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College Football Viewing Picks For Week 13, 11/23 & 11/24/2012, All Times Eastern

Schedule Courtesy of Matt’s College Sports Friday, November 23 Pregame & Studio Shows Best of College Football 2012 — CBS, 1:30 p.m. Fox College Football Saturday — Fox, 3 p.m. 11 a.m. Syracuse at Temple — ESPN2 (Tom Hart/John Congemi) Ohio at Kent State — ESPNU (Adam Amin/Tom Luginbill) noon Nebraska at Iowa — ABC […]

NBC Scores Best Ratings For Notre Dame Football Since 2005

After several down season, this year’s undefeated Notre Dame team has caught fire with the nation’s college football fans. As a result, NBC has seen its best ratings for seven home games, six played in South Bend, IN and another at Soldier Field in Chicago. For the seven games, NBC saw an average rating of […]

Back For Some Tuesday Links

Let’s do some linkage. I need to do this more than twice a week. Sports Illustrated’s Richard Deitsch looks at the potential replacements for Jon Gruden in the Monday Night Football booth should he decide to leave as rumored. John Ourand of Sports Business Journal has a plethora of subjects in his latest media column. […]

Another Ratings Increase For The SEC on CBS

While Saturday’s game between Ole Miss and LSU didn’t have the appeal of Alabama-LSU or Texas A&M-Alabama for CBS the two previous weeks, it still did better from the equivalent game from the year before. CBS says a barnburner that saw LSU come from behind and defeat Mississippi, 41-35 garnered an overnight rating of 2.4 […]

Doing Some Friday Megalinks

Let’s do some Friday megalinks. Haven’t done any in a couple of weeks. The Weekend Viewing Picks have all of your sports and entertainment TV needs. Time for the linkage. National Michael Hiestand of USA Today notes the rising rights fees for the college football postseason. Michael writes about Today show Executive Producer Jim Bell […]

College Football Viewing Picks For Week 12, 11/17/2012, All Times Eastern

Schedule Courtesy of Matt’s College Sports Pregame & Studio Shows College GameDay live from Eugene, OR — ESPNU, 9 a.m./ESPN, 10 a.m. BTN Football Pregame — Big Ten Network, 11 a.m. ACC Blitz — ACC Network, noon College Football Uncut: Game Day — CBS, 2:30 p.m. Fox College Saturday — Fox, 2:30 p.m. College Football […]

ESPN Keeps The Orange Bowl Through 2026

ESPN has announced a new 12 year agreement to air the Orange Bowl. Add this to the previously announced 12 year agreements for the Rose and Sugar Bowls and ESPN is bringing most of college football biggest games into its fold. ESPN has been airing the three bowls since 2010 and its current deals will […]

ESPN Keeps Sugar Bowl In The Fold For 12 More Years

ESPN has announced a new agreement with the Big 12 and SEC for the Sugar Bowl starting with the January 2015 game. The two conferences had originally made an agreement for the champions of their two leagues to meet in New Orleans in what was going to be called the Champions Bowl. The BCS then […]

ESPN Crows About College Football Ratings

This from ESPN. We have this blurb on the ratings for college football in Week 11. While CBS garnered the win over all games on Saturday with the Texas A&M upset of Alabama, games on ABC and ESPN finished 2-4 including Notre Dame at Boston College on broadcast television in primetime. ESPN’s airing of Oregon-Cal […]

Bringing Out Some Wednesday Sports Media Thoughts

Time for some overdue sports radio thoughts. I apologize for the inconsistency in posting. I’ve been sick since last week and its hit me like a ton of bricks. It’s no fun not having a voice and certainly not good to feel wrecked every time I awake. I hope to get better soon, but this […]

ESPN’s College Football Games For Week 12 Including Announcing Assignments

Believe it or not, we’re in the home stretch of the college football season. Just a couple of more weeks before we have the conference championship games and then bowl season in December. It’s not long now. We’re not quite at the traditional blood rivalry games yet, but we’re getting close. This week, ESPN’s college […]

Breaking Out Some Monday Linkage

The last few days, I’ve been sick which limited the number of posts between Friday and Saturday. I’m still not feeling well, but I’ll be providing linkage and posts as long I’m physically able. To the links. Sports Illustrated’s Richard Deitsch talks with NFL Network’s Melissa Stark about returning to sports television after leaving in […]

Alabama-Texas A&M Scores Big for CBS

Just received this from CBS. Yesterday’s Alabama loss to Texas A&M brought in the viewers for the SEC on CBS. The game received a 6.6 overnight rating with a 14 share, up a whopping 136% from last year’s game. The rating only trails Alabama-LSU for the highest-rated college football game of the season. Last night’s […]

College Football Viewing Picks For Week 11, 11/10/2012, All Times Eastern

Schedule Courtesy of Matt’s College Sports Pregame & Studio Shows College GameDay live on board the USS San Diego — ESPNU, 9 a.m./ESPN, 10 a.m. BTN Football Pregame — Big Ten Network, 11 a.m. ACC Blitz — ACC Network, noon BTN Football Postgame — Big Ten Network, 3 p.m. College Football Scoreboard — ESPN, 3 […]

Various Monday Links

Let’s do some linkage on this Monday. Sports Illustrated’s Richard Deitsch talks with TNT’s Charles Barkley about the next phase of his career. Michael Hiestand of USA Today notes that Saturday nights are becoming a sports TV bastion. Chris Chase at USA Today’s Game On blog has video of an NFL referee cursing which surprised […]

CBS Selects Texas A&M-Alabama For This Saturday's SEC Late Game

CBS has a SEC doubleheader this Saturday, November 10. It will air the previously selected Arkansas at South Carolina game at noon ET. Tim Brando will call the game with analyst Steve Beuerlein. Turner Sports’ Marty Snider will be the sideline reporter. Then for 3:30 p.m., CBS used one of six day option selections for […]

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