0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/18/2013
Schedule Courtesy of Matt’s College Sports Announcing Assignments Courtesy of Your Eye on the Sports Sky and Air Thursday, September 19 Studio & 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 Football […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/15/2013
To say interest was high for Alabama-Texas A&M was an understatement. While the game was a blowout in the middle, but became a barnburner at the end. CBS got out of the gate with a massive 9.0/21 rating for its SEC season opener. It’s the highest-rated regular season college football afternoon game on the Tiffany […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/14/2013
As if you didn’t know, CBS has the biggest college football game of the week with Alabama at Texas A&M live from College Station, TX. This is so big, CBS has sent its pregame show, College Football Today to the site, something it rarely does. Alabama at Texas A&M also marks the season premiere for […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/11/2013
Schedule courtesy Matt’s College Sports Announcing assignments courtesy Your Eye on The Sports Sky and Air Thursday, September 12 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 College Football […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/10/2013
ESPN is crowing about its numbers for last Saturday which saw three big games on its network, Notre Dame-Michigan in primetime, South Carolina-Georgia in late afternoon and Florida-Miami in its early window. Overall, an average of 3.84 million people watched the entire day on ESPN starting from 6 a.m. ET. And starting at 9 a.m. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/8/2013
Well, let’s take a look at what’s ahead in the sports media for the upcoming week. It’s another busy week and we’ll preview it for you right now. TELEVISION NFL Premieres The NFL continues to dominate the week. Monday has the annual Week 1 doubleheader on ESPN with Philadelphia taking on the DC NFL Team […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/7/2013
There’s nothing I can add to this. It’s an early nominee for Most Awkward Moment in this year’s Fang’s Bites College Football TV Awards. [youtube=http://youtu.be/oFZeVDyhzOQ&rel=0&w=560&h-315] So strange.
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/5/2013
Schedule courtesy of Matt’s College Sports Announcing assignments courtesy of Your Eye on the Sports Sky and Air Friday, September 6 Studio and Pregame Shows CFB Daily — ESPNU, 1 p.m. College Football Live — ESPNU, 5 p.m. This Week in SEC Football — CBS Sports Network, 6:30 p.m. BTN Football Report — Big Ten […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/2/2013
Lots of things happening in sports media this week. The NFL returns in the next seven days. College Football goes into its second week. Baseball heads into its final month of the regular season. Soccer goes into World Cup qualifying. The PGA Tour takes the week off and we bid adieu to Fox Soccer. TELEVISION […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/1/2013
This from ESPN on its Saturday college football programming across the family of networks. According to ESPN, the network averaged a 2.3 rating from 9 a.m. for the beginning of College GameDay until 12:43 a.m. on Sunday which marked the end of the LSU-TCU game. Some notes: ABC’s Georgia-Clemson primetime game saw a 5.0 overnight […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/28/2013
Schedule courtesy Matt’s College Sports Announcing Assignments courtesy Eye on Sky and Air Sports Thursday, August 29 Studio and Pregame Shows CFB Daily — ESPNU, 1 p.m. College Football Live — ESPN, 3 p.m. College Football Live — ESPN, 5 p.m. ESPNU College Football Preview — ESPNU, 5 p.m. BTN Live — Big Ten Network, […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/25/2013
We’ve survived the first full week of Fox Sports One and the premiere of new shows. We have another premiere this week, but this one on ESPN2. In addition, we get the first full week of college football as the new season begins in earnest on Thursday. Not only that, the U.S. Open gets underway […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/22/2013
This from CBS Sports Network. It has picked up 13-15 American Athletic Conference football games and another 25-30 basketball games from ESPN. Back in March, ESPN signed a contract with the American Athletic Conference through the 2019-20 season. And this sublicense deal with CBS Sports Network lasts the entire length of the ESPN contract. So […]
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Let’s do some linkage today. Sports Illustrated’s Richard Deitsch talks with ESPN’s Chris Fowler and looks at the first days of Fox Sports 1. Richard talks with new Fox Football Daily analyst Randy Moss. Paul Sanford at Sports Business Daily compares and contrasts Wednesday night’s edition of ESPN’s SportsCenter to Fox Sports 1’s Fox Sports […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/21/2013
This in from NBC Sports Group, NBCSN will air a live pregame show from Notre Dame home games starting this season. This also includes designated home games at sites away from Notre Dame. This year, the designated off-site home game is at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, TX (I know it has a new name, but […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/19/2013
So as college football is about to get underway, ESPN has sent us a press release on the studio programming devoted to the sport this season. Overall, there will be 15 studio shows including College GameDay, College Football Live, College Football Final and CFB Daily. Hosts will include Chris Fowler (College GameDay), Rece Davis (ESPN […]
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CBS has just added a football championship game to its portfolio. The Tiffany Network has signed a multi-year deal to air the Mountain West Football Championship starting this December. This will be scheduled to air on December 7 at 10 p.m. ET. On the same day, CBS will air the SEC Championship at 4 p.m. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang
Once again, it’s another busy week. Lots of premieres of various studio programs begin this week as Fox Sports 1’s launch continues. In addition, there are plenty of live games as we speed towards the beginning of college football next week and the NFL in September. Let’s get started. TELEVISION We have a lot of […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/15/2013
CBS Sports Network will produce the most college football games for one season in its history. Fifty one games spanning Conference USA, the US Service Academies, Mountain West, Patriot League and various NCAA Division II teams. The schedule will involve USC, Notre Dame, Boise State and Stanford. The announcing teams received a bit of a […]
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This is the latest up-to-date schedule for Fox’s college football. This spans Fox, Fox Sports 1, Fox College Sports, and Fox Sports Net. Fox Sports 1 has the first five games of the schedule in the Opening Week of the season including a tripleheader on August 31 that culminates with Boise State at Washington at […]
