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...
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18Jun
Category: Fox Sports 1
Lots of stuff to get to and so little time. Here’s the linkage. Sports Illustrated’s Richard Deitsch has his regular Monday sports media column in which he discusses a new hire for NBC’s Football Night in America, ESPN’s World Cup...
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15Jun
Ok, I wasn’t able to get to do linkage during the day so in lieu of a Friday post, I’ll make this a weekend post so you can go through these at your leisure. So while I watch some Australian...
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Now with Fox Sports 1 set to premiere in August, Fox Sports has a lot of platforms to air college football. So combined with Fox Sports, Fox Sports 1, Fox Sports Net and Fox College Sports, the Fox Sports Media...
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04Jun
You probably have seen these already. Here’s one of the Fox Sports 1 promos hyping the launch of the new network on August 17. This is pretty good. And as we get closer to the launch, look for some preview...
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31May
Ok, lots of things to get to. Let’s do some Friday links. From Anthony CrupiCrupiCrupi of Adweek, a Disney executive downplays any threat from Fox Sports 1 to ESPN. From Variety, Rick Kissell says NBC Sports Network saw stellar ratings...
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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...
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This coming directly from the Pac-12 Conference. This is an aggregate TV schedule of the football games that will be carried on the CBS Sports Network, ESPN Family of Networks, Fox/Fox Sports 1, NBC and the Pac-12 Networks. NBC will...
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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...
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This in from Fox Sports. Former U.S. Open champion and tennis star Andy Roddick will be joining the upstart Fox Sports 1 and its signature studio program, Fox Sports Live when it launches in August. Roddick’s role on the program...
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From the great Joe Flint from the Los Angeles Times, it appears that without much fanfare, the much-discussed, but barely-hyped Fox Sports 2 will launch at the same time of the highly anticipated Fox Sports 1 in August. In March,...
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Fox Sports has made three hires for its newsgathering operation. When Fox Sports 1 was officially introduced to the media earlier this year, there was mention that the network was going to be serious about its newsgathering. On Monday, Fox...
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Fox Sports 1 is now 100 days from launching. Fox has released the programming schedule for Saturday, August 17. Fox Sports 1 gets its official kickoff at 8 a.m. Eastern with NASCAR Live and 7½ of NASCAR coverage culminating with...
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The story first surfaced over the weekend and now it’s been made official by Fox Sports. TSN’s late night SportsCentre team of Jay Onrait and Dan O’Toole will become the main anchors for Fox Sports 1′s nightly “Fox Sports Live”...
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Broken Friday by Toronto Sports Media, and then confirmed by TSN, we find that coming in August, US viewers will get acquainted with the enormously popular SportsCentre team of Jay Onrait and Dan O’Toole. According to TSN’s press release which...
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Announced tonight during The Ultimate Fighter 17 Season Finale on FX and now just made official by Fox Sports (a press release at 10:58 p.m. ET!!!), we learn that TUF will move to Fox Sports 1 in when its new...
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It’s been a while since I’ve written a College Basketball TV Awards post. It’s been so long, that I’ve lost the archive for it. That transition from Blogger to WordPress a few years back did it. This is mostly for...
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Fox Sports and the seven basketball breakaway schools from the old Big East Conference along with Butler, Xavier and Creighton have signed a new 12 year agreement. Over 100 conference games will be aired starting in the 2013-14 season. Fox...
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After a week off, the Sports Media Weekly podcast returns in a big way. We have coverage of the Fox Sports 1 announcement with three interviews from the network unveiling held earlier this week in New York. Keith Thibault of...
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So Fox Sports 1 has been officially announced? What’s next? The launch on Saturday, August 17 which will include a NASCAR Truck Series race and a UFC card. During the event that introduced US version of Fox Sports 1 to...
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The Fox Sports press event and upfronts have ended at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in Times Square in the heart of New York City (New Yorkers will probably say it’s not the heart, but anyway). We have the press release...
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05Mar
I’m at the Fox Sports 1 press event. I took a picture of the new logo. Quite original I must say. Keep it here. I’ll have updates throughout the day.
On my way to New York for the Fox Sports 1 unveiling and I’m going to try to do some links with the limited wifi that Amtrak has provided. It’s not the best, but it’ll do for what I need...
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The worst kept secret in sports media finally gets pushed from behind the curtain and will be officially unveiled to advertisers and the media on Tuesday. Fox Sports officials will be at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York to...
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From Brett McMurphy, Andy Katz and Dana O’Neil at ESPN.com, we learn that the all-basketball schools from the Big East will leave the conference next year to form their own league and will take the Big East name with it....
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When do you bury news? On the weekend! When do the networks put out terse statements on lost sports properties? Either late at night or on the weekends, like 3:19 p.m. ET on Saturday. NBC has conceded losing the Big...
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From John Ourand in today’s Sports Business Daily, ESPN has matched NBC’s offer to air Big East football and basketball. Earlier this week, it was reported that the Big East came to an agreement with NBC Sports Network, a deal...
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In lieu of linkage which has been sorely lacking, my sincere apologies, I give a sports media notebook which includes some links for you. Life has gotten in the way and you’ve responded by not visiting the site. It tells...
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My apologies for not posting the Weekend Viewing Picks and other stuff. My power went out thanks to the Blizzard of 2013 and I also had to deal with two downed trees, one lying across my driveway, so you can...
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06Feb
I’ll do some linkage here. USA Today’s Michael Hiestand says Dick Vitale finally gets to call the NCAA Final Four, but for an international audience. John Ourand at Sports Business Daily reports that Fox is in talks with Regis Philbin...
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