0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/25/2013
ESPN Radio or ESPN Audio as it’s known has announced its college football schedule for the 2013 season. It’s a 25 game slate which includes games from the ACC, Big Ten, Pac-12 and SEC conferences. It all culminates on Saturday, December 7 when ESPN Radio offers coverage of both the ACC and Pac-12 Championship Games. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/18/2013
This being the first year that ESPN Radio will air regular season NFL games, we have the schedule for the first five weeks of the 2013 season plus one preseason game. ESPN Radio has signed contracts with the Miami Dolphins, New England Patriots, New York Giants, New York Jets and Pittsburgh Steelers to air their […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/18/2013
Let’s do some links today. Brian Steinberg of Variety reports that Fox Sports is bundling Fox Sports 1 to potential Super Bowl XLVIII advertisers. That’s one way to get ads on the new network. Brian Lowry of Variety says Tennis Channel is crying foul at Comcast in trying to gain carriage on the cable provider’s […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/30/2013
Trying to provide two consecutive days of linkage, something I haven’t done in quite some time. Here we go. Pete Iacobelli of the Associated Press writes that Fox is still investigating the incident that caused a rope supporting its overhead camera to snap at the Coca-Cola 600. Tim Baysinger of Multichannel News writes that Fox […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/29/2013
I’ve been neglecting a couple of things that have been staples of this site, linkage and sports media thoughts. I’m taking care of linkage today. I hope to have a sports media thoughts post this week. It’s all about managing time. Let’s go. Richard Deitsch of Sports lllustrated has his usual weekly media column. He […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/28/2013
ESPN Radio joins Compass Media, Dial Global and Sports USA in airing Sunday afternoon NFL games across the country. Unlike the primetime and postseason games which are exclusive to Dial Global, the National Football League allows Sunday afternoon games to be syndicated nationally on radio. ESPN Radio has signed the exclusive out-of-market radio rights to […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/30/2013
Monday was quite the day in the sports world. As people were getting up and preparing to go to work on the East Coast, little would they know how things were going to develop. Let’s review what happened as events occurred. All times listed below are Eastern. 7:53 a.m. —
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/23/2013
Let’s do a notebook tonight, shall we? If I can’t do linkage and it always seems something gets in the way these days, I might as well do a notebook. I’ll try to provide as many links and stories as possible here. Interesting story from The Big Lead. The daily 9 a.m.-3 p.m. ET SportsCenter […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/5/2012
I’ll do a few links for you this evening. I’ll start with a strange story that surfaced today from a University of Maryland journalism class during which ESPN Vice President and Executive Editor John Walsh made some rather strange statements about Deadspin’s John Koblin over the Lynn Hoppes plagiarism situation. Deadspin has raised issues of […]
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ESPN has sent its schedule for the college football bowls as well as the Bowl Championship Series. In addition, we have the announcing assignments for all of the games on the ESPN platforms. Most of the games will air on ESPN, some on ESPN2. ESPN Radio also carries a series of games including the entire […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/4/2012
Let’s do some Tuesday links. Lots of stuff to get to. Michael Hiestand of USA Today writes that Bob Costas is receiving his share of criticism for his anti-gun commentary during halftime of Sunday Night Football. Busted Coverage has video of Bob Costas telling Dan Patrick that he’s not backing off on his anti-gun comments. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/30/2012
Wasn’t able to do any posts yesterday as I was away for most of the day. Tough to get anything done when you’re out of range for any internet or even 3G. First World Problems. Anyway, time for some Friday megalinks. Been doing well with the links, except for Thursday, but let’s continue doing them […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/28/2012
This week marks for all intents and purposes, the final week of conference play in college football. There are conference championships in the ACC, Big Ten, C-USA, MAC, Pac-12 and SEC. ESPN platforms will carry four of them either through TV or radio. The ESPN family of networks also will air the regular season finales […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/27/2012
Let’s bring you some linkage. Two days in a row! This is something! Shameless plug department: I wrote Some Long Overdue Tuesday Sports Media Thoughts earlier this morning and make sure you give it a gander. Many thanks. Sam Gustin of Time writes that News Corp.’s purchase of a minority stake in YES could help […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/21/2012
We have the Week 13 college football schedule for the ESPN family of networks for what will be the last full week of games. While next week will have some games, many will be Conference Championship games. But we’ll get to that next week. This is what we have for Week 13 on the 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 11/8/2012
Let me try to squeeze some linkage into the site today. It’s been crazy the last few days here. Sports Illustrated’s Richard Deitsch has your 2012-13 college basketball viewing guide. Michael Hiestand from USA Today talks with former Tennessee coach Bruce Pearl who will work for the ESPN family this season. Sports Business Daily recaps […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/6/2012
ESPN has some showcase games this week including three undefeated teams having some big tests on the road. All of the games will be Notre Dame is in the ABC primetime game for the second time in three weeks as the Fighting Irish head to Chestnut Hill to take on Boston College. Louisville heads to […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/5/2012
Having just worked last Tuesday’s NBA season opener between Boston and Miami on ESPN Radio, it’s a shock to hear that long-time announcer Jim Durham has passed away at the age of 65. According to ESPN’s Front Row public relations blog, Durham passed away over the weekend at his home outside Houston. A native of […]
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ESPN Radio has officially tapped ESPNews and SportsCenter anchor Jonathan “Coach” Coachman to host a new show from 4 – 7 p.m. ET starting today. The show replaces Doug Gottlieb which had occupied the spot. Coachman will host the show and be joined by a various rotation of ESPN personalities to discuss the sports issues […]
