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
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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At the time that this post published, it was way past my bedtime. I promised some more sports media thoughts and I’ll do as I said in Friday’s post, but I’ll do them in quick hit style. Bullets, of course....
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As it continues to gobble up soccer rights, Fox Sports has signed a multimedia agreement to air European qualifying matches for two soccer tournaments, UEFA Euro 2016 and the FIFA 2018 World Cup. In addition, the rights agreement will allow...
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Let’s do some linkage on this rainy Monday in Southern New England. It may not be raining where you are, but where I am, it’s Ark Building Time. Starting with Sports Illustrated’s Richard Deitsch, we learn that ESPN’s NBA Countdown...
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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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During last night’s NASCAR race in Charlotte, the rope supporting Fox’s CableCam fell over Charlotte Motor Speedway injuring 10 fans and causing damage to several cars on the track. The collapse occurred during Lap 121 of the Coca-Cola 600. The...
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As part of a busy Memorial Day Weekend, Fox has soccer, primetime baseball and NASCAR on Saturday and Sunday. The UEFA Champions League Final will kick things off as an all-German and Bundesliga contest between Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund...
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Last year, Fox Soccer gave soccer fans a true smorgasbord of English Premier League coverage on the final Sunday of the regular season. Utilizing Fox Soccer, Fox Soccer Plus, Fox Sports Net, Speed, FX, FoxSoccer.com, FoxSoccer2Go as well as ESPN2,...
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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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Let’s go over the entire list of those who won hardware in the 34th Annual Sports Emmy Awards. The awards were handed out at Frederick P. Rose Hall at Lincoln Center in New York. Overall, NBC Sports Group has reason...
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The 34th Annual Sports Emmy Awards were handed out tonight in New York at Frederick P. Rose Hall at the Time Warner Center. Thanks to Josh Krulewitz, ESPN public relations maven, I can list the individual winners. I’ll have a...
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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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With the sad news of the passing of former NFL player and broadcaster Pat Summerall, I’ll provide you with a timeline of his broadcasting career. Summerall was one of the best NFL play-by-play announcers of all time. One of the...
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Fox Saturday Baseball returns for its last full season on Fox before being reduced to 12 games next year and a full 40 games on Fox Sports 1. Before it goes away, Fox has 26 games, regionalizing at least three...
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The NFL on Fox has three games in the 2013 Postseason, two of which will be on the same weekend, Friday, August 16 and Sunday, August 18. Fox Sports points out this wraps around the Fox Sports 1 launch on...
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The National Football League has released the schedule for the 2013 Preseason. ESPN will have four games, while Fox has three and CBS and NBC will have two each. NFL Network will carry everything else including a gaggle of games...
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This from Major League Baseball, we learn that combined through the ESPN family of networks, Fox Sports, MLB Network and TBS, a total of 22 teams will get their fun in the sun so to speak on national television. This...
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I posted this last year and since Tim McCarver is leaving Fox at the end of this upcoming MLB season, I figured I would bring this promo back. It has him and partner Joe Buck trying to appeal to a...
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No matter what you think of Tim McCarver and judging from the reaction on social media, a lot of people are happy he’s leaving the Fox broadcast booth after this season. I was not a fan and felt he was...
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Just announced by Fox, Tim McCarver will leave the network when his contract expires after the World Series in October. McCarver has been the number one analyst on MLB dating back to his days with CBS starting in 1990. He...
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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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Just received this from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the full press release of the nominations for the 34th Annual Sports Emmy Awards. NBC Sports Group received the most nominations with 58 followed by ESPN with 43...
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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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On Wednesday, the TV deal between “The Catholic 7,” those basketball schools that broke away from The Big East and took the conference name with them, and Fox Sports will be announced. Along with the announcement, three additional schools, Xavier,...
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