0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/11/2012
This was compiled by the fine people at ESPN. Here’s the list of Monday Night Football announcing teams dating back to when the series began on ABC in 1970. Since ESPN took over production in 1998, there has been a lot of upheaval in the announcing teams and you’ll notice this especially since the series […]
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Just announced by ESPN today, Lisa Salters will become the new sideline reporter for Monday Night Football for the 2012 season. She replaces the rotation of reporters last season that included the disastrous debut of John Sutcliffe during the Pittsburgh Steelers-San Francisco 49ers game that experienced a transformer explosion and subsequent blackout of Candlestick Park. […]
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We have the last of our NHL-centric press releases for today. This one from Comcast SportsNet Chicago which outlines the coverage plans for the Chicago Blackhawks-Phoenix Coyotes series. As NBC decides to ignore the Blackhawks for the first round, it means Comcast SportsNet Chicago can air the entire series. It will have complete local exclusivity […]
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The Philadelphia Flyers-Pittsburgh Penguins series has the potential to be a barnburner as these rivals will see each other over the next couple weeks. It all begins tonight at the Consol Energy Center in Pittsburgh. Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia offers coverage of the series in the Delaware Valley and will carry as many as five games. […]
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As mentioned in the previous post, the Boston Bruins-Washington Capitals series starts on Thursday. We had NESN’s press release and now let’s take a look at the other regional sports network that will cover the series. Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic will offer comprehensive coverage of B’s-Caps starting on Thursday. Like NESN, CSN Mid-Atlantic will have the […]
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We have press releases from three regional sports networks on their plans for the NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs so I’ll post them one at a time. Beginning with the New England Sports Network or NESN, it will carry as many as five games of the Eastern Conference Quarterfinal series between the Boston Bruins and Washington […]
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As the NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs start, the league is introducing new digital content featuring Barry Melrose of NHL Network and ESPN, a highlights video hosted by MTV Canada VJ AJ Sovani, Facebook plus improving the Gamecenter app for mobiles and tablets. The videos will feature highlights and analysis. The NHL will also utilize Foursquare […]
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With the NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs starting tonight, we have a whole host of NHL-centric press releases for you. I’ll begin with CBC’s efforts on TV, radio and online for the two month odyssey that starts April 11 and ends sometime in June. Not only that, CBC will also utilize social networking sites like Pinterest, […]
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College Baseball Illinois vs. Missouri at Busch Stadium, St. Louis, MO — Big Ten Network, 7:30 p.m. College Basketball ESPNU Signing Day Special — ESPNU, 7:30 p.m. College Lacrosse Women’s Virginia at Johns Hopkins — ESPNU, 5 p.m. English Premier League Manchester City vs. West Bromwich Albion — ESPN2, 2:30 p.m. Wigan Athletic vs. Manchester […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/10/2012
For the completed 2011-12 Boston Bruins regular season, NESN saw record ratings for the second consecutive year. NESN says the B’s 71 game season on the network averaged a 4.7 household rating in Boston which is a staggering 52% increase from last year’s successful Stanley Cup campaign that averaged a 3.1. NESN notes that of […]
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Let’s do linkage again. Trying to get this done as I have several errands to run in the afternoon. At Multichannel News, Mike Reynolds says Fox Sports is eying several sports properties which are coming up for grabs as potential programming for a cable channel which would challenge ESPN. Mike talks with the President of […]
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Starting tonight on four cable and satellite providers, MLB Network debuts a commercial-free NFL RedZone-like channel that will bring viewers to wherever the action is. During nights when MLB Network has live game action, the new MLB Network Strike Zone will whiparound from game-to-game showing live game cut-ins. MLB Network will produce Strike Zone and […]
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College Baseball Creighton at Nebraska — Big Ten Network, 7:30 p.m. Long Beach State at San Diego State — the mtn., 9 p.m. English Premier League Blackburn vs. Liverpool — Fox Soccer, 3 p.m. MLB American League Tampa Bay at Detroit — Sun Sports/Fox Sports Detroit, 1 p.m. Boston at Toronto — NESN/Rogers Sportsnet, 7 […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/9/2012
Announced today by CBS, the Late Show with David Letterman will have this year’s Masters champion, Bubba Watson as a guest on Tuesday. THIS JUST IN… …from CBS Entertainment 2012 MASTERS CHAMPION BUBBA WATSON TO VISIT CBS’s “LATE SHOW with DAVID LETTERMAN,” TUESDAY, APRIL 10 NEW YORK, April 9, 2012 – 2012 Masters champion Bubba […]
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We now will post the entire Fox Sports Saturday primetime press release. No need to reinvent another introduction. Read the press release. For reals. Seriously. SATURDAY NIGHT’S ALRIGHT FOR FOX SPORTS Big Events Dominate Saturday Nights from April to December Almost 100 Hours of MLB, College Football, NASCAR, NFL & UFC Scheduled New York & […]
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I’m away from my computer and not able to post the complete Fox Sports press release on its Saturday Primetime schedule. It starts this Saturday, April 14 with the NASCAR Sprint Cup event in Texas and goes all the way to December 8. Fox Sports will fill 28 out of the 32 week span with […]
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Been so busy lately that it’s been effecting the blog. Sorry about that. This weekend was planned for me again, so I really couldn’t post too much around the personal events. It also meant I couldn’t watch any of The Masters® or any baseball. The only things I could watch was The Amazing Race and […]
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College Baseball Wake Forest at Virginia — ESPNU, 7 p.m. English Premier League Fulham vs. Chelsea — ESPN2, 2:55 p.m. Golf The Haney Project: A Busy Coach — Golf Channel, 9 p.m. Feherty: Ken Venturi — Golf Channel, 10 p.m. MLB American League Anaheim Angels at Minnesota — MLB Network/Fox Sports West/Fox Sports North, 4 […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/8/2012
This coming in from Josef Adalian at Vulture, Fox Sports will be taking over Saturday primetime as the main network cuts back on its order of the long-running series, Cops. Saturday nights had been known as a law enforcement night with Cops filling the 8 p.m. ET hour and America’s Most Wanted at 9 p.m. […]
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For the first time this season, AMC has posted a full set of videos after an episode so that means I can provide a full set here. Interesting episode. Don sees a woman from his past, then hallucinates about her. Sally gets scared about the Richard Speck serial killings in Chicago which was a theme […]
