0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/15/2009
With the college football season officially over and we transition over to the bowl games, it’s time to hand out the 3rd Annual College Football TV Awards. My goodness. Three years on this blog have gone by rather quickly. To compare, you can look at the inaugural and 2nd annual awards. Let’s begin with the […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/10/2009
I have some releases to post. Some of these came in last week, but were not necessarily time sensitive, so let’s get these up now as I’ve finished my work for the day. I’ll start with ESPN which says the ratings for college football this season were significantly higher than years past. ESPN & ESPN2 […]
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College football ratings did well on ESPN as you’ll see coming up. The SEC package for CBS did very well and this was the first year of the new 15 year contract for the Tiffany Network. Not only did CBS’ ratings for the SEC go up from last season, the numbers were better than ABC’s […]
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I have links for you today. Trying to finish these early so I can some work done. The Associated Press has the top 15 cable programs for last week which includes some programming from ESPN. Anthony Crupi of Mediaweek writes that ESPN will finish third in the yearly cable primetime ratings. Anthony says Monday Night […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/9/2009
The press releases have piled up and I keep trying to clear them, but more keep coming. It’s like rolling that rock up the hill. Right when you think you’re finished, the rock gets by me and rolls down the hill. So, I do my best to post what I can whenever I can. From […]
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I’m going to combine one college football release and tack to two college basketball-related releases from ESPN. I do this to save space and because I can. First, let’s look at what ESPN has planned for its college football awards show. This is unrelated to the Heisman Trophy show later this week. Seven College Football […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/8/2009
I keep getting news or releases that I need to post, thus delaying my gathering of the links. Well, I think I have a window to get these done now. USA Today’s Michael Hiestand has the ratings of various sports programs from the weekend. The Sports Media Watch notes that HBO Real Sports host Bryant […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/7/2009
As we’re in December and the holiday season, it means plenty of college bowl games. And starting next Saturday, September 19, it means some 30 bowl games on the ESPN family of networks. It also means Bowl Week which has expanded from 7 days to 14. Take a look at the press release and subsequent […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/3/2009
After getting a late start to blogging today and not being able to provide links during the day, I thought maybe I can take the night off from blogging. WRONG! Things are breaking tonight. It’s hard to decide where to begin, but let’s go with the New York Times. Andrew Ross Sorkin and Tim Arango […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/2/2009
We have some links to provide this evening. And since I’m in the final days of not having a TV, I can concentrate on them without distractions. Starting with Richard Sandomir of the New York Times, he looks at what Versus would look like under NBC’s watch. Stuart Levine of Variety says ESPN has set […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/1/2009
We have some late news for you. Let’s provide a few links. First, it appears that a Comcast purchase of NBC is getting closer. Tim Arango and Bill Carter of the New York Times report that General Electric has come to an agreement on a purchase price of the 20% of NBC Universal that is […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/24/2009
Two college football press releases for you here and then two NFL releases in the next post will round out our posts for tonight. First, here’s what games you’ll see this week on the ESPN family of networks. No. 3 Texas on Thanksgiving; No. 5 Cincinnati and No. 6 Boise State on Friday contact: michael.c.humes@espn.com […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/21/2009
I’ll do some links again during a late night. Things continue to happen in the sports media. First, Diane Pucin of the Los Angeles Times reports that the TV broadcast team for the Clippers made fun of the only Iranian-born player in the NBA, center Hamed Haddadi of the Memphis Grizzlies and got suspended for […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/20/2009
College Gameday live from Tucscon, AZ – ESPN, 10 a.m. noonOhio State at Michigan – ABC Louisville at South Florida – Big East Network Maine at New Hampshire – Comcast SportsNet New England/Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic Minnesota at Iowa – ESPNNorth Carolina at Boston College – ESPN2Duke at Miami (FL) – ESPNU Maryland at Florida State […]
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I am seeing some stories for Friday, but I’ll leave those for the megalinks. I can provide you with a few links before closing my eyes for the night. Staci D. Kramer of paidContent.org notes that Fox Sports Net is softly launching local versions of its websites to rival the local sites offered by Comcast […]
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Let’s post some college football previews. Usually I do this on Friday night, but I have some time tonight so I’m doing this a night early. Starting with Fox Sports Net and its SEC Gridiron Live program complete with predictions. SEC Gridiron LIVE – Week Twelve They Said It: Randy Cross on the Philips HD […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/19/2009
Lists by publications are made to stir debate and also give them a bit of publicity. The list that was published today by The Sporting News and sister publication Sports Business Daily/Sports Business Journal certainly does that. Already, I’m a bit perturbed that college and NFL announcers are mixed together as are play-by-play callers and […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/17/2009
Let’s post some college football press releases for tonight. Lots of good stuff to get to. First, this is the schedule of games the ESPN networks will air this week. College Football: Three Undefeateds in Action, Plus No. 10 Ohio State at Michigan & No. 11 Oregon at Arizona ESPN’s college football coverage this week […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/15/2009
We’re back after not being able to turn on the computer all day on Saturday. Right when I was about to blog yesterday, got a phone call from the parents asking me to accompany them to Massachusetts and it ended up being a total waste of time. Then it ended up that I was at […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/13/2009
Here in the Northeast, we’re expecting that huge storm that’s hovering off the North Carolina coast and dumping lots of rain on Virginia. I’m just waiting for it as I’ve cleaned out my yard, my gutters, and made sure my basement won’t get flooded. This is going to be a washout at least for Saturday. […]
