0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/31/2012
Schedule courtesy of Matt’s College Sports Pregame & Studio Shows: Inside College Football: Notre Dame-Navy Kickoff — CBS Sports Network, 7 a.m. College GameDay live from Arlington, TX (season premiere) — ESPNU, 9 a.m./ESPN, 10 a.m. BTN Football Pregame — Big Ten Network, 11 a.m. College Football Countdown — ABC, 3 p.m. College Football Scoreboard […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/27/2012
Give credit to CBS for giving us a college football game on the very first weekend of the regular season. Usually, CBS has had to concede the first two weekends due to U.S. Open commitments, but it found a way to bring us college football on the first Saturday of the 2012 college football season […]
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The Office Move From Hell set me back in posting over the last two weeks so I’m trying to catch up with a few things. On Monday, the final tennis Grand Slam begins with the U.S. Open in New York. There will be four networks bringing this event to viewers. It’s to the point where […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/21/2012
Again, my apologies for not updating the site as much as you are accustomed. The Office Move That Won’t End is continuing and there’s no internet access. Imagine trying to keep informed on a 3G platform. Not easy after having a nice fast wifi router. Anyway, you don’t care about that. You want to get […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/31/2012
CBS has officially announced the signing of Doug Gottlieb into the company. He’ll join the upstart CBS Sports Radio which will begin in January. He’ll host the 3-6 p.m. ET slot. In addition, he’ll join CBS Sports as a college basketball analyst on games and in the studio. He’ll have a role on the NCAA […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/26/2012
This isn’t totally earth-shattering, but for a network that needs some inventory, this will be a big help. CBS Sports Network has signed a deal with the United Football League to air 18 games over the 8 week season from mid-September through late November. The contract also includes the UFL Championship Game. Here’s the press […]
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 […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/25/2012
Let’s do some links on a rainy Monday in Southern New England. Michael Hiestand of USA Today looks at NFL Network’s new morning show. Michael says ESPN has not confirmed whether Chris Berman will call a Monday Night Football game on the opening weekend of the season. John Ourand of Sports Business Journal reports that […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/14/2012
Announced today by the Pac-12 Conference, we have the early football schedule for all of the league’s network partners. Let’s push this out as I’ve been busy with lots of stuff on Thursday. My apologies for not updating the site at all. Overall, the Pac-12 Networks will carry a total of 35 games from the […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/13/2012
Earlier today on his syndicated radio program, Jim Rome got into some verbal fisticuffs with NBA Communist China Sympathizer David Stern. Rome asked Stern about the NBA Draft Lottery being fixed. Then Stern got pissy and asked Rome if he still beat his wife, which came out of left field. Now unless we get word […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/11/2012
Thursday turned out to be quite the crazy day for those of us who follow the sports media beat. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. On any given day, you just don’t know when sports media news will break. We had two stories throw us for a loop. I’ll do the thoughts […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/9/2012
I’ll do a common theme in this particular sports media thoughts post. This will deal with college sports. The thoughts will be in bullet forms, of course. With the Big 12 about to sign the next Mega Millions TV deal, it leaves just the Big East’s media rights in doubt. We know the ACC will […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/8/2012
After a few years without a major national TV contract, the Great Alaska Shootout will be seen nationally again starting this November. CBS Sports Network has signed a multi-year agreement with the University of Alaska-Anchorage to air the tournament. While the tournament began in 1978, it gained national prominence when ESPN began to air the […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/3/2012
With the Mountain’s West’s league-owned television network going dark at the end of this month, the conference has expanded its rights agreement with CBS Sports Network. With CBS Sports Network getting more games, it has sublicensed games to ESPN which is back airing Mountain West football games and to NBC Sports Network which has previously […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/18/2012
Time for some linkage again. Starting with Sports Business Daily which gauges media reaction to last night’s extravagant NFL regular season schedule release on both ESPN and NFL Network. Mike Reynolds from Multichannel News reviews both the Monday Night and expanded Thursday Night Football schedules. Ed Sherman at the Sherman Report has your potential hits […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/12/2012
Yesterday, I focused on several press releases before heading out for errands. Today, it’s back to the links. Daniel Kaplan at Sports Business Journal writes that the NFL wants to set up local zones in Super Bowl host cities similar to what Indianapolis did with a village and zip line this year. Mike Ozanian of […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/30/2012
The CBS Sports/Turner Sports NCAA Tournament consortium is in New Orleans to air the 2012 Final Four in the Louisiana Superdome. Kentucky-Louisville will be the first game scheduled for 6:09 p.m. ET. That will be followed by Ohio State-Kansas at approximately 8:49 p.m. Jim Nantz will call his 22nd Final Four for CBS and attend […]
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This week has been hellish for me and I apologize for not being able to post as much as I would like. I’ve been away from my computer for most of the day and by the time I get home, I’m tired and don’t want to update the blog. Well, with me already done my […]
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Saturday, March 31 Men’s College GameDay live from New Orleans — ESPN, noon Bracket Breakdown — CBS Sports Network, 1 p.m. The Big Dance in the Big Easy — CBS, 3 p.m. Human Highlight Reel — CBS, 3:30 p.m. The Final Four Show — CBS, 4 p.m. College All-Star Game — truTV, 1 p.m. NCAA […]
