0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/23/2012
Coming on the next Costas Tonight, Bob talks with Bobby. Bobby Valentine, that is. The former Boston Red Sox manager. It will mark Valentine’s first sit-down interview since he was let go by the Red Sox last week. Michelle Beadle will be on to talk about one of Costas’ favorite subjects, social media trends. And […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/21/2012
Tonight, Bob Costas interviews Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin and Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Andy Dalton in advance of tonight’s Sunday Night Football game. The interviews will be seen on Football Night in America which airs at 7 p.m. on NBC. Bob will host the show live from Paul Brown Stadium in Cincinnati while Dan Patrick […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/10/2012
Let’s do some links now. Austin Karp at Sports Business Daily says the MLB TV partners saw record low ratings this season. Sports lllustrated’s Richard Deitsch reviews ESPN2’s first foray into pro hockey since losing the NHL in 2005. Michael Hiestand of USA Today notes that Bob Costas is back calling postseason baseball for the […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/8/2012
We’ve been waiting for the start times of Wednesday games of the League Division Series since we learned the MLB Postseason participants. In addition, we wondered which game MLB Network would air. Now that the times have been updated for Wednesday, we know that MLB Network will get the first game of the day on […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/7/2012
We haven’t had a “Get off my lawn” commentary from Bob Costas since Week 1 when he lectured Cleveland Browns fans on Art Modell. This week, Bob is back on the soapbox to discuss Andrew Luck engineering an Indianapolis Colts comeback win over the Green Bay Packers. Here, Bob waxes poetic on Luck and tries […]
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Tonight, NBC will air interviews that Bob Costas conducted with San Diego Chargers tight end Antonio Gates and New Orleans Saints QB Drew Brees in anticipation of Sunday Night Football’s matchup between the Chargers and Saints. Bob asks Brees about requesting suspended coach Sean Payton to watch his potential record breaking game in which has […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/30/2012
Tonight in advance of the Sunday Night Football game between the New York Football Giants and the Philadelphia Eagles, NBC’s Bob Costas talks with the Giants’ Justin Tuck and Osi Umenyiora, then with Philadelphia’s Michael Vick. Here’s a preview through transcripts. “FOOTBALL NIGHT IN AMERICA” PREVIEW – WEEK 4 BOB COSTAS INTERVIEWS EAGLES QB MICHAEL […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/16/2012
Let’s go over what’s coming up on the next NFL Sunday. Our NFL Week actually began on Thursday? — Yup. First of 13 Thursday Night Football games on NFL Network this season. So I won’t hear a disclaimer for “60 Minutes” on CBS at 7 p.m.? — Not when the Tiffany Network has the NFL […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/12/2012
I’ll provide a few links on this Wednesday afternoon. Michael Hiestand of USA Today looks at CBS pushing its Sunday primetime lineup to 7:30 p.m. ET to accommodate the NFL. Michael Kruse of Grantland has a very good story catching up with former ESPN Radio host Nanci Donnellan aka “The Fabulous Sports Babe”. Ed Sherman […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/9/2012
Ok, I’m steaming after seeing Bob Costas’ commentary on the late Art Modell. As a Browns fan, I’m still angry about the move from Cleveland. I know Baltimore fans couldn’t be happier about him. Costas lecturing Browns fan about eventually forgiving Modell is just the thing we want to hear. I’m posting the text without […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/5/2012
Ah yes. It’s football season and we know it’s here when we get pregame show quotage. In this case, it’s NBC’s transcripts from tonight’s NFL Kickoff 2012 show that was simulcast on the Peacock and NFL Network. I like how we get quotage from NBC just an hour after the show ended. Very nice job, […]
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NBC can certainly crow about its ratings over the Olympics, but they happened during the dead month of August when network fare is as original as a Jason Blair article. It took me ten minutes to think of that. Anyway, the top-rated primetime series of 2011-12, Sunday Night Football returns to NBC this week and […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/28/2012
On the next Costas Tonight airing Wednesday on the NBC Sports Network, Bob will speak Joe Paterno biographer Joe Posnanski. The book, Paterno, was recently released and has come under scrutiny for not being hard enough on the late Penn State coach in the midst of the Jerry Sandusky scandal. Costas will talk about the […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/19/2012
Well, the Olympics have been over for a week, but in the time since the flame was extinguished in the Olympic Stadium in London, it’s meant the start of a whole slew of montages being uploaded from all over the globe. We have several videos from BBC’s extensive coverage, one from CTV and one from […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/13/2012
Time to hand out the medals for NBC’s coverage for the Games of the XXX Summer Olympiad in London. This was a largely successful Olympics for NBC as it outdid its own expectations for ratings, profits and viewership. I’ll do the same as I did back in 2008 for Beijing and 2010 in Vancouver. For […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/5/2012
As we go into the second week of the 2012 London Olympics or the Games of the XXX Summer Olympiad, I thought I would take the opportunity on this middle Sunday to look ahead for the next set of Games on television. We know that NBCUniversal will carry the Olympics through 2020, that’s two Winter […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/26/2012
While we had a plethora of soccer games on Wednesday and Thursday, they weren’t the official start to the Olympics. Once the Opening Ceremony takes place and we hear the host country’s head of state say, “I hereby declare the Games of the (whatever number it is) Olympiad Open” then the Olympics have truly begun. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/25/2012
Olympics start today with women’s soccer and there’s more soccer action tomorrow on the men’s side. Let’s bring you some linkage before I get distracted by the live streaming. USA Today’s Michael Hiestand reports that Erin Andrews will get some high profile NFL assignments working with the Fox Sports “A” announcing team of Joe Buck, […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/24/2012
The Olympics get started tomorrow with women’s soccer action and while the Games don’t officially begin until Friday with the Opening Ceremony (live in most countries except the United States), today is really the calm before the Olympic storm. Starting tomorrow and going through August 12, this site will be awash in Olympics sports media […]
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With the Games of the XXX Summer Olympiad in London starting this week, it’s time to provide you with a breakdown of coverage that you’ll see on the networks of NBCUniversal. While the Opening Ceremony will officially start the Games on Friday, soccer action will begin on Wednesday. MSNBC starts the coverage Wednesday morning with […]
