0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/30/2010
Time to answer your sports media questions. Thanks to all who sent e-mails. Let’s make this a regular feature and I hope to do this every two or three months. And down the road, I hope to offer DVD’s, books and other swag. I don’t have anything for this mailbag, but I hope to have […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/29/2010
We have this announcement that ESPN 3D will carry three college football games in the first three weeks of the season. This all leads to the BCS National Championship Game which will also be produced in 3D. Currently, this is a separate production from the 2D High Definition broadcast that most of us will see. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/22/2010
During its Media Days this week, the Southeastern Conference released a partial TV schedule for the first three weeks September. As you’re aware, ESPN and CBS are national partners, ESPN’s SEC Network has the regional syndication rights, Fox Sports South and Comcast Sports Southeast have regional cable rights. And there’s various local pay per view […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/4/2010
My plans to provide linkage this weekend went up in smoke when I had to run errands for my family, but I’ll do some this evening. My day has been planned for me on Monday so I don’t know when I can blog, but I’ll do my best. Mike Florio from Pro Football Talk has […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/2/2010
I’m going to do the Friday megalinks in two parts once again. I’m going to leave the office before 4 p.m. ET so I can get a few things done at home and then I’ll do the rest of the megalinks tonight then post some press releases. Once again, I’ll post the National and Northeast […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/1/2010
O.k. working from home, but the point is working. Here are some links for you. The Nielsen Wire blog 1/3rd of all American viewers are watching the World Cup. Anthony Crupi at Mediaweek says people watching at sports bars and restaurants boost the viewership numbers for World Cup games on ESPN/ABC. Milton Kent from Fanhouse […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/25/2010
Time for more megalinks. National First, several media writers are amused by the war of words between CBS and ESPN over the most viewed broadband event ever. ESPN claimed 1.1 million people went online to watch the USA-Algeria World Cup match on Wednesday. CBS jumped in by saying, “Not so fast!” It sent out a […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/3/2010
It’s official. CBS has its schedule for the 2010 college football season. Some games have been announced. Others will be unveiled less than two weeks before the air date. Without further ado, here’s your schedule. CBS SPORTS’ 2010 COLLEGE FOOTBALL SCHEDULE OFFERS BEST OF SOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE EACH WEEK CBS Sports’ Weekly Selection of SEC Football […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/2/2010
ESPN has chosen six Big 12 matchups for ABC’s college football broadcasts. A couple are “reverse mirror” or regionalized games that ESPN2 will air in non-Big 12 markets or areas not receiving the game. Anyway, some pretty good games here including Texas at Texas Tech on September 18 in primetime. Here’s ESPN’s announcement. ESPN Announces […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/11/2010
ESPN has announced 16 games involving Pac 10 teams including 12 interconference games and 4 non-conference road games. A lot of them involve USC, Oregon, Washington, Stanford and UCLA as you will see from the press release below: ESPN Announces Select 2010 Pac-10 College Football Telecasts ESPN has announced 16 college football game selections involving […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/9/2010
This week, I’m bringing back Videos of the Week and I’m doing sports TV themes. Some themes like TSN’s Hockey Song or NBC’s Roundball Rock are as identifiable with the sports they represent. Some such as ESPN’s old Sunday Night Football theme are forgettable. But today, I’m going work in my favorite sports themes of […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/27/2010
CBS Sports hauled seven Sports Emmy Awards in New York last night. That includes the award for Outstanding Play-by-Play to Jim Nantz who wins for the second year in a row. Here’s the lucky seven won by CBS last night. CBS SPORTS’ JIM NANTZ REPEATS EMMY AWARD WIN FOR “OUTSTANDING SPORTS PERSONALITY – PLAY-BY-PLAY” AT […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/26/2010
I’m not sure why I’m not receiving ESPN press releases lately, but I found this again from its PR website. So here’s what the Alleged Worldwide Leader is saying about its college football primetime schedule. Pretty strong Thursday night slate if you ask me and I know you didn’t, but you got my opinion. 2010 […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/22/2010
ESPN, the network of the BCS and several college conferences, has picked six Big Ten football games to air this fall. You can see where they fall. Ohio State, Michigan, Michigan State, Penn State and Iowa are involved in these matchups, not necessarily against each other. Take a look. ESPN Selects Six Big Ten College […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/17/2010
Let’s do some Saturday links today. Trying to bring as much content to you as possible. Starting with R. Thomas Umstead of Multichannel News who writes that ESPN and TNT are hoping to use the postseason to build upon their NBA regular season ratings. Milton Kent from Fanhouse says NBC has announced that it lost […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/21/2010
Let’s do some linkage. I was doing some other things earlier today so as long as the media stories don’t refer to today’s NCAA action, we should be able to get some things done for you. Anthony Crupi at Mediaweek says the big beneficiary of Tiger Woods’ return to the PGA Tour will be Golf […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/10/2010
Trying to catch up on press releases. I have a whole bunch piled up in my inbox and it’s time to release them into the wild, or at least post them here. First, the Today Show, that long-running morning show on NBC will be in Vancouver. Actually, if you saw Tuesday’s show, it marked the […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/1/2010
It’s hard to believe that Jim Nantz has been at CBS for 25 years, but he has. He’s called just about every major sport at CBS except for baseball which he acknowledges he can’t do well. But other than MLB, if CBS had the rights for the sport, Jim has just about called or hosted […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/25/2010
Starting tomorrow, Sun Sports and Fox Sports Florida will air a new documentary on former Florida State football coach Bobby Bowden who retired after the 2009-2010 college football season. I do have an advanced copy so expect a review of this either late tonight or sometime tomorrow before the first airing. Here are the details […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/16/2009
Let’s lump some ESPN releases together for you. I’ll start with some ratings news regarding the Heisman Trophy presentation on Saturday. ESPN Nets its Largest Heisman Audience Ever Largest for College Football Awards in More than a Decade ESPN continues to experience audience growth for its college football programming, posting its highest-rated and most-viewed Heisman […]
