0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/24/2012
Let’s provide the college football games for Week 9 which actually began on Tuesday. ESPN has an ACC matchup on Thursday night. For Saturday, the big game is Notre Dame at Oklahoma, both hoping to move up in the BCS rankings. College GameDay will be in Norman, OK and that will be the showcase game […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/23/2012
Now with the World Series decided, we know that the San Francisco Giants will take on the Detroit Tigers, a first-time matchup between two heritage MLB franchises. Fox Sports will have all of the games live on TV. ESPN Radio has the game on radio, of course. Here’s the schedule from Major League Baseball. 2012 […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/18/2012
As a rightsholder to Major League Baseball, ESPN gets access to the field before and after the World Series and can have Baseball Tonight live at the stadiums before Fox goes on the air. For this year’s Fall Classic, Baseball Tonight will be positioned outside the stadiums with hosts Karl Ravech and Steve Berthiaume with […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/16/2012
Week 8 in college football actually begins tonight with a game on ESPN2 between Louisiana-Lafayette and North Texas to be called by the SEC Network crew of Dave Neal, Andre Ware and Cara Capuano. Then on Thursday, ESPN has a Pac-12 showdown between Oregon and Arizona State, two teams with one loss among them. In […]
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Time for some long overdue sports media thoughts. First I want to apologize for the lack of content over the last three days. I’ve been helping in dealing with a family crisis and that’s been taking my time. Suffice to say that it might influence the number of posts this week into next. I’ll do […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/13/2012
With the League Division Series over, it’s time for the League Championship Series which begin on Saturday. TBS airs the American League Championship Series. Fox has the National League Championship Series. ESPN Radio has both series. Here’s the schedule and announcers for both LCS. AMERICAN LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES Detroit Tigers vs. New York Yankees Game […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/11/2012
Time for the college football games on the ESPN family of networks for Week 7. ABC has an afternoon doubleheader featuring the annual Red River Shootout between Texas and Oklahoma at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas at noon ET. Then the network splits its coverage three ways at 3:30 p.m. ET with Illinois-Michigan, West Virginia-Texas […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/9/2012
It’s an ESPN twinbill for the Sports Media Weekly podcast. Nice to be able to speak to a Friend of the Podcast and a new guest on this edition. As usual, Keith Thibault of Sports Media Journal and I go into the news of the week and it’s a brief segment. We talk about TBS’ […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/5/2012
Time to provide the American and National League Division Series. This will be updated often so you may want to bookmark this post. I’ll provide days, times, networks (don’t forget MLB Network is involved for the first time) and announcers. Let’s go. Oh yes, all times are Eastern. If you’re in a different time zone, […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/4/2012
ESPN Radio which has the rights to the entire MLB Postseason has provided its announcing crews for the Wild Card games all the way to the World Series. The main crew will be Dan Shulman and Orel Hershiser. They’ll begin with the AL Wild Card Game, call the American League Division Series involving the New […]
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ESPN announces that Ryen Russillo of the radio side will remain with the Alleged Worldwide Leader. Russillo has been the co-host of the Scott Van Pelt Show. Now with the new contract, Russillo gets his name on the show and share co-billing. The show will be officially called “SVP & Russillo.” It will continue to […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/3/2012
For Week 6, the ESPN family of networks has a slew of college football games. ABC/ESPN2 has two games at 3:30 p.m. on Saturday. Some will see Oklahoma at Texas Tech while others will watch Illinois at Wisconsin. The primetime games will be Georgia at South Carolina on ESPN at 7 p.m. ET with Brent […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/2/2012
Let’s do a few links on this Tuesday. Edmund Lee of Bloomberg analyzes the new MLB TV deals with Fox and Turner. Michael Hiestand of USA Today says with some playoff spots decided, ESPN has dropped plans for a duel MLB doubleheaders on Wednesday. Jacqueline Palank of the Wall Street Journal reviews ESPN’s 30 for […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/27/2012
Let’s look at the college football games ESPN will air this week. It all begins tonight with two games on the ESPN family, one on ESPNU and a Pac-12 game on ESPN. Interesting week, ABC has just two games, one at 3:30 p.m. ET with Brent Musburger, Kirk Herbstreit and Heather Cox in East Lansing, […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/19/2012
About to complete the first month of the college football season and it all begins with some MACtion tonight on ESPNU. Gotta love the MAC. We still have some interconference games on the schedule. ESPN’s networks have plenty of games this weekend including one ACC matchup between Top 20 teams on ABC. Let’s take a […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/18/2012
ESPN Radio and Entercom Boston have signed an agreement to air its programming full-time on WEEI-AM. Last year, Entercom began a simulcast of WEEI and placed the programming on 93.7 FM. Today, Entercom announced that WEEI-AM will become a full-time ESPN Radio affiliate starting on Friday, October 5 at 6 a.m. with a special live […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/12/2012
I’ll provide a few links on this Wednesday afternoon. Michael Hiestand of USA Today looks at CBS pushing its Sunday primetime lineup to 7:30 p.m. ET to accommodate the NFL. Michael Kruse of Grantland has a very good story catching up with former ESPN Radio host Nanci Donnellan aka “The Fabulous Sports Babe”. Ed Sherman […]
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Let’s take a look at the ESPN Family of Networks’ schedule of college football games for Week 3. Conference play will begin in some leagues. Florida at Tennessee on ESPN this Saturday is one highlight and Knoxville will be the site for this week’s College GameDay visit. ABC has a tripleheader starting at noon highlighted […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/4/2012
Week 2 in college football doesn’t have ranked teams facing each other, but ESPN will try its best to hype games for us. You have Missouri’s and Texas A&M’s first games in the SEC. ABC doesn’t have a primetime game this week as it carries a NASCAR race. But it still has a doubleheader at […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/29/2012
I already gave you the 2012 ESPN College Football regular season schedule earlier today. Now let’s take a look at the Week 1 schedule complete with announcing assignments. ESPN’s college football slate begins Thursday with a doubleheader beginning with an SEC matchup between South Carolina and Vanderbilt at 7 p.m. ET, followed by an intriguing […]
