0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/28/2013
From Brett McMurphy, Andy Katz and Dana O’Neil at ESPN.com, we learn that the all-basketball schools from the Big East will leave the conference next year to form their own league and will take the Big East name with it. Thanks to Fox Sports, the seven schools, DePaul, Georgetown, Marquette, Providence, Seton Hall, St. John’s […]
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Last year, the NFL Scouting Combine attracted 6.51 million viewers. Now with all of the major cable and satellite providers on board, NFL Network saw a total viewership of 7.25 million, up 11% from last year. Does having Cablevision and Time Warner Cable in the fold this year help the numbers in 2013? Absolutely, but […]
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All 39 games of the World Baseball Classic, the sport’s answer to soccer’s World Cup, basketball’s FIBA World Championships and Hockey’s IIHF World Championships, will air on MLB Network. Four years ago, the games were split between MLB Network which was brand spanking new at the time and ESPN. Now MLB Network will air the […]
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Starting tonight, NHL Network gets busy and airs a host of games through Monday. NHL Network has single games tonight, Friday, Sunday and Monday. And then on Saturday, the first time it’s ever aired four games including simulcasting three from CBC. This marks the first time in a while that NHL Network has decided to […]
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College Basketball Men’s North Carolina at Clemson — ESPN, 7 p.m. Ohio State at Northwestern — ESPN2, 7 p.m. Morehead State at Tennessee State — ESPNU, 7 p.m. Drexel at Old Dominion — NBC Sports Network, 7 p.m. Idaho State at Northern Arizona — Fox Sports Arizona/Fox College Sports Pacific, 8:30 p.m. Duke at Virginia […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/27/2013
Let’s do some linkage while I have some time. USA Today’s Michael Hiestand notes NBC’s hiring of Tiger Woods pal Notah Begay to its golf team. He replaces Dottie Pepper who went to the PGA of America. Sports Business Journal’s John Ourand profiles ESPN PR pioneer Rosa Gatti who is retiring from the network after […]
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Sportfolio, Bloomberg’s show on sports business, host Rick Horrow looks at the business of baseball as he talks with Major League Baseball Executive Vice President for Business Tim Brosnan about the World Baseball Classic. Plus Bloomberg’s Deidre Bolton interviews defending World Series Champion San Francisco Giants CEO Larry Baer. And Rick also veers onto the […]
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In what has become similar to when ABC aired the old Barbara Walters Specials, we have another hour-long Rich Eisen Special on NFL Network. And why not? In the offseason, why not tap into the face of your network to do specials around one of the more popular sports podcasts? Tonight NFL Network will air […]
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College Basketball Men’s Michigan at Penn State — Big Ten Network, 6:30 p.m. South Florida at Pittsburgh — Big East Network, 7 p.m. Georgetown at UConn — ESPN2, 7 p.m. Oklahoma State at TCU — ESPNU, 7 p.m. Virginia Tech at Miami (FL) — Fox Sports Net-regional (Arizona Plus/Carolinas/Detroit Plus/North/South/Southwest Plus/Tennessee/Sun Sports/Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic Plus), […]
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Time to open up the Fang’s Bites Sports Media notebook as we hit midweek. Lets go over some of the stories that are circulating about the sports media. They’re in bullet form. How much is too much? The sports rights fee ceiling keeps going higher and higher. As fees for sports programming go up, so […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/26/2013
After a week hiatus, the Sports Media Weekly podcast is back and with a vengeance. It’s 44 minutes long and we have two guests! Normally our first guest is our “Third Man In,” but Keith could not join John Daly and I, so it’s only a two man interview, but Keith was in for our […]
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I’m talking ratings here. And the numbers for Fox Sports for Sunday’s running of The Great American Race are good. Thanks to a race that started and ended pretty much on time. Thanks to increased interest to Danica Patrick. Thanks to increased interest from the crash from the day before during the Nationwide race, Fox […]
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During today’s Mike Francesa show in Tampa, FL, the Pope decided that he doesn’t like being shot from the side. As he was coming back from break on both WFAN and YES, Francesa saw a camera shot of him from his right side and he immediately went off on the production crew. It reminds me […]
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College Basketball Men’s Towson at George Mason — Comcast SportsNet (California/Mid-Atlantic Plus/New England)/CSS/The Comcast Network, 7 p.m. Indiana at Minnesota — ESPN, 7 p.m. Memphis at Xavier — ESPN2, 7 p.m. Auburn at Alabama — ESPNU, 7 p.m. Loyola (Chicago) at Detroit — Fox Sports Detroit/Fox College Sports Atlantic, 7:30 p.m. Nebraska at Wisconsin — […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/25/2013
Let’s get cracking on some fresh content on this Monday afternoon. Plenty of stuff to go over. Sports Illustrated’s Richard Deitsch’s Monday column discusses Baltimore Ravens safety Ed Reed reporting on the Red Carpet at The Oscars and reviews Fox’s Daytona 500 coverage. The man who started SportsGrid, ABC News legal analyst Dan Abrams, the […]
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Without weather delays, having Danica Patrick be in contention for the top spot and remaining in the Top 10 plus having an exciting finish helped to attract eyeballs to the Great American Race on Fox. The Fox Sports officials leaving Florida today are doing cartwheels and handstands in the airport today. The overnight rating for […]
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After losing the UK rights to the English Premier League last year to BT Group, observers had thought ESPN’s days across the pond were numbered. Despite trying to remain afloat with rights to the FA Cup, Scottish Premier League, the UEFA Europa League and the German Bundesliga, ESPN felt without the EPL, it could not […]
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College Basketball Men’s Syracuse at Marquette — ESPN, 7 p.m. Texas Tech at Kansas State — ESPNU, 7 p.m. Kansas at Iowa State — ESPN, 9 p.m. Villanova at Seton Hall — ESPNU, 9 p.m. Women’s Michigan State at Ohio State — Big Ten Network, 6:30 p.m. Baylor at Oklahoma — ESPN2, 7 p.m. Wake […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/24/2013
Erin Andrews left ESPN in July and signed with Fox. Since then, she’s been a studio host for college football, an on-field reporter during Fox’s MLB jewels and the NFL Postseason. This weekend, she was included in Fox’s Daytona 500 coverage with an interview with driver Brad Keselowski and an awkward instance where she walked […]
