0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/3/2011
Lots of things to get to today. I hope to get everything in during one long linkfest, but if I can’t, I’ll try to do it in multiple parts. We begin with USA Today’s Mike McCarthy who says despite the ratings being down for the Rose and Fiesta Bowls as ESPN takes over the games […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/2/2011
The numbers for the Rose and Fiesta Bowl are in and they are good for ESPN. Overall, they’re down considerably from when they were on broadcast TV last year, but ESPN doesn’t care. They still beat the ratings on both broadcast and cable on Saturday. Both beat the Winter Classic by wide margins. ESPN’s Rose […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/1/2011
On this New Year’s Day during it which seems college football is quite irrelevant. That’s what the BCS National Champion Game has done, made any New Year’s Day bowl games totally forgettable. And you have some weak matchups in the Rose and Fiesta Bowls tonight so I’m not all that excited about the games. And […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/29/2010
Ok, this may turn out to be a busy day for me so I’m going to try to sneak some links in. You may see this in multiple parts so here goes. We’ll begin with Tom Weir in USA Today’s Game On blog discussing Tucker Carlson of Fox News wanting Michael Vick executed? Michael Hiestand […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/12/2010
Ok, been a crazy morning. Now that everything with New York Giants-Minnesota has been worked out, I can move on to other things. Let’s do your linkage. At ESPN.com, Greg Garber looks back at NBC’s experiment of an announcerless NFL game 30 years ago. Tim Graham at ESPN.com also has a story on the experiment. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/8/2010
Let’s do some links on this Wednesday. I may do more this evening. First, Sports Business Daily points out that Monday Night Football received the 5th highest audience on cable this year. USA Today’s Michael Hiestand talks about ESPN’s plethora of bowls and discusses Captain Blowhard doing commentary on an NBA game this Friday. Barry […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/7/2010
Ok, since the bowl matchups were announced on Sunday, I’ve been waiting for this press release. I even sent an e-mail to ESPN which went unanswered, but no big deal. We have the schedule for all 33 bowl games on the ESPN Family of Networks including the Mothership, ESPN2, ESPNU and ESPN 3D. ABC gets […]
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 12/5/2010
This comes from Matt’s College Sports on TV. This is the 2010-11 College Bowl schedule complete with matchups. Date Game Tie-in Stadium & City Network Time Saturday12/18/10 New Mexico Bowl UTEP vs. BYU University StadiumAlbuquerque, NM 2pm Saturday12/18/10 Humanitarian Bowl Fresno St. vs. Northern Illinois Bronco StadiumBoise, ID 5:30pm Saturday12/18/10 New Orleans Bowl Ohio vs. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/24/2010
Let’s provide you with some linkage on this day before Thanksgiving. Lots of things to get done so let’s do this. USA Today’s Michael Hiestand has ESPN NBA analyst Jeff Van Gundy backtracking on his 72 win prediction for the Miami Heat. Brian Lowry at Fox Sports says the Thanksgiving weekend gives sports fans a […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/16/2010
Since I had to cut the Tuesday links short, I’m going to add some linkage this evening. After I finished the links, the big story was the revelation from the Sports Media & Technology Conference in New York today that the combined CBS/Turner team for the 2011 NCAA Tournament will include TNT’s NBA announcers including […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/13/2010
ESPN has released its Bowl Championship Series announcing teams for its various platforms (TV, Radio, 3-D). As expected, Brent Musburger and Kirk Herbstreit will call the Rose Bowl and the BCS National Championship. Other announcing teams involved in the games will be Sean McDonough and Matt Millen (Sean’s fine, but Matt is absolutely horrible), Brad […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/12/2010
Since I’ll be away from any wireless technology this afternoon, I’m doing the megalinks now and will try to get as many as I can in before leaving the office for the day. Let’s start now and I’ll provide some links I could not get to over the last couple of days. National USA Today’s […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/6/2010
It begins Sunday and will run through December. It’s ESPN’s new BCS Countdown show that will have the BCS rankings and plenty more. The show will begin after the Sunday night SportsCenter at 8:15 on ESPN and then air on ESPNU starting at 9 p.m. I’m not a fan of the BCS and would rather […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/2/2010
Starting in October and running through early December, ESPN will run a weekly show devoted to the BCS standings and span two networks over 75 minutes. BCS Countdown will start at 8:15 p.m. on ESPN and then move to ESPNU at 9 p.m. every Sunday starting on October 17. We have the announcement from ESPN. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/28/2010
Just found out my day has been planned for me again so I’m going to post as many Saturday links here before heading out. Milton Kent at Fanhouse says a revamped ESPNews will debut on Monday. SportsNewser gives you a sports media blog you should read. Unfortunately, it’s not Fang’s Bites. Comcast SportsNet New England […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/26/2010
To complete the sponsors of all BCS games, ESPN and the Orange Bowl have announced that Discover will be the main sponsor. FedEx was the previous sponsor. DISCOVER TO SERVE AS NEW ORANGE BOWL GAME TITLE SPONSOR Four-Year, Five-Game Deal with ESPN and the Orange Bowl Committee Includes 2013 Discover BCS National Championship Game RIVERWOODS, […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/20/2010
After a two week hiatus, the Videos of the Week return continuing a theme I started last month, Best Sports TV Themes. You can check them out here, here, here, here and here. There are a good many sports themes, but there are also some bad ones. Not every sports theme is a home run […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/28/2010
Let’s do the linkage for this Thursday. Got off to a late start, but that’s due to some overdue paperwork I had to complete. Now that it’s done, I can do some linkage for you. Let’s begin with USA Today’s Michael McCarthy who looks at the impact of a Tiger Woods-less PGA Tour on both […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/13/2010
These are events that used to be on network TV and have been or will be placed on ESPN: Monday Night Football – ABC from 1970 – 2005. Since 2006, cable exclusive. The Open Championship – Weekend coverage formerly on ABC for over 50 years. All four rounds on ESPN starting in 2010. NASCAR’s Chase […]
