCAR TV blog. As usual, Keith Thibault of Sports Media Journal talked about the news of the week. We led with the move by ESPN to boot President […]
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The New England Patriots blowout win of the Kansas City Chiefs gave ESPN a cable primetime win. Overall, Monday Night Football received a 7.8 rating and 12.344 million viewers. And MNF takes the night in key demographics. We take a look at the press release below. Monday Night Football Helps ESPN Win the Night in […]
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College Basketball Cancun Challenge, Cancun, Mexico Consolation Rutgers vs. Richmond — CBS Sports Network, 7 p.m. Championship Game Illinois State vs. Illinois — CBS Sports Network, 9:30 p.m. Great Alaska Shootout, Anchorage, AK First Round Murray State vs. Alaska-Anchorage — Fox College Sports Pacific/Altitude 2/Cox 4/MASN/YES, 10:30 p.m. Dartmouth vs. San Francisco — Fox College […]
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On this Thanksgiving Week, I’ll provide a few thoughts on what has transpired so far this week. All in bullet form, of course. The announcement that ESPN Dictator George Bodenheimer will become ESPN Chairman, leaving day-to-day operations with Executive Vice President of Content John Skipper bears watching. While I have jokingly called Bodenheimer a dictator, […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/22/2011
The saga of an expanded NFL Thursday Night Football package continues. Back when the NFL Lockout was in full swing, it was reported that the NFL was considering adding to the current package of 8 Thursday Night Football games, making it a full season of games with NFL Network holding the second half of the […]
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Early evening again. Let’s do some linkage here. The Poynter Institute’s Jason Fry writes an article as the ESPN Ombudsman on how whiskey maker Jameson’s got stuck sponsoring the ESPN Films “Unguarded” documentary on addict Chris Herren. Michael Bradley writing for the Indiana University National Sports Journalism Center looks at a new e-book from Dallas […]
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The schedule at NBC Sports Network after January 2 is filling up rather nicely. We know about the NHL from Monday through Wednesday. There’s college hockey on Friday nights. Horse racing in the spring and summer. And just announced today, a quarterly boxing series that will air on Saturday nights beginning in January. NBC Sports […]
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NBC and the National Hockey League are teaming up for their newest venture, the NHL Thanksgiving Showdown, a nationally televised game airing on the Day after Thanksgiving or Black Friday. Similar to the NHL Winter Classic, the league and NBC are teaming up for marketing and promotional opportunities. One includes a float at the Macy’s […]
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As Thanksgiving Day draws closer, we get an idea of what the networks will be doing for their coverage on the holiday. CBS will air the traditional Turkey Day from the Metroplex this year involving the Miami Dolphins and the Dallas Cowboys. Jim Nantz and Phil Simms will be on hand to call the game. […]
