0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/10/2007
First, let me start by discussing the Home Run Derby cablecast on ESPN. Once again, Chris Berman was doing the play-by-play, Joe Morgan did the color and joining them this year, was former Giants and Cubs manager Dusty Baker. I guess the only reason Baker was there was that he had managed in AT&T Park. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/24/2007
Last night, I was able to listen to both former Red Sox announcer Jerry Trupiano and one of his replacements, Glenn “3 x 5” Geffner. Thanks to Sirius Satellite Radio, I was able to listen to the College World Series from Westwood One’s NCAA Radio Network. Kevin Kugler and Trup were on the call. For […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/23/2007
I’m watching the NHL Entry Draft, something I forgot to put in the Primetime Viewing Choices for tonight. But, Versus has not done a good job in promoting the NHL and getting carriage so I simply forgot to list it. Anyway, thank goodness TSN is doing the coverage otherwise listening to Versus’ analysts might be […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/18/2007
Back to work on Monday and one thing I noticed from the sports weekend. It seemed the networks did not want to compete with the U.S. Open on NBC. CBS Sports was mostly dark except for an America’s Cup recap late Sunday afternoon. ESPN decided not to feed ABC anything. No WNBA, no celebrity golf, […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/11/2007
Slim choices tonight. First off, I should have added this to the Monday Update entry. 38 Cliches listens to Red Sox announcer Glenn Geffner so you don’t have to. During the team’s west coast road trip, Geffner did all of the games and Sox fans did not get their usual weekend respite with Dave O’Brien. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/7/2007
Some more links for you today. Jim Williams of the DC/Baltimore Examiner has the preview of the sports weekend. He also mentions a new show, Fast Cars & Superstars, hosted by ESPN’s Kenny Mayne which premieres before the NBA Finals tonight. In his Newsday blog, Neil Best reports that SNY Mets analyst Ron Darling has […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/30/2007
Some more stuff for you on this Wednesday. The end of the day can’t come fast enough for me. Dan Snyder (yes, the Redskins owner) owns three radio stations to carry his team’s football games. Known as Triple X-ESPN Radio in the DC area, it has had to pick up some other inventory to fill […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/25/2007
I can bring you more stuff because it’s fun to do. The Biz of Baseball website says the MLB Network will have the biggest cable/satellite launch ever, reaching some 47 million homes when it turns the switch on next year. That’s bigger than MSNBC when it launched in 1996. Of course, the cable universe was […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/24/2007
Some more links for you this afternoon. It’s been five days since NBC’s fateful decision to dump the thrilling Ottawa-Buffalo game going into overtime to Versus which hardly anyone gets in favor of the Preakness Stakes. Newspaper writers and bloggers have all attacked both NBC and the NHL for allowing this to happen. Al Strachan […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/22/2007
I’m still sad over the replacement of Jerry Trupiano from the Red Sox Radio Network. I’m one of those Red Sox fans who don’t like change and I grew accustomed to listening to Joe Castiglione and Trup every year. Last season, I started to hear inklings that he could be replaced and I was hoping […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/18/2007
Well, now that the network upfronts are over, we can decompress, and get back to the focus of this blog. But I’ll have an analysis of the schedules later today. First things first, the links to the sports media columns as there are usually a ton of them across the country. We’ll go from East […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/9/2007
A couple of news items for you today. Embattled Boston Globe writer Ron Borges appeared on the Michael Felger show on ESPN Radio in Boston today. Bruce Allen of Boston Sports Media Watch has the story including some updates on the Curt Schilling comments on Barry Bonds. Bruce’s site is one of the best watchdog […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/4/2007
This does not mean I’m going political, but stealing a phrase from John McLaughlin, I’ll do a mishmash of links on Fridays from the various media columns across the country. Depending on the time, I can do it early on Fridays or in the case of today, I’ll update things as the day progresses. First, […]
