0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/27/2012
Let’s take a look at the college football game with announcing assignments on the Fox Sports Media Group. Overall, 15 games aired either on Big Ten Network, Fox, FX, Fox College Sports and Fox Sports Net. Take a look at what the networks will have in conferences ranging from the Big Ten, Big 12, C-USA, […]
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Let’s look at the college football games ESPN will air this week. It all begins tonight with two games on the ESPN family, one on ESPNU and a Pac-12 game on ESPN. Interesting week, ABC has just two games, one at 3:30 p.m. ET with Brent Musburger, Kirk Herbstreit and Heather Cox in East Lansing, […]
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In November, ESPN will air live coverage of the annual New York City Marathon that goes through all five boroughs of the Big Apple. It marks the first time the marathon will be aired live across the country. NBC had the rights, but chose to shovel live coverage of the race to its local WNBC-TV […]
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After marathon bargaining sessions that started Saturday and culminated late on Wednesday night, the National Football League and its Referee Association finally came together on a new eight year agreement. After the disaster on Monday night that gave Seattle a totally undeserved win over the Green Bay Packers, calls to get a new contract for […]
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College Football Morgan State at North Carolina A&T — ESPNU, 7:30 p.m. Wingate at Carson Newman — CBS Sports Network, 8 p.m. Stanford at Washington — ESPN, 9 p.m. CFB Daily — ESPNU, 1 p.m. College Football Live — ESPN, 3:30 p.m. Inside College Football — CBS Sports Network, 7 p.m. College Football Live — […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/26/2012
Another edition of Sports Media Weekly. Keith Thibault of Sports Media Journal and I are back talking about the news of the week and we focus on what else? The replacement refs and the impact on the NFL’s ratings which is none. However, Keith and I talk about how the story of the replacements have […]
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The NFL could have grown naked men as replacement refs and the league would still garner the ratings it generated this past week. Once again, CBS’ 4:25 p.m. ET national window and NBC’s Sunday Night Football were 1-2 respectively in the overall finish of all TV programs last week. Last week it was NBC then […]
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After First Take did a reboot from being the Today Show of sports television to All Debates, All the Time, the show has been in need of a host after anchors Dana Jacobsen and Jay Crawford either left or were reassigned. There were reports that former NESN Red Sox on-field reporter Heidi Watney was a […]
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College Football CFB Daily — ESPNU, 1 p.m. College Football Live — ESPN, 3:30 p.m. Lemming Report — CBS Sports Network, 7:30 p.m. Tackling the Trends — CBS Sports Network, 8 p.m. College Volleyball Clemson at North Carolina — ESPNU, 6 p.m. Michigan State at Nebraska — Big Ten Network, 8 p.m. Tennessee at Kentucky […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/25/2012
I thought I was tired of the “Call Me Maybe” parodies and covers, but this one from sports radio station KFAN in the Twin Cities in Minnesota may be the best to finally put a rest to all of them. This song and subsequent video done by a producer for The Common Man show is […]
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Let’s go away from the replacement officials for this post and focus on the ratings for NBC’s Sunday Night Football. Sunday’s game between the New England Patriots and Baltimore Ravens saw a rating of 12.9 with a 21 share. That’s up 6% from last year. Average viewership was 21.3 million and that’s an increase of […]
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As expected, the NFL released a statement on the controversial final play in the Green Bay Packers-Seattle Seahawks game on Monday night. As expected, the NFL held steadfast to the position that the call was correct and the result is final. There’s nothing else to write. You can read the statement. NFL STATEMENT ON FINAL […]
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After the controversial ending of last night’s Monday Night Football game on ESPN, you may have switched the channel or have gone to bed angry. Judging from the overnight ratings, a good chunk of the audience stayed to see the postgame coverage on SportsCenter. But in case you went to bed and missed the discussion, […]
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Received the overnight numbers from last night’s extremely controversial Green Bay-Seattle Monday Night Football game on ESPN. Nielsen says the game pulled an 11.5 rating. ESPN public relations maven Bill Hofheimer notes that people stayed to watch SportsCenter immediately afterwards to get perspective on the highly discussed last play that as Inside Edition would say […]
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College Football CFB Daily — ESPNU, 1 p.m. College Football Live — ESPN, 3:30 p.m. Inside College Football — CBS Sports Network, 7 p.m. The Tony Barnhart Show — CBS Sports Network, 9 p.m. College Volleyball Women’s Texas at Baylor — ESPNU, 8 p.m. CONCACAF Champions League Group Play Aguila vs. Toronto — Fox Soccer, […]
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If you watched ESPN’s Monday Night Football to the end, then you’re probably buzzing about the last play which looked to be ruled incorrectly. On the last play of the game, Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson threw a Hail Mary pass to the end zone which appeared to be intercepted by the Packers’ M.D. Jennings, […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/24/2012
So the Baltimore Ravens get another primetime game? They were on Sunday Night Football hosting the New England Patriots on NBC. They opened the season on ESPN’s Monday Night Football in Week 1. And to open Week 4, they host the Cleveland Browns on Thursday Night Football. So three primetime games in four weeks and […]
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ESPN’s award-winning 30 for 30 documentary series returns next month with six films shown over a period of six weeks beginning on Tuesday, October 2. The first in the series is “Broke” which focuses on athletes who begin to lose their money after playing days through bad investments, deficit spending, hangers on and medical issues. […]
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We have the college football games that Fox Sports Media Group will air over the next couple of weeks. Next Saturday, Fox Sports will have its first ever doubleheader as MLB takes the week off. At 3:30 p.m. on October 6, Fox will be in the Pac-12 with Arizona at Stanford and that will be […]
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I’ll do some quick linkage on this Monday. In USA Today, Michael Hiestand talks with NFL on Fox rules analyst Mike Pereira. In his extensive Monday Morning Quarterback column, Sports Illustrated’s Peter King remembers NFL Films’ Steve Sabol. John Ourand at Sports Business Journal notes that MLB will be increasing its haul from ESPN, Fox […]
