0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/18/2015
All Times Eastern Schedule courtesy of Matt’s College Sports on TV Announcing assignments courtesy of Eye on Sky and Air Sports Thursday, November 19 Studio and Pregame Shows B1G Football & Beyond — Big Ten Network, noon College Football Live — ESPN, 2 p.m. CFB Daily — ESPNU, 4 p.m. College Football Featured — ESPNU, […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/23/2014
This is a nice present to DirecTV subscribers which includes your humble blogger. The satellite provider and the Walt Disney Company have signed a comprehensive, multi-year deal that includes ESPN and its vast family of networks. Not only does it keep ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPNews, ESPN Deportes and SEC Network on the system’s lineup, it […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/22/2014
All Times Eastern Schedule courtesy of Matt’s College Sports Announcing assignments courtesy Eye on Sky and Air Sports Studio and Pregame Shows College GameDay live from the People’s Republic of Cambridge, MA — ESPN, 9 a.m. Fox Sports Live: Countdown to Kickoff — Fox Sports 1, 9 a.m. SEC Nation live from Knoxville, TN — […]
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 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 11/20/2013
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 […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/5/2013
This Sunday, ESPN will air the Women’s Final Four on Sunday. It begins at 6 p.m. ET with the NCAA Women’s Final Four Special hosted by Kevin Negandhi with analysts Carolyn Peck and Kara Lawson. Then at 6:30 p.m., Dave O’Brien and Doris Burke will call the National Semifinals with Rebecca Lobo and Holly Rowe […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/24/2012
In the wake of Hector “Macho” Camacho’s death earlier today, ESPN Classic will air his best fights all day Saturday. Camacho was shot while in his car earlier this week and slipped into a coma. He was declared brain dead on Friday. Here’s the schedule. ESPN Pays Tribute to Hector Camacho on ESPN Classic ESPN […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/13/2012
Believe it or not, we’re in the home stretch of the college football season. Just a couple of more weeks before we have the conference championship games and then bowl season in December. It’s not long now. We’re not quite at the traditional blood rivalry games yet, but we’re getting close. This week, ESPN’s college […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/11/2012
Starting tonight, ESPN Classic goes US Open heavy with replays of Sunday’s women’s final between Victoria Azarenka and Serena Williams and Monday’s men’s final between Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray. Both matches went the distance and were deemed as “Instant Classics” by ESPN. Both matches will be seen in their entirety beginning at 5 p.m. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/31/2012
ESPN has begun its three month-long recognition of Title IX. It has already launched a dedicated microsite and begun some programming initiatives. ESPN’s networks will be all over the 40th anniversary weekend in June with documentaries, espnW features and a whole host of women’s sports. Let’s see what ESPN has planned for June 23. ESPN […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/18/2011
Schedule courtesy of Matt’s College Sports College GameDay live from Houston, TX — ESPNU, 9 a.m./ESPN, 10 a.m. noon Louisville at UConn — Big East Network Big Ten Network Channel Finder Indiana at Michigan State — Big Ten Network Iowa at Purdue — Big Ten Network Minnesota at Northwestern — Big Ten Network William & […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/14/2011
We’re getting close to the end of the college football regular season. After this weekend, there’s the traditional Thanksgiving rivalry games, then the conference championship games and finally, the Army-Navy game before heading into the inexorable Bowl season in December. Anyway, Saturday Night Football on ABC will have a split national broadcast between Oklahoma and […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/11/2011
Now that the first-run of the acclaimed Friday Night Lights is done on both DirecTV and NBC, the show is free to find a new home and it has done just that by moving to ESPN Classic. The series will be seen in its entirety on ESPN Classic and will begin airing tomorrow. A season […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/9/2011
While I’m at work on this Saturday, I’ll do some linkage for you. Marcus Vanderberg at SportsNewser notes that Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver DeSean Jackson used a gay slur to berate a caller on a Sirius XM radio show last week. At The Grio, Marcus looks at the legacy of the train wreck that’s known […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/15/2011
Thanks to the success of the “30 for 30” series, ESPN Films will make ESPN Classic its home. I think this is a good move. So every weekend, 50 hours of films will be aired on ESPN Classic starting Friday night at 10 ET and lasting until Sunday at midnight. That’s a lot of films. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/14/2011
It’s been a busy day for me as I’ve been working on the story on NBC approving plans for a Stanley Cup Final Viewing Party at TD Garden in Boston. Amazing how things fall into place on a story like that. But still working to confirm on the Bruins and Garden end of the story. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/29/2011
The last games of the 2010-11 NBA season will be played on ABC as the Finals between the Dallas Mavericks and the Miami Heat begin on Tuesday. And it marks the earliest the Finals will have begun since 1986 as the Conference Finals ended early. So we have the games starting on Tuesday, May 31. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/21/2011
ESPN is announcing that it will mark the 50th anniversary of the program that put ABC Sports on the map and became one of the most important in the history of sports television. Wide World of Sports not only gave us our first glimpses of the Daytona 500, the Indianapolis 500, the NCAA Final Four, […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/1/2011
I’m going to try to post some of the Friday megalinks. This won’t be an entire post. Unless something happens, I should be able to get most of them in. Of course, you can find the Weekend Viewing Picks for your sports and primetime programs. National USA Today’s Michael Hiestand and Mike McCarthy debate whether […]
