0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/7/2011
Let’s do the linkage on this Thursday morning. Some good stuff is already out. The Financial Times has a look at how European TV money is now either catching up or surpassing US TV dollars for the bidding for certain global sports events. Todd Spangler from Multichannel News reports that ESPN has released a new […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/6/2011
Let’s provide you with some more links. Stephen Wilson of the Associated Press says the International Olympic Committee hopes to have the US TV rights for the 2014/16 Olympics and possibly the 2018/20 Games awarded by mid-June. USA Today’s Michael Hiestand notes that without UConn in the NCAA Women’s Basketball Championship Game, ESPN did not […]
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Time for some linkage on this Wednesday. Can’t believe it’s mid-week already. USA Today’s Michael Hiestand says the NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship TV ratings may have been down from last year, but there are plenty of silver linings that go with it. Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban doesn’t seem to be a fan of bloggers. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/5/2011
I have news slogans in my head today, so I’m using “Live & Local” in the title. Let’s do your linkage. Lots to get to. John Ourand at Sports Business Daily notes that CBS received a decent 13.3 overnight rating for the NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship, but it was down from last year. USA Today’s […]
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On a night where Dancing with the Stars usually reigns supreme, CBS got a very solid average viewership of 20.1 million people. While the rating of 11.7 with an 18 share is down from last year’s monster 14.2/23, getting 20.1 million people is quite an accomplishment. CBS will take that audience every time. In addition, […]
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We have the overnight ratings. Because they were down from last year, I don’t expect a press release from CBS/Turner, but if I do get one, I’ll update this post. From John Ourand of the Sports Business Journal/Sports Business Daily, the NCAA Championship Game featuring Butler and UConn in a poorly played game finished at […]
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Now that college basketball comes to an end tonight with the NCAA Women’s Championship Game, we know what big event is next. CBS has only been hyping it since the beginning of March. You know it as well. Jim Nantz is already practicing his puns for the final round on Sunday. It’s The Masters®. To […]
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Well, the NCAA Championship Game between Butler and UConn was a big dud, but that doesn’t take away from a great NCAA Tournament. The last game was anticlimactic, but sometimes, the game doesn’t match the hype. But we always have One Shining Moment at the end to tie up everything nicely for us. We have […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/4/2011
It was really strange watching the start of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship Game. CBS started off show UConn going from left to right and after the Huskies scored the first basket, it suddenly switched to its main camera showing Butler going from left to right. People were tweeting about it and were confused, however, […]
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After a crazy period from 6:30 p.m. Friday until Sunday morning, when my new server host verified my account, I really didn’t have a blogging home to speak of. After Web Hub Hosting decided to remove my site from its servers following a Denial of Service attack that had apparently targeted Fang’s Bites. After discussing […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/3/2011
You know those naysayers who thought an all-Mid Major matchup between VCU and Butler would drop CBS to low ratings for the Final Four®? It didn’t happen. With two close games, CBS an average rating of 8.9 with a 17 share. That’s the highest rating for a Final Four broadcast on CBS in six years. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/1/2011
I’m going to try to post some of the Friday megalinks. This won’t be an entire post. Unless something happens, I should be able to get most of them in. Of course, you can find the Weekend Viewing Picks for your sports and primetime programs. National USA Today’s Michael Hiestand and Mike McCarthy debate whether […]
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Saturday, April 2 College GameDay, live from Houston – ESPN, noon NCAA Tip-Off – truTV, 3 p.m. College Basketball SportsCenter – ESPN, 4 p.m. The Final Four Show – CBS, 4 p.m. NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship, Reliant Stadium, Houston, TX National Semifinals Butler vs. VCU – CBS, 6:09 p.m. UConn vs. Kentucky – CBS, 8:49 […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/31/2011
Just received this from the CBS/Turner collaborative regarding this Saturday’s Final Four®. This is the first year that Turner will have a hand in the coverage and an extensive pregame show will be aired on truTV before CBS’ coverage starts at 4 p.m. Eastern. Then the games will air, Butler-VCU at 6:09 p.m. then Kentucky-UConn […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/30/2011
Ok, let’s do the Wednesday linkage. Quite a few things to get to. We begin with Fox Sports’ Ken Rosenthal who when we last saw him during the World Series last October, was wearing a bowtie despite his protests to management. Well, we find that Ken will continue wearing a bowtie this season, but rather […]
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This just in from CBS/Turner, actually I got this on Tuesday, but due to the Denial of Service attack on the server that houses this blog (apparently, I was not the target, but this still affected me!), I wasn’t able to post this right away. Because the great people at CBS Sports and Turner Sports […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/29/2011
Thanks to the server host getting a Denial of Service attack last night, Fang’s Bites has been down for most of the day. Not happy for not being able to blog for most of the day, although I’m back up for now. I apologize for the inconvenience. I’ll give you linkage now and hope you’ll […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/28/2011
This from CBS/Turner. The NCAA Tournament TV Collaborative is touting the overall tournament ratings which are up from last year. So far, the total average viewership is 9.4 million this year on the CBS/Turner networks as compared to 8.5 million last year. The ratings are 6.0 with a 13 share which are up 11% from […]
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Been busy today for no particular reason. Well, work is a very good reason, but it just seems to be piling up today. We give you the links while we still can. Michael Hiestand from USA Today starts us off and he wonders if the Butler-VCU matchup in the NCAA Tournament Final Four® Cinderella matchup […]
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The CBS/Turner collaboration is crowing about the overall total NCAA Tournament ratings through the Elite 8 which are quite good. Overall, the average has totaled 6.8 with a 14 share which is up 15% from the average from a year ago. But then, the press release states Sunday’s overnight rating received a combined average 8.5/17 […]
