0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/25/2011
Let’s provide the Friday megalinks. Lots of things to get to. We, of course, provide the Weekend Viewing Picks for your sports and entertainment weekend programming. Now let’s get to the linkage from across the country. National Brian Steinberg of Advertising Age reports that NBC is already seeking $3.5 million for a 30 second spot […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/17/2011
ESPN’s new contract with BYU will be highlighted on October 28 with a game at Cowboys Stadium against BYU. Last year, ESPN signed a new deal with BYU to gain the rights to all of its home games. BYU opted to leave the Mountain West Conference to become an independent in college football. We have […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/14/2011
It’s only February, but never too early to think about college football. ESPN has released the early portion of its ACC football schedule and going in the Labor Day primetime slot will be Miami (FL) at Maryland. Virginia Tech is slotted in for two games right now. Florida State has been slotted for one. The […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/3/2011
He’s been a premier college football analyst although he’s had a rather interesting stretch in the later years of his career. Bob Griese has announced his retirement from broadcasting after 24 years with the networks of ABC and ESPN. Before he joined ABC in 1987 and was teamed with Keith Jackson to become one of […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/1/2011
Wednesday is National Signing Day which means BCS schools will get richer for upcoming college football season. ESPNU plans some 7 hours of coverage on Wednesday starting at 9 a.m. Eastern time. Do you want details on this? Of course you do. Before I post the press release, let’s not forget that ESPN is planning […]
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Horrible day here in the Northeast. Snowing hard. And I’m at home which is never a bad thing. Flipping between the Dan Patrick Show, NFL Network and the Weather Channel to get the latest on Super Bowl Media Day and the crazy weather that has gripped most of the nation and is affecting 100 million […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/31/2011
He retired last year only to return for one more year and then retire once again. This time, Urban Meyer won’t be returning to coaching, at least for the foreseeable future. The former Utah and Florida coach joins ESPN to become a game and studio analyst. Meyer will contribute to College GameDay as well as […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/11/2011
This is what ESPN was hoping for when it signed the Bowl Championship Series to a cable-exclusive contract. Not only did the BCS National Championship Game garner the biggest overnight rating in cable history, but it also received the highest audience in history. This is NFL playoff-like numbers. The average audience was 27.3 million viewers […]
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Last night, I asked for predictions from my Twitter following on the rating and viewership and John Ourand of Sports Business Daily/Sports Business Journal nailed it. .bbpBox24621668764745730 {background:url(http://a3.twimg.com/a/1294279085/images/themes/theme1/bg.png) #C0DEED;padding:20px;} p.bbpTweet{background:#fff;padding:10px 12px 10px 12px;margin:0;min-height:48px;color:#000;font-size:18px !important;line-height:22px;-moz-border-radius:5px;-webkit-border-radius:5px} p.bbpTweet span.metadata{display:block;width:100%;clear:both;margin-top:8px;padding-top:12px;height:40px;border-top:1px solid #fff;border-top:1px solid #e6e6e6} p.bbpTweet span.metadata span.author{line-height:19px} p.bbpTweet span.metadata span.author img{float:left;margin:0 7px 0 0px;width:38px;height:38px} p.bbpTweet a:hover{text-decoration:underline}p.bbpTweet span.timestamp{font-size:12px;display:block} Unless it’s […]
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ESPN’s production of the first cable-exclusive BCS National Championship Game between Auburn and Oregon was a mixed bag. The pictures and replays for the most part were quite good especially for Michael Dyer’s run late in the 4th quarter which set up the winning field goal for the Tigers. This showed that Dyer, although brought […]
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Just received this press release from NBC that Auburn quarterback Cam Newton will be making an appearance on the NBC late night program, Jay Leno’s Show of Hacks. We have the press release. BCS FOOTBALL CHAMPION AND HEISMAN TROPHY WINNER CAM NEWTON SET TO APPEAR ON ‘JAY LENO’S SHOW OF HACKS’ TUESDAY (JANUARY 11) BURBANK, […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/7/2011
For the first time in its long history, the Cotton Bowl will be played in primetime. Fox is using this game as a dry run for the Super Bowl next month as the Cotton Bowl and the Super Bowl are being played in Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, TX. The Jerry Jones Mahal will have plenty […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/28/2010
On New Year’s Eve, CBS airs one of two bowls not being aired on the ESPN Family of Networks and that’s the Sun Bowl live from El Paso, TX. It will be the matchup between Notre Dame and Miami, two schools that once had an extremely bitter rivalry back in the 1980’s. Now, we have […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/27/2010
Throughout this week, the bowl games continue on the networks of ESPN. All but two bowls, the Sun (CBS) and the Gator (ABC) will be on ESPN. Check out the schedule for this week on the Alleged Worldwide Leader. Bowl Coverage Continues on Various ESPN Platforms ESPN will continue the most comprehensive and in-depth college […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/22/2010
Yesterday, my attempts at providing links kept getting interrupted. I hope today is going to be more stable. Today has been a strange day. People on Twitter and the sports blogosphere are abuzz about the foot fetish videos that may or may not have come from Michelle Ryan, the wife of New York Jets coach […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/19/2010
Let’s do some Sunday links for you today. Good stuff to get to. Let’s get cranking. Mike Reynolds from Multichannel News reports that DirecTV is rebranding FSN affiliates in Denver, Pittsburgh and Seattle. Mike writes that NFL Network hit a season-low audience for Thursday Night Football, not reaching an average five million viewers for the […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/11/2010
With another college football regular season over and we get ready for the Bowls, it’s time to judge the best and worst on TV in 2010. Some stellar work this season. There’s also been some bad work. Let’s do this. For comparison, you can take a look at the 1st, 2nd and 3rd edition of […]
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This is a review of the last ESPN 30 for 30 documentary, “Pony Excess” on the SMU football program. Directed by SMU alum Thaddeus D. Matula, the documentary is a look at the meteoric rise and precipitous fall of the school’s football program. As SMU rose to prominence between 1979-1985, it was also the target […]
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Let’s do some linkage on this Saturday. Trying to provide you with a full week of linkage for the first time in a while. And look for reviews of Pony Excess, the last ESPN 30 for 30 documentary, and Lombardi, HBO’s documentary on the late coach. Here are the links. Mike Demenchuk of Multichannel News […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/10/2010
In what was a very good idea, CBS moved the annual Army-Navy game to the week following the college football conference games and it now stands alone as it should. The entrance of the service academies is always worth watching. The game is usually secondary, but it’s always fun to watch. Uncle Verne Lundquist and […]
