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Iron Bowl Draws Second Highest SEC on CBS Overnight Rating of the 2013 Season

Saturday’s Iron Bowl rivalry game between Alabama and Auburn drew very good numbers for the Columbia Broadcasting System. CBS saw an 8.6 overnight rating with an 18 share. That’s up a whopping 291% for last year’s Iron Bowl which resulted in a blowout and saw a low 2.2/5. Thankfully, a close game and a wild […]

Some Sunday Sports Media Thoughts

Let’s do a few thoughts today in this last day of the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. First, some thoughts and prayers to the victims and families who were in the Metro North train derailment in the Bronx in New York. Four people lost their lives and scores more were injured. This holiday weekend won’t be the […]

College Football Viewing Picks for 11/28 — 11/30/2013

All Times Eastern Schedule courtesy of Matt’s College Sports Announcing assignments courtesy of Your Eye on the Sports Sky and Air Thursday, November 28 Pregame Show Fox College Thursday — Fox Sports 1, 7 p.m. 4 p.m. Stillman at Alabama State — ESPNU (Mark Neely/Jay Walker) 7:30 p.m. Texas Tech at Texas — Fox Sports […]

College Football Viewing Picks for 11/21 — 11/23/2013

All Times Eastern Schedule courtesy of Matt’s College Sports Announcing Assignments courtesy of Your Eye on the Sports Sky and Air Thursday, November 21 Studio and Pregame Shows College Football Live — ESPN, 7 p.m. Fox College Thursday — Fox Sports 1, 7 p.m. Inside College Football — CBS Sports Network, 7 p.m. Inside College […]

A Few Tuesday Links

After a whirlwind in the sports media world, things have been slowing down and maybe that’s a good thing. So in lieu of constantly posting press releases, I provide some linkage on this Tuesday. Sports Illustrated’s Richard Deitsch looks at NBC’s approach for the Sunday night game between Denver and New England. In Sports Business […]

UGA-Auburn Rates Well on CBS

Saturday’s unbelievable last-minute win by Auburn over Georgia did well for the SEC on CBS. As the Tigers kept its hopes for an unbeaten season, the SEC Championship and a potential BCS title shot alive in a miraculous tipped pass, CBS earned an overnight rating of 3.5 with an 8 share, up huge over last […]

College Football Viewing Picks for 11/14 — 11/16/2013

All Times Eastern Schedule courtesy Matt’s College Sports Announcing Assignments courtesy Your Eye on the Sports Sky and Air Thursday, November 14 Studio and Pregame Shows CFB Daily — ESPNU, 1 p.m. College Fozotball Live — ESPN2, 5 p.m. Tailgate Fan: College Edition: LSU at Alabama — CBS Sports Network, 6:30 p.m. College Football Live […]

Quick Thursday Linkage

Here’s some quick linkage on this Thursday. Rick Kissell of Variety notes that Fox Deportes is holding off its rivals from ESPN and Univision. Mike McCarthy at Advertising Age says Jaguar is going to air its first Super Bowl ad in February. Matt Yoder at Awful Announcing looks at the TV ratings juggernaut that is […]

Return of Some Long-Lost Linkage

My apologies for not doing what was the bread-and-butter of this site and that has been the linkage. A change of schedules in the morning have prevented me from gathering links and they have hurt the content. I hope to get back to a normal publishing schedule. Here is what we have today. Tripp Mickle […]

College Football Viewing Picks for 11/6 — 11/9/2013

All Times Eastern Schedule courtesy of Matt’s College Sports Announcing Assignments courtesy of Your Eye on The Sports Sky and Air Wednesday, November 6 Studio and Pregame Shows CFB Daily — ESPNU, 1 p.m. College Football Daily — ESPN2, 5 p.m. Tackling the Trends — CBS Sports Network, 7 p.m. ESPNU Film Room — ESPNU, […]

College Football Viewing Picks for 11/2/2013

All Times Eastern Schedule courtesy of Matt’s College Sports Announcing Assignments courtesy of Eye on the Sports Sky and Air Studio & Pregame Shows College GameDay live from Tallahassee, FL — ESPN, 9 a.m. Fox College Saturday — Fox Sports 1, 10 a.m. BTN Football Pregame — Big Ten Network, 11 a.m. College Football Whiparound […]

College Football Viewing Picks for October 24 — 26, 2013

Schedule Courtesy of Matt’s College Sports Announcing Assignments Courtesy of Your Eye on the Sports Sky and Air All Times Eastern Thursday, October 24 Studio and Pregame Shows CFB Daily — ESPNU, 1 p.m. College Football Live — ESPN2, 5 p.m. College Football Live — ESPN, 7 p.m. Inside College Football — CBS Sports Network, […]

College Football Viewing Picks for October 17 — 19, 2013

All Times Eastern Schedule courtesy Matt’s College Sports Announcing assignments courtesy Your Eye on the Sports Sky and Air Thursday, October 17 Studio and Pregame Shows CFB Daily — ESPNU, 1 p.m. College Football Live — ESPN2, 5 p.m. College Football Live — ESPN, 7 p.m. Inside College Football — CBS Sports Network, 7 p.m. […]

College Football Viewing Picks for October 10 — 12, 2013

All Times Eastern Schedule courtesy Matt’s College Sports Announcing assignments courtesy Your Eye on The Sports Sky and Air Thursday, October 10 Studio and Pregame Shows CFB Daily — ESPNU, 1 p.m. ESPNU Film Room — ESPNU, 4 p.m. College Football Live — ESPN2, 5 p.m. College Football Live — ESPN, 7 p.m. Inside College […]

The Week Ahead in Sports Media, October 7 — 13, 2013

Back with an overdue Week Ahead post. Lots of things happening in the Week Ahead so let’s not delay any further and get to what’s happening in the Sports Media over the next seven days. TELEVISION PBS Frontline The already controversial PBS Frontline documentary “League of Denial: The NFL’s Concussion Crisis” airs in two parts […]

College Football Viewing Picks for October 3 — 5, 2013

Schedule courtesy of Matt’s College Sports Announcing Assignments courtesy of Your Eye on the Sports Sky and Air Thursday, October 3 Studio & Pregame Shows CFB Daily — ESPNU, 1 p.m. College Football Live — ESPN2, 4 p.m. College Football Live — ESPN, 7 p.m. Fox College Thursday — Fox Sports 1, 9:30 p.m. 7:30 […]

SEC on CBS Scores Once Again

CBS’ SEC offering of LSU at Georgia did well for the Tiffany Network. I didn’t get to watch any sports on Saturday as I was at a wedding, but I can still report on the sports media for you. The overnight ratings pulled a 4.9 with a 12 share up big from Tennessee at Georgia […]

College Football Viewing Picks for September 26 — 28, 2013

Schedule courtesy of Matt’s College Sports Announcing Assignments courtesy of Your Eye on the Sports Sky and Air Thursday, September 26 Studio & Pregame Shows CFB Daily — ESPNU, 1 p.m. College Football Live — ESPN2, 5 p.m. College Football Live — ESPN, 7 p.m. Fox College Thursday — Fox Sports 1, 7 p.m. Inside […]

The Week Ahead in Sports Media, September 23 — 29, 2013

After a week’s absence, it’s time for The Week Ahead to return. With the season turning to fall, baseball points towards the postseason, college football has some decent games in Week 5 after some horrible games this past weekend, the English Premier League speeds on with more good matches and the NFL heads to London. […]

Quickie Wednesday Links

Time for some linkage. Haven’t done any in a long time. My apologies for that. John Ourand of Sports Business Journal speaks with CBS Sports Chairman Sean McManus about the future of CBS Sports Network. Tripp Mickle of Sports Business Daily writes that Nationwide will not sponsor NASCAR’s secondary race tour after 2014. Jason McIntyre […]

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