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A Friday Evening Megalink Thing

Let’s give you some linkage on this Friday. Been a busy day. You deserve some links The Weekend Viewing Picks provide your sports and entertainment TV watching. And now to your links. National USA Today’s Michael Hiestand and Mike McCarthy debate whether networks should hire ex-coaches knowing full well they could make news and leave […]

ESPN Assigns Announcers For All of Its College Bowl Games

The ESPN family of networks will air a total of 33 college bowl games including those that comprise the Bowl Championship Series. Brent Musburger and Kirk Herbstreit will call the BCS National Championship Game which will be held January 9 from New Orleans. They’ll also call the Rose Bowl on January 2. Brad Nessler and […]

Bringing Out The Thursday Links

Wednesday was a lost cause for me as I was away from the office all day and spending time with my week old nephew in Boston. I helped my sister out with a few things as she’s dealing with her first child. There will be days like that on the blog for the next few […]

ESPN 3D Announces 2011-12 College Football Schedule

Increasing its total from 10 to 20 games this season, ESPN 3D, which a total of 21 people across the country can access, has announced its slate of college football contests for the upcoming season. The schedule includes the season opening UNLV at Wisconsin on September 1, Miami at Maryland on September 5, the ACC […]

On To The Tuesday Links

Let’s get your Tuesday linkage up and posted today. Good stuff to get to. Variety’s Stuart Levine talks with NBC Sports Chairman Mark Lazarus about the Versus rebrand to NBC Sports Network and other subjects. The Associated Press has Lazarus hopeful that he can make former NBC Sports Emperor Dick Ebersol proud. Brian Steinberg at […]

Highlights of ESPN’s College Football Schedule

We have this release which discusses ESPN’s extensive and comprehensive 2011-12 college football schedule. I still can’t believe there will be over 400 games across ESPN’s platforms, but that’s the day and age we live in. Let’s take a look at the highlights of ESPN’s schedule. If you want a complete look at ESPN’s extensive […]

ESPN’s Extensive and Comprehensive 2011-12 College Football Schedule

There was a time when ESPN had less than 100 college football games a season. But with ESPN programming itself, ABC, ESPN2, ESPNU, Big East Network, SEC Network, ESPN Plus MAC games and ESPN3.com, the total has risen to more than 400 games across its vast network of platforms. We have the list of games. […]

Some Thursday Links

Ok starting the linkage off late again today, but I hope get a full set in before leaving work later. Sports Business Daily notes some shuffling of personnel with the NFL TV partners. Preston Bounds of Sports Business Daily talks about Brad Nessler saying his college football schedule with ESPN/ABC won’t be affected by his […]

Bringing Out The Monday Links

Time for the Monday linkage. I hope you had a good Easter if you observed the holiday. If not, I hope the weekend was relaxing for you. Let’s go over the linkage for today. USA Today’s Michael Hiestand writes that ESPN’s Sunday Night Baseball analysts like the idea of expanded MLB playoffs. Mike McCarthy of […]

Some Late Wednesday Night/Thursday Morning Links

My plans to provide a full set of linkage got shot to hell when the car I was riding in got stuck in a snow bank during the ice storm in RI on Wednesday. So I spent three hours trying to get the vehicle out. Eventually, I got AAA to pull it out, but also […]

Some Snowy Wednesday Links

On this day of massive snow here in the Northeast, I’ll provide you with some linkage. Crazy day as local meteorologists first predicted 4-8 inches, then as the storm organized, the totals were revised upward and upward. Now, it appears we have more on the ground here. Not quite the perfect storm, but damn close. […]

BCS National Championship Grabs Cable TV’s Biggest Audience Ever

This is what ESPN was hoping for when it signed the Bowl Championship Series to a cable-exclusive contract. Not only did the BCS National Championship Game garner the biggest overnight rating in cable history, but it also received the highest audience in history. This is NFL playoff-like numbers. The average audience was 27.3 million viewers […]

Grabbing Some Tuesday Linkage and Putting All In One Place For You

Let’s do the linkage and get it all done so you get on with your workday. That also goes for me as well. Here goes. From USA Today, Mike McCarthy talks with a Frito-Lay executive on whether Brent Musburger was following orders on saying “This is for all the Tostitos” just before the winning kick […]

ESPN Gets Cable TV’s Highest Overnight Ratings Ever for BCS National Championship Game

Last night, I asked for predictions from my Twitter following on the rating and viewership and John Ourand of Sports Business Daily/Sports Business Journal nailed it. .bbpBox24621668764745730 {background:url(http://a3.twimg.com/a/1294279085/images/themes/theme1/bg.png) #C0DEED;padding:20px;} p.bbpTweet{background:#fff;padding:10px 12px 10px 12px;margin:0;min-height:48px;color:#000;font-size:18px !important;line-height:22px;-moz-border-radius:5px;-webkit-border-radius:5px} p.bbpTweet span.metadata{display:block;width:100%;clear:both;margin-top:8px;padding-top:12px;height:40px;border-top:1px solid #fff;border-top:1px solid #e6e6e6} p.bbpTweet span.metadata span.author{line-height:19px} p.bbpTweet span.metadata span.author img{float:left;margin:0 7px 0 0px;width:38px;height:38px} p.bbpTweet a:hover{text-decoration:underline}p.bbpTweet span.timestamp{font-size:12px;display:block} Unless it’s […]

“This is For All The Tostitos” .. And Maybe the BCS National Championship Too

ESPN’s production of the first cable-exclusive BCS National Championship Game between Auburn and Oregon was a mixed bag. The pictures and replays for the most part were quite good especially for Michael Dyer’s run late in the 4th quarter which set up the winning field goal for the Tigers. This showed that Dyer, although brought […]

Some Quick Monday Links

I owe you linkage since last Thursday so let’s do some. Michael Hiestand of USA Today has ESPN’s Brent Musburger saying he’ll talk less than normal during tonight’s BCS National Championship Game. Rupal Parekh of Advertising Age notes that social media giant Groupon has bought ads in Fox’s Super Bowl XLV pregame show. To Greg […]

ESPN is All Over The BCS National Championship Game

ESPN has produced the BCS National Championship Game before, but it has never actually had the contest on its air. Coming on Monday, it’ll make history by showing college football’s penultimate game on cable for the first time. To me, the first efforts for the Rose, Fiesta and Sugar Bowls have been nothing special. They […]

Sugar Bowl Scores In Overnights for ESPN

Another BCS game and another impressive overnight rating on cable. The 8.4 overnight rating for last night’s Sugar Bowl between Ohio State and Arkansas, a nailbiter in the second half, turned out to be just 3% lower than last year’s game, played on New Year’s night on Fox). So while the ratings are lower than […]

Orange Bowl Draws Same Overnight Rating on ESPN As On Fox Last Year

Last night’s Orange Bowl which became a second half blowout as Stanford took out Virginia Tech, drew a 7.1 overnight rating on ESPN. Almost the same as last year on Fox. This becomes the third best college football overnight rating in ESPN’s history. We have your press release from ESPN. Orange Bowl: ESPN’s Third-Best College […]

Rose Bowl Gets ESPN’s Biggest Ratings ‘Cept For NFL

The ratings may have been down from ABC in 2010, but for cable, these are stellar numbers and they are the biggest for a college football game on ESPN. The Alleged Worldwide Leader says the viewership numbers are the same from 2009. On Saturday, the Rose Bowl garnered a 13.1 rating with just over 20.5 […]

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