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NFL Viewing Picks for Week 1, 09/08-12/2016

All Times Eastern Thursday, September 8 Pregame and Studio Shows Good Morning Football — NFL Network, 7 a.m. NFL Total Access: Season Preview — NFL Network, 1 p.m. NFL Insiders — ESPN, 2 p.m. NFL Live — ESPN, 3 p.m. NFL Fantasy Live — NFL Network, 4 p.m. NFL GameDay Kickoff — NFL Network, 5 […]

Is Chris Berman retiring from ESPN or cutting back his duties? Yes!

No matter where you stand on Chris Berman, there’s no doubting his impact on the history of ESPN. Hired to join the network just one month after its inception in 1979, Berman has been on hand from when ESPN was the Little Engine That Could to now as the Worldwide Leader in Sports. And that’s […]

2015 MLB League Division Series Schedules and Announcing Assignments (Updated)

Let’s provide the schedule for the American and National League Division Series. As you’re probably aware by now, FS1 will carry the ALDS while TBS will have the NLDS. TBS lucks out this year as it will have the top three markets in the country, New York, Los Angeles and Chicago along with perennial power […]

NFL Viewing Picks for Week 1, 09/10-14/2015

All Times Eastern Thursday, September 10 Studio and Pregame Shows NFL HQ — NFL Network, 8 a.m. Around the NFL — NFL Network, 2 p.m. NFL Insiders — ESPN, 2:30 p.m. NFL Live — ESPN, 3:30 p.m. NFL Fantasy Live — NFL Network, 4 p.m. NFL GameDay: Kickoff — NFL Network, 5 p.m. NFL Kickoff […]

ESPN Radio Names Announcers for MLB Wild Card and LDS

As the MLB Postseason is about to begin, ESPN Radio has named the announcing crews for both Wild Card games and all four League Division Series. Most of the men have extensive experience calling baseball on the radio. That is except for Chris Berman who returns to call at most three games on ESPN Radio. […]

ESPN Previews Week 1 of the 2014 NFL Season

ESPN has a big weekend in store. It begins with Sunday NFL Countdown in a new studio that is located in the new 100 square mile wide Death Star Building (kidding about the square mileage … maybe not). The NFL programming including Sunday NFL Countdown and Monday Night Countdown will be produced in the new […]

NFL Viewing Picks for Week 1 of the 2014 NFL Season

All Times Eastern Thursday, September 4 Studio & Pregame Shows Around the NFL — NFL Network, 2 p.m. NFL Insiders — ESPN, 3:30 p.m. NFL Live — ESPN, 4 p.m. NFL Fantasy Live — NFL Network, 4 p.m. NFL GameDay: Kickoff 2014 — NFL Network, 5 p.m. NFL Kickoff 2014 — NBC/NFL Network, 7:30 p.m. […]

ESPN’s Chris Berman Signs Off From the U.S. Open

It has televised the U.S. Open either with ABC or NBC dating back to 1982. It so happened that 2014 would be ESPN’s final year of televising the first two rounds of the U.S. Open. It began with Jim Simpson as being one of the anchors. It ended with Chris Berman, Sean McDonough and Scott […]

ESPN Previews Super Bowl Edition of Sunday NFL Countdown

ESPN has a four-hour edition of Sunday NFL Countdown starting at 10 a.m. ET. The show will have two sets, one from Herald Square in New York manned by Chris Berman and his band of analysts of Cris Carter, Mike Ditka, Tom Jackson and Keyshawn Johnson. Suzy Kolber hosts the Countdown set at the New […]

ESPN Previews NFL Conference Championship Sunday 2014

ESPN begins its Conference Championship Sunday coverage with Sunday NFL Countdown at a special time, noon ET. Chris Berman and the gang will be live in Bristol to discuss the AFC and NFC Conference Championships. They’ll discuss a lot of Tom Brady-Peyton Manning leading up to the AFC Championship including a feature on their Saturday […]

ESPN Previews Week 6 of the 2013 NFL Season

ESPN has lots of stuff for Week 6. It has Sunday NFL Countdown, NFL Matchup, Monday Night Countdown and Monday Night Football. You can take a look at what will be covered below in black and white with a few colored logos in between. ESPN NFL Programming Update – Week 6 Sunday NFL Countdown: Robert […]

ESPN Previews Week 3 of the 2013 NFL season

Let’s see what ESPN has for us in Week 3. This spans Sunday NFL Countdown, Monday Night Countdown, Monday Night Football and anything else ESPN has in store for us. Check it out below. ESPN NFL Programming Update – Week 3 Sunday NFL Countdown: Tom Brady, A.J. Green, Saints Referee and more Sunday NFL Countdown […]

The Week Ahead in Sports Media, September 9 — 15, 2013

Well, let’s take a look at what’s ahead in the sports media for the upcoming week. It’s another busy week and we’ll preview it for you right now. TELEVISION NFL Premieres The NFL continues to dominate the week. Monday has the annual Week 1 doubleheader on ESPN with Philadelphia taking on the DC NFL Team […]

ESPN Tells Us About Its Extensive NFL Coverage for the 2013 Season

We have a 2,645-word press release from ESPN regarding its NFL coverage for the 2013 season. It not only discusses what you’ll see this season on Monday Night Football, but also its studio shows and the new analysts who have signed with the network bringing its army of NFL on-air staffers to somewhere in the […]

NFL Viewing Picks for Week 1 of the 2013 Season

Sunday, September 8 NFL Viewing Maps (the506.com) Pregame and Studio Shows NFL Matchup — ESPN, 6:30 a.m. NFL GameDay First — NFL Network 7 a.m. That Other Pregame Show (series premiere) — CBS Sports Network, 9 a.m. NFL GameDay Morning — NFL Network, 9 a.m. Fox NFL Kickoff — Fox Sports 1, 10:30 a.m. (this […]

The Week Ahead in Sports Media, July 29 — August 4, 2013

I’ve been meaning to start a regular Monday feature and since Richard Deitsch has a weekly Monday column at SI.com and Tom Hoffarth has his Southern California Sports Calendar, I figured I would preview the upcoming week in the sports media. With a little luck, this will be a signature post on Fang’s Bites. Give […]

Some Monday Linkage

Trying to get back into the swing of things after a bad couple of weeks for this site. Been quite busy on the personal front. I hope to provide more original content for you from this point on. Some links for you as a token of appreciation for your patience. Let’s begin with John Ourand […]

ESPN Airs the 2013 Home Run Derby; Chris Berman Back to Bloviate

ESPN is back on the 2013 MLB Home Run Derby on Monday, July 15, the day before the MLB All-Star Game. The event usually does well on a night that has a minimum of sporting events. The event takes the air at 8 p.m. ET and supposedly will take two hours, but it never finishes […]

Back-to-Work Monday Linkage

Let’s do some linkage on this rainy Monday in Southern New England. It may not be raining where you are, but where I am, it’s Ark Building Time. Starting with Sports Illustrated’s Richard Deitsch, we learn that ESPN’s NBA Countdown crew is expanding its reach when the NBA Finals get underway. Richard also breaks news […]

60 Minutes Sports Previews its Profile of Chris Berman and his Huge Wallet

On Wednesday, 60 Minutes Sports returns for another edition of various stories. Included in this week’s program will be a profile of golf course designer Pete Dye and a rather extensive one on ESPN’s Chris Berman. Now whether or not you like Berman is totally up to you. The man is rather polarizing. Either you […]

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