0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/5/2012
Catching up on yesterday’s announcement that of the NFL preseason schedules. We’ll begin with the National Football League’s official announcement, then go to the network’s press releases of their preseason schedules. For the national TV partners, ESPN will air 4 preseason games, Fox 3, CBS and NBC 2 each. NFL Network will air all preseason […]
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This was announced yesterday by MLB, but the official press release just arrived in the Fang’s Bites inbox. It’s great news for subscribers of SiriusXM Radio who also access the platform through online and mobile. All MLB games will be made available on SiriusXM.com or through the SiriusXM mobile and tablet apps. This means that […]
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As Augusta National Country Club swirls in another controversy over allowing women to join, The Masters® goes on as if nothing is going on in the outside world. ESPN airs live first and second round coverage beginning today at 3 p.m. CBS will air highlights of the weekday rounds tonight at 11:35 ET before the […]
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College Baseball Fresno State at Hawaii — Fox College Sports Pacific, 6:30 p.m. Michigan State at Lansing Lugnuts — Big Ten Network, 7 p.m. LSU at Florida — ESPNU, 7:30 p.m. College Hockey Frozen Four Tampa Bay Times Forum, Tampa, FL Union vs. Ferris State — ESPNU, 4:30 p.m. Boston College vs. Minnesota — ESPN2, […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/4/2012
ESPN is pleased over the rise in ratings for the NCAA Women’s Basketball Championship that gave Baylor a 40-0 season and a title for Brittney Griner. The overnight rating for the game was a 2.6 which is a 13% increase from last year’s title contest. In addition, the average rating for the Women’s Final Four […]
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This from the good people at Turner Sports. We have the announcers for the Sunday MLB on TBS package. After being away from MLB for the postseason due to the passing of his legendary father, Ernie Johnson, Jr. returns to the package as the lead play-by-play man. He’ll call the first three games of the […]
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NBC Sports Group has announced its schedule for the U.S. Olympics Trials. Four years ago, NBC used USA Network and Versus (which it did not own at the time) for overspill events. Now, NBC Sports Network, formerly Versus, gets a huge chunk of events starting with the Wrestling Trials on April 22 and ending with […]
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Earlier this week, we learned that when NBCUniversal was in the midst of signing no talent hack Ryan Seacrest, Brian Stelter of the New York Times reported that the American Idol host would be getting a role on the Olympics. Then this morning on NBC’s Today show, Seacrest in an interview with Matt Lauer announced […]
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I’m a bit surprised we haven’t heard more of this, but apparently Jim Gray and Bill Walton like to mix it up during the NCAA Final Four’s radio broadcast. This goes back to last year when Walton joined the Westwood One (now Dial Global) Radio team for the Final Four. Walton is a studio analyst […]
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CONCACAF Champions League Semifinals, Leg 2 Santos Laguna vs. Toronto — Fox Soccer, 8 p.m. Pumas U.N.A.M. vs. Monterrey — Fox Soccer, 10 p.m. Golf The Masters: Par 3 Contest — ESPN, 3 p.m. Masters on the Range — CBS Sports Network, 9 a.m. Live From The Masters — Golf Channel, noon & 6 p.m. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/3/2012
The overnight ratings this morning certainly didn’t give CBS any encouragement as they showed Monday night’s Kansas-Kentucky game down from last year’s contest. However, now with the Fast National Rating counted and the average viewership measured, CBS/Turner comes out on top from last year. According to Nielsen, the Fast National Rating for Kansas-Kentucky resulted in […]
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In the next month or so, NBC will formally announce its coverage plans and talent for the London Summer Olympics. We’ve heard drips and drabs. Last year, Dan Patrick announced on his show that he will have a host role on the Olympics along with Bob Costas and Al Michaels. This week, we learned that […]
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This in from John Ourand from Sports Business Journal. The ratings for last night’s NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship Game between Kansas and Kentucky were off from last 2011. [blackbirdpie url=” Off 9% is a lot. As John tweeted, the late start at 9:27 p.m. might have been a factor, but also, the game never felt […]
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This just announced by MLB. Fox Sports will air “MLB Player Poll” produced by MLB Productions. This will hit air at 3 p.m. ET on Saturdays, except for four weeks during the season when Fox Saturday Baseball airs earlier in the day due to NASCAR and will air at noon ET. MLB Player Poll will […]
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Now that college basketball is winding down, we can shift to other sports and with the first week of April comes The Masters®. While ESPN and CBS will provide the live coverage on-course, Golf Channel will be at Augusta to provide coverage of the news conferences, do live interviews and provide analysis. Coverage began on […]
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College Baseball Dallas Baptist at TCU — the mtn., 7:30 p.m. College Basketball Women’s NCAA Championship Pepsi Arena, Denver, CO Announcers: ESPN — Dave O’Brien/Doris Burke/Holly Rowe (sideline)/Rebecca Lobo (sideline); Dial Global Radio — Dave Ryan/Debbie Antonelli/Krista Blunk (sidelines) #1 Baylor vs. #1 Notre Dame — ESPN, 8:30 p.m. The Experts — ESPNU, 1 p.m. […]
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Right after Kentucky won the NCAA Championship over Kansas, someone had the bright idea to post the Lexington, KY police scanner on Twitter and since about midnight ET, listening to the college students and fans go crazy burning couches, shooting each other, breaking trees and selling weed has been one of the most amazing things […]
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I give credit to the great people at Gunaxin for putting this video up. It’s the annual “One Shining Moment” video aired by CBS at the end of the NCAA Championship Game. This was a very good version as you had the great moments from the NCAA Tournament with some various calls by Jim Nantz, […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/2/2012
Let’s do some links on this Monday. Michael Hiestand of USA Today says the NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship Game has become a showcase for upcoming NBA talent. Mike Reynolds from Multichannel News writes that NBC Sports Network will get a lion’s share of coverage for the London Summer Olympics. Brian Stelter of the New York […]
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Last year, Major League Baseball announced an initiative that was good in theory, but wasn’t carried out all too well. It had two fans watch every single MLB game in what it dubbed its “Fan Cave” and had two guys occupy it for the entire season. Unfortunately, MLB didn’t take care of one of its […]
