0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/23/2012
We’re beginning to get word on the overnight rating for the AFC and NFC Championship Games on CBS and Fox, respectively. CNBC’s Darren Rovell tweets that the AFC Championship had its best viewership in almost two decades. [blackbirdpie url=” And Managing Editor of Sports Business Daily, Austin Karp says the NFC Championship drew a monster […]
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Time for some sports media thoughts once again. I owe you some since I wasn’t able to do them after last Monday’s post. As always, they come in bullet form. Since I was out for most of the afternoon on Sunday, I missed the Pregame coverage and 3/4 of the AFC Championship Game, but I […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/21/2012
A busy day for CBS as it airs four college basketball games as part of a tripleheader. Four of the nation’s Top 25 teams will be in action. Here are the details from CBS. CBS SPORTS’ COLLEGE BASKETBALL TRIPLEHEADER HIGHLIGHTED BY NO. 2-RANKED KENTUCKY VS. ALABAMA AND NO. 7-RANKED KANSAS VS. TEXAS ON SATURDAY, JAN. 21 CBS […]
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This Sunday, CBS Sports kicks off Conference Championship Sunday with the AFC Championship live from Foxboro, MA as the Baltimore Ravens take on the New England Patriots. CBS will air NFL Championship Chase at 1 p.m. ET followed by a one-hour edition of The NFL Today. James Brown, Dan Marino, Bill Cowher, Shannon Sharpe and […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/20/2012
The last few Fridays, I haven’t been able to provide you with the megalinks. I have to do some today otherwise you’ll stop visiting me. We begin as always with the Weekend Viewing Picks and there are quite a few for this snowy weekend in Southern New England. Now to your links. National Michael Hiestand […]
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NFL GameDay Morning — NFL Network, 9 a.m. NFL Championship Chase — CBS, 1 p.m. The NFL Today — CBS, 2 p.m. 3 p.m. AFC Championship, Foxboro, MA Baltimore Ravens at New England Patriots — CBS, Jim Nantz/Phil Simms/Steve Tasker; Dial Global Radio, Dave Sims/James Lofton/Tony Boselli 6 p.m. Fox NFL Sunday — Fox, 6 […]
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Men’s Schedule Courtesy of Matt’s College Sports on TV Saturday, January 21 College GameDay live from Pittsburgh, PA — ESPNU, 10 a.m./ESPN, 11 a.m./ESPN, 8 p.m. 11 a.m. Maryland at Temple — ESPNU noon Fordham at St. Bonaventure — A-10 Network: Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia/CSS/The Comcast Network Wake Forest at Boston College — ACC Network Rutgers […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/18/2012
On Wednesday’s edition of Showtime’s Inside the NFL, LaDanian Tomlinson took the opportunity to talk about the New York Jets’ failure to make the playoffs plus the controversy of recently leaked stories to the media on the infighting among the team. L.T. talked to the Inside the NFL team of James Brown, Cris Collinsworth, Phil […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/17/2012
I’m still waiting on press releases from the NFL TV partners on the final ratings for Divisional Playoffs Weekend. Also, I’m looking for local ratings for the AFC games, Denver-New England and Houston-Baltimore in particular. Hopefully, that will come today. In the meantime, we have this from CBS touting its average viewership for its three […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/16/2012
Let’s do some linkage on this MLK Day, a holiday for some of you. We’ll begin with a story from an unusual source, Newsweek/The Daily Beast. Nick Summers of Newsweek writes about how ESPN’s subscriber fees could force cable providers to place the network on pay tiers. Michael Hiestand at USA Today reports that CBS […]
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I’ll provide some thoughts on the weekend in sports media as hopefully, MLK Day is a holiday for you. If not, then I hope you’re able to find a way to honor Dr. King and his message in some manner today. As always, the thoughts come in bullet form. As I watched the Houston-Baltimore game […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/15/2012
Here are the schedules and times for Sunday to decide the teams for Super Bowl XLVI in Indianapolis on February 5, 2012. The games are scheduled for 3:10 p.m. and 6:40 p.m. ET officially. AFC CHAMPIONSHIP, Foxboro, MA Baltimore Ravens at New England Patriots — CBS, 3 p.m., Jim Nantz/Phil Simms/Steve Tasker NFC CHAMPIONSHIP, San […]
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We’re getting the viewership numbers for both NFL Divisional Playoff games. The surprising development was that the New Orleans-San Francisco game on Fox did better than the Denver-New England contest on CBS. Of course, Saints-49ers had four lead changes in the last four minutes of the game while Broncos-Pates was over at the opening kickoff. […]
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Now let’s go to the NFL Today’s quotage for Divisional Sunday. Kudos to CBS for being the only network to send out quotage for the entire Divisional Playoff Weekend. They stepped up. Here’s the CBS press release. NEWS, NOTES & QUOTES FROM CBS SPORTS’ “THE NFL TODAY” WITH JAMES BROWN, DAN MARINO, SHANNON SHARPE, BILL […]
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We have the overnight numbers from yesterday’s NFL Divisional Playoff action and while both CBS and Fox are crowing, one has to think the Tiffany Network has to be a bit disappointed in having a blowout and not surpassing Fox’s ratings. While the primetime game between the Denver Broncos and New England Patriots finished as […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/14/2012
Got this quotage late tonight. At this point, I wasn’t expecting to get a press release from the NFL TV partners, but kudos to CBS Sports sending this out. Always better late than never. I do hope that the full set of quotage comes from the usual suspects tomorrow. We’ll see. Here are the quotes […]
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To kick off its big day of sports programming today, CBS Sports will air a special produced by NFL Films called “They Call It The Playoffs.” The special will focus on some of the best moments in the NFL postseason including the Miami-Kansas City double overtime game from the 1971 season, “The Catch” from the […]
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And let’s move to the Tiffany Network and CBS’ previews of this weekend’s games. CBS has games at 8 p.m. ET Saturday and 1 p.m. Sunday. Of course, we all know it’s the Denver Tebows taking on the New England Bradys in primetime on Saturday. And it’ll be Houston at Baltimore on Sunday. CBS has […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/13/2012
Saturday, January 14 NFL GameDay Morning — NFL Network, noon Fox NFL Sunday — Fox, 3:30 p.m. 4:30 p.m. New Orleans Saints at San Francisco 49ers — Fox, Kenny Albert/Daryl Johnston/Tony Siragusa; Dial Global Sports, Kevin Kugler/Mark Malone/Scott Kaplan 7:30 p.m. The NFL Today — CBS NFL GameDay Scoreboard — NFL Network 8 p.m. Denver […]
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Men’s schedule courtesy of Matt’s College Sports on TV Saturday, January 14 College GameDay — ESPN2, 10 a.m./ESPNU, 11 a.m. 11 a.m. UConn at Notre Dame — ESPN2 noon Villanova at Cincinnati — Big East Network/Cox Sports Television/MASN/SNY Hofstra at Old Dominion — Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic/Comcast SportsNet New England/Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia/CSS/MSG Plus Kentucky at Tennessee […]
