0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/7/2012
We continue with the guest columns. This one comes from reader Corneilus Green. Three columns in one for you. Sports Broadcasting Talent Moves The summer is definitely heating up with the speculation of who is staying or who is going to new networks. Michelle Beadle is the most high profile talent to leave ESPN (which […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/6/2012
The Tiffany Network announced the dates and times of its SEC on CBS football schedule this fall. Already, six games have been unveiled including rivalry games Georgia vs. Florida in the annual World’s Largest Cocktail Party (which is no longer being billed as such), Alabama at LSU and LSU at Arkansas. Other games previously announced […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/31/2012
Here to provide some links for you today. Looks like I’ll be out on Friday so posting may be scarce, but we’ll cross that bridge when we get to it. In the meantime, I have some links for you now. This week, CBSSports.com Deputy Managing Editor Craig Stanke passed away at the age of 56. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/22/2012
Yes you do. It’s overdue. I thought being on unemployment would give me more time for doing the site. Instead, I have less. I don’t know how that’s happened. Anyway, here are some links for you. USA Today’s Michael Hiestand has soon-to-be NBC’s Michelle Beadle saying even she’s sick of the coverage on where she’s […]
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Let’s provide you with three thoughts on this Tuesday. You know the drill. After learning that her contract was expiring, leading to speculation that she was about to leave, seemingly leaving, then indeed she was leaving, we finally got the official wordfrom NBCUniversal that Michelle Beadle was joining the company.It’s a good move for her. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/21/2012
Reported earlier today by USA Today’s Michael Hiestand, CBS Sports has signed a four year deal with ESPN to get a package of college basketball games consisting from the ACC, Big 12 and Pac-12 conferences. While CBS won’t be airing Duke-North Carolina anymore, rest assured that the network will still get some decent matchups. The […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/16/2012
I’ll do some more linkage for you this evening. You’re owed it. Why not? Thomas O’Toole from USA Today reports that Laurie Fine, the wife of ex-Syracuse assistant basketball coach Bernie Fine, is suing ESPN for libel saying a report ruined her reputation. Barry Petchesky of Deadspin goes inside the lawsuit and notes that Fine […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/11/2012
Let’s do some Friday megalinks. You’ve been owed some and I haven’t been able to do links for most of the week. Of course, you have the Weekend Viewing Picks which provide plenty of college sports, soccer, baseball and the NBA and NHL postseason action. Now let’s do your links. National Michael Hiestand of USA […]
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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 5/10/2012
Received this from CBS Sports, NFL Network insider Jason La Canfora is leaving to take a similar position at the Tiffany Network. Since 2009, La Canfora has been the main insider on NFL Network taking the role that Adam Schefter held previously. Jason will join CBSSports.com in July. Then in September, he’ll be seen on […]
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 5/1/2012
Throughout the day, I will be posting various press releases from the networks touting their Sports Emmy Awards. Last night, I posted the winners as they were handed out. Now, we have the official press release from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences which holds the annual ceremonies. These include the names who […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/22/2012
This is some amazing stuff. I don’t know who uploaded these to YouTube, but this is some pretty video showing entire editions of The NFL Today on CBS. This is from Week 13 in 1979. Brent Musburger is the host (why he has never won a Sports Emmy for Outstanding Studio Host is beyond me), […]
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 […]
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In the current NFL TV contract, the over the air networks airing the Super Bowl also air the Pro Bowl in the same year. In the first Super Bowl rotation that began in 2007, CBS, Fox and NBC all aired the all-star exhibition game. However, in the second rotation that started in 2010, CBS informed […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/17/2012
CBS is your Super Bowl network for this upcoming season being the home of Super Bowl XLVII in New Orleans on February 3. It will cap off the 53rd season of the NFL on CBS. As usual, CBS will air AFC games including a Wild Card Playoff Game, two Divisional Playoff games and the AFC […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/16/2012
CBS has announced that it will air the Notre Dame Fighting Irish taking on the Navy Midshipmen live from Dublin, Ireland on September 1. The regular SEC on CBS crew of Uncle Verne Lundquist, Gary Danielson and Tracy “The Wolf” Wolfson will call the game. Call it “Breakfast with the Irish.” CBS SPORTS TO BROADCAST […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/15/2012
I haven’t done a sports media thoughts post in a while and there has been so much that has transpired since the last time I wrote one. As always, they’re in bullet form. Let’s do this. Just four days into the NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs and I like how the networks of NBC are handling […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/9/2012
Been so busy lately that it’s been effecting the blog. Sorry about that. This weekend was planned for me again, so I really couldn’t post too much around the personal events. It also meant I couldn’t watch any of The Masters® or any baseball. The only things I could watch was The Amazing Race and […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/5/2012
CBS gets in the NFL preseason with two games in as many days in August. The Tiffany Network will air both in primetime on Friday, August 24 and Saturday, August 25. CBS’ first game will be between the New York Football Giants and the Chicago Bears and I can safely predict that Jim Nantz and […]
