0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/13/2011
Now that I’ve learned that I don’t have to travel in between two offices today, I’ll do some megalinks for you. You can check out the Weekend Sports and Primetime Viewing Picks here. Now to your links. National Michael Hiestand of USA Today talks with TNT’s Steve Kerr on the similarities he sees between the […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/12/2011
ESPN has given us this press release announcing seven Big Ten football games that will be played in primetime either on ESPN, ESPN2 or ABC. Some highlights: new conference school Nebraska will have its first two Big Ten games aired consecutively in primetime either on ESPN, ESPN2 or ABC, ESPN takes the very first night […]
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Time for the linkage here on this Thursday getting a late charge out of the gate as I’ve had to visit a jobsite and then had to run a couple of office errands, but we’re back inside ready to give you some linkage. Lots of stuff to get to now. We begin with some sad […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/11/2011
On this Wednesday, it’s time to provide some linkage. Some stuff to get to. Let’s not delay any further. Steve Wieberg of USA Today writes that the NCAA spent a lot of money to protect the March Madness™ trademark. Michael Hiestand of USA Today looks at Gus Johnson leaving CBS for Fox Sports. Eben Novy-Williams […]
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Let’s provide you with some more college football games as ESPN continues to announce conference schedules. This is from the Atlantic Coast Conference which culminates in the ACC Championship on Saturday, December 3 on ESPN. Games will be aired on ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU and ESPN3.com. ACC College Football Games Added to ESPN 2011 Schedule […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/10/2011
ESPN previously announced some Pac-12 games and unveiled more today to show a 20 game combined schedule on ABC/ESPN/ESPN2. We have the entire schedule below. ESPN Selects Additional 2011 Pac-12 College Football Telecasts ESPN has selected Pac-12 Conference college football games for the 2011 season, including 10 for Saturday telecasts and one for the Friday […]
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It was officially announced this afternoon. Gus Johnson becomes Fox Sports’ top play-by-play man and will call games mostly on FX and a couple on Big Ten Network this season as well as one of the inaugural conference Championship games and the Cotton Bowl. In 2012, he will move to Fox Sports where he’ll call […]
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Let’s do some linkage on this Tuesday. News broke last evening about Gus Johnson leaving CBS and possibly going to Fox. We’ll be following this story today and anything else that breaks. Mike Florio from Pro Football Talk examines the move by CBS to allow Gus to walk away. Mike McCarthy of USA Today bids […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/6/2011
With me not having to drive in between two offices, I’m able to provide you with the Friday megalinks during the day. And with things planned for me during the day for Saturday, it’s best to get these in now so it can tie you over while I’m gone. The Weekend Viewing Picks provide your […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/5/2011
Ok starting the linkage off late again today, but I hope get a full set in before leaving work later. Sports Business Daily notes some shuffling of personnel with the NFL TV partners. Preston Bounds of Sports Business Daily talks about Brad Nessler saying his college football schedule with ESPN/ABC won’t be affected by his […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/4/2011
Let’s do your links today. Trying to get them done earlier than the last two days. Good stuff to get to today. And I still finish them at 3 p.m. Tripp Mickle and John Ourand report in today’s Sports Business Daily that the International Olympic Committee will conduct the bidding for the US TV rights […]
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Thanks to the great Matt Sarzyniak of Matt’s College Sports on TV for passing this press release along. It’s from the Pacific 12 Conference on the new media rights deals with ESPN and Fox, but there are some interesting points passed along in regards to what will be its own in-house network. The Pac-12 Network […]
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We now have Fox Sports’ announcement on its 12 year agreement with the Pacific 12 Conference. It begins in 2012-13. And we have some particulars of the new agreement that keeps Fox Sports in the fold with the Pac 10/12. For football: Fox will have 22 regular season games across its platforms, Fox and FX. […]
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We have the press release from ESPN on its new 12 year agreement with the Pacific 12 Conference that begins in the 2012-13 season. Lots of interesting details in this new agreement. For football: ESPN will share the Pac 12 Football Championship with Fox every other year starting in 2013. ESPN will air a total […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/30/2011
Time for some linkage on this Saturday. Etan Vlessing of the Hollywood Reporter notes that NBC had its best opening round NHL playoff ratings in 7 years. Mike Reynolds from Multichannel News says ESPN’s NFL Draft ratings were down from last year while NFL Network saw a slight increase. Mike notes that Root Sports has […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/27/2011
Let’s do some linkage. Before I get into the stories of the day, you may have noticed that I have instituted a comment system using Intense Debate. If you were with me at my old Blogger site, you will know I used it over there, but then got rid of it as it was slowing […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/25/2011
Time for the Monday linkage. I hope you had a good Easter if you observed the holiday. If not, I hope the weekend was relaxing for you. Let’s go over the linkage for today. USA Today’s Michael Hiestand writes that ESPN’s Sunday Night Baseball analysts like the idea of expanded MLB playoffs. Mike McCarthy of […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/24/2011
I hope you’re having a good Easter if you observe. If you don’t observe, then I hope this will be a relaxing Sunday for you. A couple of years ago, I did a post on handicapping the US TV Olympic bids and it was very well researched using New York Times and Sports Illustrated articles. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/23/2011
Let’s do some linkage. I couldn’t get to them yesterday as I was racing in between two offices and by the time I got home, I wasn’t in the mood to sift through media links. I’ll do some now and include some Friday stories. First, USA Today’s Michael Hiestand looks at the old ABC’s Wide […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/21/2011
Let’s provide the links on this very Spring-like Thursday. The sun is out in Southern New England after the April showers of this week. Nice to see the skies bright instead of being gray and drab as like the last few days. We begin with Kelly McBride of the Poynter Institute writing in her role […]
