Still recovering from TARCon 12, but we’re now in working mode, so we’ll give you a quickie update thing now. Let’s get started.
Richard Sandomir of the New York Times reviews the Fox production of the NFC Championship including counting the number of Tom Coughlin reaction shots during the game.
The perpetually angry Bob Raissman of the New York Daily News goes after the NFL studio analysts for criticizing Giants coach Tom Coughlin throughout the last few seasons. I wonder if Raissman agreed with them early on. It’s always easy to look back in hindsight.
Newsday’s Neil Best says America may be warming up to the Giants based on the ratings for the NFC Championship. In his blog, Neil lists the top ten rated markets for the NFC Championship and New York is not there.
Justin Terranova of the New York Post writes in his blog that ESPN2 showed a lot of tennis starting late Friday night and into Saturday afternoon. And Terranova says the Giants will win the Super Bowl next week and so will the Patriots.
CNBC’s Darren Rovell says Wall Street is rooting for the Giants and it’s not due to being in New York.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s Bob Wolfley reviews the Fox broadcast as well.
The Sports Media Watch blog says the overnight ratings for the NFC Championship are the highest since 1996.
While everyone’s talking about the great ratings for the NFC Championship, Pete Dougherty of the Albany Times Union notes the AFC Championship did well on Sunday for CBS, but was also down from last year.
And David Barron of the Houston Chronicle also talks about the Championship Sunday ratings for CBS and Fox.
In his Farther Off the Wall blog, Tom Hoffarth of the Los Angeles Daily News previews tonight’s Real Sports program on HBO. Doug Elfman of the Chicago Sun Times talks with Real Sports host Bryant Gumbel about the new season.
Mary Ellen Podmolik of the Chicago Tribune writes about the gamble advertisers take when buying ads in the Super Bowl.
There’s a great article in the Athens (GA) Banner-Herald by Dr. Jessica Johnson saying that there’s a double standard in the sports media, especially when African-American writers and analysts say something offensive about Caucasians.
Wendell Barnhouse of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram talks about the 1968 UCLA-Houston game which changed the face of college basketball on TV forever.
Jeffrey Flanagan of the Kansas City Star writes that fans are angry that ESPNU pulled a scheduled tape delayed broadcast of the Kansas-Missouri game at the last minute.
Dave Reardon of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin laments that the Senior Bowl will only be available on the NFL Network.
Ferd Lewis from the Honolulu Advertiser says the University of Hawai’i made a lot of money from its Pay per View airings of its football games.
TV Week’s Chris Pursell talks with NBC Sports & Olympics Chairman Dick Ebersol about the preparation for Beijing this summer.
Mike Brudenell of the Detroit Free Press profiles FSN Detroit’s Mickey Redmond who’s in his 11th season doing analysis on Red Wings games.
The Oakland Tribune’s Dave Del Grande writes about announcer Rick Cellini who’s a very busy man.
William Houston in the Toronto Globe and Mail writes about TSN starting its new deal with the NHL which will increase the appearances of Canadian teams on the network. And Houston remembers the late CBC announcer Don Wittman.
That’s it for now. Back later.
