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NBC’s Previews Football Night in America’s Interviews for Week 6 of the 2013 NFL Season

For tonight’s Football Night in America on NBC, Bob Costas interviews two players in advance of tonight’s Washington at Dallas game on Sunday Night Football. Bob talks with Dallas defensive end DeMarcus Ware and Washington wide receiver Pierre Garçon. We have partial transcripts below. BOB COSTAS INTERVIEWS DEMARCUS WARE AND PIERRE GARCON Football Night in […]

NBC’s Football Night in America Quotage for Week 5 of the 2013 NFL Season

Let’s complete the quotage for Week 5 of the NFL season with NBC’s Football Night in America. Here’s what was said on Sunday evening. NOTES & QUOTES FROM “FOOTBALL NIGHT IN AMERICA” — WEEK 5 “The Redskins nickname is offensive to Native Americans. In 2013, we need to get that name changed.” – Tony Dungy“He’s […]

NBC’s Football Night in America’s Interviews for Week 5 of the 2013 Season

In advance of tonight’s Houston at San Francisco game on Sunday Night Football, Bob Costas talks with Texans QB Matt Schaub while Tony Dungy speaks with 49ers signal caller Colin Kaepernick. It all airs on NBC’s Football Night in America starting at 7 p.m. ET. Here are partial transcripts of the interviews. TONY DUNGY INTERVIEWS […]

MLB Network Airs Game 2 of Pirates-Cardinals NLDS on Friday

In the second year of airing postseason baseball, MLB Network has announced it will carry Game 2 of the Pittsburgh-St. Louis series on Monday at 1 p.m. ET. The Holy Diminutive Bob Costas and Jim Kaat will call the game. Sam Ryan reports from the field. We have the press release from MLB Network. GAME […]

2013 MLB League Division Series Schedule

Let’s provide the schedules for the League Division Series. We do know the start times for the first three days of the games. We’ll know more over the next few days but here’s what we have thus far. I’ll break it down by series and by date. TBS carries all League Division Games except for […]

NBC’s Football Night in America Previews Tonight’s Interviews

In advance of tonight’s Chicago-Pittsburgh Sunday Night Football game, Bob Costas will have an interview with Bears wide receiver Brandon Marshall in which he will state that he loves quarterback Jay Cutler. Here’s a partial transcript. BOB COSTAS INTERVIEWS BRANDON MARSHALL Football Night in America Preview – Week 3 “He’s one of my best friends. […]

NBC Previews Sunday Night Football for Week 3 of the 2013 NFL Season

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 […]

NBC’s Football Night in America Previews Interviews for Week 2 of the 2013 NFL Season

In advance of tonight’s San Fransisco-Seattle game on Sunday Night Football, NBC’s Bob Costas speaks with the 49ers’ wide receiver Anquan Boldin and Seahawks defensive back Richard Sherman. We have a partial transcript of the interviews that will be aired on Football Night in America which begins at 7 p.m. ET on the National Broadcasting […]

The Week Ahead in Sports Media, September 2 — 8, 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 […]

MLB Network Airs Documentary on Ken “Hawk” Harrelson

Next Thursday, July 18 at 7 p.m. ET, MLB Network airs a documentary on long-time Chicago White Sox voice Ken “Hawk” Harrelson. Hawk has called White Sox games for two generations of fans dating back to the early 1980’s that they may not know he was once a very colorful player for a handful of […]

A Much Too Rare Case of Wednesday Linkage

I’ve been neglecting a couple of things that have been staples of this site, linkage and sports media thoughts. I’m taking care of linkage today. I hope to have a sports media thoughts post this week. It’s all about managing time. Let’s go. Richard Deitsch of Sports lllustrated has his usual weekly media column. He […]

Complete List of Winners for the 34th Annual Sports Emmy Awards

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 […]

NBC Sports Group Crows About Its 11 Sports Emmy Awards

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 […]

34th Annual Sports Emmy Awards Winners

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 […]

MLB Network’s Live Game Schedule for April

Opening Week in Major League Baseball is coming up. MLB Network will air 26 games in the opening month of the 2013 season. On Tuesday, April 2, Bob Costas, Jim Kaat and Sam Ryan will be in Los Angeles for the Dodgers home opener against National League West Division blood rival San Francisco. From there, […]

The Tim McCarver Broadcasting Timeline

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 […]

NBC Sports Group Crows About Its 58 Sports Emmy Nominations

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 […]

34th Annual Sports Emmy Awards Nominations Announced

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 […]

World Baseball Classic To Air Exclusively on MLB Network

All 39 games of the World Baseball Classic, the sport’s answer to soccer’s World Cup, basketball’s FIBA World Championships and Hockey’s IIHF World Championships, will air on MLB Network. Four years ago, the games were split between MLB Network which was brand spanking new at the time and ESPN. Now MLB Network will air the […]

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