Back with another edition of the notebook. Let’s get cracking, shall we?
NEWS
CBS Sports Network has announced the renewal of its contract with Army to air all of its home football games and neutral-field games where Army is the home team for five years beginning with the 2015 season and lasting until through 2019.
The agreement calls for CBSSN to air Army’s home games on Saturday afternoons at noon ET and as well as providing a free online stream to Army soldiers and personnel stationed around the world.
CBS Sports Network began airing Army football in 2009 and signed its first five-year deal in 2010.
No financial terms were announced.
CBS Sports airs the annual Army-Navy game, but that is separate from this new Army contract.
LINKAGE
Sports Illustrated’s Ted Keith speaks with Frank Deford about his 1981 SI profile of then-Indiana coach Bob Knight.
From SI’s MMQB site, Greg Bishop profiles some ex-football players who have found second careers through acting, modeling or being stand-ins for current NFL athletes in ads and video games.
John Consoli of Broadcasting & Cable writes that NBCUniversal’s Hispanic network, mun2 will rebrand on Super Bowl Sunday to NBC Universo.
Benjamin Mullen at the Poynter Institute notes that Deadspin got duped by a satirical website.
Speaking of Deadspin, Billy Haisley tells us about a Spanish sportswriter who conducted a seance to communicate with some dead guy and not only wrote about it, but also taped it. So strange.
Bob Pockrass of the Sporting News looks at NASCAR’s new officiating system which utilize video cameras to monitor pit-road violations.
Mike Reynolds from Multichannel News tells us about One World Sports making a carriage agreement with the National Cable Television Cooperative which represents a slew of rural cable companies across the country.
Michael Sebastian of Advertising Age says ESPN’s Grantland site has been nominated for three national magazine awards.
Lauren Johnson of Adweek says Buffalo Wild Wings is taking actual tweets and making them into NFL-centric sportscast videos.
Ira Boudwell of Bloomberg Businessweek looks at the Men in Blazers.
From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Stephen J. Nesbitt writes that ESPN not sending announcers to Oklahoma at West Virginia raises some ethical questions.
Tom Hoffarth of the Los Angeles Daily News talks with ESPN’s Pac-12 crew of Dave Pasch and Bill Walton.
We’ll close the notebook here. We’ll be back during the weekend with another edition.
