0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/9/2008
I’ll give you a few links this evening as I back up my computer. Sports Illustrated’s Richard Deitsch has his Media Power Rankings for March. Christopher Byrne of Eye on Sports Media is advising fans to ease up on CBS Sports’ Billy Packer for his declaring that the Kansas-North Carolina NCAA Men’s Tournament National Semifinal […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/13/2008
The nominees for the 29th Sports Emmy Awards have been announced. HBO leads the list with 31 nominations with 5 for Real Sports and 5 for Inside the NFL. ESPN is next with 27 (although I’m sure ESPN will have a press release stating that combined with ESPN2, ESPN Classic and ABC, it leads the […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/7/2007
Time to do your Friday megalinks as usual. We always start with USA Today and Michael Hiestand who writes that ESPNU plans to use unpaid college students to produce games for the channel. That’s one way to cut costs. And here’s the Nation’s Newspaper’s listing of the weekend events . Today, we’ll start with the […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/5/2007
I’ll give you some more links this afternoon. From USA Today, Jorge Ortiz writes about the increased profits for Major League Baseball Advanced Media which has grown by leaps and bounds since its inception in 2001. The Biz of Baseball which was quoted in the article also has its reaction. MLBAM has led all of […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/13/2007
We have some links for you on this Tuesday. First, from Awful Announcing via Sports by Brooks, we get the call from Bob Lamey of the Colts Radio Network totally blowing the call of the missed FG attempt by Adam Vinitieri during Sunday night’s Colts-Chargers game. Oops. Thanks to Boston Sports Media Watch for the […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/6/2007
Let’s give you an afternoon update. First, let me thank Neil Best of Newsday for putting Fang’s Bites on his Blogroll. It’s much appreciated. Neil has been prolific since starting his Watchdog blog back in May which is about when I re-launched this site after being dormant for two years. Since then, this blog has […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/30/2007
Ok, I wasn’t able to update you earlier today, but I can now so let’s get to some linkage. First, let’s give you the overnight ratings for Game 4 of the World Series which beat all comers last night. The Sports Media Watch says the World Series finished strong for Fox. CNBC’s Darren Rovell says […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/23/2007
Here we are with another set of links for you this morning. By the way, the number of hits from the San Diego area to this site has dropped over the last couple of days due to the megafires. I talked to a friend of mine who lives there and I also have a cousin […]
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Giving you some links on this Monday night. We start this update with a blog entry from Neil Best of Newsday. He has some quotes from Joe Buck and Tim McCarver from a Fox conference call and both men discussed the future of Joe Torre. And thanks to Best who got the link from Awful […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/20/2007
Ok, I’ve seen enough news to warrant an update tonight. Let’s go. Starting out with Neil Best of Newsday who broke the news that Rick Reilly is leaving Sports Illustrated. This comes a day after SI announced Dan Patrick would join the magazine and host his website. In addition SI had said Reilly would be […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/18/2007
Time to give you some links today. Mel Bracht of The Daily Oklahoman writes that Cox Communications will beam 25 games of the New Orleans Hornets into Oklahoma City. As you know, the Hornets played in Oklahoma City for two years while New Orleans recovered from Hurricane Katrina. And the Hornets have returned to New […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/17/2007
A few links for you this afternoon before I head out for the day. Phil Swann of TV Predictions says DirecTV picked up two more FSN regional sports channels in HD as of today. Neil Best of Newsday blogs about the problems between Stephen A. Smith and his former employer, the Philadephia Inquirer. And Best […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/16/2007
Let’s give you an update this afternoon. First, as pointed out by Neil Best of Newsday in his blog, MLB and Fox co-authored a study which shows kids are staying up late to watch Major League Baseball postseason games and ratings actually increase as the hour gets closer to midnight. John Ourand and Eric Fisher […]
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Time to give you some links. With the Rockies sweep finishing late on the East Coast, there won’t be any final critiques of TBS’ coverage from the newspapers until tomorrow, but I’m sure there will be reviews of the NFL pregame shows from the weekend. Let’s check out the links. First, John Molori of Boston […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/15/2007
Time to give you some links for a Monday afternoon. First, from the Sports Business Daily (no link, but I will give the publication full credit for this item), the New England-Dallas game in the 4:15 p.m. ET window garnered the highest ratings for an NFL game for CBS since it reacquired the rights to […]
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Let’s go to the links this morning. Starting with USA Today’s Michael Hiestand, he writes that the ranking of South Florida at #2 in the BCS got the attention of the Fox NFL Sunday crew. From his Four DVR’s, no waiting blog in the Houston Chronicle, David Barron gives a wrapup of the Sunday NFL […]
