0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/26/2012
College Football College Football Media Days — ESPNU, 10 a.m. Big Ten Media Day 2012 — Big Ten Network, 11 a.m. Golf European PGA Tour: Lyoness Open, 2nd Round — Golf Channel, 9:30 a.m. LPGA Tour: Evian Masters, 1st Round — Golf Channel, 6:30 p.m. (same day coverage) PGA Tour: Canadian Open, 1st Round — […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/25/2012
ESPN has unveiled the Big 12 portion of the Big Monday college basketball schedule. As usual, the Big 12 will be the nightcap of the Big East/Big 12 doubleheader. Overall, there will be 9 Big 12 games including a doubleheader at 5:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day on January 21. […]
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This coming from the regional sports network Fox Sports Ohio. It has signed Ohio State football coach Urban Meyer for a new weekly show. It’ll premiere on Saturday, September 1 at 9:30 a.m. It will be taped at Ohio Stadium on the Ohio State University campus in Columbus. It will air on Buckeye game days […]
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This is from the Big Ten Network or BTN for short. We have the roster for the game announcers and studio teams. As usual, Dave Revsine, Gerry DiNardo and Howard Griffith will be your studio team for pregame, halftime and postgame shows. There will be three main team utilized throughout the season: Eric Collins/Derek Rackley […]
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I’m putting two press releases together like I used to. The only thing they have in common is the fact that they’re from league-owned networks. The first is from NBA TV regarding the 2012-13 schedule. It will be unveiled Thursday night at 7 ET in one-hour special. NBA TV to Exclusively Unveil 2012-13 NBA Schedule […]
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In its effort to show that people really, really, really like working at ESPN, the Alleged Worldwide Leader has issued this press release announcing that six of its core play-by-play men have signed new contracts. And they include some familiar names all of whom can call multiple sports for ESPN. Mark Jones who calls college […]
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It’ll be called Fox College Football, naturally. It’ll be hosted by Erin Andrews and joining her as analysts will be former Heisman Trophy winner Eddie George and former quarterback Joey Harrington. George has worked at Fox Sports as an analyst for the Bowl Championship Series. Harrington has been in the Fox family working on radio. […]
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After not being able to air the Olympics for its subscribers, SiriusXM has come to an agreement with NBC and Dial Global Radio to air audio coverage of the 2012 Olympic Games from London. SiriusXM will devote a channel completely to the Olympics called “Summer Games Radio”. The channel will pick up Dial Global play-by-play […]
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Soccer action continues at the Games of the XXX Summer Olympiad in London. This time, it’s the men’s turn to take the pitch. NBC Sports Network will hit the air first at 7 a.m. and will air four matches live including Great Britain’s first contest against Senegal around 2 p.m. ET. MSNBC goes on the […]
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Olympics start today with women’s soccer and there’s more soccer action tomorrow on the men’s side. Let’s bring you some linkage before I get distracted by the live streaming. USA Today’s Michael Hiestand reports that Erin Andrews will get some high profile NFL assignments working with the Fox Sports “A” announcing team of Joe Buck, […]
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Here’s CTV’s press release on its plans for the Olympic Opening Ceremony. It will air pre-Opening Ceremony special at 2 p.m. ET followed by …. wait for it… the Opening Ceremony live at 4 p.m.! Yes, a network that is actually airing the event live! And it’s followed by an immediate re-airing in primetime on […]
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This in from NBC, the formal announcement on the 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony in London on Friday. It will be tape delayed in all time zones. CTV in Canada will air it live at 4 p.m. ET and show it again in primetime. NBC could do the same, but it won’t. Don’t expect to find […]
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College Football Media Days — ESPN, 8 a.m. Golf On the Range: Canadian Open — Golf Channel, 8 p.m. MLB American League Minnesota at Chicago White Sox — Fox Sports North/Comcast SportsNet Chicago, 2 p.m. Kansas City at Anaheim Angels — Fox Sports Kansas City/Fox Sports West, 3:30 p.m. New York Yankees at Seattle — […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/24/2012
As it has for the month of August since it began, NFL Network will air most or all of the NFL’s preseason games. All 65 games will be shown on the network, 11 of which will be live. This includes the annual Hall of Fame Game in Canton, OH which kicks off the preseason. Normally, […]
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Women’s soccer takes the field for the Olympics as the Games have their unofficial start on Wednesday, two days before the Opening Ceremony. Qualifying Round play takes place all over the UK and Great Britain will begin the whole enchilada with a game against New Zealand. MSNBC will air that game live at 10:30 a.m. […]
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NBC has announced today that it will launch a new highlights show called “The Voice”, “The ‘Lights” (short for highlights), premiering August 13, the day after the London Olympics end. It will air in 20 minute blocks between 7 a.m. and 9 a.m. ET. The host will not be seen on camera and there will […]
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Here’s something for you. The NFL has announced that fans who love their football will now have access to the coaches films on NFL.com. Once only available to the media and to the coaches and players themselves, fans will now be able to see the films through the NFL website and through two tablet apps, […]
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NFL Network continues to crank out the press release in the days leading up to its new morning show, NFL AM which premieres Monday, July 30 at 6 a.m. ET/3 a.m. PT. It will be the only major network TV morning show to be produced on the West Coast as most of the morning shows […]
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This from ESPN, the network is doing handstands, well, network executives are doing handstands over the numbers this weekend from the Open Championship. This being the second year since the network picked up exclusive four round coverage, ESPN saw significant improvement from the year. With Tiger Woods in contention into the Final Round and Ernie […]
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NBC has sent this 1,905-word press release on its digital and social media coverage for the London Olympics. We know about the 3,500 hours of coverage that will be streamed online at NBCOlympics.com and through the mobile and tablet apps. NBC also has announced this week that there will be a Red Zone-like channel online. […]
