0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/30/2011
Time for the Fang’s Bites Sports Media Year in Review. The year isn’t big enough for a Top Ten, but it is big enough for a Big Dozen. Let’s get to the list and we’ll count down from 12 and also have some Honorable Mentions. 12. ESPN The Book One of the most anticipated books […]
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NFL TV Coverage Maps (the506.com) Blackouts: None NFL GameDay Morning — NFL Network, 9 a.m. Fox NFL Sunday — Fox, noon 1 p.m. CBS Buffalo at New England — Don Criqui/Randy Cross Indianapolis at Jacksonville — Spero Dedes/Steve Beuerlein New York Jets at Miami — Greg Gumbel/Dan Dierdorf Tennessee at Houston — Bill Macatee/Steve Tasker […]
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Schedule courtesy of Matt’s College Sports on TV Saturday, December 31, 2011 noon St. John’s at UConn — Big East Network (SNY/MASN) Louisville at Kentucky — CBS Virginia Tech at Oklahoma State — ESPN2 Austin Peay at Morehead State — ESPNU South Carolina Upstate at South Carolina — Fox College Sports Central/SportSouth Boston University at […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/28/2011
Ok, going to try to give you a full set of links today. Let’s get started. Sports Illustrated’s Richard Deitsch has his 2011 Media Awards. Very good list of people getting awards this year. Michael Hiestand from USA Today writes that when all is said and done, the NFL’s TV ratings for this season will […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/25/2011
After Week 17, I’ll hand out the winners of the 5th Annual Fang’s Bites Awards. Usually, I just list those who won plus the honorable mentions. You never see the candidates whom I think are eligible each year. Well, it’s time to change that. Here are the nominees in each category. Best Play-by-Play: Marv Albert, […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/24/2011
Let’s go to CBS and the NFL Today quotage for this Saturday. Check it out. NEWS, NOTES & QUOTES FROM CBS SPORTS’ “THE NFL TODAY” WITH JAMES BROWN, DAN MARINO, SHANNON SHARPE, BILL COWHER AND BOOMER ESIASON FOR WEEK 16 ON DECEMBER 24 QUICK HITS (On Green Bay and Aaron Rodgers) BOOMER ESIASON: If Aaron […]
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We have the NFL on CBS announcing assignments through Week 17, but they’re quite incomplete. Week 17 has “TBD” working every game and obviously, this person will be quite busy. I don’t know how CBS plans to transport “TBD” to make every call of every play from every game, but I guess the network will […]
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Let’s move to CBS and its preview of NFL Week 16. We have analysts Dan Dierdorf and Solomon Wilcots talking about the games they’ll cover plus the issues hitting the NFL this week. THE NFL ON CBS: WEEK 16 (SATURDAY, DEC. 24) AUDIBLES WITH “THE NFL ON CBS’” DAN DIERDORF AND SOLOMON WILCOTS The CBS […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/23/2011
NFL TV Coverage Maps (the506.com) Blackouts: Buffalo, Cincinnati NFL GameDay Morning — NFL Network, 9 a.m. Fox NFL Sunday — Fox, noon 1 p.m. CBS Cleveland at Baltimore — Spero Dedes/Rich Gannon Denver at Buffalo — Jim Nantz/Phil Simms Jacksonville at Tennessee — Bill Macatee/Steve Tasker Miami at New England — Ian Eagle/Dan Fouts (“The […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/21/2011
It won’t be actual games since CBS will have a full slate on Christmas Eve, but if you’re jonesing for football on Sunday and you can’t wait until Bears-Packers on NBC at 8:30 p.m. ET, CBS has a small fix for you in the afternoon. CBS will air the NFL Holiday Spectacular on Sunday at […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/19/2011
I’ve been out for much of the day and my phone battery died while in transit so imagine feeling out of touch and lost like I did. But I’m back with you. I’ll do a few links here and add a few more in another post later. Sports Business Journal’s John Ourand has his sports […]
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And why shouldn’t it crow? Today, CBS put out a press release stating that the 4:15 p.m. window featuring New England-Denver shown to 79% of the country received the highest overnight ratings for any NFL TV partner this season. The average overnight rating for the window reached a 19.5 with a 36 share. Previously, the […]
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Do you think CBS knew what it was doing when it fought hard to keep New England-Denver from being flexed from the original 4:15 p.m. slot on Sunday to primetime? With the game going to 79% of the country, (New York, Philadelphia, Cleveland and Phoenix plus surrounding areas were the markets that did not receive […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/18/2011
And we move to the NFL Today which talked about Tim Tebow a lot including an interview of the man conducted by Jim Nantz. We do have one video for you. NEWS, NOTES & QUOTES FROM CBS SPORTS’ “THE NFL TODAY” WITH JAMES BROWN, DAN MARINO, SHANNON SHARPE, BILL COWHER AND BOOMER ESIASON FOR WEEK […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/17/2011
Let’s provide the CBS Sports previews for this week. I provide you with the NFL Today preview which includes a Jim Nantz interview of Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow. And someone named Billy Gardell will be a celebrity guest prognosticator. He’s from some CBS sitcom that I never watch. I’d rather watch Cialis ads than […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/16/2011
NFL Coverage Maps (the506.com) Blackouts: Buffalo NFL GameDay Morning — NFL Network, 9 a.m. The NFL Today — CBS, noon 1 p.m. CBS Cincinnati at St. Louis — Greg Gumbel/Dan Dierdorf Miami at Buffalo — Kevin Harlan/Solomon Wilcots Tennessee at Indianapolis — Ian Eagle/Dan Fouts (“The Bird” & “The Beard”) FOX Carolina at Houston — […]
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Schedule courtesy of Matt’s College Sports Saturday, December 17 Noon American at Georgetown — Big East Network Alabama A&M at Michigan — Big Ten Network Ohio State at South Carolina — ESPN Mississippi State at Detroit — Fox College Sports Atlantic/Fox Sports Detroit Florida Atlantic vs. Miami (FL) at Sunrise, FL — Fox Sports Net […]
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I’ll do a few thoughts on what’s transpired in sports media this week. As always, they come in bullet form. The NFL came out smelling like roses after the league’s owners approved the new 9 year agreements with CBS, Fox, and NBC. Not only does the league have stability with its players with a long-term […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/14/2011
I was thinking at the beginning of Wednesday that this was going to be a boring day covering sports media and it certainly started that way. But then at 3:30 p.m. Eastern time, it all changed when the NFL owners approved the new TV contracts with the network partners. So let’s take a look at […]
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The last of our NFL announcements today. This comes from CBS Sports which is crowing about the ability to air some NFC games starting in 2014. Back in 1993, it lost the rights to the NFC to Fox. Then in 1998, CBS fought to get back into the NFL by wresting AFC games away from […]
