0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/22/2014
In tonight’s Olympic primetime coverage on NBC, the popular daytime figure skating announcing team of Terry Gannon, Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir move to the evening hours. They’ll be calling the figure skating exhibition gala that allows the medalists to let their hair down so to speak and give performances that aren’t normally seen during […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/14/2014
Ok, NBC has finally set its lineup for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Sochi is a warm water city in Sochi which averages 50 degrees in February and cost over $51 billion to construct. This are a few revisions from the lineup I posted earlier this month from the NBC Sports Pressbox website. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/10/2014
This weekend, NBC Sports will have live coverage of the 2014 U.S. Figure Skating Championships live from TD Garden in Boston, MA. The competition will decide Team USA’s representatives at the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Sochi is a warm water port city which averages 50 degrees in February. NBC will have live coverage of […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/6/2014
We don’t have a press release yet, but based on the information from NBC Sports’ public relations website, we’re able to cull the announcers for each sport for the 2014 Winter Olympics which will be held in Sochi, a warm weather city in Russia that averages 50 degrees in February. I’ll list the on-air commentators […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/18/2013
On Tuesday, NBCUniversal made an announcement that shocked many sports media and Olympic observers. NBCSN would air live figure skating from Sochi, a warm water port in Russia, and not hold the event solely for primetime. Not only will the network show the short programs in the new team event, men’s, ladies, pairs and the […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/10/2013
If you were alive in 1994 and were aware of your surroundings, then you certainly remember what Tonya and Nancy did for the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer on CBS. The whole circus that started with figure skating Nancy Kerrigan getting whacked on the knee just before the U.S. Figure Skating Championships led to a […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/23/2013
NBC has announced that three former Olympic figure skaters will join its broadcast team for the 2014 Winter Olympics. Johnny Weir who recently announced his retirement today will be an analyst for the Olympics as well as on NBC’s figure skating coverage leading up to Sochi. Tara Lipinski who won the gold medal in the […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/27/2012
Throughout the weekend, NBC Sports will have live coverage of the U.S. Figure Skating Championship from HP Pavilion in San Jose, CA. The main event will be the Ladies Free Skate on Saturday night. NBC will have it live at 9 p.m. ET. Other coverage will be live including the Free Dance on Saturday afternoon […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/14/2011
The first two seasons of Battle of the Blades have carried on with male hockey players teamed with female figure skaters. For the third season, Tessa Bonhomme from the 2010 gold medal winning women’s hockey team for Canada was teamed with 2002 pairs figure skating gold medalist David Pelletier and lo and behold, they were […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/19/2011
The show that combines hockey and figure skating has announced the pairings of one hockey player and one figure skater for its third season. Last night on CBC, Battle of the Blades announced the teams for this season and also gave us one more former NHL’er, the great Russ Courtnall who’s played with Toronto, Montreal […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/12/2011
When former Toronto Maple Leafs defenseman Wade Belak was found dead of an apparent suicide, there was speculation whether CBC would move forward with this season of Battle of the Blades. Belak was scheduled to take part in the CBC reality show that pairs former NHL stars with figure skaters. In its two previous seasons, […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/22/2011
The third season of CBC’s Battle of the Blades premieres next month and this time, it will have a female hockey player taking part. Tessa Bonhomme of Canada’s gold medal-winning Olympic team will be teamed with 2002 Olympics pairs figure skating gold medalist David Pelletier (who won with Jaime Salé and she took part in […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/9/2011
Ok, now that the Olympics bidding is over until the next round sometime later this decade, I can focus on other sports media stories and there are quite a few of them now. The Hollywood Reporter notes that embattled cyclist Lance Armstrong has taken down his anti-60 Minutes website stating its report on his alleged […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/26/2011
Let’s do the Thursday linkage and there are a few stories to get to. First, this broke late last night, Joe Flint at the Los Angeles Times confirmed that the number two man at NBC Sports, Ken Schanzer is following his boss Dick Ebersol and leaving the company. John Ourand from Sports Business Journal also […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/25/2011
Time for the mid-week links. Lots of stuff to get to. Michael Hiestand of USA Today looks at the ratings from some of the events held this past weekend. Michael says networks may have to scramble to fill holes if the NFL lockout extends into October and November. Brian Lowry at Fox Sports wonders if […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/1/2011
On this first day in May, it is time to take a look at how a couple of networks could improve their presentations during postseason time. As teams raise their game, so should the networks as more people watch and focus on the action on the court or the ice. This is not where networks […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/26/2011
This event was to be held in Tokyo last month, but the earthquake in Japan forced the International Skating Union to delay the World Figure Skating Championships and eventually move it to Moscow after receiving assurances and hotel rooms in Russia. So a month later, the event will be held this week. Universal Sports will […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/14/2011
Let’s do some links on this back to work Monday. Many of the links will focus on the NCAA Tournament so let’s get cracking. Starting with John Ourand and Michael Smith of Sports Business Journal, they report that Fox is about to sign a new cable rights deal with the Big 12 Conference that would […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/26/2011
This weekend, NBC gets back into Olympic sports mode by airing figure skating. NBC has weekend coverage with the pair’s, men’s and women’s competitions. As usual, the women will be seen in primetime on Saturday. The U.S. Nationals are being held this week in Greensboro, NC. NBC SPORTS PRESENTS 7 HOURS OF LIVE COVERAGE OF […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/22/2010
Two-time Olympic gold-medal winning pairs figure skater Ekaterina Gordeeva and former NHL’er Valeri Bure are the champions of the 2nd season of Battle of the Blades. We have the details from CBC Television in Canada. FROM CANADA WITH LOVE: RUSSIAN DREAM TEAM EKATERINA GORDEEVA AND VALERI BURE WIN BATTLE OF THE BLADES TORONTO – November […]
