Since I was not able to provide you with links this morning, I’ll combine morning and evening updates to make one huge update tonight. You deserve it.
Starting with Newsday’s Neil Best, he writes that Yankees pitcher Joba Chamberlain’s weekly radio guest spot on 1050 ESPN Radio was rejected by the higher ups. And Neil writes with Tom Rock that Yankees fans were baffled by the decision to cancel’s Monday’s season opener. Neil reports in his blog that SNY did well in the ratings with the Mets season opener in Florida.
Multichannel News talks about the good ratings for the MLB season openers on ESPN and SNY. John Consoli of Mediaweek says the Sunday night opener on ESPN drew well across the board in most of the the key male demographics. And Julianne Smolinski of TV Week has a version of the ESPN story as well. Alex Weprin of Broadcasting & Cable writes in his blog that Johan Santana’s debut for the Mets scored for SNY on Monday.
The constantly angry Bob Raissman of the New York Daily News criticizes the Yankees for postponing its season opener on Monday with nary a drop of rain.
Friend of Fang’s Bites David Scott of Boston Sports Media Watch says NESN appears to have found a replacement for Fang’s Bites fav Tina Cervasio.
CNBC’s Darren Rovell is down to the Final Two in the Minor League Baseball Logo Contest.
Tim Lemke of the Washington Times writes in his $ports Biz blog that the Washington Nationals opening their new park Sunday night against Atlanta was the highest rated Opening Night on ESPN. Ever.
Tom Hoffarth of the Los Angeles Daily News looks at the mystery that is Sidd Finch.
Don Ketcham of the Arizona Republic catches up with original Diamondbacks manager Buck Showalter who returns to ESPN this season as a studio analyst.
The Allentown (PA) Morning Call’s Keith Groller talks with Phillies broadcaster Chris Wheeler about another Opening Day.
The San Jose Mercury News picks up a story in which viewers in Santa Cruz County will have trouble finding tonight’s Giants-Dodgers game.
Jeffrey Flanagan writes in the Kansas City Star that FSN had an inauspicious debut on Monday televising the Royals’ season opener.
Josh Hoke of the Myrtle Beach (SC) Sun News tells us that Atlanta Braves fans will have a hard time seeing all of the team’s games this season.
Skip Weaver in the Lebanon (OH) Western Star says Monday’s season opener for the Reds was tough without the late broadcaster Joe Nuxhall.
And the Chicago Tribune reports that the widow of Harry Caray is not happy with AT&T ads having an actor portray the late White Sox and Cubs announcer.
Teddy Greenstein of the Chicago Tribune writes that blowouts in the NCAA Tournament have hurt CBS’ ratings.
Paul Gough of the Hollywood Reporter says CBS is hoping for monster ratings in the Final Four with all four #1 seeds intact.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s Bob Wolfley says putting North Carolina in primetime for the Final Four makes sense.
Chris Foster of the crosstown Los Angeles Times says ESPN has moved the Tennessee-UCLA football game to open the season on Labor Day. Brian Bennett of the Louisville Courier-Journal says Kentucky and Louisville will play their annual rivalry game the day before Tennessee-UCLA on ESPN.
Paul Costanzo of the Port Huron (MI) Times Herald talks with NBC’s/Versus’ NHL voice Mike Emrick who has been nominated for a Sports Emmy for Play-by-play.
The Chicago Sun-Times reports that the Blackhawks will be split all 82 games between Comcast SportsNet and WGN-TV for the next three seasons. Teddy Greenstein of the Tribune says WGN-TV will broadcast about 20 games a season. Phil Swann of the TV Predictions site says Dish Network is in talks to carry WGN in HD.
Bob Matthews in the Rochester (NY) Democrat and Chronicle feels ESPN should be getting better matchups for Monday Night Football.
Tony Grossi of the Cleveland Plain Dealer speculates that my Browns could host a Thanksgiving Night game on the NFL Network this season.
Matt Watson of the AOL Sports Fanhouse Blog suggests the NBA take a page from March Madness and run its playoffs like the NCAA Tournament.
William Houston of the Toronto Globe and Mail says it’s unlikely that Canadians will see ESPN on their cable systems even though there’s talk of opening up Canadian TV to more American networks.
Jeff Duncan of the New Orleans Times-Picayune has NBC’s Johnny Miller enjoying last week’s dustup between Bubba Watson and Steve Elkington during the PGA Tour’s Zurich Classic of New Orleans.
We have two things from CBS Sports. First, we have the rundown for
“The Final Four Show” on Saturday, that will run two hours before the first tip. Before “The Final Four Show”, Seth Davis of Sports Illustrated will host a show called, “Road to the Final Four: Outside the Games.”
ESPN says Bob Knight will be heavily involved in the Alleged Worldwide Leader’s coverage of the Men’s Final Four this year. And the Bristol Behemoth tells us that it will have “multiplatform” coverage of the first two rounds of The Masters this year.
Awful Announcing has the video of Tony Kornnheiser and Michael Wilbon pulling an April Fools joke on Pardon the Interruption.
That will do it for tonight.
