0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/1/2011
Came home a bit early from work so let me provide you with some linkage today. Michael Hiestand of USA Today writes that Marcus Allen will join Fox Sports Media Group’s coverage of college football. Ryan Ballengee of Pro Golf Talk discusses the new 9 year deal signed between the PGA Tour and its TV […]
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This just in from the New England Sports Network a.k.a. NESN. It has signed a deal to air the ACC cable syndication package which means a total of 14 football games and over 30 men’s basketball games. It’s similar to what Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic announced last week. And NESN will air the weekly “ACC All-Access” […]
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I’m going to say right off the bat that I’m not a Kevin Frazier fan and his previous hosting gigs on ESPN and Tennis Channel have not wowed me. And I know this is convenient for Fox as K-Fray is in Los Angeles. But could not have Fox hired Darren Horton who has hosted the […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/31/2011
ESPN put out a press release wishing a Happy 80th Birthday to college football analyst Beano Cook. Beano has been with the network dating back to 1986 and while he doesn’t appear on TV like he used to, he’ll be making the rounds on various ESPN Radio stations across the country during the college football […]
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College football begins in earnest on Thursday night and CBS Sports Network will start its season with a two New England rivals, Holy Cross taking on the University of Massachusetts live from Worcester, MA. And on Saturday, CBS Sports Network carries Delaware at Navy from Annapolis, MD. Both games will be live. We have the […]
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The inaugural season of Fox College Football Game of the Week kicks off Saturday on FX. Gus Johnson along with Charles Davis and Tim Brewster will be on hand for the first of 14 regular season games on the network. In addition, there will be games on other Fox networks including Fox Sports Net and […]
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I’m going to try to do some Wednesday linkage here. Also have a lot of end of the month/beginning of the month crap to do at work some I’m balancing the two off. Here are the links that I have for now. USA Today’s Michael Hiestand looks at NBC’s plans to provide live online coverage […]
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The rumors about Fox Sports airing English Premier League games during NFL season are indeed true. On three Sundays, Fox will air EPL games either at 2 p.m. or 4:30 p.m. Eastern time to fill holes when it has regional NFL coverage. The games will go opposite games on CBS, but Fox is not concerned […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/30/2011
I hope I get this weekly because this is a good press release from ESPN regarding its upcoming college sports programming. We get plenty of updates on the studio shows, where College GameDay is heading and the games that will be shown. Plus, we get some news and notes here. I’ll post this verbatim. You […]
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Yesterday about 2 p.m., I got the power back at the Fang’s Bites abode and after walking around the neighborhood, I saw that I was quite lucky in not getting any tree limbs falling on my house or any leaks in the basement. So while Hurricane Irene was quite deadly and caused major damage up […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/29/2011
Can you imagine 44 games in a span of five days? That’s right, 44 games in five days spanning ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU and ESPN3.com. It begins with a Thursday night doubleheader on ESPNU and one game on ESPN, then the floodgates open on Saturday as ESPN’s family of networks will have 28 contests. College […]
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Through its contracts with IMG College and Learfield Sports, Sirius XM will be able to bring subscribers exclusive game broadcasts featuring some of the nation’s biggest conferences including the ACC, Big East, Big Ten, Big 12, Conference USA, SEC, Pac-12 and WAC. The contracts will not only include football and basketball games, but also coaches […]
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Yesterday at 8:30 a.m., I lost power at my house and as of this post, I still don’t have it. The northern part of my town has power, but I live in the southern part and there’s nothing. That’s not good. And RI did not get hit that hard by Irene so I don’t know […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/27/2011
This from CBS Sports Network, a whole host of studio programming is on the way. This includes the premiere of the Yahoo Sports Radio show hosted by Tim Brando, a program hosted by CBS’ Tracy Wolfson and the return of the Tony Barnhart Show. There are other shows coming as well. Let’s take a look […]
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This coming in the last few days, Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic has obtained the rights to the Atlantic Coast Conference. This is a cable syndication contract that is part of ESPN’s rights to the conference. As a result, Comcast SportsNet will be able to air a weekly conference football game, 14 in all. It will also […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/25/2011
Let’s provide links while I can. Trying not to make this a week where links are scarce. Let’s get this done. First, Jessica E. Vascellaro and Darren Everson of the Wall Street Journal look at how infusions of TV rights money has changed college sports not necessarily for the better. John Ourand at Sports Business […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/24/2011
This in from NBC Sports Group, the college football schedules for Notre Dame football on NBC; Ivy League, Mountain West and Pac-12 on Versus; as well as the announcers calling the games plus various other college football programming on the networks. NBC Sports Group officially announces a new weekly college football studio show that will […]
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The last couple of days have been tough to provide links as I was out of the office. Glad to be back linking again, although you never know if I’ll be called away again. I’ll try to do what I can. Mike McCarthy of USA Today attended the NFL on CBS media day on Tuesday […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/19/2011
I’ve been to Newton, MA and back, South Kingstown, RI and back and all over my hometown of North Kingstown, RI and all of this today. It’s time to do the megalinks and get them all done in one sitting. There’s the Weekend Viewing Picks for your sports and entertainment programming. National Sports Business Daily […]
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Usually in August, CBS Sports starts getting busy with the PGA Championship, NFL preseason and the U.S. Open and we’re seeing that this weekend with golf, tennis, college football preview and a fringe event. From September until April is CBS Sports’ busy period and then it goes into hibernation from after The Masters® until the […]
