0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/1/2013
Men’s Schedule Courtesy of Matt’s College Sports Announcing Assignments Courtesy of Eye on Sky and Air Sports Saturday, March 2 Pregame & Studio Shows College Gameday live from Los Angeles, CA — ESPNU, 10 a.m./ESPN, 11 a.m. Inside College Basketball — CBS Sports Network, 11 a.m. Big Ten Tip-Off Show 2013 — Big Ten Network, […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/23/2013
Let’s do a notebook tonight, shall we? If I can’t do linkage and it always seems something gets in the way these days, I might as well do a notebook. I’ll try to provide as many links and stories as possible here. Interesting story from The Big Lead. The daily 9 a.m.-3 p.m. ET SportsCenter […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/22/2013
Men’s Schedule courtesy of Matt’s College Sports Announcing Assignments courtesy of Eye on Sky and Air Sports Saturday, February 22 Pregame & Studio Shows College GameDay live from Lexington, KY — ESPNU, 10 a.m./ESPN, 11 a.m. 75 Years of NCAA March Madness: Top 10 Upsets — CBS, 1 p.m. 75 Years of NCAA March Madness: […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/21/2013
From John Ourand in today’s Sports Business Daily, ESPN has matched NBC’s offer to air Big East football and basketball. Earlier this week, it was reported that the Big East came to an agreement with NBC Sports Network, a deal with more $20 million annually over six years. Today was the deadline for ESPN to […]
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Let’s provide a few items that need to be recognized on this busy Thursday in sports. Updated the Viewing Picks to include Entertainment, MMA, NASCAR and the revised start time for the WGC Match Play Championships. I work over an hour compiling the viewing picks for you, so peruse them and let me know that […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/20/2013
Remember last year when Turner took over March Madness Live and it was so complicated to authenticate to get the free streaming of the NCAA Tournament? And it got to the point where some gave up while others got so frustrated, they decided to pay the $3.99 fee even though they could have watched for […]
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In lieu of linkage which has been sorely lacking, my sincere apologies, I give a sports media notebook which includes some links for you. Life has gotten in the way and you’ve responded by not visiting the site. It tells me you want fresh content so I’ll do my best to provide that to you […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/19/2013
In a deal that has shocked the boxing world, Floyd Mayweather has signed a six fight deal that will last 2½ years with Showtime/CBS. It means that Mayweather who had been with HBO is moving to Showtime. His first fight with Showtime/CBS will occur in May in a pay per view event. Showtime says this […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/15/2013
Men’s Schedule Courtesy of Matt’s College Sports Announcing Assignments Courtesy of Eye on Sky and Air Sports Saturday, February 16 Pregame & Studio Shows College GameDay live from Lawrence, KS — ESPNU, 10 a.m./ESPN, 11 a.m. 75 Years of NCAA March Madness: Top 10 Improbable Heroes — CBS, 12:30 p.m. College GameDay live from Lawrence, […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/8/2013
Men’s Schedule Courtesy of Matt’s College Sports Announcing Assignments Courtesy of Eye on Sky and Air Sports Saturday, February 9 Pregame and Studio Shows College GameDay live from South Bend, IN — ESPNU, 10 a.m./ESPN, 11 a.m. 75 Years of March Madness: Top 10 Coaches — CBS, 12:30 p.m. Big Ten Tip-Off Show — Big […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/7/2013
When CBS opened its broadcast of Super Bowl XLVII on Sunday, the network used this produced package featuring past Super Bowl MVP’s including Joe Namath and Lynn Swann. This set a new standard for opens. This was a mashup of Queen’s We Will Rock You by Helmut VonLichten with the NFL on CBS theme by […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/6/2013
I’ll do some linkage here. USA Today’s Michael Hiestand says Dick Vitale finally gets to call the NCAA Final Four, but for an international audience. John Ourand at Sports Business Daily reports that Fox is in talks with Regis Philbin to host a show on Fox Sports 1. Ed Sherman at The Sherman Report wonders […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/5/2013
In just its second year of online streaming, the Super Bowl was able to increase the number of online steams from 2012. The National Football League says the stream of the Baltimore Ravens vs. the San Francisco 49ers attracted three million unique users up 46% from Super Bowl XLVI. In addition, those users generated 10 […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/4/2013
This from the National Football League and the Columbia Broadcasting System. Both are saying that Super Bowl XLVII set a record in total viewership. For the game which has been divided into two time periods, 6:32-8:41 p.m. ET and 9:11 p.m.-10:47 p.m. ET minus the Superdome power outage, the telecast saw a total viewership of […]
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We have a lot of reviews, recaps and critiques of CBS’ production of Super Bowl XLVII. Phil Simms is a common theme here. Keep that in mind as you read the stories from across the country. If there’s one thing that unites sports media observers, it’s bad announcing. Here’s my review that was written very […]
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We have the numbers from CBS. Super Bowl XLVII did not set a viewership record, ending a three year streak that ended with last year’s Super Bowl that averaged 111.3 million viewers. Still, the average viewership for this year’s Big Game resulted in an astounding 108.41 million people who watched the contest between the Baltimore […]
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We have the official press release from CBS Sports in regards to the overnight ratings record for Super Bowl XLVII. The ratings breakdown tells us a slight downwards blip after the Ravens scored on the 2nd half kickoff and blackout, but then soared as the San Francisco 49ers made their comeback to make the game […]
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This in from CBS. We’re learning that despite a blackout and a studio crew vamping for 35 minutes, Super Bowl XLVII set an overnight ratings record. If this holds for the final rating, we may be on the way to a viewership record which would surprise your humble blogger. But we’re getting ahead of ourselves […]
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On Sunday, the Super Bowl was played in New Orleans for the tenth time, tying with Miami as the most times a city has hosted the Big Game. And in a city that is known for voodoo and the macabre, the tenth time in the Crescent City turned out to the most bizarre of any […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/3/2013
In the midst of the third quarter of Super Bowl XLVII, the Louisiana Superdome got hit with an electrical blackout forcing a delay in the game of 35 minutes. CBS scrambled into delay mode with sideline reporters Steve Tasker and Solomon Wilcots before tossing it to the Super Bowl Today crew of James Brown, Bill […]
