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ESPN Crowing About A Combined 52 Sports Emmy Nominations

When you combine the Sports Emmy Award nominations for ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPN Deportes, and ESPN.com, the sports behemoth has a massive 52 nods. It doesn’t mean that they’ll win them all, but that’s a very big number. In case you’re wondering, ESPN has 22 nominations, ABC with 13, ESPN2 has 9, and both […]

2011 Sports Emmy Award Nominations

The Sports Emmy Nominations are out. Just released by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. The awards will be handed on May 2 at Lincoln Center in New York. Our list of nominees is below. Best Play-by-play has the usual suspects, last year’s winner Jim Nantz, Al Michaels, Joe Buck, even Bob Costas, […]

ESPN & ESPN Radio’s Live Schedule From Fort Worth For Wednesday

For Day 3 from Fort Worth for Super Bowl Week, ESPN and ESPN Radio will provide the following programming. ESPN and ESPN Radio Super Bowl XLV Programs Originating Live from Sundance Square in Fort Worth – Wednesday, Feb. 2 ESPN’s multimedia coverage of Super Bowl XLV will continue Wednesday from North Texas with scheduled appearances […]

ESPN & ESPN Radio Live Schedule From Fort Worth For Tuesday

Day 2 of Super Bowl Week for ESPN begins once again with Mike & Mike in the Morning on ESPN2 and ESPN Radio. And you have a whole slew of live programming from Sundance Square in Fort Worth. Hannah Storm also joins the fray hosting Media Day from Cowboys Stadium with Darren Woodson. Check out […]

ESPN’s Plans for Super Bowl XLV

ESPN will set up shop in Sundance Square in Fort Worth, TX and that will be its headquarters for Super Bowl XLV. Its headquarters will be the command post for some 18 platforms on TV, radio, print and the internet. I can’t believe how ESPN’s coverage has grown by leaps and bounds over the years. […]

ESPN Family of Networks Churning Out Soccer Games This Week

Starting on Wednesday and lasting through Sunday, ESPN’s various platforms will be all over soccer games from all over the globe. There will be a couple of international friendies including one involving the United States on ESPN2. Then there’s the regular ESPN2 English Premier League game on Saturday morning and to round it out, there’s […]

Back To The Sunday Linkage

After a couple of days without linkage, it’s time to give bring it back and do what you have come to expect from Fang’s Bites. Mike Reynolds from Multichannel News says Bright House and Time Warner Cable subscribers will have access to ESPN Deportes’ syndicated coverage of Dominican League baseball games starting today. Thomas Umstead […]

Telemundo To Air Its First Ever NFL Game “En Vivo!”

This Sunday, NBC-owned Telemundo will its first NFL game in five cities. It’s part of Hispanic Heritage Month and Telemundo gets to use its own announcers for the event. NBC Sports will produce the game. In addition, ESPN Deportes will team up with the Mothership for the Monday night game between Green Bay and Minnesota. […]

ESPN Sublicenses English Premier League Rights From Fox For Three Years

In what is good news for soccer fans, ESPN has locked in with Fox Soccer Channel for three years which prevents the last minute machinations of last year when negotiations between the two parties went to the very last minute. We now have a three year deal which allows for ESPN2 to air early Saturday […]

Some Additional Wednesday Links

Ok, let me provide you with some additional linkage here. I got interrupted and posted my original links rather hastily. Then I had to tape this week’s Sports Media Weekly Podcast with Keith Thibault and our guest, Susan Shan so let’s bring you the rest of the linkage now. We’re getting word that ESPN spiked […]

ESPN Presents The Home Run Derby

On Monday, ESPN presents annual coverage of the MLB All-Star Home Run Derby live from Angel Stadium in Anaheim. Unfortunately, Chris Berman will once again call and do his overblown, “Back, back, back, back, back, back, back!” call. Plus, he’ll try to endear himself by mentioning local communities (“That ball was hit to Orange County!”). […]

ESPN Announces Its 2010 MLS Schedule

Here we go, the entire 2010 Major League Soccer schedule for ESPN2 and the other platforms in the ESPN family of networks. JP Dellacamera will call most of the matches along with John Harkes. Here is the schedule which includes three postseason games and the MLS Cup. ESPN’s 2010 Major League Soccer Schedule ESPN coverage […]

ESPN Crows About Its Sports Emmy Nominations

ESPN is really happy over its Sports Emmy nominations including those for ABC, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPN.com and ESPN Deportes. Overall, the nods total over 50 which is quite impressive. Here’s the release. ESPN, Inc. – Industry-Leading 54 Sports Emmy Nominations   E:60, Outside the Lines & Motorsports Lead the Way; First Nomination for ESPN Deportes […]

Doing the Sunday Links

While I’m working on an engineering specification from home, I’ll provide the links this Sunday morning. Sports Illustrated’s Andy Staples says ESPN/ABC forced him to go to Justin.tv to watch last night’s Oregon-Arizona game. Tennessee Titans owner Bud Adams who flipped the double bird during last week’s game against the Buffalo Bills, has taken out […]

Our Monday Links

Doing the Monday links as we return to work after the weekend. Weekends are never long enough for me. To start, we have a few links from the Sports Business Journal. John Ourand writes that the season ending MLS Cup will be moving to primetime and scheduled opposite Sunday Night Football. Don’t see the ratings […]

Bringing You Tuesday Links

Here are some links for you today. Time to give you linkage. I was busy earlier compiling the list of NFL flagship TV stations for exhibition season. I’ll do a list of NFL radio networks as we get closer to the regular season. Right now, it’s the links so let’s get to them. Bob Kimball […]

A Mid-Week Linkfest

Let’s do some linkage today. Then I’ll do a massive press release post or two. Starting with Jon Show of the Sports Business Daily, he writes that DirecTV will have three dedicated channels to the U.S. Open complimenting the ESPN and NBC coverage for all four rounds. Austin Karp of the SBD says five of […]

Some More Thursday Links

Let’s give you some more links before they become out of date. Laura Petrecca of USA Today tells workers to watch the NCAA Tournament online in moderation. CNBC’s Darren Rovell can’t believe there’s an official ladder of the Final Four. Newsday’s Neil Best has a breakdown of where the NCAA Tournament games are going to. […]

ESPN's Plans for the Super Bowl

I told you earlier today that ESPN would announce its plans for Super Bowl Week programming. I guess the fine people in ESPN PR’s department read my mind or blog and put out a release outlining its plans for next week in Tampa for its multiple platforms on TV, the internet and in print. It’s […]

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