0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/16/2012
CBS Sports Radio’s lineup is filling in quite nicely. Today, the network announced that host Damon Amendolara of CBS Radio’s 98.5 The Sports Hub will become its overnight host. Amendolara has been the nighttime host for the Sports Hub in addition to making numerous appearances on the NFL Films-produced Top 10 shows on NFL Network. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/1/2012
Scott Ferrall who’s been on Howard Stern’s Howard 101 on Sirius XM Satellite Radio since 2006, will be joining CBS Sports Radio when it launches on January 2. He’ll join Jim Rome and Doug Gottlieb who have already been announced. Ferrall will occupy the 10 p.m. to 2 am. ET slot and utilize his old […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/27/2012
We knew this was coming, but today, we get the official announcement. Jim Rome will become part of CBS Sports Radio when it launches full-time on January 2, 2012. He’ll be in his traditional noon to 3 p.m. ET slot that he currently occupies at Premiere Radio Networks. Rome’s show will lead into the previously […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/29/2012
This report comes from a non-traditional sports media source. Nellie Andreeva of the TV industry website Deadline is reporting that Jim Rome will take his radio show from his long time home of the Premiere Radio Networks to the new CBS Sports Radio that will be launching on January 2, 2013. Rome’s show has been […]
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I’ll provide a few thoughts as we hit midweek. They’ll be in bullet form, of course. First, here’s hoping the people of New Orleans will be ok in the midst of Hurricane Isaac. They’ve put up with way too much from Hurricane Katrina to Hurricane Gustav and the BP oil spill, I pray they endure […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/16/2012
Announced today by the upstart CBS Sports Radio, Boomer Esiason of WFAN’s Boomer & Carton, the NFL Today and Dial Global’s Monday Night Football has been named as a contributor. He’ll provide commentary and updates for the “CBS Sports Minute” that will be distributed during morning drive to member stations. In addition, Boomer has been […]
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 7/2/2012
Let’s bring out some Monday links today. Starting with Michael Hiestand of USA Today, he talks with Fox’s Erin Andrews (weird to write that) about her decision to leave ESPN. A.J. Perez of Fox Sports has Erin’s reaction to joining the network. Jane Kellogg and Alex Ben Block of the Hollywood Reporter write about Erin […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/29/2012
And can you believe I’ve been able to do linkage for most of the week? Hasn’t been like that in a long while. Glad I’ve been able to get it done. Time for your Friday megalinks. As usual, we provide the Weekend Viewing Picks which has plenty of MLB and U.S. Olympic Trials action. Let’s […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/26/2012
Let’s do some Tuesday links. We’ll start with Matt Hayes of AOL Sporting News and he writes that the BCS is looking for a $5 billion TV deal over a decade for its new college football playoff. In the Indiana University National Sports Journalism Center, Michael Bradley says the new college football playoff still can […]
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 6/22/2012
Ok, as we’re all in denial over the Miami Heat winning the NBA Championship, it’s time for a few sports media thoughts. Too many things to go over, but I’ll do my best to cover as many things as I can. As always, we do them in bullet form. And to drown out the thoughts […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/21/2012
After an outage that ruined things from Sunday through Tuesday and being busy yesterday, my goal to have links every day this week has gone out the window. However, I can get a few links out to you today. Let’s get to them. Starting with Ed Sherman from the Sherman Report who talks with ESPN […]
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Breaking now, we learn that just a week and a half after NBC Sports had announced earlier this month that it would launch a radio network with Dial Global, CBS Radio has unveiled its plans to launch a sports radio network of its own partnering with Cumulus Media. And it’s quite interesting that CBS and […]
