0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/27/2014
Time for our Sunday NFL pregame previews. As usual, we begin with NFL Network which will again have six hours of pregame talk starting at 7 a.m. ET with NFL GameDay First with Melissa Stark, Sterling Sharpe, Shaun O’Hara and Michael Robinson live from the NFL Films studios in Mount Laurel, NJ. Then at 9 […]
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Saturday, September 27 Basketball 2014 FIBA World Championship for Women Group Phase Group D, Istanbul, Turkey Communist China vs. USA — NBA TV, 2:30 p.m. CFL Hamilton Tiger-Cats at Winnipeg Blue Bombers — TSN/ESPN3, 6:30 p.m. BC Lions at Calgary Stampeders — TSN/ESPN3, 9:30 p.m. College Football Viewing Picks College Water Polo Men’s Cal-Irvine at […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/26/2014
CBS has released the assignments for Week 5 of this season. That will signify a doubleheader for the Tiffany Network. The feature games will be Houston at Dallas and Baltimore at Indianapolis early and Kansas City at San Francisco and New York Jets at San Diego late. Once again, Jim Nantz, Phil Simms and Tracy […]
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The last home game in Derek Jeter’s career turned out to be a success not only for the Yankees as they beat the Baltimore Orioles on a walkoff single by the shortstop, but also for YES Network which aired the game live throughout the New York DMA. YES says it averaged a 10.84 rating for […]
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If it’s Thursday, it must mean another NFL blowout on CBS/NFL Network. Last night, the New York Football Giants decimated the DC NFL Team by a 45-14 score, but it didn’t stop Americans from watching either CBS or NFL Network. The combined final fast national rating for the game was a 10.2/17 which is up […]
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Australian Rules Football Grand Final, Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne, Australia Sydney Swans vs. Hawthorn Hawks — Fox Soccer Plus, 11 p.m. AFL Highlights — Fox Soccer Plus, 10 p.m. College Field Hockey Indiana at Iowa — Big Ten Network, 3:30 p.m. College Football Fresno State at New Mexico — ESPN2, 8 p.m. Middle Tennessee at […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/25/2014
All Times Eastern Schedule courtesy Matt’s College Sports Announcing assignments courtesy Eye on Sky and Air Sports Pregame and Studio Shows Fox Sports Live: Countdown to Kickoff — Fox Sports 1, 7 a.m. College GameDay live from Columbia, SC — ESPN, 9 a.m. SEC Nation — SEC Network, 10 a.m. BTN Football Pregame — Big […]
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All Times Eastern Thursday, September 25 8:30 p.m. New York Giants at Washington — Bob Wischusen/Mike Mayock//Ross Tucker Sunday, September 28 1:00 p.m. Compass Media Oakland Raiders Radio Network Oakland vs. Miami, Wembley Stadium, London, England — Greg Papa/Tom Flores//Lincoln Kennedy Detroit at New York Jets — Mark Kestecher/Bill Polian//Ian Fitzsimmons Green Bay at Chicago […]
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All Times Eastern Thursday, September 25 Studio & Pregame Shows Around the NFL — NFL Network, 2 p.m. NFL Insiders — ESPN, 3 p.m. NFL Live — ESPN, 4 p.m. NFL Fantasy Live — NFL Network, 5 p.m. NFL Total Access Kickoff live from Landover, MD — NFL Network, 6 p.m. Fantasy Football Live — […]
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Australian Rules Football 2014 Australian Rules Football League Grand Final Parade — Fox Soccer Plus, 10 p.m. ( College Football Texas Tech at Oklahoma State — ESPN, 7:30 p.m. Appalachian State at Georgia Southern — ESPNU, 7:30 p.m. Missouri Western State at Lindenwood — CBS Sports Network, 8 p.m. UCLA at Arizona State — Fox […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/24/2014
After challenging his bosses to take action against him in an anti-Roger Goodell podcast on Monday, ESPN has brought the hammer down on Captain Blowhard. The suspension lasts for three weeks. In the podcast, Bill Simmons called the NFL Commish a liar and that it was “f$&king bullsh!t” that he didn’t know that happened in […]
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This Derek Jeter farewell is getting out of hand. I’m not begrudging the Yankees fans who love the man, but to this Red Sox fan, the whole thing is getting boring. And with his final home game coming on Thursday and his career finale allegedly coming on Sunday in Boston, the networks are scrambling to […]
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This from CBS. The rematch of Super Bowl XLVIII between the Denver Broncos and Seattle Seahawks really scored for CBS. The game in the national 4:25 p.m. ET window (along with Kansas City at Miami in some markets) garnered an amazing 15.8 rating with a 30 share. That’s up 2% from last year’s Week 3 […]
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With most of the schedule dependent on the Big East, Fox Sports announces a schedule of more than 200 regular season college basketball games. The Big East constitute a big chunk of that schedule of 156 games spread over Fox, Fox Sports 1, Fox Sports 2 and Fox Sports Net. Fox will also carry Conference […]
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College Football BTN Football & Beyond 2014 — Big Ten Network, noon SVP & Russillo — ESPNews, 1 p.m. College Football Live — ESPN, 2:30 p.m. College Football Featured — ESPNU, 5:30 p.m. ESPNU Film Room — ESPNU, 6:30 p.m. SEC in 60 — SEC Network, 9 p.m. SEC Film Room — SEC Network, 10 […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/23/2014
College Football BTN Football & Beyond 2014 — Big Ten Network, noon CFB Daily — ESPNews, 1 p.m. College Football Live — ESPN, 2:30 p.m. College Football Featured — ESPNU, 4:30 p.m. Inside College Football — CBS Sports Network, 8 p.m. College Volleyball Women’s Cal at Stanford — Pac-12 Networks, 9 p.m. UCLA at USC […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/22/2014
As the baseball pennant races go down to the wire, ESPN has added what it has called “Postseason Impact Games” which basically means contests that have playoff implications. Not sure why it has to use “Postseason Impact Games” to make them sound more important, but here we are. On Tuesday, ESPN will air Baltimore at […]
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CBS won the NFL ratings sweepstakes in Week 3. Once again, the late afternoon window scored over all of the broadcast windows. The Super Bowl XLVIII rematch of Denver at Seattle (with some markets receiving Kansas City at Miami) garnered a very good 16.9 overnight rating with a huge 32 share in the 4:25 p.m. […]
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Australian Rules Football 2014 Australian Rules Football League Brownlow Medal — Fox Soccer Plus, 5:30 a.m. College Football BTN Football & Beyond 2014 — Big Ten Network, noon CFB Daily — ESPNU, 1 p.m. College Football Live — ESPN2, 2:30 p.m. Final Verdict — ESPNU, 4:30 p.m. Great8 Plays — ESPNU, 5:30 p.m. ESPNU Championship […]
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Let’s conclude our round of quotage with Fox NFL Kickoff on Fox Sports 1 and Fox NFL Sunday on Fox. Terry Bradshaw missed Sunday’s show as his son-in-law, Rob Bironas, a former Tennessee Titans kicker, passed away Saturday after a car accident. Fox NFL Sunday carried on without Bradshaw. We have the quotage below. FOX […]
