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CBS Airs the NCAA Basketball Championship Selection Show

When all of the conference championship basketball games are done, CBS Sports takes over to inform American where the Field of the 68 will go and play. Greg Gumbel will host as he has annually since 1998 and he’ll be joined by analysts Clark Kellogg, Seth Davis and for some insane reason, Doug Gottlieb. The […]

College Basketball Viewing Picks for 03/14 through 03/16/2014

All Times Eastern Men’s Schedule courtesy of Matt’s College Sports on TV Women’s Schedule courtesy of Eye on Sky and Air Sports Friday, March 14 Men’s Studio and Pregame Shows Inside College Basketball: Bracket Week — CBS Sports Network, 3:30 p.m. Big Ten Tip-Off Show 2014 — Big Ten Network, 6 p.m. Inside College Basketball: […]

CBS/Turner Announce 2014 NCAA Tournament Schedule

As we get ready for another year of fantastic college basketball during the NCAA Tournament, the CBS/Turner consortium of CBS/TBS/TNT/truTV will once again combine to show every game from the “First Four™” all the way to the Final Four®. There are a couple of changes in this year’s tournament as compared to the last three […]

College Basketball Viewing Picks for 03/08 & 03/09/2014

All Times Eastern Men’s Schedule courtesy of Matt’s College Sports Men’s Announcing Assignments and Women’s Schedule courtesy of Eye on Sky and Air Sports Saturday, March 8 Men’s Studio and Pregame Shows College GameDay live from Durham, NC — ESPNU, 10 a.m./ESPN, 11 a.m. Fox College Hoops Tip-Off — Fox Sports 1, 11 a.m. Fox […]

College Basketball Viewing Picks for 03/01 & 03/02/2014

All Times Eastern Men’s Schedule courtesy of Matt’s College Sports on TV Men’s Announcing Assignments & Women’s Schedule courtesy of Eye on Sky and Air Sports Saturday, March 1 Men’s Studio and Pregame Shows College GameDay live from Stillwater, OK — ESPNU, 10 a.m./ESPN, 11 a.m. NCAA Men of March: Shaka Smart — CBS, 1 […]

CBS/Turner Unveil Their NCAA Tournament Announcing Teams

I’m late on this. I’m doing my best to catch up over the next couple of days. Earlier this week, CBS Sports and Turner Sports made public their announcing teams for the 2014 NCAA Tournament. There are some changes from last year. As previously announced, Greg Anthony joins the “A” team with Jim Nantz and […]

Bart Scott Joins The NFL Today

CBS has just made it official. Bart Scott, formerly of the New York Jets and Baltimore Ravens, steps up from CBS Sports Network’s That Other Pregame Show to the CBS Mothership. He joins the show that just signed Tony Gonzalez and dropped Dan Marino and Sterling Sharpe. So the cast will consist of mainstays James […]

College Basketball Viewing Picks for 02/22 & 02/23/2014

All Times Eastern Men’s Schedule courtesy of Matt’s College Sports on TV Men’s Announcing Schedule and Women’s Schedule plus announcers courtesy of Eye on Sky and Air Sports Saturday, February 22 Men’s Studio and Pregame Shows College GameDay live from Boulder, CO — ESPNU, 10 a.m./ESPN, 11 a.m. Big Ten Tip-Off Show 2014 — Big […]

College Basketball Viewing Picks for 02/08 & 02/09/2014

All Times Eastern Men’s Schedule courtesy of Matt’s College Sports Men’s Announcing Assignments and Women’s Schedule courtesy of Eye on Sky and Air Sports Saturday, February 7 Studio and Pregame Shows College GameDay live from Memphis, TN — ESPNU 10 a.m./ESPN, 11 a.m. NCAA Men of March: Tom Izzo — CBS, 12:30 p.m. Fox College […]

CBS To Air Thursday Night Football Games in 2014

Ok, here’s the joint press release from CBS and National Football League announcing the new Thursday Night Football package for 2014. CBS and NFL Network will split the package with CBS airing the first half with an NFLN simulcast. All of CBS’ games will air on Thursday nights. NFL Network takes the second half with […]

BREAKING NEWS: CBS Wins Thursday Night Football Package

I thought NBC would take the package. Instead, CBS wins the bid for Thursday Night Football and will split the games with NFL Network. The Tiffany Network will produce the games. Jim Nantz and Phil Simms will call all of the Thursday  games. CBS will air the first half of the 16 game package, all […]

College Basketball Viewing Picks for 02/01 & 02/02/2014

All Times Eastern Men’s Schedule courtesy of Matt’s College Sports on TV Men’s Announcing Assignments and Women’s Schedule courtesy of Eye on Sky and Air Sports Saturday, February 1 Studio and Pregame Shows College GameDay live from Syracuse, NY — ESPNU, 10 a.m./ESPN, 11 a.m. Fox College Hoops Extra — Fox Sports 1, 2:30 p.m. […]

A Quick Saturday Sports Media Notebook

Time to do a quick notebook for you on this early Saturday morning. They’ll be bullet form. Fox has increased its stake in the YES Network. In late 2012, it purchased a 49% share in the regional sports network. On Friday through a press release from parent company 21st Century Fox, YES will become a […]

College Basketball Viewing Picks for 01/25 & 01/26/2014

All Times Eastern Men’s Schedule courtesy of Matt’s College Sports on TV Men’s Announcing Assignments and Women’s Schedule/Announcing Assignments courtesy of Eye on Sky and Air Sports Saturday, January 25 Men’s Studio and Pregame Shows College GameDay live from East Lansing, MI — ESPNU, 10 a.m./ESPN, 11 a.m. Big Ten Tip-Off Show — Big Ten […]

CBS Sports Family of Networks to Cover Super Bowl XLVIII Like a Wet Blanket

This from the fine people at CBS Sports. With Super Bowl Week fast approaching, the various sports television networks have unveiled their plans to provide programming for the days leading up to the Big Game in New Jersey. I’ll post what you can expect to watch on CBS, ESPN and NBC’s Family of Networks today. […]

CBS Scores With AFC Championship

CBS’ overnight ratings for the AFC Championship between the New England Patriots and Denver Broncos are the highest dating back to 1987 when the Broncos took on the Cleveland Browns on NBC. The rating of 29.5 and 52 share is the second highest for the AFC Championship and it’s 13% better than last year’s Conference […]

A Few Sunday Sports Media Thoughts

Time to do some thoughts before the NFL Conference Championship Games. Once they start, I won’t be able to get this done. As usual, they come in bullet form. Last week, Grantland put forth a story by Caleb Hannan on the science behind a golf putter and the person who invented it. And while it’s […]

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