Even More Tuesday Links

Let’s do some links on this Tuesday afternoon.

First, Bruce Allen from the Boston Sports Media Watch has news from WEEI on its new weekend lineup, of which one show involves Michael Felger for the NFL season.

Second, Maury Brown in his Biz of Football blog tells us that Tribune Broadcasting has picked up the rights for six NFL Network games to air on its local stations in New York, Indianapolis, Denver, San Diego, New Orleans and Dallas.

Over to Maury’s Biz of Baseball blog which has the latest on MLB.com’s At-Bat iPhone widget update.

Pat Lackey of the AOL Fanhouse blog picks up a New York Post story which looks at the economic impact on New York City if the Yankees miss the MLB playoffs.

Michael Smith & John Ourand of the Sports Business Journal team up on a story regarding the potential launch of an all-sports channel devoted to the University of Texas.

Daniel Kaplan of the SBJ writes about tennis pioneer Billie Jean King becoming an active ad spokesperson once again.

And John Ourand who has been busy in this week’s issue of the SBJ co-writes a story with Tripp Mickle about Fox Soccer Channel entering its first-ever Nielsen ratings period in October.

Bob Mantz has Part One of his interview with Florida State Cowgirl Jenn Sterger about her new job with the New York Jets. Unlike other bloggers, I will not say nasty things about Sterger. She has the right to make money just like all of us.

The Gainesville (FL) Sun reports that ESPN’s College Gameday will be live at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium this Saturday in advance of the Miami-Florida game.

The Kansas City Star’s Jeffrey Flanagan has ESPN’s Ron Jaworski looking forward to talking X’s and O’s on Monday Night Football.

CNBC’s Darren Rovell looks inside the hidden uniform agenda at the US Open.

Joe Favorito says one market the TV networks have completely ignored is the military.

Ken McMillan of the Hudson Valley Times Herald-Record writes that Time Warner Cable will air seven high school football games in the local area.

I’ll end there for now. I have one more post for you and then you can expect a possible update tonight. Keep your RSS feeds updated.

About Ken Fang

Ken has been covering the sports media in earnest at his own site, Fang's Bites since May 2007 and at Awful Announcing since March 2013. He provides a unique perspective having been an award-winning radio news reporter in Providence and having worked in local television. Fang celebrates the three Boston Red Sox World Championships in the 21st Century, but continues to be a long-suffering Cleveland Browns fan.

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