0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/15/2016
All Times Eastern Schedule courtesy of Matt’s College Sports on TV Announcing assignments courtesy of Eye on Sky and Air Sports (Men’s/Women’s) Saturday, January 16 Studio and Pregame Shows College Basketball Live: Coaching Legends — ESPNU, 11 a.m. B1G Tip-Off Show — Big Ten Network, noon SEC Now — SEC Network, 3 p.m. FS1 College […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/8/2016
All Times Eastern Schedule courtesy Matt’s College Sports on TV Announcing assignments courtesy Eye on Sky and Air Sports (Men’s/Women’s) Saturday, January 9 Studio and Pregame Shows ESPN Buzzer Beater — Check your local listings, noon B1G Tip-Off Show — Big Ten Network, 2 p.m. Pac-12 Basketball Pregame Show — Pac-12 Network/Pac-12 Washington, 2:30 p.m. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/1/2016
All Times Eastern Schedule courtesy of Matt’s College Sports on TV Announcing assignments courtesy of Eye on Sky and Air Sports (men/women) Saturday, January 2 Studio and Pregame Shows FS1 College Hoops Tip-Off — FS1, 10:30 a.m. B1G Tip-Off Show — Big Ten Network, 11:30 a.m. SEC Now — SEC Network, 4 p.m. B1G Finale […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/16/2015
One of ESPN’s annual events is its Tip-Off Marathon that now runs 30½ hours. Overall, 16 conferences are represented with 20 games beginning at 5:30 p.m. ET today and running through its conclusion the following night Tuesday. The marathon now spans four networks, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU and SEC Network. All games will be streamed on […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/10/2015
Fox Sports has unveiled its announcing teams for the 2015-16 college basketball season. Back for their third season together on the Big East will be Gus Johnson and Bill Raftery. After spending five seasons as the coach at St. John’s, Steve Lavin returns to TV with Fox. He’ll double as a studio and a game […]
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With college basketball ready to start in earnest this weekend, ESPN has unveiled its announcing teams for the upcoming season. Once again, Dan Shulman and Jay Bilas will be the main team. And after being on the Big Monday early game (Big East or ACC) for several years, Bilas will no longer be on that […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/9/2015
Just before last college basketball season, ESPN announced that it had signed a new contract with analyst Dick Vitale through the 2016-17 season while also bringing Jay Bilas into the “A” slot. Now in the offseason, the alleged Worldwide Leader has told us that it has extended Vitale’s contract through the ’17-’18 season which would […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/7/2015
CBS ends 34 years of consecutively airing the NCAA Division I Men’s Championship Game on a high note. After last year’s game between UConn and Kentucky which averaged a 12.5/20 final rating/share, this year’s contest pitting Duke and Wisconsin saw a rise of 28% to 16.0/28. Viewership also saw a big jump as Duke-Wisconsin averaged […]
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The overnight ratings are in and the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship between Duke and Wisconsin turned out well for CBS. For those who thought the game would not attract big numbers without Kentucky were wrong. Duke-Wisconsin attracted a big 17.7/27 overnight rating/share which is 33% better than last year’s UConn-Kentucky contest which could […]
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Usually I post this within a half-hour of the National Championship game, but because I have a bitter taste over Duke winning, my enthusiasm for posting is a bit subdued. With this ending the 34-year streak for CBS airing the NCAA Championship dating back to 1982 (TBS airs the Final Four and National Championship next […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/5/2015
The Turner triumvirate of TBS, TNT and truTV couldn’t be happier with the numbers from this year’s Final Four. First, the Kentucky-Wisconsin game broke the rating and viewership record of last week’s Kentucky-Notre Dame Midwest Regional Final on TBS becoming the most-watched college basketball game in U.S. cable television history. The game averaged a 12.4 […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/3/2015
All Times Eastern Saturday, April 4 Studio and Pregame Shows At the Final Four — TBS, 3 p.m. College GameDay live from Indianapolis, IN — ESPN, 3:30 p.m. The Final Four Show — TBS, 4 p.m. BTN Tip-Off Show 2015: Final Four Pregame — Big Ten Network, 5 p.m. Best of College Basketball — CBS […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/23/2015
Observers may have criticized the NCAA Tournament Selection Committee over seedings and various teams getting into the Big Dance, but the games and matchups that resulted from the First Four to the Round of 32 has generated record ratings for the CBS/Turner broadcast consortium. For the first week on CBS, TBS, TNT and the much-maligned […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/22/2015
O.k, CBS/Turner has released the tip times for the next round of the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship before all of the games are finished. Either the staffers there have become extremely efficient or they all want to go to bed at a decent hour. I have a feeling this is a combination of […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/21/2015
All Times Eastern Saturday, March 21 Men’s NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship 3rd Round Studio and Pregame Shows NCAA Tip-Off — TNT, 5 p.m. NCAA March Madness 360 — CBS Sports Network, 6 p.m. NCAA March Madness 360 — CBS Sports Network, 11 p.m. Inside March Madness — TBS, midnight College GameDay — ESPN2, […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/20/2015
Ok, we get the tip times for the Round of 32 action on Sunday, March 22 as CBS and Turner don’t want to wait until the Providence-Dayton game is over as the PR people want to sleep at a decent hour. CBS has a tripleheader on Sunday starting at 12:10 p.m. ET with the tasty […]
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Yes, there’s the First Four™, but that’s really the appetizer for the real action of the NCAA Tournament which began on Thursday with 16 games. By having 5 one-point games, two 14 seeds advancing and five Texas teams going 0-for-Thursday, CBS, TBS, TNT and truTV had a tremendous day of the 2015 Tournament. Fans had […]
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The tip times for Saturday, March 21 are in. CBS has a quadrupleheader beginning at 12:10 p.m. ET with UCLA taking on UAB, then Kentucky vs. Cincinnati, Arizona vs. Ohio State and Utah vs. Georgetown. TNT begins the Turner Sports coverage with Xavier vs. Georgia State at 6:10 p.m. and TBS follows an hour later […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/15/2015
CBS and Turner Sports have released the tip times and the announcing assignments for the 2015 NCAA Tournament. The “First Four” or play-in games from the four teams deemed as numbers 65 through 68 for the tournament will play in Dayton, OH. These games on Tuesday, March 17 and Wednesday, March 18 will air on […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/14/2015
All Times Eastern Men’s schedule courtesy of Matt’s College Sports on TV Men’s announcing assignments courtesy of Eye on Sky and Air Sports Women’s schedule and announcing assignments courtesy of Eye on Sky and Air Sports Saturday, March 14 Studio and Pregame Shows College GameDay — ESPNU, 11 a.m. College GameDay — ESPN, noon BTN […]
