0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/30/2012
NBC kicks off its Super Bowl coverage on Sunday with the NFL Films-produced special, “Road to the Super Bowl” starting at noon ET. The show will review the 2011 season and show viewers how the New England Patriots and New York Giants ended up in Indianapolis for Super Bowl XLVII. NFL Films has culled through […]
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Just a quick post here. I’ll give you links sometime around mid-afternoon. From John Ourand of Sports Business Journal/Sports Business Daily, we learn the overnight ratings of the two big events from Sunday, the NFL Pro Bowl and the NHL All-Star Game. John tells us that yesterday’s Pro Bowl on NBC registered a 7.9 overnight […]
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Sports Business Journal/Sports Business Daily did a survey among sports business executives, analysts, and media on which current NFL players are the most marketable. Not surprisingly, quarterbacks were in the top 5 out of the 11 players listed. One piece of disclosure, your humble blogger was asked to take part in the survey and my […]
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SiriusXM, the satellite radio partner for the National Football League, will air Super Bowl XLVI in ten languages including Chinese, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Russian and Spanish. English language feeds will include the local radio broadcasts from Boston and New York, plus the Dial Global national feed as called by Kevin Harlan and Boomer Esiason and […]
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College Basketball Men’s Pittsburgh at West Virginia — ESPN, 7 p.m. Morgan State at Hampton — ESPNU, 7 p.m. Northern Colorado at Northern Arizona — Fox College Sports Pacific, 8:30 p.m. Missouri at Texas — ESPN, 9 p.m. Texas Southern at Alabama State — ESPNU, 9 p.m. Women’s Morgan State at Hampton — ESPNU, 4:30 […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/28/2012
The first great sports documentary of 2012 will air Saturday night on HBO. The 90 minute film was co-produced by HBO Sports and NFL and gives us a look at Joe Namath’s life and career starting in high school in Beaver Falls, PA, to college in Alabama, then to the New York Jets of the […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/27/2012
ESPN’s week long coverage of Super Bowl XLVI from Indianapolis begins in earnest on Monday. There will be live ESPN Radio shows all day starting with Mike and Mike (also simulcast on ESPN2), live studio programs like SportsNation, NFL32 and SportsCenter. We have the programming schedule for ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNews, ESPN Radio and ESPN Deportes. […]
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Just one game for ABC on Sunday and it’ll pit the Chicago Bulls against the Miami Heat. It’ll be an Eastern Conference Finals rematch in South Florida. Mike Breen and Jeff Van Gundy call the game. Lisa Salters will report from courtside. And then there will be NBA Countdown with Magic Johnson, Michael Wilbon, Jon […]
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With a rainy day in Southern New England, it’s time to provide you with some media links. Lots of them on a Friday. You can check out the Weekend Viewing Picks for the sports and entertainment programming suggestions. Now to the links. National USA Today’s Michael Hiestand talks with NBC’s Al Michaels about calling his […]
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Details of the games are below. BIG TEN BATTLE BETWEEN MICHIGAN AND OHIO STATE HIGHLIGHTS CBS SPORTS’ COLLEGE BASKETBALL LINE-UP ON SATURDAY, JAN. 28 AND SUNDAY, JAN. 29 CBS Sports’ college basketball schedule continues on Saturday, Jan. 28 (1:00-3:00 PM, ET) with national coverage of *No. 6-ranked Baylor taking on Texas. On Sunday, Jan. 29 […]
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Throughout the weekend, NBC Sports will have live coverage of the U.S. Figure Skating Championship from HP Pavilion in San Jose, CA. The main event will be the Ladies Free Skate on Saturday night. NBC will have it live at 9 p.m. ET. Other coverage will be live including the Free Dance on Saturday afternoon […]
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Fox had a brief one fight UFC premiere in November, but on Saturday, the partnership between the two parties begins. Three fights will be seen on Fox starting at 9 p.m. ET with the prelims on Fuel at 5. Chicago’s United Center will be the venue. Curt Menefee will be the host. Randy Couture and […]
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Ok, NFL Network has come through with another 3,000 plus word press release. This outlines the league-owned sports network’s plans for the entire Super Bowl Week in Indianapolis. It includes the extremely long 8½-hour NFL GameDay Morning pregame show on Super Bowl Sunday, a red carpet on Super Bowl Sunday-eve hosted by Rich Eisen and […]
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Saturday, January 28 College Basketball Viewing Picks College Football 2012 Senior Bowl, Mobile AL North vs. South — NFL Network, 4 p.m. College Hockey Maine at Boston University — CBS Sports Network, 7:30 p.m. Minnesota at St. Cloud State — Fox Sports North, 8 p.m. Wisconsin at North Dakota — Fox Sports Wisconsin Plus, 8 […]
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Well, not really, but after reading this long press release from ESPN, you think that’s what the network is staging for its programming from Indianapolis all next week for the Super Bowl. Not only do you have the Mothership sending Chris Berman to cover his 30th Big Game plus a whole slew of analysts, but […]
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Men’s schedule courtesy of Matt’s College Sports on TV Saturday, January 28 College GameDay live from Tucson, AZ — ESPNU, 10 a.m./ESPN, 11 a.m. & 6 p.m. 11 a.m. Ball State at Ohio — ESPNU noon Wake Forest at Clemson — ACC Network Hofstra at Northeastern — Comcast SportsNet New England/MSG Plus/The Comcast Network St. […]
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College Basketball Men’s Iona at Fairfield — ESPNU, 7 p.m. Boston University at Fairfield — ESPNU, 9 p.m. College Hockey Colgate at Cornell — CBS Sports Network, 7:30 p.m. Yale at Harvard — NBC Sports Network, 7:30 p.m. New Hampshire at Boston College — NESN, 7:30 p.m. St. Cloud State at Minnesota — Big Ten […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/26/2012
NBC starts Super Bowl Week with the airing of the 2012 Pro Bowl live from Aloha Stadium in Honolulu, HI. Calling the game live will be Dan Hicks and Mike Mayock. Doug Flutie (!), coming over from NBC Sports Network, joins Hicks and Mayock in the booth. Roaming the sidelines will be Alex Flanagan and […]
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Next Tuesday, ESPN will air a one-hour interview special hosted by SportsCenter anchor Hannah Storm. During the special, Hannah talks with four of the biggest newsmakers in the NFL, Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers, Detroit Lions defensive lineman Ndamukong Suh, Carolina Panthers QB Cam Newton and Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay. Hannah speaks to […]
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Dial Global, the owner of Westwood One Radio and the national rightsholder of the National Football League, says 22.9 million people listened to the AFC and NFC Championship Games. A study conducted for Dial Global found a majority listened to the games on terrestrial radio, but also through satellite radio and via the Verizon NFL […]
