Friday’s Sports Media Notebook — 01/30/2015, Part II

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We did the news segment in the first part. Let’s do the linkage and News You Can Use here.

LINKAGE

Sports Illustrated’s Richard Deitsch talks with Phil and Chris Simms about being television analysts after their playing careers.

Deitsch has a preview of what NBC has in store for its Super Bowl XLIX production.

Reuters reports that NBC sold out its Super Bowl ad inventory this week.

Sports Technie notes that there was some good and some bad that came with Microsoft’s sponsorship of the NFL (iPad, iPad, iPad).

Chris Strauss of USA Today’s For the Win visits ESPN’s massive Super Bowl headquarters in Scottsdale, AZ.

Also from USA Today, Nicole Auerbach writes that Friend of Fang’s Bites Amy Van Dyken who was paralyzed last year, is getting back into broadcasting with the Pac-12 Networks this weekend.

E.J. Schultz of Advertising Age says the NFL has donated Super Bowl advertising time to No More which has conducted a season-long anti-domestic violence campaign during games.

To the Indiana University National Sports Journalism Center where Ed Sherman called for a boycott of Skittles due to Marshawn Lynch’s refusal to open up to the media during Super Bowl week. Ed’s my friend, but I disagree with him on this. The media is overblowing his refusal to talk and fans really don’t care whether he talks or not.

Ed notes that not everyone agreed with his column.

At Sports Business Journal, John Ourand talks with ESPN Monday Night Football producer Jay Rothman who almost took a promotion and came close to leaving the series.

Also at SBJ, John Ourand and Michael Smith report that both ESPN and the NFL are lobbying the College Football Playoff led by the extremely stubborn Bill Hancock, to change its schedule.

David Pierce of The Verge goes inside ESPN’s plans to take over the world to stay on top the sports television.

Kevin Causey at Awful Announcing’s sister site Awful Advertisements looks at some Super Bowl ads that have already been released.

Awful Announcing has the strange audio that spewed into last night’s Nashville Predators broadcast.

My friend, Sunny Cadwaller at CadChica Sports (I love that site’s name) tells us what Twitter’s new video feature means for the sports media.

CNN’s Brian Stelter notes that several major companies including ESPN are joining Snapchat’s new Discovery service. Insert joke about stories disappearing within seconds.

At the Cauldron, Cleveland Browns wide receiver Josh Gordon responds to TNT’s Charles Barkley and other critics in the media of his behavior.

The Boston Globe’s Chad Finn notes that a bunch of former New England Patriots have found new careers as either local or national TV analysts.

Mike Puma at the New York Post writes that after SNY denied him a raise, Mets studio analyst Bob Ojeda has left the network.

Newsday’s Neil Best has NBC’s Rodney Harrison blasting Seattle Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch for not talking to the media.

Scott Allen of the Washington Post’s DC Sports Bog writes about a documentary being produced about the 2006 George Mason team that went to the NCAA Final Four.

To Sports Talk Florida and Jim Williams who has a preview of the Super Bowl ads.

At the Los Angeles Daily News, Tom Hoffarth has a preview of his media column.

We have the first of two stories from Canada, David Shoalts of the Toronto Globe and Mail reports that Rogers has won the rights to the World Cup of Hockey, announced earlier this week by the NHL, over rival Bell Media.

The Canadian Press reports that Canadians may finally be able to see the American Super Bowl ads as early as 2017. CTV has been inserting its own commercials for the Super Bowl preventing Canadians from seeing what the big fuss has been all about.

NEWS YOU CAN USE

This week, CBS announced that long-time golf analyst Peter Oosterhuis was retiring after a twenty year broadcasting career and replacing him would be Golf Channel personality Frank Nobilo on selected tournaments. In addition, CBS announced its 2015 PGA Tour schedule, 19 events as well as The Masters and the PGA Championship. CBS’ year kicks off Saturday with the Phoenix Open at the TPC Scottsdale. I was going to post the table and the schedule, but because it would take me several years to edit and have it fit in my format, I’ll link you to CBS’ site instead where you can bookmark the page if you wish.

NBC, NBCSN and Universal Sports will combine for 28 hours of live coverage from the 2015 FIS Alpine Skiing World Championships from Vail, CO starting next Tuesday. Past Olympic gold medalists Lindsey Vonn, Mikaela Shiffrin and Ted Ligety will be on hand to take part in their respective events. Dan Hicks will be the lead announcer and he’ll be joined by Todd Brooker, Steve Porino, Christin Cooper and Carolyn Manno. NBC/NBCSN will carry 14 hours on their networks while Universal will air another 14. Each discipline will be aired, most live and that’s a first for the event.

After all of the day’s coverage, Universal Sports will have a live post-race show and Steve Schlanger will be the host.

Here’s the breakdown of coverage.

NBC, NBCSN and Universal Sports Broadcast Schedule:
2015 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships

All Times Eastern –Subject to Change

*denotes same-day delay

Fox, NBC and NASCAR released the schedule for the 2015 Sprint Cup, Xfinity Series (formerly Nationwide) and Camping World Truck Series.

Breaking it down, Fox/Fox Sports 1 will air the first half of both the Sprint Cup and Xfinity Series and the entire Camping World Truck Series. Fox/FS1 has 16 Sprint Cup races (10 on Fox, 6 on FS1) and 14 Xfinity Series events (12 on FS1, 2 on Fox).

As for NBC Sports Group’s re-entry into NASCAR, the Peacock carries 20 Sprint Cup races (7 on NBC, 13 on NBCSN) and 19 Xfinity races (4 on NBC, 15 on NBCSN).

Here’s how the races will air on each of the networks this season:

And with that, we’ll close the notebook.

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