0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/17/2012
Fox Sports has announced its college football plans for the next couple of weeks. Its primetime games for this Saturday and next Saturday will be in the Big 12. And next Saturday, September 29 will mark its first visit to Stillwater, Oklahoma for the Texas-Oklahoma State game. That follows this week’s Kansas State at Oklahoma […]
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Doing some linkage for you on this return to the work week. USA Today’s Michael Hiestand notes the NHL Lockout will hurt any ratings momentum NBC Sports Network had from the summer. Ed Sherman of The Sherman Report talks with The Professor, new-found Slayer fan, John Clayton of ESPN. The Tampa Bay Times’ Eric Deggans, […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/14/2012
Schedule courtesy of Matt’s College Sports Pregame and Studio Shows College GameDay live from Knoxville, TN — ESPNU, 9 a.m./ESPN, 10 a.m. BTN Football Pregame — Big Ten Network, 11 a.m. ACC Blitz — ACC Network, noon College Football Today — CBS, 3 p.m. College Football Scoreboard — ESPN2, 3 p.m. BTN Football Postgame — […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/13/2012
Writing this in the wee hours of the morning after watching the series finale of Damages on DirecTV not once, but twice to try and figure if investing five seasons was worth it. I think it was, but to be honest, the entire series as a mindfuck. And I think the producers intentionally made it […]
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Just a day after announcing a new agreement with Oklahoma University of the Big 12 Conference, Fox Sports unveils a similar rights deal with Texas Tech University. Under the deal, Fox Sports will air one Texas Tech football game a year, have exclusive replays, live basketball games plus coverage of various Olympic sports. The programming […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/12/2012
Time for the Fox networks’ schedule of games on Fox, FX, Fox Sports Net, Fox College Sports and Big Ten Network. Fox’s game in primetime will be in the Pac-12 with USC visiting the Stanford Cardinal. FX has a Big 12/Pac-12 doubleheader starting at noon ET. Big Ten Network has regional coverage of eight games […]
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Announced today by the Atlantic Coast Conference and will be made official at press conferences both at the league offices and at South Bend, Notre Dame will join the ACC in all sports except for football (naturally) and hockey (again, naturally). ACC Accepts Notre Dame @
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/10/2012
After a steady diet of Pac-12 games in primetime in the first three weeks of the college football season, Fox will finally be able to show a Big 12 game on September 22 as its new contract with the conference kicks in. Fox Sports announced today that it will air Kansas State at Oklahoma at […]
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A few sports media thoughts on this Monday. Yes, they’re in bullet form. I finally had an opportunity to see Fox’s college football production on Saturday. While Gus Johnson and Charles Davis were on top of their form for Nebraska-UCLA, the same cannot be said about the studio. I missed the Pregame, but watched halftime […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/9/2012
Let’s do some Sunday linkage on this first NFL regular season Sunday of 2012. We’ll begin with Pat Eaton-Robb of the Associated Press with an interesting story on how Connecticut is fast becoming home of major sports media companies. Candace Jackson of the Wall Street talks about her visit to Rich Eisen and his wife, […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/7/2012
Just announced by ESPN, a new long-term agreement that increases the Family of Networks’ commitment to the Big 12 Conference. Starting with this season and lasting until the 2024-25 season, ESPN will have plenty of football and men’s basketball games. This also includes the Big 12 Tournament which ESPN has televised exclusively either through its […]
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Schedule courtesy of Matt’s College Sports Pregame & Studio Shows College GameDay live from College Station, TX — ESPNU, 9 a.m./ESPN, 10 a.m. BTN Football Pregame — Big Ten Network, 11 a.m. Inside College Football — CBS Sports Network, 2:30 p.m. College Football Scoreboard — ESPN/ESPN2, 3 p.m. College Football Scoreboard — ESPN2, 7 p.m. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/5/2012
Can you believe it’s Wednesday already? Holiday on Monday makes the work week go faster. To the linkage which has been too scarce on the site. Michael Hiestand of USA Today looks at some of the changes on the NFL’s TV partners this season. John Ourand of Sports Business Journal talks about the fierce bidding […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/4/2012
Take a look at the games on the Fox Sports platforms for this week. College Football on FOX Advance Programming Schedule September 8 All times Eastern unless otherwise indicated DATE TIME GAME OUTLET Play by Play Analyst Sideline Saturday, Sept. 8 7:30 PM Nebraska at UCLA FOX Gus Johnson Charles Davis Julie Alexandria Saturday, Sept. […]
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Week 2 in college football doesn’t have ranked teams facing each other, but ESPN will try its best to hype games for us. You have Missouri’s and Texas A&M’s first games in the SEC. ABC doesn’t have a primetime game this week as it carries a NASCAR race. But it still has a doubleheader at […]
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I hope you enjoyed your Labor Day Weekend. Let’s do a few sports media thoughts for you on this back to work Tuesday. They’re in bullet form as always. In this week’s Sports Business Journal, John Ourand reports that both Fox and CBS/Turner are looking to combine packages to force the other out of the […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/2/2012
I wanted to do a piece of site business before doing some rare Sunday linkage and rare linkage in general. Thanks to you, August was the best month ever as far as site visits are concerned. Whether it was due to you visiting over the Olympics schedules or wanting to see who Nicole Zaloumis was […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/31/2012
We know about College GameDay which is ESPN’s signature pregame show for college football. ESPN has provided its studio show lineup for this season. It includes College Football Live and CFB Daily. We also have the nightly studio crews for the live games from ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU and ABC. Scott Van Pelt is the new […]
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Schedule courtesy of Matt’s College Sports Pregame & Studio Shows: Inside College Football: Notre Dame-Navy Kickoff — CBS Sports Network, 7 a.m. College GameDay live from Arlington, TX (season premiere) — ESPNU, 9 a.m./ESPN, 10 a.m. BTN Football Pregame — Big Ten Network, 11 a.m. College Football Countdown — ABC, 3 p.m. College Football Scoreboard […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/30/2012
Rumored earlier this summer, this has now been made official by ESPN. Heather Cox will be the new sideline reporter for Saturday Night Football replacing Erin Andrews who (say it with me now) went to Fox Sports. Heather who worked the Olympics for NBC as the reporter for beach volleyball, has an extensive resumé with […]
