0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/20/2014
It appears that the 2014 Rose Bowl and the BCS National Championship Game were the last college football games Brent Musburger called for ESPN. Sports Illustrated’s Richard Deitsch reports in his weekly media column that ESPN is making the move now as Musburger’s contract will expire when college basketball season ends. Deitsch cites a tweet […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/17/2014
In one of the shortest blurbs ever, NFL Network lets us know that it will air the 2014 East-West Shrine Game on Saturday. It’s a chance for outgoing college talent to showcase their skills to NFL scouts. NFL Network has the game live on Saturday starting at 4 p.m. ET. Now that I’ve written thus […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/7/2014
For the last BCS National Championship to be played, ESPN went full guns ablazin’ and was rewarded with cable’s third largest audience ever. The Alleged Worldwide Leader aired the game on four of its TV networks as well as streaming through its online platforms and as a result, the total audience on television resulted in […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/3/2014
Tonight, the Cotton Bowl airs on Fox. The game between former Big 12 rivals Missouri and Oklahoma will be played at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, TX. Gus Johnson, Charles Davis and Kristina Pink will call the game live at 8 p.m. Fox’s coverage begins at 7:30 p.m. with a half-hour pregame show. The big story […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/31/2013
CBS’ last college football game of the season airs today when the Tiffany Network broadcasts the Sun Bowl live from El Paso, TX. Uncle Verne Lundquist and Gary Danielson will call UCLA taking on Virginia Tech when the game kicks off at 2 p.m. ET today. CBS Sports Network’s Allie LaForce will be on the […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/30/2013
As we bid farewell to the Bowl Championship Era, ESPN Radio will be all over the game as two of its signature shows will broadcast live from the West Coast as the game will be played at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, CA. ESPN Radio hack Colin Cowherd and SVP & Russillo will air from […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/24/2013
Actually, eleven counting the St. Petersburg Bowl on Monday, but this press release from ESPN counts Tuesday on forward. The Hawaii Bowl from Honolulu between Boise State and Oregon State starts the sequence of ten bowl games between tonight and Saturday. The bowls will take Christmas Day off, but then from Thursday through Saturday, we […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/20/2013
We finally have the ESPN press release that provides the entire bowl schedule with both TV and radio announcers. Because it takes a long time to scroll, I’ll keep my intro short and let you read the release so you can find a way to summarize it yourself. Entire BCS Highlights ESPN College Football Bowl […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/19/2013
This story was first leaked to USA Today this morning and then released to the worldwide media an hour later (not that you care, but your humble writer likes to point these things out). ESPN will provide viewers with what it is calling a “Megacast” for the BCS National Championship Game on January 6, 2014. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/18/2013
Beginning this Saturday with the New Mexico Bowl and running until January 6 with the BCS National Championship Game, SiriusXM will provide satellite radio subscribers with 33 bowl games. Many of the games will be produced by ESPN Radio while others will be syndicated through other radio entities. Details from SiriusXM. SiriusXM to Air 33 […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/16/2013
The fact that this is the 7th time that these awards have been handed out shows that your humble blogger has been doing this for a long time. With that said, it’s time to look at the best and worst in college football broadcasting in 2013. There’s been a lot of moments to consider. Let’s […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/15/2013
The 114th Army-Navy game received a decent rating for CBS. Putting the game away from the conference championships and on its own day has worked. The annual Armed Forces game received a 4.2 rating and a 9 share. It’s up 2% from last year’s game. ARMY-NAVY MARCHES ON WITH HIGHEST RATING IN 14 YEARS CBS […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/13/2013
Saturday ends the college football regular season as Army takes on Navy for the 114th time. The game takes place at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia. CBS will carry the game live at 3 p.m. Uncle Verne Lundquist will call the game with Gary Danielson. Tracy Wolfson will be the sideline reporter. College Football Today […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/12/2013
For the 5th straight year, the SEC on CBS is the highest-rated regular season college football package on sports television. The games averaged a 4.5 rating with a 10 share. In addition, three SEC on CBS games were the highest-rated college football contests of the 2013 season. Nice bookends for CBS as the SEC Championship […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/11/2013
Fox Sports’ college football season will end with the Cotton Bowl on Friday night, January 3, 2014. It’ll pit old rivals Missouri, now in the SEC, against Oklahoma State which remained in the Big 12. Gus Johnson, Charles Davis and Kristina Pink will be at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, TX. The Fox College Saturday crew […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/9/2013
The schedule is courtesy of Matt’s College Sports. I’ll add announcing assignments as they become availableAll announcing assignments have been updated. All times are Eastern. Here’s the grid. Saturday, December 21, 2013 Game Network Coverage Notes Announcers Time New Mexico Bowl Colorado St. vs. Washington St. ESPN/ESPN Radio University Stadium Albuquerque, NM ESPN: Mark Jones/Brock […]
0 comments by Ken Fang
On Saturday, a close Big Ten Championship between the Michigan State Spartans and the Ohio State Buckeyes which saw Sparty spoiling the Buckeyes chances at the BCS Championship Game gave Fox a primetime win on Saturday. The network received a very good 7.9 rating with a 14 share. Viewership averaged a very good 13.9 million […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/7/2013
CBS will air the SEC Championship Game as usual today. But in a first, it will air the Mountain West Championship and not immediately following the SEC. You’ll get a rest in between the SEC Championship and Mountain West games. The SEC Championship will air live from the Georgia Dome in Atlanta at 4 p.m. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/5/2013
All Times Eastern Schedule courtesy of Matt’s College Sports Announcing Assignments courtesy of Eye on Sky and Air Sports Thursday, December 5 Studio and Pregame Shows CFB Daily — ESPNU, 1 p.m. ESPNU All Access: Auburn Football — ESPNU, 4 p.m. College Football Live — ESPN2, 5 p.m. College Football Live — ESPN, 7 p.m. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/3/2013
We are now in Championship Week for college football. Several conferences will have championship games and the ESPN Family of Networks will carry five such games this week. The ESPN Family college football schedule is highlighted by the ACC Championship on ABC and the Pac-12 Championship on ESPN. In addition, the networks will air the […]
