0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/7/2016
All Times Eastern Thursday, September 8 Pregame and Studio Shows Good Morning Football — NFL Network, 7 a.m. NFL Total Access: Season Preview — NFL Network, 1 p.m. NFL Insiders — ESPN, 2 p.m. NFL Live — ESPN, 3 p.m. NFL Fantasy Live — NFL Network, 4 p.m. NFL GameDay Kickoff — NFL Network, 5 […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/26/2016
It’s an all-ACC Easter Sunday as Virginia-Syracuse and North Carolina-Notre Dame will ensure that the Atlantic Coast Conference will have two teams in the Final Four. TBS will air the Sunday regional finals from Chicago and Philadelphia and will take us the rest of the way to the National Championship Game marking the first time […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/25/2016
All Times Eastern Saturday, March 25 Men’s Studio and Pregame Shows Best of College Basketball 2016 — CBS, 2 p.m. NCAA March Madness 360 — CBS Sports Network, 4 p.m. Road to the Final Four — CBS, 5 p.m. NCAA March Madness 360 — CBS Sports Network, 8 p.m. NCAA March Madness 360 — CBS […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/20/2016
Ok, here we go. We have the tip times, announcing assignments and network slots for the Regional Semifinals on Thursday, March 24 and Friday, March 25. On Thursday, CBS will have the games in Louisville for the South Region with Jim Nantz, Grant Hill, Bill Raftery and Tracy Wolfson with Villanova vs. Miami and Kansas […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/19/2016
All Times Eastern Saturday, March 19 Men’s National Invitation Tournament 2nd Round (Home Sites) Wagner at Creighton — ESPN, noon (Doug Sherman/Daymeon Fishback) NCAA Tournament 2nd Round Pregame and Studio Shows NCAA March Madness 360 — CBS Sports Network, 4 p.m. NCAA Tip-Off — TNT, 5:30 p.m.NCAA March Madness 360 — CBS Sports Network, 8 […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/21/2015
All Times Eastern Saturday, March 21 Men’s NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship 3rd Round Studio and Pregame Shows NCAA Tip-Off — TNT, 5 p.m. NCAA March Madness 360 — CBS Sports Network, 6 p.m. NCAA March Madness 360 — CBS Sports Network, 11 p.m. Inside March Madness — TBS, midnight College GameDay — ESPN2, […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/20/2015
The tip times for Saturday, March 21 are in. CBS has a quadrupleheader beginning at 12:10 p.m. ET with UCLA taking on UAB, then Kentucky vs. Cincinnati, Arizona vs. Ohio State and Utah vs. Georgetown. TNT begins the Turner Sports coverage with Xavier vs. Georgia State at 6:10 p.m. and TBS follows an hour later […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/30/2014
CBS Sports Network’s much-ballyhooed all-female talk show premieres tonight at 10 p.m. ET. Among the regular cast on the show will be Allie LaForce, Amy Trask, Dana Jacobsen, Lesley Visser, Tracy Wolfson, Andrea Kremer, Laila Ali, Lisa Leslie, Swin Cash and Katrina Adams. In addition to having an all-female cast, We Need to Talk will […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/27/2014
And our final Super Bowl-centric post at least for now deals with CBS Sports Radio’s plans for this week. CBS Sports Radio, a joint venture between CBS Sports and Cumulus Radio, will have its weekday lineup broadcast live New York City to cover the Big Game. The shows that begin at 6 a.m. and run […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/24/2014
This from the fine people at CBS Sports. With Super Bowl Week fast approaching, the various sports television networks have unveiled their plans to provide programming for the days leading up to the Big Game in New Jersey. I’ll post what you can expect to watch on CBS, ESPN and NBC’s Family of Networks today. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/14/2013
Time for some Monday links. Let’s get to them. Sports Illustrated’s Richard Deitsch talks with CBS Evening News anchorman Scott Pelley about interviewing President Obama for the network’s Super Bowl coverage and also reviews the performances of the NFL “B” analysts during the weekend. Michael Smith and John Ourand at Sports Business Journal note that […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/10/2013
With the launch of CBS Sports Radio last week, one of the events made for the network is the Super Bowl. And with CBS being a rightsholder both on TV and through radio (albeit through Dial Global Sports), CBS Sports Radio does have some added access for the Big Game this year. All of its […]
0 comments by Ken Fang
This podcast featured three, count ’em, three guest segments, all coming courtesy of CBS Sports and CBS Sports Radio. Those segments were quite good. You can ignore the news of the week segment as I had a touch of the flu and sounded horrible. It’s not long though. Keith Thibault of Sports Media Journal and […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/1/2013
Time for the look back at the Year in Sports Media in 2012. Lots of great stuff. The year has been very interesting and we have seen a lot of things. Just doing a Top Ten is never enough for the Year in Review. It’s always an even dozen with some honorable mentions mixed in. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/24/2012
She left ESPN in March and it was announced last month that she’ll be part of CBS Sports Radio’s morning drive show with Brandon Tierney and Tiki Barber in January. On the day after Christmas, Boxing Day to Aussies, Brits, Canadians and Kiwis, former First Take co-host Dana Jacobson makes her return to sports television […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/28/2012
Let’s do some linkage for you as we hit mid-week. Once again, a shameless plug. Here are some Quick Wednesday Sports Media Thoughts which were written very early this morning. USA Today’s Michael Hiestand talks with former ESPN’er Dana Jacobsen who will be part of CBS Sports Radio’s morning show when the network launches in […]
0 comments by Ken Fang
Tuesday was an early Christmas for your humble blogger. Thanks to some Black Friday sales, I’ve been setting up a new iPad and a new laptop computer, so the posts were rather slim on Tuesday. To make up for that minimal posting, I’ll write some sports media thoughts and unlike the last sports media thoughts […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/26/2012
It was originally
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/26/2012
Yesterday, former ESPN First Take co-host Dana Jacobsen revealed on her blog that she had been molested by her babysitter when she was a child. It took a lot of courage to speak out and make that public. Dana said it was the interview of one of Jerry Sandusky’s victims that inspired her to come […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/27/2012
This is developing this evening. First, The Big Lead and SportsbyBrooks both learned that long-time ESPN’er Dana Jacobsen is leaving the network. Dana first joined ESPNews in 2002 then in 2005 became a co-host of ESPN2’s morning show, called Cold Pizza produced in New York, then First Take produced out of Bristol, CT. At the […]
