0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/2/2015
All Times Eastern Schedule courtesy of Matt’s College Sports on TV Announcing Assignments courtesy of Eye on Sky and Air Sports Thursday, September 3 Pregame and Studio Shows College Football Live — ESPN2, 1 p.m. CFB Daily — ESPNU, 1 p.m. Inside College Football — CBS Sports Network, 5 p.m. College Football Countdown — ESPN, […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/19/2015
Major League Baseball has released the schedule for the 2015 Postseason and for the third time, the World Series will start in very late October, in fact, this year’s Fall Classic begins on Tuesday, October 27, the second time it will do so. Back in 2001, the World Series began on October 27 due to […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/14/2015
We keep getting press releases which unveil the announcers for the upcoming football season. Now it’s Fox’s turn to tell us who will be calling the games for the 2015 college football campaign. We have wholesale changes for Fox as Charles Davis who has been the network’s top analyst for college football moves to the […]
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Let’s do some thoughts for you on this Friday. It’s all about providing you with fresh content. So without further delay, here’s the column: Earlier this week, Al Michaels broke some news on the Dan Patrick Show. Unfortunately, this interview is not available on the show’s YouTube page, but the audio is on his website […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/12/2015
When it was announced that he was leaving ESPN and after departing in disgrace last month, Fox Sports has announced that Colin Cowherd will join its organization. His first appearance will be on Fox Sports 1, Thursday, September 3 for the Michigan at Utah game. The news was broken by the Hollywood Reporter in an […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/5/2015
Fox Sports begins a new era with the Bundesliga next Friday, August 14. It signed a five-year contract back in 2013 and had to wait until Gol TV completed its deal to air Germany’s premier soccer league just last season. Under its rights, Fox will air all 306 league games on its various platforms, Fox […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/6/2015
When Fox landed the rights to the FIFA World Cup in 2011, there were fears and worries that the network would not provide the gravitas that ESPN had given soccer especially after the 2010 men’s and 2011 Women’s World Cups. But now after the 2015 Women’s World Cup, we see that Fox can treat the […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/20/2015
Today begins the Round of 16 phase of the Women’s World Cup in Canada. We have a doubleheader to kick things off today starting with Germany vs. Sweden this afternoon followed by Communist China vs. Cameroon. The Round of 16 continues on Sunday with a tripleheader highlighted by Canada vs. Switzerland. Monday will have another […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/18/2015
To the notebook: NEWS The big sports media news from Wednesday came from a feature on HBO in this week’s Hollywood Reporter. In discussing the new era of HBO with its HBO Now over the top service was a line that the network is looking at luring soon-to-be ex-ESPN’er Bill Simmons. On June 21, HBO […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/17/2015
After a crazy last day of Group Play in the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup, we have the official schedule for the Round of 16 which begins Saturday. The entire Round of 16 will air on Fox Sports 1 as Fox will focus on the U.S. Open during the weekend. This is official now as […]
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Ok, let’s do this. NEWS The 2015 NHL Stanley Cup Final ended up being the second most-watched series on record just below the most-watched 2013 SCF between Boston and Chicago. This year’s series averaged 5.551 million viewers which is just off from 2013 which averaged 5.753 million. For Game 6 on Monday, the series-clincher for […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/15/2015
To the notebook now. Lots of things to get to. NEWS The Women’s World Cup is still scoring for Fox. After the U.S. Women’s team’s debut last week vs. Australia which drew 3.331 million viewers on Fox Sports 1, Friday’s game against Sweden and the US’ former coach Pia Sundhage averaged 4.5 million viewers. That […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/11/2015
Let’s do another notebook for you on this Thursday. NEWS The NBA Finals are breaking records. Through three games, the series between the Cleveland Cavs and Golden State Warriors is averaging almost 18.5 million viewers and a 10.8 rating which is slaughtering all programming on broadcast and cable. Game 3 drew an 11.1 rating on […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/10/2015
Oh, bloody hell, it’s been a while since I’ve done a sports media notebook. We have quite a few things to provide so in lieu of me explaining why you haven’t seen one in months, let’s just get to the news, linkage and other stuff. NEWS A couple of things to lead with this morning. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/5/2015
The 36th Annual Sports Emmy Awards were handed out in New York on Tuesday, May 5. NBC’s coverage of the Sochi Winter Olympic Games was a big winner, but in several technical categories. We can’t say the usual suspects won because Bob Costas did not pick up the Outstanding Studio Host Award. Ernie Johnson won […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/17/2015
All Times Eastern Saturday, April 18 Studio and Pregame Shows MLB on Fox Sports 1 Pregame — Fox Sports 1, 3:30 p.m. MLB Tonight — MLB Network, 4 p.m. MLB Tonight — MLB Network, 7 p.m. Baseball Tonight — ESPN2, 10 p.m. Quick Pitch — MLB Network, midnight Baseball Tonight — ESPN2, 12:30 a.m. (Sunday) […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/10/2015
All Times Eastern Saturday, April 11 Studio and Pregame Shows MLB on Fox Sports 1 Pregame — Fox Sports 1, 12:30 p.m. MLB Tonight — MLB Network, 2 p.m. MLB Epic Moments: A Battle in the Bronx — Fox Sports 1, 4 p.m. MLB Tonight — MLB Network, 10 p.m. Quick Pitch — MLB Network, […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/19/2015
This is the second year of the MLB on Fox/Fox Sports 1 combo. Fox/Fox Sports 1 will air a total of 38 games this season, most of which will be televised on Saturdays. As for Fox, viewers will see 11 games, 7 of which will be in primetime. Fox Sports 1’s schedule begins on Saturday, […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/14/2015
All Times Eastern Men’s schedule courtesy of Matt’s College Sports on TV Men’s announcing assignments courtesy of Eye on Sky and Air Sports Women’s schedule and announcing assignments courtesy of Eye on Sky and Air Sports Saturday, March 14 Studio and Pregame Shows College GameDay — ESPNU, 11 a.m. College GameDay — ESPN, noon BTN […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/7/2015
All Times Eastern Men’s schedule courtesy of Matt’s College Sports on TV Men’s announcing assignments courtesy of Eye on Sky and Air Sports Women’s schedule and announcing assignments courtesy of Eye on Sky and Air Sports Saturday, March 7 Studio and Pregame Shows College GameDay live from Chapel Hill, NC — ESPNU, 10 a.m./ESPN, 11 […]
