0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/23/2011
Let’s do a few links for you on this day before Thanksgiving. And my best to you. Be safe in your travels. We begin with John Ourand of Sports Business Daily who convenes a roundtable of fellow SBD writers to look at ESPN’s new NFL studio shows. Mason Levinson of Bloomberg News says ESPN college […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/22/2011
Early evening again. Let’s do some linkage here. The Poynter Institute’s Jason Fry writes an article as the ESPN Ombudsman on how whiskey maker Jameson’s got stuck sponsoring the ESPN Films “Unguarded” documentary on addict Chris Herren. Michael Bradley writing for the Indiana University National Sports Journalism Center looks at a new e-book from Dallas […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/21/2011
Just down to the next to last weekend of games in college football and plenty of blood rivalries on tap. You have Ohio State-Michigan on Saturday on ABC, Georgia-Georgia Tech on ESPN, Virginia Tech-Virginia on ABC/ESPN2, Oregon State-Oregon on ABC/ESPN2, Pittsburgh-West Virginia on ESPN, Penn State-Wisconsin on ESPN and Clemson-South Carolina on ESPN. So many […]
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It’s the early evening on the East Coast, but I do have time to bring you some linkage. Lots of stuff to get to. We’ll begin with John Ourand of Sports Business Journal who reviews ESPN’s new NFL studio shows which came as a result of its new Monday Night Football $2 billion rights fee. […]
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Next weekend, Fox Sports will air the inaugural Pac-12 and Big Ten Football Championships and both games will be called by the same broadcast team on successive nights. The College Football on FX team Gus Johnson, Charles Johnson and sideline analyst Tim Brewster will first call the Pac-12 Championship on either the campus of Stanford […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/20/2011
Let’s do some links on this Sunday. Mike Reynolds of Multichannel News says Golf Channel scored a couple of rating records for Day One of the Presidents Cup. Mike writes that Time Warner Cable has signed a long-term deal to air Los Angeles Galaxy games starting next season. Mike says Facebook is offering a live […]
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I’m hoping this will be a lazy Sunday, but you never know. I’ll put together some thoughts here again in bullet form. This weekend in college football was one of the best we’ve had in the last few years. Seeing BCS hopefuls Oklahoma State, Oregon and then Oklahoma go down from Friday through Saturday was […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/17/2011
Let’s do some links. May not be a full set. Depends on how much I can get done here. We’ll start with Alexandra Bruell of Advertising Age who says Penn State University has hired a public relations firm to help with crisis management for the Jerry Sandusky story. John Eggerton of Broadcasting & Cable says […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/16/2011
It’s Wednesday. It’s mid-week and it’s time for some sports media links. Let’s get to them without further delay. USA Today’s Michael Hiestand talks with NBC’s Bob Costas about the “get” of accused child molester Jerry Sandusky for “Rock Center with Brian Williams”. While NBC and Bob Costas are being praised for the Sandusky interview, […]
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I haven’t provided an ESPN College Sports Update in a while. I think it’s fine time I do so. This is what’s in store on the ESPN family of networks in regards to college programming. Lots of stuff here including a few pictures and a video! ESPN is so thorough! On the ESPNU goes coast-to-coast […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/14/2011
We’re getting close to the end of the college football regular season. After this weekend, there’s the traditional Thanksgiving rivalry games, then the conference championship games and finally, the Army-Navy game before heading into the inexorable Bowl season in December. Anyway, Saturday Night Football on ABC will have a split national broadcast between Oklahoma and […]
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After not being able to provide linkage for a few days, let’s get back to it. I probably won’t be able to do the links as I have to undergo a medical procedure. Nothing serious. I should be back on Wednesday. Let’s do your links. Sports Business Daily looks over the reviews of ESPN’s handling […]
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A quickie post on the ratings for some of the events over the weekend. These are overnight ratings numbers. We expect final ratings later. First for the Nebraska-Penn State game on ESPN, the game received the network’s highest overnight rating for the noon ET Saturday slot for college football since 2001. With the curiosity over […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/11/2011
Schedule courtesy of Matt’s College Sports College GameDay live from Palo Alto, CA — ESPNU, 9 a.m./ESPN, 10 a.m. noon ABC Coverage Map Oklahoma State at Texas Tech — ABC West Virginia at Cincinnati — ABC Pittsburgh at Louisville — Big East Network Big Ten Network Channel Finder Ohio State at Purdue — Big Ten […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/10/2011
This week, CBS Sports Network’s college football schedule starts tonight with Houston at Tulane from the Superdome in New Orleans and lasts through Saturday. The schedule is highlighted by the Army-Rutgers game being played at Yankee Stadium at 3:30 p.m. Saturday. Gary Thorne and Randy Cross will call the action with Kaylee Hartung reporting from […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/9/2011
I owe you some links having not been able to do them either Monday or Tuesday. USA Today’s Michael Hiestand talks about the ratings for LSU-Alabama not being as high as the previous #1 vs. #2 college football Game of the Century. The great Richard Deitsch at Sports Illustrated has his Media Power List for […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/7/2011
ESPN gets back to having the Game of the Week in college football as Stanford hosts Oregon in a Top 10 matchup in the Pac-12. That will be an ESPN on ABC presentation. Also, Thursday’s game on ESPN will be Virginia Tech at Georgia Tech. And there are a whole slew of games that begin […]
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below. THIS JUST IN… …from CBS Sports CBS Sports has announced its college football game for Saturday, Nov. 19 (3:30-7:00 PM, ET) will feature Mississippi State at *No. 8-ranked Arkansas (Little Rock). Verne Lundquist and Gary Danielson will call the contest, along with reporter Tracy Wolfson. COLLEGE FOOTBALL TODAY kicks off the day (3:00 PM, […]
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The game was close and went into overtime and that was enough to keep viewers hooked throughout a contest that was billed as “The Game of the Century”. Despite the lack of scoring, fans kept watching and CBS saw its highest ratings for a regular season college football game since 1989’s matchup between Notre Dame […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/6/2011
Let’s provide some linkage on this NFL Sunday. Dennis Dodd at CBSSports.com writes that the SEC plans to reopen its humungous media rights contract with ESPN soon after its admission of Missouri into the conference is made official. Glenn Davis at SportsGrid has video of ESPN’s Kirk Herbstreit losing his concentration as an earthquake hit […]
