Monthly Archives: September 2012

NBC's Football Night in America Quotage For Week 4 of the 2012 NFL Season

We will wrap up the Sunday NFL pregame show quotage with NBC’s Football Night in America. As usual, Bob Costas tries to be snarky and it fails. You’ll see what I mean below. Take a look. “FOOTBALL NIGHT IN AMERICA” NOTES & QUOTES – WEEK 4 “To me, they look like the most complete team […]

NBC's Football Night in America Previews Week 4's Interviews

Tonight in advance of the Sunday Night Football game between the New York Football Giants and the Philadelphia Eagles, NBC’s Bob Costas talks with the Giants’ Justin Tuck and Osi Umenyiora, then with Philadelphia’s Michael Vick. Here’s a preview through transcripts. “FOOTBALL NIGHT IN AMERICA” PREVIEW – WEEK 4 BOB COSTAS INTERVIEWS EAGLES QB MICHAEL […]

ESPN's Sunday NFL Countdown Quotage For Week 4 of the 2012 Season

Now to ESPN’s quotage and that will conclude the early Sunday NFL pregame stuff. Here we go. ESPN’s Sunday NFL Countdown Notes and Quotes: Week 4 ESPN’s Sunday NFL Countdown host Chris Berman and analysts Cris Carter, Mike Ditka, Tom Jackson and Keyshawn Johnson previewed today’s NFL action with Suzy Kolber, analysts Merril Hoge and Ron […]

The NFL Today on CBS Quotage For Week 4 of the 2012 Season

Now we move on the NFL Today on CBS as we continue the Sunday NFL pregame quotage. Some news made as CBS NFL insider Jason La Canfora reported that the NFL still wants to push an 18 game schedule knowing it needs to make some concessions to the Players Association. Here’s the press release from […]

Fox NFL Sunday Quotage For Week 4 of the 2012 Season

Now to Fox NFL Sunday and I’ll provide a couple of videos from today’s show as well. FOX NFL SUNDAY NOTES – 9/30/12 Johnson: Goodell Stuck a Fork in the Saints Before the Season Even Started Pereira’s Advice to Returning Officials: Focus on the Basics Analyst Jimmy Johnson looks at the mess in New Orleans: […]

NFL GameDay Morning Quotage For Week 4 of the 2012 Season

The Sunday NFL pregame quotage press releases are starting to trickle in. We have this from NFL Network in regards to NFL GameDay Morning as hosted by Rich Eisen and joined by a cast of 20,000 analysts. This is long. It’s almost 1,800 words long, but shorter than in the past. Check it out. News […]

Fox Sports Previews Week 4 of the 2012 NFL Season

Here’s what Fox Sports is saying about Week 4. Plus we have announcing assignments and regional splits. It’s all below. FOX SPORTS NOTES, QUOTES & ANECDOTES NFL on FOX Doubleheader Sunday Undefeated Falcons Face Panthers at 1:00 PM ET Packers Look for Redemption Against Saints at 4:00 PM ET NFL ON FOX WEEK 4 DOUBLEHEADER: […]

NFL on CBS Announcing Assignments Through Week 7 of the 2012 Season

Here are the NFL on CBS announcing assignments from Week 5 through Week 7. THE NFL ON CBS WEEK 5 – Oct. 7 – CBS DOUBLEHEADER 1:00 PM, ET starts: Cleveland @ N.Y. Giants — Greg Gumbel/Dan Dierdorf Miami @ Cincinnati — Marv Albert/Rich Gannon Baltimore @ Kansas City — Ian Eagle/Dan Fouts 4:25 PM, […]

CBS Previews Week 4 of the 2012 NFL Season

Let’s provide you with the previews of the Sunday NFL pregame shows and of Week 4 of the NFL season. I’m too late for ESPN and NFL Network. I’ll provide you with CBS and Fox. First, NFL on CBS analysts Phil Simms and Dan Dierdorf provide you with their thoughts on the games they’ll be […]

NFL's A Football Life Focuses On The Final Days of Cleveland Browns 1.0

The next installment of NFL Network’s and NFL Films’ critically acclaimed documentary series will focus on the demise of the Cleveland Browns when owner Art Modell announced he was moving the team to Baltimore. It’s a painful memory for Browns fans like me. And when the season began, there was hope that the team could […]

Fox Saturday Baseball Concludes With Three American League Games

The final Saturday in Major League Baseball has Fox providing regional coverage of three games today, all in the American League. Joe Buck will not call a game today. Overall, he’s called 15 out of a possible 26 games, which is pretty good for him. Today, Matt Vasgersian comes from MLB Network to call the […]

NBC Sports Network Has A College Football Doubleheader

Today, NBC Sports Network has a college football doubleheader for Week 5. It’ll begin at noon ET with an Ivy League matchup between Penn and Dartmouth. Then at 3:30 p.m., NBCSN has the annual Atlanta Football Classic between Florida A&M and Southern. The details are below. NBC SPORTS NETWORK AIRS COLLEGE FOOTBALL DOUBLEHEADER THIS SATURDAY […]

CBS/CBS Sports Network College Football Games For Saturday

Let’s look at the games that will be aired on the CBS family of networks. Another week of the SEC on CBS and it will be Uncle Verne Lundquist, Gary Danielson and Tracy “The Wolf” Wolfson at Athens, GA calling Tennessee at Georgia in between the hedges. For CBS Sports Network, it’s a tripleheader including […]

Thursday Night Football With An Increased Audience Tops 8 Million Viewers

Thanks to having all of the major cable and satellite providers on board for the first time, NFL Network had access to all of the subscribers for Thursday night’s game between the Cleveland Browns and the Baltimore Ravens. It paid off with an average of over eight million viewers, the fifth highest audience for a […]

Weekend Viewing Picks

Saturday, September 29 Boxing Boxing After Dark: Edwin Rodriguez vs. Jason Escalara and two other bouts — HBO, 9:30 p.m. CFL Toronto at Winnipeg — TSN/ESPN3, 7 p.m. BC at Saskatchewan — TSN/ESPN3, 10 p.m. College Football Viewing Picks English Premier League Arsenal vs. Chelsea — ESPN2, 7:30 a.m. Norwich City vs. Liverpool — Fox […]

NFL Viewing Picks For Week 4, 09/30/2012

All Times Eastern NFL Viewing Maps (the 506.com) Byes: Indianapolis, Pittsburgh Pregame & Studio Shows First on the Field — NFL Network, 7 a.m. NFL Matchup — ESPN2, 8:30 a.m. NFL GameDay Morning — NFL Network, 9 a.m. Fantasy Football Today — CBS Sports Network, 11 a.m. Fantasy Football Now — ESPN2, 11 a.m. The […]

College Football Viewing Picks For Week 5, 09/29/2012, All Times Eastern

Schedule Courtesy of Matt’s College Sports Pregame & Studio Shows College GameDay live from East Lansing, MI — ESPNU, 9 a.m./ESPN, 10 a.m. BTN Football Pregame — Big Ten Network, 11 a.m. ACC Blitz — ACC Network, noon College Football Countdown — ABC, 3 p.m. BTN Football Gamebreak 2012 — Big Ten Network, 3 p.m. […]

Primetime & Late Night Viewing Picks

Australian Rules Football Grand Final Hawthorn Hawks vs. Sydney Swans — Fox Soccer Plus, 11:30 p.m. AFL Football Pregame — Fox Soccer Plus, 9 p.m. CFL Montreal at Hamilton — TSN/ESPN3, 7 p.m. Edmonton at Calgary — TSN/ESPN3, 10 p.m. College Football Hawaii at BYU — ESPN, 8 p.m. CFB Daily — ESPNU, 1 p.m. […]

Jim Rome Officially Joins CBS Sports Radio

We knew this was coming, but today, we get the official announcement. Jim Rome will become part of CBS Sports Radio when it launches full-time on January 2, 2012. He’ll be in his traditional noon to 3 p.m. ET slot that he currently occupies at Premiere Radio Networks. Rome’s show will lead into the previously […]

TBS Unveils The Announcing Crews for the 2012 MLB Postseason

With the rights to the two Wild Card Playoff games, along with rights to the entire League Division Series (albeit for two games that go to MLB Network) and the American League Championship Series, Turner Sports has made public the announcing assignments for the 2012 MLB Postseason. One change from the studio crew. Cal Ripken, […]

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