Monthly Archives: August 2012

CBS/CBS Sports Network Begins U.S. Open Coverage on Saturday

It’s a big day of sports on CBS. It begins at 9 a.m. ET with Notre Dame-Navy in Ireland, then the U.S. Open at noon ET. CBS Sports Network will air its first ever U.S. Open coverage on Saturday beginning at 10 a.m. with “Today at the U.S. Open” followed by live tennis at 11 […]

ESPN's College Football Studio Shows

We know about College GameDay which is ESPN’s signature pregame show for college football. ESPN has provided its studio show lineup for this season. It includes College Football Live and CFB Daily. We also have the nightly studio crews for the live games from ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU and ABC. Scott Van Pelt is the new […]

Review of "America's Game, The Super Bowl Champions: 2011 Giants"

This is a review of the continuing NFL Network/NFL Films documentary series, “America’s Game, The Super Bowl Champions”. As it has for the previous XLV installments, NFL Films has a successful formula, getting three to four of the winning team’s  coaches and players to talk about the season leading up to the Super Bowl, then […]

NFL Online and Tablet Streaming For 2012

As we approach the 2012 NFL regular season, let’s take a look at the online streaming plans for the League’s TV partners. Believe it or not, online real-time streaming of games began back in 2007 when DirecTV released its Supercast app for computers (for Internet Explorer only!) and allowed subscribers to its NFL Sunday Ticket […]

Weekend Viewing Picks

Saturday, September 1 Boxing Boxing After Dark: Gennady Golovkin vs. Grezegorz Proska, Middleweights — HBO, 9:45 p.m. 24/7 Chavez, Jr./Martinez (series premiere) — HBO, 11:45 p.m. 24/7 Road to Ward/Dawson — HBO, 12:15 a.m. (Sunday) College Football Viewing Picks  Cycling Vuelta a España: Stage 14 — Universal Sports, 10 a.m. English Premier League West Ham […]

College Football Viewing Picks for 09/01/2012, All Times Eastern

Schedule courtesy of Matt’s College Sports Pregame & Studio Shows:  Inside College Football: Notre Dame-Navy Kickoff — CBS Sports Network, 7 a.m. College GameDay live from Arlington, TX (season premiere) — ESPNU, 9 a.m./ESPN, 10 a.m. BTN Football Pregame — Big Ten Network, 11 a.m. College Football Countdown — ABC, 3 p.m. College Football Scoreboard […]

Primetime & Late Night Viewing Picks

Australian Rules Football Geelong Cats vs. Sydney Swans —  Fox Soccer Plus, 11:30 p.m. CFL BC at Montreal — TSN/NBC Sports Network, 7:30 p.m. College Football  NC State vs. Tennessee at Atlanta, GA — ESPNU, 7:30 p.m. Boise State at Michigan State — ESPN, 8 p.m. San Jose State at Stanford — Pac 12 Network, […]

Heather Cox Officially Named As Saturday Night Football on ABC Sideline Reporter

Rumored earlier this summer, this has now been made official by ESPN. Heather Cox will be the new sideline reporter for Saturday Night Football replacing Erin Andrews who (say it with me now) went to Fox Sports. Heather who worked the Olympics for NBC as the reporter for beach volleyball, has an extensive resumé with […]

NBC Olympics Live Extra App Becomes NBC Sports Live Extra App

If you kept the NBC Olympics Live Extra app on your mobile or tablet, then you may have noticed an update today. It now becomes the NBC Sports Live Extra App. NBC will stream many of its properties live on the app including the NHL, Notre Dame football, the French Open, the Ryder Cup, MLS, […]

TSN/TSN2 2012-13 NHL Regular Season Schedule

NHL ON TSN BROADCAST SCHEDULE OCTOBER DATE EVENT ET/PT NETWORK Friday, October 12 New York Rangers at Los Angeles Kings 10:30pm/7:30pm TSN2 Monday, October 15 Florida Panthers at Washington Capitals 7:30pm/4:30pm TSN2 Tuesday, October 16 Boston Bruins at Montreal Canadiens 7:30pm/4:30pm TSN Tuesday, October 16 Detroit Red Wings at Buffalo Sabres 7:30pm/4:30pm TSN2 Tuesday, October […]

NHL on NBC Sports Group 2012-13 Regular Season Schedule

Here we go, the entire NHL on NBC and NHL on NBC Sports Network schedule for the 2012-13, provided the lockout doesn’t wreak havoc on the games. If the season starts on time and that’s a big “if”, the combined NBC/NBC Sports Network entity will air over 100 regular season games. NBC’s schedule includes its […]

NHL Releases The 2012-13 Regular Season National TV Schedules

This is like last year when the NBA released its national TV schedules in the midst of its lockout and nobody cared. Now, it’s the NHL’s turn to release this and until the lockout is settled between the league and its NHL Players Association, this means nothing. After all the momentum the NHL built at […]

Primetime & Late Night Viewing Picks

College Football South Carolina at Vanderbilt — ESPN, 7 p.m. Northern Colorado at Utah — Pac-12 Network, 7:15 p.m. UMass at UConn — Big East Network, 7:30 p.m. UCLA at Rice — CBS Sports Network, 7:30 p.m. South Carolina State at Georgia State — CSS, 7:30 p.m. Washington State at BYU — ESPN, 10:15 p.m. […]

Report: Jim Rome Leaving Premiere Radio Networks to Join CBS Sports Radio

This report comes from a non-traditional sports media source. Nellie Andreeva of the TV industry website Deadline is reporting that Jim Rome will take his radio show from his long time home of the Premiere Radio Networks to the new CBS Sports Radio that will be launching on January 2, 2013. Rome’s show has been […]

Fox Sports Media Group's College Football Games For Week 1

We have what’s in store for Fox Sports’ cable and broadcast networks this weekend in college football. Of course, it marks the debut of the new pregame show hosted by Erin Andrews with analysts Eddie George and Joey Harrington. Plus Fox will have primetime games throughout the season except during October when it will focus […]

ESPN's College Football Games For Week 1 Including Announcing Assignments

I already gave you the 2012 ESPN College Football regular season schedule earlier today. Now let’s take a look at the Week 1 schedule complete with announcing assignments. ESPN’s college football slate begins Thursday with a doubleheader beginning with an SEC matchup between South Carolina and Vanderbilt at 7 p.m. ET, followed by an intriguing […]

TBS Taps Bruce Springsteen For The 2012 MLB Postseason Theme

Since it began airing the MLB Postseason, TBS has used various musical acts for the theme of the playoffs. It’s a practice that Turner Sports has conducted with the NBA as well. New Jersey’s Bon Jovi was used twice, Kid Rock once and last year was Tinie Tempah. For 2012, TBS goes back to the […]

ESPN's Rather Extensive 2012 College Football Regular Season Schedule

Here’s something that came in last week and I’ve only been able to put this up now. This is the 450 game regular season college football schedule on the platforms of ESPN. There’s already been one change. The Texas A&M-Louisiana Tech game originally scheduled for Thursday on ESPNU has been postponed due to Tropical Storm […]

Primetime & Late Night Viewing Picks

College Football CFB Daily — ESPNU, 1 p.m. College Football Live — ESPN, 3:30 p.m. CONCACAF Champions League LA Galaxy vs. Puerto Rico Islanders — Fox Soccer, 10 p.m. Cycling Vuelta a España: Stage 11 — Universal Sports, 10 a.m. MLB American League Toronto at New York Yankees — Rogers Sportsnet/YES, 1 p.m. Chicago White […]

A Few Wednesday Sports Media Thoughts

I’ll provide a few thoughts as we hit midweek. They’ll be in bullet form, of course. First, here’s hoping the people of New Orleans will be ok in the midst of Hurricane Isaac. They’ve put up with way too much from Hurricane Katrina to Hurricane Gustav and the BP oil spill, I pray they endure […]

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