0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/26/2015
All Times Eastern Schedule courtesy of Matt’s College Sports on TV Announcing assignments courtesy of Eye on Sky and Air Sports Studio and Pregame Shows College GameDay live from Tucson, AZ — ESPN, 9 a.m. SEC Nation live from Gainesville, FL — SEC Network, 10 a.m. B1G Football Pregame — Big Ten Network, 10:30 a.m. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/19/2015
All Times Eastern Schedule courtesy Matt’s College Sports on TV Announcing assignments courtesy of Eye on Sky and Air Sports Studio and Pregame Shows College GameDay live from Tuscaloosa, AL — ESPN, 9 a.m. SEC Nation live from Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA — SEC Network, 10 a.m. B1G Football Pregame — Big Ten […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/10/2015
All Times Eastern Schedule courtesy of Matt’s College Sports on TV Announcing Assignments courtesy of Eye on Sky and Air Sports Thursday, September 10 Studio and Pregame Shows B1G Football & Beyond — Big Ten Network, noon CFB Daily — ESPNU, 1 p.m. College Football Live — ESPN, 2 p.m. Inside College Football — CBS […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/2/2015
All Times Eastern Schedule courtesy of Matt’s College Sports on TV Announcing Assignments courtesy of Eye on Sky and Air Sports Thursday, September 3 Pregame and Studio Shows College Football Live — ESPN2, 1 p.m. CFB Daily — ESPNU, 1 p.m. Inside College Football — CBS Sports Network, 5 p.m. College Football Countdown — ESPN, […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/14/2015
Let’s do some thoughts for you on this Friday. It’s all about providing you with fresh content. So without further delay, here’s the column: Earlier this week, Al Michaels broke some news on the Dan Patrick Show. Unfortunately, this interview is not available on the show’s YouTube page, but the audio is on his website […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/13/2015
The NBA has announced its 2015-16 schedule and that includes the national TV partners, ESPN/ABC, NBA TV and TNT. Let’s list the games. One thing is different. ABC will have a regular Saturday night game, taking its early 1 p.m. ET Sunday game and converting them into primetime. ABC will continue to air games on […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/7/2015
ESPN has unveiled its announcing lineup for college football. Chris Fowler, Kirk Herbstreit and Heather Cox remain the top announcing team and will be mostly on Saturday Night Football on ABC as well as one College Football Playoff semifinal and the National Championship Game. With Joe Tessitore hosting studio shows on Saturdays, one in the […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/18/2015
To the notebook: NEWS The big sports media news from Wednesday came from a feature on HBO in this week’s Hollywood Reporter. In discussing the new era of HBO with its HBO Now over the top service was a line that the network is looking at luring soon-to-be ex-ESPN’er Bill Simmons. On June 21, HBO […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/17/2015
The NBA Finals gave ABC great numbers in both ratings and viewership. The six game series averaged a viewership of 19.9 million and the rating ended up at an impressive 11.6. Both of those numbers were up 30% and 26% respectively from the 2014 Finals between the Miami Heat and San Antonio Spurs. The viewership […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/15/2015
Disney officials have to be happy as the current NBA contract with ESPN is ending and a new one is set to begin in 2016. The ESPN-produced 2015 Finals airing on ABC is setting records all over the place. Game 5 between Cleveland and Golden State averaged the highest viewership of the series with over […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/12/2015
Despite a blowout win by Golden State that assures the NBA Finals will go at least 6 games, last night’s Game 4 drew the highest ratings for a such contest in over ten years. Thursday’s game averaged a 13.9 overnight rating which is 31% better than last year’s 10.6 for Game 4 of Miami-San Antonio. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/11/2015
Let’s do another notebook for you on this Thursday. NEWS The NBA Finals are breaking records. Through three games, the series between the Cleveland Cavs and Golden State Warriors is averaging almost 18.5 million viewers and a 10.8 rating which is slaughtering all programming on broadcast and cable. Game 3 drew an 11.1 rating on […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/10/2015
ESPN officials are crowing about the ratings for the NBA Finals on ABC. Game 3 between the Golden State Warriors and Cleveland Cavaliers set the record for highest rating for an NBA Final Game 3 on the American Broadcasting Company. The overnight rating was 13.7 which is 33% higher than last year’s Game 3 between […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/5/2015
The 36th Annual Sports Emmy Awards were handed out in New York on Tuesday, May 5. NBC’s coverage of the Sochi Winter Olympic Games was a big winner, but in several technical categories. We can’t say the usual suspects won because Bob Costas did not pick up the Outstanding Studio Host Award. Ernie Johnson won […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/18/2015
Time for another edition of the notebook. Let’s do this. NEWS NBC Sports has announced it will pick up radio coverage of horse racing’s Triple Crown. Over the past few years, radio coverage of the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes has been piecemeal with various syndicators producing the races. Now, NBC which has […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/15/2015
Let’s do a notebook for this Thursday. NEWS NBC held a big press conference on Wednesday at its World Headquarters in Rockefeller Plaza in New York. It announced a multi-year agreement with Haymon Boxing to air the Premier Boxing Champions series starting with 20 events this year, 14 of which will be in primetime on […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/31/2014
All Times Eastern Studio and Pregame Shows College GameDay on ESPN Radio — ESPN2, 6 a.m. College GameDay live from the Rose Bowl, Pasadena, CA — ESPN, 10 a.m. SEC Nation live from the Louisiana Superdome, New Orleans, LA — SEC Network, 10 a.m. BTN Football Pregame 2014: Bowl Edition — Big Ten Network, 11 […]
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The last notebook of the year quite a bit of stuff. Not much linkage out there, but plenty of news out there and News You Can Use. BREAKING NEWS CBS has announced that it will once again stream all of its AFC Playoff games for desktop and laptop computers and tablets beginning with Sunday’s Wild […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/26/2014
All Times Eastern Military Bowl, Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium, Annapolis, MD Virginia Tech vs. Cincinnati — ESPN1/ESPN Radio, 1 p.m. ESPN: Beth Mowins/Joey Galloway//Paul Carcaterra ESPN Radio: Eamon McAnaney/Jay Walker Sun Bowl, Sun Bowl Stadium, El Paso, TX Duke vs. Arizona State — CBS/Sports USA Radio Network, 2 p.m. CBS: Carter Blackburn/Gary Danielson//Allie LaForce Sports […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/23/2014
This is a nice present to DirecTV subscribers which includes your humble blogger. The satellite provider and the Walt Disney Company have signed a comprehensive, multi-year deal that includes ESPN and its vast family of networks. Not only does it keep ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPNews, ESPN Deportes and SEC Network on the system’s lineup, it […]
