0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/30/2012
Announced by NESN at the same time the Erin Andrews-to-Fox story broke, we learn that retired Red Sox pitcher Tim Wakefield will now become a studio analyst for the network. Wakefield retired during Spring Training this year after a stellar career with the Red Sox. He had spanned 16 years in Boston starting in 1995 […]
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Baseball in Primetime continues on Fox. The network will send out six games to the nation with the Mets at Dodgers being the showcase game beamed to 40% of the country. Once again, Joe Buck is on the case and he’ll be in Los Angeles along with Eric Karros and Ken Rosenthal. It means Joe […]
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Usually late Friday afternoon/early evening is reserved for news that needs to be buried, but with some surprising breaking sports media news, it causes your humble blogger to write some rare Saturday sports media thoughts. On the sports media beat, one never knows when news can break and that is certainly the case here. As […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/29/2012
Here’s another thing that came out of left field. Erin Andrews, the former darling of ESPN is leaving and will most likely join Fox for its college football coverage. Josh Krulewitz of ESPN public relations
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And can you believe I’ve been able to do linkage for most of the week? Hasn’t been like that in a long while. Glad I’ve been able to get it done. Time for your Friday megalinks. As usual, we provide the Weekend Viewing Picks which has plenty of MLB and U.S. Olympic Trials action. Let’s […]
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Saturday, June 30 Boxing IBF Junior Middleweight Championship: Cornelius Bundrage vs. Cory Spinks — Showtime, 9 p.m. CFL Toronto at Edmonton — TSN/ESPN3, 7 p.m. Cycling Tour de France: Prologue, Liège to Liège — NBC Sports Network, 8 a.m. ESPN Sports Saturday ABC, 4 p.m. Golf Champions Tour: Senior Players Championship, 3rd Round — Golf […]
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Arena Football Milwaukee Mustangs at Cleveland Gladiators — NFL Network, 8 p.m. Australian Rules Football Adelaide Crows vs. Richmond Tigers — Fox Soccer Plus, midnight CFL Saskatchewan at Hamilton — TSN/ESPN3, 7 p.m. Winnipeg at BC — TSN/ESPN3, 10 p.m. Golf Champions Tour: Senior Players Championship, 2nd Round — Golf Channel, 1 p.m. European Tour: […]
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The NFL is the league that can for the most part, schedule its games whenever and wherever it wants. Out of left field on Thursday came the news that the late Sunday afternoon doubleheader game would be pushed from the customary 4:15 p.m. ET slot to 4:25 p.m. This was done to avoid the overlaps […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/28/2012
On tonight’s Late Show with David Letterman, New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees talks about “Bountygate” and the effects the scandal has had on his team. The show airs at 11:35 p.m. ET/PT on CBS. QUARTERBACK DREW BREES SPEAKS OUT ABOUT THE “BOUNTYGATE” ACCUSATIONS SURROUNDING HIS TEAM, THE NEW ORLEANS SAINTS, WHEN HE VISITS CBS’s […]
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I don’t have much to add to this. You can read the MLB Network press release below. INDEPENDENCE DAY DOUBLEHEADER AND MATCHUPS WITH EVERY FIRST-PLACE CLUB INCLUDED IN MLB NETWORK’S JULY GAME SCHEDULE MLB Network Showcase Games to Feature Yankees at Red Sox, Angels at Yankees, Giants at Braves, White Sox at Red Sox and […]
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We have the official NBC press release which outlines all of the announcers and hosts for the networks of NBCUniversal involved in the Games of the XXX Olympiad in London. The lineup is pretty close to what I gave you earlier today, but this list is complete. This includes all of the sports, all of […]
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This is our other big news of the day. ESPN announcing it has signed a 12 year extension to keep the Rose Bowl under the Disney wing until 2026. This new extension will take effect in 2015. ABC started airing the Rose Bowl, aka The Granddaddy of Them All, in 1989. It became an all-cable […]
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During the whole Supreme Court decision on ObamaCare, we get this strange news tidbit from the National Football League that changes things around for everyone. The late Sunday afternoon national game which had been at 4:15 p.m. since 1998 will be moved ten minutes later to 4:25 p.m. This is being done to reduce the […]
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Looks like I’m going to be busy today so I’m going to do the linkage a bit early for me at least. David Bauder of the Associated Press writes that even though he’s no longer NBC Sports Emperor, Dick Ebersol’s presence will still be felt at the London Olympics. Michael Hiestand at USA Today says […]
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EURO 2012 Semifinals, Warsaw, Poland Germany vs. Italy — ESPN, 2:30 p.m. UEFA Euro Report — ESPN, 2 p.m. EURO 2012 Tonight — ESPN2, 5 p.m. Golf Champions Tour: Senior Players Championship, 1st Round — Golf Channel, 1 p.m. European PGA Tour: The Irish Open, 1st Round — Golf Channel, 9 a.m. PGA Tour: AT&T […]
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Ok, NBC’s press release on its 2012 Olympics hosts and announcers has yet to arrive. Thanks to an alert reader, I was tipped off to NBC Sports Group’s press release website which has the talent bios of its announcers for London. I’m not sure if NBC wants to make that site public, so I won’t […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/27/2012
From NBC, this announcement that cable and satellite TV subscribers can now verify to gain access to the 3,500 hours of live streaming at NBCOlympics.com. Unlike the difficult process for March Madness, this process is much simpler. All you have to do is click on your cable or satellite provider, use your existing online credentials […]
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Time for some Wednesday links. Won’t be a full set as I’ll be monitoring NBC’s Olympic conference call. Pro Football Talk’s Mike Florio discusses Chris Berman heading to the Monday Night Football booth for two games. Matt Yoder of Awful Announcing says national nightmare Berman in the booth is not what NFL fans want. Doug […]
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Since SportsbyBrooks tweeted last week that Chris Berman would call the opening week Monday Night Football late doubleheader game, we’ve been waiting for confirmation. Instead of receiving a press release, ESPN has chosen to confirm this through its public relations website, Front Row. Over the last few years, Berman has been polarizing. His performances on […]
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It seemed four years ago when ESPN began its commitment to soccer with EURO 2008 that getting ratings anything near to what the network saw for the EURO 2012 tournament would be a pipe dream. However, not only have the ratings for EURO 2012 skyrocketed as compared to EURO 2008, but the numbers have been […]
