0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/12/2012
Here’s another press release from last week that is being posted now. From the NBC Sports Group, over 30 college football games will air on NBC and the NBC Sports Network. NBC will show 7 Notre Dame games and the annual Bayou Classic between Grambling State and Southern University. NBC Sports Network will have a […]
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This came into the Fang’s Bites inbox last week, but due to my family commitments, I couldn’t post it until now. This is from ESPN regarding its 2012 college football schedule. This adds 68 games to an already extensive schedule. These include contests from the Big East, Big Ten, Mid-American, SEC, Sun Belt and WAC. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/7/2012
We continue with the guest columns. This one comes from reader Corneilus Green. Three columns in one for you. Sports Broadcasting Talent Moves The summer is definitely heating up with the speculation of who is staying or who is going to new networks. Michelle Beadle is the most high profile talent to leave ESPN (which […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/6/2012
The Tiffany Network announced the dates and times of its SEC on CBS football schedule this fall. Already, six games have been unveiled including rivalry games Georgia vs. Florida in the annual World’s Largest Cocktail Party (which is no longer being billed as such), Alabama at LSU and LSU at Arkansas. Other games previously announced […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/31/2012
We have the official press release from NBC Sports Group announcing the hiring of former Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Hines Ward as a football analyst. He’ll span the Group from NBC on Football Night in America to NBC Sports Network on college football and NBC SportsTalk. Ward has been branching out beyond sports as he […]
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NBC has announced the hiring of former Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Hines Ward as an analyst. He’ll be part of Football Night in America on NBC, contribute to NBC Sports Network’s college football studio shows and also be seen on NBC SportsTalk. This follows his guest stint during Super Bowl XLVI on NBC in February […]
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Here to provide some links for you today. Looks like I’ll be out on Friday so posting may be scarce, but we’ll cross that bridge when we get to it. In the meantime, I have some links for you now. This week, CBSSports.com Deputy Managing Editor Craig Stanke passed away at the age of 56. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/29/2012
Back to work for many of you after the Memorial Day holiday. Because of my crazy schedule, I didn’t get to enjoy it, but you don’t care about that. Let’s do links. John Ourand of Sports Business Journal reports that Cox Communications has dropped the New Orleans Hornets allowing Fox Sports to swoop up the […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/22/2012
Yes you do. It’s overdue. I thought being on unemployment would give me more time for doing the site. Instead, I have less. I don’t know how that’s happened. Anyway, here are some links for you. USA Today’s Michael Hiestand has soon-to-be NBC’s Michelle Beadle saying even she’s sick of the coverage on where she’s […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/21/2012
This being reported by Sports Illustrated’ Richard Deitsch, Pam Ward is being taken off ESPN’s college football coverage. No reason is being given for the change. Ward became the first woman to regularly call college football on television starting in 2000. She began calling Big Ten football games on ESPN2, but more recently had been […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/17/2012
This in from the company formerly known as the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network. ESPN has announced that it has added 23 ACC football games to the schedule. This is in addition to the seven games previously unveiled. Most of the games in this unveil are in the first three weeks of the 2012 season. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/16/2012
I’ll do some more linkage for you this evening. You’re owed it. Why not? Thomas O’Toole from USA Today reports that Laurie Fine, the wife of ex-Syracuse assistant basketball coach Bernie Fine, is suing ESPN for libel saying a report ruined her reputation. Barry Petchesky of Deadspin goes inside the lawsuit and notes that Fine […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/10/2012
In its quest to gain control of all college sports, ESPN has signed an extension to its existing agreement with ACC signed in 2010. The contract which was going to run until 2022-2023 will now end in 2026-27 meaning a 16 year agreement between the two parties. With Pittsburgh and Syracuse entering the league and […]
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My apologies for the lack of updates on Wednesday. I was away from a computer for most of the day and unable to update the site as much as I would have liked. I hope Thursday won’t be as crazy as I have a few things to post for you. I do have some sports […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/9/2012
I’ll do a common theme in this particular sports media thoughts post. This will deal with college sports. The thoughts will be in bullet forms, of course. With the Big 12 about to sign the next Mega Millions TV deal, it leaves just the Big East’s media rights in doubt. We know the ACC will […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/7/2012
Just announced today, NBC Sports Network has signed a two year contract with the Ivy League, the non-athletic scholarship conference. It will go from the 2012-13 academic year to 2013-14. Not only will the contract entail football which has been seen previously when the channel was known as Versus, but it will also expand to […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/3/2012
After being shut out of the Mountain West between 2005 and 2011, ESPN returns to airing Mountain West Conference football games this year. With the mtn., going by the wayside after this month, the conference expanded its national rights agreement with CBS Sports Network for the upcoming season. Then CBS sublicensed games to other networks […]
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With the Mountain’s West’s league-owned television network going dark at the end of this month, the conference has expanded its rights agreement with CBS Sports Network. With CBS Sports Network getting more games, it has sublicensed games to ESPN which is back airing Mountain West football games and to NBC Sports Network which has previously […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/24/2012
Let’s provide a few links here. Don’t think I can do a full set, but I’ll try. In Sports Business Journal, John Ourand says MLB and Sirius XM have come to terms on streaming audio of live baseball games and will eventually be able to provide both home and away feeds starting next month. Brian […]
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These grids comes courtesy of Matt’s College Sports. This is the schedule of primetime football games in the Big Ten Conference this season. The regular season games will be on either ABC, Big Ten Network, ESPN or ESPN2. As it was last year, the Big Ten Conference Championship Game will air on Fox and be […]
