0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/18/2014
All Times Eastern Schedule courtesy Matt’s College Sports Announcing assignments courtesy Eye on Sky and Air Sports Pregame and Studio Shows Fox Sports Live: Countdown to Kickoff — Fox Sports 1, 8 a.m. College GameDay live from Tallahassee, FL — ESPN, 9 a.m. SEC Nation — SEC Network, 10 a.m. BTN Football Pregame — Big […]
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All Times Eastern Thursday, September 18 Pregame and Studio Shows Around the NFL — NFL Network, 2 p.m. NFL Insiders — ESPN, 3 p.m. NFL Live — ESPN, 4 p.m. NFL Fantasy Live — NFL Network, 5 p.m. NFL Total Access Kickoff live from the Georgia Dome, Atlanta, GA — NFL Network, 6 p.m. Fantasy […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/16/2014
Last week, CBS pulled Rihanna singing Jay-Z’s “Run This Town” off Thursday Night Football due to the Ray Rice controversy and also due to her own connection with domestic violence thanks to Chris Brown. CBS had planned to use her song for the rest of the season, but then this morning she reacted in a […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/15/2014
And we move to the quotage on the networks of CBS Sports, the NFL Today on CBS and That Other Pregame Show on CBS Sports Network. By the way, I start a weekly review of NFL pregame shows on Monday on Awful Announcing and I’ll start with TOPS. Look for it. Anyway, here’s the quotage. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/14/2014
Ok, it was a tumultuous week for the NFL and today, the games will be played. However, two clouds still hang over the league, Ray Rice and Adrian Peterson. Let’s take a look at what’s happening this week. So, besides the off the field stuff, what’s new in the NFL? Well, the off the field […]
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This is what networks hope for when they sign the NFL, big viewership numbers. And for the season premiere of Thursday Night Football simulcast on CBS and NFL Network, the numbers are good. An average 20.8 million viewers watched Pittsburgh at Baltimore. And if you want the breakdown, you shall receive it. An estimated 17.4 […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/12/2014
All Times Eastern Schedule courtesy of Matt’s College Sports Announcing assignments courtesy of Eye on Sky and Air Sports Studio and Pregame Shows College GameDay live from Fargo, ND — ESPN, 9 p.m. Fox Sports Live: Countdown to Kickoff — Fox Sports 1, 9 a.m. SEC Nation — SEC Network, 10 a.m. BTN Football Pregame […]
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Whether it was Ray Rice or people are just starved for football, another network TV primetime NFL package scored in the ratings. The Pittsburgh-Baltimore game to kick off the new combined CBS/NFL Network Thursday Night Football series gave the networks a 13.7 overnight rating with a 23 share. That’s up a whopping 108% from last […]
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I’m not sure I’ll be posting this every week, but with CBS/NFL Network focusing on the Ray Rice situation before the Pittsburgh-Baltimore game, this was quite newsworthy in particular the first half of the program. The first half of the program, the 7:30 – 8 p.m. ET portion was Ray Rice-centric with James Brown tossing […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/10/2014
All Times Eastern Thursday, September 11 Studio & Pregame Shows Around the NFL — NFL Network, 2 p.m. NFL Insiders — ESPN2, 3 p.m. NFL Live — ESPN2, 4 p.m. NFL Fantasy Live — NFL Network, 5 p.m. NFL Total Access Kickoff: Thursday Night Football Preview (season premiere) — NFL Network, 6 p.m. NFL Thursday […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/8/2014
Let’s turn to the NFL on CBS quotage from the two pregame shows, That Other Pregame Show on CBS Sports Network and the NFL Today on CBS. Both shows debuted new casts with That Other Pregame Show bringing in London Fletcher and Anita Marks joining holdovers Adam Schein, Amy Trask and Brandon Tierney and on […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/7/2014
CBS begins its 55th year of broadcasting National Football League games by airing mostly American Football Conference games with a few NFC-centric contests sprinkled in. This weekend marks the final year that CBS will have to deal with the U.S. Open tennis tournament in the late window and only 1 p.m. ET games. Overall, CBS […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/6/2014
The NFL on CBS has provided its announcing assignments for the next three weeks. Week 2 is when CBS begins Thursday Night Football coverage. Also note that Jim Nantz, Phil Simms and Tracy Wolfson will be doing double duty on Thursdays and Sundays in Weeks 2 and 3. In Week 4, Ian Eagle, Dan Fouts […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/3/2014
All Times Eastern Thursday, September 4 Studio & Pregame Shows Around the NFL — NFL Network, 2 p.m. NFL Insiders — ESPN, 3:30 p.m. NFL Live — ESPN, 4 p.m. NFL Fantasy Live — NFL Network, 4 p.m. NFL GameDay: Kickoff 2014 — NFL Network, 5 p.m. NFL Kickoff 2014 — NBC/NFL Network, 7:30 p.m. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/2/2014
If you’re not a fan of musical opens for primetime football games, then this post is not for you. CBS and NFL Network have announced a new open for Thursday Night Football. Now, anything would be an improvement from CeeLo Green’s awful fracturing of The Ramones in 2012. And it should be better than whatever […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/22/2014
Five guests on this particular podcast, all recorded during the NFL on CBS Media Day in New York earlier this week. Most of the interviews are about five minutes or so. The last interview is 15 minutes and the total length of this podcast is 47:22 so you don’t have to spend too much time […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/21/2014
The 47th U.S. Open for CBS Sports will end with the Tiffany Network covering the only tennis grand slam tournament in the United States for the very last time before ESPN takes over next year. Bill Macatee, John McEnroe and Mary Carillo will be the main announcing team. Ian Eagle and Jim Courier will also […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/19/2014
Let’s provide you with the games and who will call them for CBS in Weeks 1 and 2 of the 2014 NFL season. Some of these assignments were leaked by the announcers themselves yesterday at the NFL on CBS Media Day in New York at CBS World Headquarters. The assignment of Jim Nantz, Phil Simms […]
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This was unveiled yesterday at the NFL on CBS Media Day in New York which your humble writer attended. With CBS and NFL Network combining to air Thursday Night Football, we note that Rich Eisen, Michael Irvin, Marshall Faulk and Steve Mariucci will be doing a pregame show from outside each game site. This show, […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/14/2014
This in from Showtime, Inside the NFL will move from Wednesday nights to Tuesday nights at 9 ET starting September 2. And here’s the kicker, the show will air for the first time on basic cable when NFL Network re-airs the show on Wednesday nights. Greg Gumbel replaces James Brown as host. Phil Simms returns […]
