0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/10/2010
At least early for me. Hoping to get these done to free myself for the evening. Lots of stuff to get to. Your Weekend Viewing Picks give you sports and entertainment viewing suggestions. Let’s do your links now. National USA Today’s Michael Hiestand talks with NFL Films president Steve Sabol about the new HBO Sports […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/7/2010
Let’s do some additional linkage since I had to cut the regular Tuesday links short earlier today. Bill Krueger of the Poynter Institute looks at how Yahoo! Sports has made a name for itself in sports investigations. Jason Humphries of Reuters has International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge hopeful that the US TV rights for […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/6/2010
I’ll do a few Monday links. Can’t believe how quickly this day is moving. I’ve already been to three places today. It’s been quite crazy. USA Today’s Michael Hiestand writes about this season’s BCS not being all that sexy. Rupal Parekh and Brian Steinberg from Advertising Age discuss the logjam of auto advertisers in Super […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/4/2010
Well, it’s been a long ten days since I last did linkage. First, it was the Thanksgiving holidays, then work became crazy. I was able to do press releases as they came into the Fang’s Bites inbox, but you’ve been owed some so let’s get to it without further delay. Mike Reynolds at Multichannel News […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/9/2010
It’s been crazy at work dealing with clients and crazy architects. Now let me see if I can squeeze in some linkage for you. We’re dealing with the aftermath of ESPN letting go its Sunday Night Baseball team of Jon Miller and Joe Morgan. No matter what you think of Joe Morgan and most of […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/8/2010
Let’s do some Monday stuff before work overwhelms me today. Starting with John Ourand at Sports Business Journal, he writes that ESPN and the NFL have reopened their contract to renegotiate mobile rights for Monday Night Football and hash out a few other issues. Fred Dreier from SBJ says the National Hockey League is launching […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/4/2010
Ok, let’s do some links on this rainy Thursday in the Northeast. Time to look at what’s going on today. First from the Indiana University National Sports Journalism Center, Brian Hendrickson recaps a symposium in which Deadspin editor A.J. Daulerio was frank in a panel discussion on the whole Brett Favre/Jenn Sterger story. Philiana Ng […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/2/2010
Now that baseball is done, and doesn’t it seem right that it’s over by Election Day (Go vote!), it’s time to shift focus totally to the NFL, college football, NHL and college basketball, not necessarily in that order. Of course, there’s the baseball Hot Stove which now begins in earnest today with free agency, but […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/31/2010
Yesterday was busier than I expected both personally and sports media-wise. I was out most of the day which prevented me from providing links, but then the Cablevision/Fox story broke and I give tremendous kudos to Brian Stelter of the New York Times
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/29/2010
Time to do the megalinkage on this Friday. Lots of things going on today into this evening and let’s get cracking. Of course, we have the Weekend Viewing Picks. Now let’s do the links. National USA Today’s Michael McCarthy wants to know who’s your favorite NFL announcer. Mike says this year’s World Series ratings are […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/26/2010
Let’s do some linkage on this Tuesday. Don’t know if I can get everything done today as I’ll be all over the place later today so I don’t know if this will be a complete set of links or an abbreviated edition. Time to get started. Michael Hiestand of USA Today has the ratings from […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/24/2010
Let’s get busy with the Sunday linkage. Some good stuff to get to. On Fox NFL Sunday, Jay Glazer reported that Vikings quarterback Brett Favre denied sending pictures of his shlong to Jenn Sterger, but did admit to leaving voicemails on her cell phone. I’ll have video of that segment during the Fox NFL Sunday […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/23/2010
Time to provide some linkage on this Saturday. Lots of stuff going on. Tom Van Riper of Forbes.com notes that Cablevision and Fox are now acting like spoiled little children. John Simon from Bloomberg reviews the Broadway play, “Lombardi”. At the Indiana University National Sports Journalism Center, Dave Kindred wants to see the wall of […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/22/2010
I haven’t given you a full set of Friday megalinks since October 1, so it’s time to do some now. Let’s get to them. The Weekend Viewing Picks has your sports and primetime viewing. National USA Today’s Michael Hiestand and Mike McCarthy debate what can be done to improve baseball’s ratings. Fanhouse says Jenn Sterger […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/21/2010
Let’s do your Thursday links. I’m a bit behind on things. But let’s get to the links while I can. USA Today’s Christine Brennan analyzes why baseball was beaten in the TV ratings by a lackluster Monday Night Football game. ESPN Ombudsman Don Ohlmeyer is out from hibernation and he answers readers questions on ESPN […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/18/2010
Let’s do your links on this Monday. USA Today’s Michael Hiestand says MLB’s League Championship Series are in a position to do well in the ratings although last night, Sunday Night Football on NBC beat NLCS Game 2 on Fox quite handily. Here’s big news. Nat Worden of Dow Jones Newswires reports that next Monday’s […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/17/2010
Let’s do some linkage for you on this busy Sports Sunday. NFL Week 6 and Game 2 of the NLCS. We also have the Cablevision/Fox talks that affects 3 million households in the nation’s largest media market. And there’s the Mad Men season finale tonight so I may have to hire a blimp to fly […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/12/2010
Already, I’ve been all over Kent County in Rhode Island for no good particular reason so I’m hoping I can stay in one place for a bit to give you linkage. Let’s begin with Michael Hiestand of USA Today who looks at the TV ratings from the weekend. Sports Illustrated’s Richard Deitsch has his Media […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/10/2010
Ok, I don’t have to go anywhere today so I can provide you with a full set of links without being interrupted. Let’s get to the sports media stories today. Mike Reynolds from Multichannel News says Versus’ NHL season opener became the most watched regular season hockey game on cable since the ESPN days. Mike […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/7/2010
Dragging this morning. Just getting a late start on everything so let’s do linkage while I can. USA Today’s Michael Hiestand says Randy Moss’ trade to the Minnesota Vikings may raise the already red hot NFL ratings. Marcus Vanderberg at SportsNewser writes that ESPN’s Lou Holtz won’t be lending his name to political causes from […]
