0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/26/2014
The nominees are out. A few interesting developments for this year’s Emmys. In the play-by-play category, Al Michaels is noticeably absent. Marv Albert, Mike Breen, Joe Buck, Bob Costas (?) and Mike Emrick are nominees. I guess the Academy decided to put Bob in this category in addition to his customary Studio Host nomination. For […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/20/2014
Another edition of the Fang’s Bites podcast. This one we do a little differently. The first guest is Peter Schrager of Fox Sports. He was formerly the senior NFL writer for FoxSports.com. Now he’s a general assignment reporter for Fox Sports 1. Here’s are some of the issues we talked about: How he joined Fox […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/10/2014
A week after announcing that Joe Buck, Harold Reynolds and Tom Verducci are the “A” MLB on Fox team, we have this stating that MLB Network stalwarts Matt Vasgersian and John Smoltz are another team. They would be likely the “B” team for Fox. They’ll call games on both Fox and Fox Sports 1. Vasgersian […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/3/2014
It’s been reported and speculated since we received word last year that Fox would go in a different direction from analyst Tim McCarver. After McCarver called the last out of the 2013 World Series, Fox started to look for a new partner for play-by-play man Joe Buck. After a few practice games, Fox Sports felt […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/27/2014
This being reported by Jason McIntyre of The Big Lead. Fox has decided to team Harold Reynolds and Sports Illustrated baseball insider Tom Verducci with lead MLB announcer Joe Buck for the 2014 season. Reynolds and Verducci would replace Tim McCarver who left after last season. It’s an intriguing choice. Reynolds has been the main […]
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One of the reasons why Fox launched Fox Sports 1 last year was to air baseball in bulk. Fox Sports 1 will air 40 games this season including 10 exclusive Saturday doubleheaders and an additional 10 doubleheaders split with Fox. In addition, Fox Sports 1 will occasional games during the week including its first MLB […]
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0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/13/2014
Today is the day when the new NASCAR season gets underway with the Daytona 500 Media Day. It begins Speedweeks which will run for two weeks and continue through Sunday, February 23 when the Daytona 500 is run. Starting at 10 a.m. ET, Fox Sports 1 will have live coverage of Media Day. Then at […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/10/2014
Starting on Thursday, Fox begins coverage of its 14th season of NASCAR. And as usual, Fox will start its portion of the NASCAR season with the Daytona 500. Fox starts with Speedweeks coverage on Thursday and then qualifying plus the Camping World Truck Series kickoff and a whole lot more. For the first time, the […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/6/2014
Continuing what it started in 2012, Fox Sports has sent a heavy contingent to Sochi to cover the 2014 Winter Games. Anchoring the coverage will be Fox Sports Live’s Jay Onrait and Dan O’Toole. Both have experience as Olympic hosts as Onrait co-hosted CTV’s morning coverage in Vancouver in 2010 and both co-hosted TSN’s SportsCentre’s […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/4/2014
After recalculating the numbers, Fox has even more reason to crow about the Super Bowl XLVIII ratings and viewership. The viewership which was reported to be 111.5 million has now been adjusted upward. According to Fox and Nielsen, 112.2 million viewers watched Super Bowl XLVIII which is now the new record for any televised event […]
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This from Fox Sports, Super Bowl XLVIII was the most-viewed event online. Fox Sports Go’s stream was watched by an average 528,000 people per minute. The peak audience was 1.1 million at 9:11 p.m. ET. This broke the previous record of 508,000 views per minute for Super Bowl XLVII on CBSSports.com last year. Here’s the […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/3/2014
Call me stunned. With a 43-8 blowout and a game over in the first half, I thought there was no chance that Super Bowl XLVIII would break Super Bowl XLVI’s viewership record of 111.3 million people. Instead, people stayed to watch and with some commercials running late in the game that had generated some social […]
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A network broadcasting the Super Bowl depends so heavily on the game being close. Unfortunately after a stretch of ten years of relatively close contests, we were bound to get a stinker and that’s what happened on Sunday when Super Bowl XLVIII started with a safety and went downhill from there, resulting in a dominant […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/2/2014
Starting at noon ET, Fox will begin its schedule for Super Bowl XLVIII with the NFL Films-produced Road to the Super Bowl narrated by actor Andre Braugher. Then at 1 p.m., Fox airs Football Stories: Our America which is another NFL Films-produced special. That will be hosted by actor Forest Whitaker. When the clock hits […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/30/2014
All Times Eastern Studio and Pregame Shows NFL Matchup — ESPN, 6:30 a.m. NFL GameDay First — NFL Network, 7 a.m. That Other Pregame Show — CBS, 9 a.m. NFL GameDay Morning live from New Jersey — NFL Network, 9 a.m. Sunday NFL Countdown live from New York — ESPN, 10 a.m.Fox Super Bowl Kick-Off […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/29/2014
On Tuesday, your humble blogger went to New York to cover the Fox Sports Media Day at the NFL Media headquarters inside the Sheraton Times Square Hotel. There, I was able to interview four of Fox Sports’ personnel about their preparation and anticipation for the Big Game at the New Meadowlands in New Jersey. In […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/25/2014
Time to do a quick notebook for you on this early Saturday morning. They’ll be bullet form. Fox has increased its stake in the YES Network. In late 2012, it purchased a 49% share in the regional sports network. On Friday through a press release from parent company 21st Century Fox, YES will become a […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/24/2014
On Thursday, Fox held two Super Bowl-related conference calls with the media. Some interesting things were said including Fox Sports President Eric Shanks talking about the potential for bad weather plus producer Richie Zyontz explaining why he he had cut off the now-infamous Erin Andrews interview with Seattle’s Richard Sherman. You can take a look […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/22/2014
On February 2, the Fox Sports Go app which currently is available to select authenticated cable subscribers including Cablevision’s Optimum and Comcast’s Xfinifty, will open up to everyone so people can see Super Bowl XLVIII online. Fox is calling this a “Special Preview” and the app will open to all starting at noon ET and […]
