Been crazy with the schedules again, but I’m giving you some linkage today because you’re owed some. Let’s get busy.
Sports Business Daily notes the dueling NFL regular season schedule release shows on ESPN and NFL Network today.
Terry Lefton of Sports Business Journal says Comcast wants to replicate the success of its “Xfinity Live!” Philadelphia “mall of sports bars” in other cities.
Jason Fry of the ESPN Poynter Review Project a.k.a., the ESPN Ombudsman reviews the network’s ad-approval process.
Ed Sherman, formerly of the Chicago Tribune and Crain’s Chicago Business has launched his new sports media website and I’m quite impressed. A couple of links to his site which started this week.
First, Ed talks with the polarizing Skippy Bayless of ESPN.
With tonight’s NFL regular season schedule being unveiled, Ed wonders which network will get Peyton Manning’s Denver Broncos debut?
Laura Donovan at the Jane Dough is not a fan of a sexist WFAN ad featuring Boomer Esiason and Craig Carton.
MediaRantz predicts which NFL team will get the most primetime games in 2012.
Congratulations to Patriot-News reporter Sara Ganim who at the age of 24 becomes one of the youngest to ever win a Pulitzer Prize. She wins for her coverage of the Jerry Sandusky-Penn State scandal and she continues to report on the story.
Ivey DeJesus at the Patriot-News has the story on Ganim’s well deserved award for her reporting.
And here are pictures in the Patriot-News newsroom the moment Sara was informed that she won the Pulitzer.
CNBC’s Darren Rovell wonders if Coconut Water is here to stay or will it become a huge bust?
George Szalai of the Hollywood Reporter looks at the BBC and Eurosport putting a portion of their coverage of the London Olympics on the UK’s pay satellite service, BSkyB.
Marc Graser at Variety says Wrestlemania set a pay per view record for the WWE.
Lindsay Rubino at Broadcasting & Cable writes that the NBC Owned Stations group will sell national advertising for four Comcast SportsNet affiliates.
Mike Reynolds from Multichannel News says NBC Sports Group is winning with the NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs.
Kristie Chong-Adler in ESPN’s Front Row blog looks at ESPN.com folding its Page 2 section into a new ESPN the Magazine-fronted portion of the website.
Glenn Davis at SportsGrid has the video of a new Michael Jordan-themed ESPN promo.
Matt Yoder at Awful Announcing breaks down one of the funniest and uncomfortable moments in sports television as YES’ Ian Eagle and Mike Fratello seemed to mix it up during last Saturday’s Celtics-Nets game.
However, Ian tells the New York Daily News’ Bob Raissman says while the videos have gone viral, it was all in fun between he and the Czar of the Telestrator.
Matt at AA still doesn’t buy the explanation that it was a bit.
Bob’s Blitz notes that WFAN’s ratings took a tumble for the second straight Arbitron ratings period, but ESPN Radio New York failed to take up the slack.
Pete Dougherty at the Albany Times Union notes that NBC saw higher ratings for the NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs thanks to airing one more game than last year.
Jim Williams from the Washington Examiner talks with MLB Network’s Jim Kaat about the Nationals.
Dan Steinberg at the Washington Post’s DC Sports Bog introduces readers to new MASN Nationals reporter Kristina Akra.
Tony Grossi at ESPN Cleveland and WKNR Radio explains why the Browns flagship TV station had to move the team’s first preseason game to another station (scroll down).
Bonnie Miller Rubin of the Chicago Tribune looks back at being her newspaper’s first “gal” sports reporter in 1973 and how far women sportswriters have advanced since then.
Sports Media Watch notes that Philadelphia 76ers coach Doug Collins will be back on NBC this summer to analyze Olympic basketball, a role he filled in 2000, 2004 and 2008.
To Steve Lepore at Puck The Media who notes that the NHL on NBC Sports Network continues to rack up the ratings.
And Dave Kohl of the Broadcast Booth explores the Sacramento market.
I’ll be out for bit, but be back after 7 p.m. ET for the NFL TV schedules. We’ll analyze them together.
