0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/13/2012
This just in from CBS Sports, paced by having Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods paired together in the final round of the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, the network received its highest overnight rating in 15 years for the last day of the tournament. Yesterday’s Final Round received a 5.1 rating and a 10 share which […]
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ESPN’s daily NASCAR studio show, “NASCAR Now,” has its season premiere this afternoon. It returns at 3 p.m. ET on ESPN2. Mike Massaro will be the main host with various appearances by Sprint Cup voice Allen Bestwick, Nicole Biscole, Shannon Spake and Marty Reid in the big chair. In addition, ESPN has announced that driver […]
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New Boston Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine talks with MLB Network’s Bob Costas on his monthly interview program, Studio 42 tonight. The show was taped prior to tonight so we do have some partial transcripts of the interview. I’ve never been a fan of Valentine’s feeling he’s been arrogant and a know-it-all and his stint […]
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Prepping for the upcoming 2012 season, MLB Network has announced three new on-air hires. Alana Rizzo, Lauren Shehadi and Scott Braun have been brought on board to become either studio hosts or field reporters for the network. Alana Rizzo comes from Root Sports Rocky Mountain where she was the field reporter for Colorado Rockies games. […]
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College Basketball Men’s Syracuse at Louisville — ESPN, 7 p.m. Iowa State at Baylor — ESPNU, 7 p.m. Kansas at Kansas State — ESPN, 9 p.m. Maryland-Eastern Shore at Coppin State — ESPNU, 9 p.m. Women’s Kentucky at Tennessee — ESPN2, 7 p.m. Nebraska a Minnesota — Big Ten Network, 7:30 p.m. UConn at Oklahoma […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/11/2012
Been battling the stomach flu over the last 24 hours which is why you haven’t seen new posts since the Weekend Viewing Picks. My apologies for that. Still feeling a bit blue over the flu and running to the bathroom every 15 minutes, but I’m getting better now. Been a tough winter for me getting […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/10/2012
Saturday, February 11 Baseball Australian Baseball League Championship Series, Perth, Australia Game 2: Melbourne Aces vs. Perth Heat — MLB Network, noon College Basketball Viewing Picks College Hockey New Hampshire at Merrimack — NESN, 7 p.m. Michigan vs. Michigan State at Detroit — Fox Sports Detroit, 7:30 p.m. Minnesota at Denver — Root Sports Rocky […]
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Men’s Schedule Courtesy of Matt’s College Sports on TV Saturday, February 11 College GameDay live from Nashville, TN — ESPNU, 10 a.m./ESPN,11 a.m./ESPN, 8 p.m. 11 a.m. Butler at Cleveland State — ESPN2 Ball State at Kent State — ESPNU noon DePaul at Notre Dame — Big East Network: Cox Sports Television/MASN/SNY James Madison at […]
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Baseball Australian Baseball League Championship Series, Perth, Australia Game 1: Melbourne Aces vs. Perth Heat — MLB Network, noon College Basketball Men’s Iona at Loyola (MD) — ESPNU, 7 p.m. Wisconsin-Green Bay at Wright State — ESPNU, 9 p.m. College Hockey Maine at Providence — Cox Sports RI, 7 p.m. Northeastern at UNH — WBIN, […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/9/2012
Former CBS and ESPN reporter Bonnie Bernstein guest hosted for Dan Patrick on his nationally syndicated radio and TV show today. It was her third time hosting for DP and as she did in her two previous stints as sub, she did a bang up job. Bonnie has been a great listen and the reaction […]
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NBC Sports has lured Ron Wechsler away from ESPN to be its Vice President, Original Programming & Development. He’ll be responsible for creating original programming for the entire NBC Sports Group. Ron developed original content for both television and ESPN.com while with the Worldwide Leader including ESPNU Road Trip, the web series Mayne Street starring […]
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College Basketball Men’s Lehigh at American — CBS Sports Network, 7 p.m. Wisconsin at Minnesota — ESPN, 7 p.m. Mississippi at Mississippi State — ESPN2, 7 p.m. NC State at Georgia Tech — ESPNU, 7 p.m. Western Kentucky at Middle Tennessee — Fox College Sports Atlantic, 8 p.m. IUPUI at Oral Roberts — Fox College […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/8/2012
With our regularly scheduled podcast, Keith Thibault of Sports Media Journal are back to discuss the sports media news of the week. Having already discussed the Super Bowl earlier this week, Keith and I put a wrap on the Big Game by noting the record online numbers for the first-ever legal online stream of the […]
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Time for some sports media links for today. Let’s get to them without further delay. Let’s start with USA Today and Michael Hiestand who looks at the record online numbers for the first live legal stream of the Super Bowl. Chris Burke of Sports Illustrated lists the best and worst NFL announcing teams. Over to […]
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Yesterday, Megan Soisson) that ESPN had a special comment section for anyone to criticize its female announcers. The Gawker-owned website Jezebel was tipped off and subsequently broke the story. Apparently the comment section was part of a viewer response form to deal with the complaints that ESPN received when it first assigned women to call […]
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This from our friends at Dial Global Radio, the official radio partner of the NFL. Through phone surveys, Dial Global was able to determine from interviews conducted by Edison Research that 23.1 million people listened to Super Bowl XLVI either at home, at work, in the car or in other locations. This follows the 22.9 […]
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College Basketball Men’s George Washington at Temple — A-10 Network: The Comcast Network, 6 p.m. Penn State at Michigan State — Big Ten Network, 6 p.m. Pittsburgh at South Florida — Big East Network: Bright House/MASN/Root Sports Pittsburgh/SNY, 7 p.m. URI at Xavier — CBS Sports Network, 7 p.m. Georgetown at Syracuse — ESPN, 7 […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/7/2012
NBC and the National Football League have announced that 2.1 million people watched the very first legal online stream of the Super Bowl this past Sunday. It marks the largest online audience for a sporting event. In 2011, the NFL announced it would allow NBC to stream Super Bowl XLVI. CBS had requested to stream […]
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Fox is back with 13 Sprint Cup races including the Daytona 500 and 15 NASCAR events in all. They’ll begin on Saturday, February 18 with the Budweiser Shootout live in primetime. Then the Daytona 500 takes place the following weekend on Sunday, February 26. The network’s races include stops in Las Vegas,NV; Bristol, TN; Richmond, […]
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I was hoping to do links on Monday featuring reviews of the Super Bowl and the ads, but real life got in the way. Plus, a link from SI.com to my Biff Henderson post temporarily knocked my site down. Much appreciated to Jimmy Traina and Hot Clicks for the link. The links begin with Sports […]
