0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/24/2011
Let’s do the Saturday NFL pregame quotage. We begin as usual with NFL GameDay Morning from NFL Network. Get ready to scroll for a while as this is over 3,000 words once again. News and Sound Bites From Week 16 Edition of NFL GAMEDAY MORNING “You can’t tell your team we need to get better […]
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With the Chicago Bears’ downfall since Jay Cutler got hurt, tomorrow’s Chicago Bears-Green Bay Packers game takes a lower amount of significance. But since it’s the only NFL game on Christmas Day, it’ll get a big audience. Al Michaels, Cris Collinsworth and Michele Tafoya will be at Lambeau Field to call the action. Football Night […]
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We now go to the NFL on Fox which previews Week 16 plus the announcing assignments and regional splits for today. Check them out. FOX SPORTS NOTES, QUOTES & ANECDOTES NFC East Playoff Hopes on the Line This Saturday on FOX Oliver Visits with 2010 Giants Draft Pick Chad Jones and Documents His Road to […]
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We have the NFL on CBS announcing assignments through Week 17, but they’re quite incomplete. Week 17 has “TBD” working every game and obviously, this person will be quite busy. I don’t know how CBS plans to transport “TBD” to make every call of every play from every game, but I guess the network will […]
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Let’s move to CBS and its preview of NFL Week 16. We have analysts Dan Dierdorf and Solomon Wilcots talking about the games they’ll cover plus the issues hitting the NFL this week. THE NFL ON CBS: WEEK 16 (SATURDAY, DEC. 24) AUDIBLES WITH “THE NFL ON CBS’” DAN DIERDORF AND SOLOMON WILCOTS The CBS […]
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Time to do our NFL previews for Week 16. Here’s ESPN’s content previews for its shows. ESPN NFL Content Highlights – Week 16 Chris Berman and Tom Jackson to Host Special NFL Primetime on Christmas Eve Chris Berman and Tom Jackson, the duo who hosted the critically-acclaimed NFL PrimeTime — annually cable television’s highest-rated studio […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/23/2011
Saturday, December 24 College Football Hawaii Bowl, Honolulu, HI Nevada vs. Southern Mississippi — ESPN, 8 p.m. ESPN Sports Saturday ABC — 4 p.m. Golf World Long Drive Championship — ESPN, 1 p.m. PGA Tour Year in Review — NBC, 3 p.m. Skills Challenge, Day 1 — NBC, 4 p.m. NFL Viewing Picks Entertainment The […]
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NFL TV Coverage Maps (the506.com) Blackouts: Buffalo, Cincinnati NFL GameDay Morning — NFL Network, 9 a.m. Fox NFL Sunday — Fox, noon 1 p.m. CBS Cleveland at Baltimore — Spero Dedes/Rich Gannon Denver at Buffalo — Jim Nantz/Phil Simms Jacksonville at Tennessee — Bill Macatee/Steve Tasker Miami at New England — Ian Eagle/Dan Fouts (“The […]
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College Basketball Men’s Diamond Head Classic, Honolulu, HI Consolation Round Clemson vs. Southern Illinois — ESPNU, 3 p.m. ESPNU, 1:30 a.m. (Saturday) Semifinals UTEP vs. Kansas State — ESPNU, 5:30 p.m. ESPN2, 11 p.m. Las Vegas Classic, Las Vegas, NV West Virginia vs. Baylor — ESPN2, 9 p.m. Missouri vs. St. Mary’s — ESPN3.com, 11:30 […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/22/2011
I’ve been all over the place. I think I’m busier on unemployment than when I was working. It’s cut into my blogging time. Thanks for your patience during this time. I’ll provide a few links for you. With the Bill Conlin story continuing to explode, let’s get some links there first. If you’re not familiar, […]
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This particular podcast with yours truly and Keith Thibault of Sports Media Journal was a two man discussion on the Year in Review in Sports Media. The issues discussed are culled from my Big Dozen Sports Media Stories of 2012 which will be published at the end of December. It’s a good talk. Among the […]
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Just received this from NHL Network and it’s an announcement about the unveiling of a new logo which is pretty sharp, a new nightly 10 p.m. ET show hosted by former NESN Bruins studio host Kathryn Tappen, and a new ad campaign which gives viewers a sense that the NHL Network is no longer stuck […]
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College Basketball Men’s Diamond Head Classic, Honolulu, HI Quarterfinals UTEP vs. Clemson — ESPNU, 2:30 p.m. Kansas State vs. Southern Illinois — ESPNU, 5 p.m. Long Beach State vs. Xavier — ESPNU, 11 p.m. Auburn vs. Hawaii — ESPN, 1:30 a.m. (Friday) Loyola (MD) at Kentucky — Fox Sports Net (regional), 1 p.m. Bradley at […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/21/2011
Let’s provide the NFL Network schedule through next Tuesday. Check out the programming and other features. This is a long press release so get ready to scroll. NFL NETWORK & NFL.COM PROGRAMMING NOTES (12/21 – 12/27) AFC SOUTH CHAMPION HOUSTON TEXANS FACE INDIANAPOLIS COLTS ON NFL NETWORK’S THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL DEC. 22 AT 8:00 PM […]
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Earlier this year, ESPN took over an entire city block in Fort Worth for its Super Bowl XLV headquarters. For Super Bowl XLVI, ESPN has chosen Pan American Plaza in Indianapolis as its base for the entire week leading up to the Big Game. ESPN will construct outdoor studios (this should be fun in a […]
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One of the few things on which I could tolerate Chris Berman was NFL Primetime which he hosted from 1987 through 2005. He did the NFL highlights well and he gets to return to his old stomping grounds on Christmas Eve as his Primetime partner, Tom Jackson will co-host a special Saturday night edition on […]
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To say that the NFL dominated the ratings in Week 15 would be like saying humans need oxygen. But to look at the numbers and see that all 30 of the NFL markets saw their local games top their ratings, a clean sweep, that’s amazing. Milwaukee was the top-rated market for the Kansas City-Green Bay […]
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It won’t be actual games since CBS will have a full slate on Christmas Eve, but if you’re jonesing for football on Sunday and you can’t wait until Bears-Packers on NBC at 8:30 p.m. ET, CBS has a small fix for you in the afternoon. CBS will air the NFL Holiday Spectacular on Sunday at […]
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Monday night’s Pittsburgh at San Francisco game, complete with two electrical power failures at Candlestick Park, garnered good ratings for ESPN. The game received a 10.1 rating beating all programs on both broadcast & cable, plus it averaged 16.7 million viewers. However, the rating is down from last year’s 10.8 for the Chicago-Minnesota game which […]
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Coming later this month, NHL Network will air the annual IIHF Junior Championships from Edmonton and Calgary. This is an event I have grown to enjoy very much over the last few years. NHL Network has gone from simulcasting TSN to producing its own coverage with its own announcers. Two years ago, JP Dellacamera was […]
