0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/26/2013
Thursday, September 26 Studio & Pregame Shows Around the League Live — NFL Network, 2 p.m. NFL Insiders — ESPN, 3 p.m. NFL Live — ESPN, 4 p.m. NFL Fantasy Live — NFL Network, 5 p.m. NFL Total Access Kickoff: Thursday Night Football Preview — NFL Network, 6 p.m. NFL Prekick Show — NFL Network, […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/22/2013
And with the Chicago Bears taking on the Pittsburgh Steelers, NBC has its preview of the premier primetime game of the week. Al Michaels, Cris Collinsworth and Michele Tafoya will be at Heinz Field for the game. Bob Costas will be at the game to host Football Night in America and he’ll be joined by […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/19/2013
Thursday, September 19 Studio & Pregame Shows Around the League Live — NFL Network, 2 p.m. NFL Insiders — ESPN, 3 p.m. NFL Live — ESPN, 4 p.m. NFL Fantasy Live — NFL Network, 5 p.m. NFL Total Access Kickoff: Thursday Night Football Pregame — NFL Network, 6 p.m. Prekick Show — NFL Network, 8 […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/18/2013
Marking another milestone in his illustrious career, NBC points out that Sunday marks the 25th time that Al Michaels will call a primetime NFL game in the city of Pittsburgh. Whether at Three Rivers Stadium or Heinz Field, this also becomes the 7th team for which Michaels has called at least 25 primetime games on […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/12/2013
Thursday, September 12 Studio and Pregame Shows Around the League Live — NFL Network, 2 p.m. NFL Insiders — ESPN, 3 p.m. NFL Live — ESPN, 4 p.m. NFL Fantasy Live — NFL Network, 5 p.m. NFL Total Access Kickoff — NFL Network, 6 p.m. NFL Total Access Postgame — NFL Network, 11:30 p.m. 8:25 […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/8/2013
You’re back! Yes, I’m back. And the primers are back too? Anything new on NFL TV this season? Yes. Where do you want to begin? How about pregames. No changes right? Au contraire! Many changes. First, there are two more Sunday pregame shows on your television this season. First, CBS Sports Network launches “That Other […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/5/2013
Sunday, September 8 NFL Viewing Maps (the506.com) Pregame and Studio Shows NFL Matchup — ESPN, 6:30 a.m. NFL GameDay First — NFL Network 7 a.m. That Other Pregame Show (series premiere) — CBS Sports Network, 9 a.m. NFL GameDay Morning — NFL Network, 9 a.m. Fox NFL Kickoff — Fox Sports 1, 10:30 a.m. (this […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/2/2013
Lots of things happening in sports media this week. The NFL returns in the next seven days. College Football goes into its second week. Baseball heads into its final month of the regular season. Soccer goes into World Cup qualifying. The PGA Tour takes the week off and we bid adieu to Fox Soccer. TELEVISION […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/30/2013
In a sign that football is truly here, NBC airs the annual NFL/Hall of Fame Game between the Dallas Cowboys and Miami Dolphins live from Fawcett Stadium in Canton, OH. Al Michaels who will be honored this week with the Pro Football Hall of Fame Pete Rozelle Radio & Television Award for his play-by-play of […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/29/2013
I’ve been meaning to start a regular Monday feature and since Richard Deitsch has a weekly Monday column at SI.com and Tom Hoffarth has his Southern California Sports Calendar, I figured I would preview the upcoming week in the sports media. With a little luck, this will be a signature post on Fang’s Bites. Give […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/28/2013
Announced Saturday at the Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour, NBC says venerable sportscaster Al Michaels will be daytime and weekend host for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. It marks the third consecutive Olympics in which Michaels will participate for NBC. He returned to Olympics broadcasting in 2010 after being absent from the […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/8/2013
Let’s go over the entire list of those who won hardware in the 34th Annual Sports Emmy Awards. The awards were handed out at Frederick P. Rose Hall at Lincoln Center in New York. Overall, NBC Sports Group has reason to crow with 23 Emmys, the most of any sports media group. Turner Sports was […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/7/2013
NBC was the network to garner the most Sports Emmy Awards with 11 taking home the bacon for the Olympics, Sunday Night Football, Super Bowl XLVI, Bob Costas, Al Michaels and Cris Collinsworth. That’s a lot of hardware. The next highest award-winner was HBO with six. Here’s NBC’s press release. NBC SPORTS GROUP COLLECTS 11 […]
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The 34th Annual Sports Emmy Awards were handed out tonight in New York at Frederick P. Rose Hall at the Time Warner Center. Thanks to Josh Krulewitz, ESPN public relations maven, I can list the individual winners. I’ll have a full list from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences tomorrow and I’ll post […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/27/2013
No matter what you think of Tim McCarver and judging from the reaction on social media, a lot of people are happy he’s leaving the Fox broadcast booth after this season. I was not a fan and felt he was overrated by the New York media when he was with the Mets in the 1980’s […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/21/2013
NBC received a total of 58 nominations for the 34th annual Sports Emmy Awards. The NBC Sports Group consisting of NBC, NBC Sports Network, Golf Channel, Bravo, CNBC, MSNBC and NBCOlympics.com received the most nominations of any sports media group over ESPN, Fox Sports Media Group, CBS and Turner Sports. Of course, NBC is coming […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/20/2013
Just received this from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the full press release of the nominations for the 34th Annual Sports Emmy Awards. NBC Sports Group received the most nominations with 58 followed by ESPN with 43 and Turner in third with 27. Bob Costas was nominated yet again for Outstanding Studio […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/25/2013
I provide this table which has all of the Super Bowls to date including their networks and broadcasters. I thought you might get a kick out of it to see who has called which games. The CBS lines are in bold because this table was compiled by CBS. SUPER BOWL BROADCASTERS HISTORY (1967-2013) Super Bowl […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/22/2013
It may not have the Big Game this year, but that is not stopping the NBC Sports Group from having live programming during Super Bowl Week in New Orleans. Thanks to the Dan Patrick Show and the launch of its new Michelle Beadle-driven show, “The Crossover,” NBC Sports Network will have a live presence in […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/4/2013
For the sixth straight season, NBC will carry the Wild Card Playoff doubleheader on Saturday. And it mark the next-to-last time NBC will do so. After next season, it’s expected that ESPN will carry one Wild Card Playoff game to add to its almost-$2 billion contract for airing Monday Night Football. NBC has contracted (thus […]
