0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/20/2014
Fox saw some very good ratings and viewership for the NFC Championship between the San Francisco 49ers and the Seattle Seahawks. The game which ended in a 23-17 win for the Seahawks resulted with a 28.5 rating for Fox. It had a 44 share. That’s 18% better than last year’s NFC Championship. Overall, it had […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/19/2014
Time to do some thoughts before the NFL Conference Championship Games. Once they start, I won’t be able to get this done. As usual, they come in bullet form. Last week, Grantland put forth a story by Caleb Hannan on the science behind a golf putter and the person who invented it. And while it’s […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/18/2014
The San Francisco 49ers and the Seattle Seahawks fight for the right to play in Super Bowl XLVIII in New Jersey on Fox on February 2. Fox Sports will be there to monitor it all from Fox NFL Sunday which will be live from CenturyLink Field in Seattle, WA to the actual game. With Fox […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/16/2014
Fox Sports says its Fox Sports Go app will stream the NFC Championship this Sunday. FOX SPORTS GO TO LIVE STREAM 49ERS VS. SEAHAWKS NFC CHAMPIONSHIP GAME New York, NY – FOX Sports GO, an app that provides live streaming video, will offer the NFC Championship Playoff Game on Sunday, Jan. 19 featuring the San Francisco […]
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All Times Eastern Studio and Pregame Shows NFL Matchup — ESPN, 6:30 a.m./ESPN2, 7:30 a.m. NFL Films Presents: The Candlestick Makers — ESPN2, 7 a.m. NFL GameDay First — NFL Network, 7 a.m. That Other Pregame Show — CBS Sports Network, 9 a.m. NFL GameDay Morning — NFL Network, 9 a.m. Sunday NFL Countdown — […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/14/2014
This is the last of four posts regarding Fox and Super Bowl XLVIII. While Fox Sports 1 made a big splash when it launched on August 19 of last year, it hasn’t been making ripples in the sports media pond since. It will during Super Bowl Week when it goes all out to air shoulder […]
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With Super Bowl XLVIII being played in the New York-New Jersey area, Fox is definitely using the New York City backdrop as a theme for its Fox Super Bowl Sunday pregame show which hits the air on Sunday, February 2 at 2 p.m. ET/11 a.m. PT. The show will begin in New York’s Times Square […]
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On Saturday, February 1 and Sunday, February 2, Fox is going to air three NFL-related specials. The 3rd Annual NFL Honors will air on Saturday in a two-hour primetime special that will recognize the annual Associated Press honors for the best players and various performances. Alec Baldwin will host the show which will take place […]
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Ok. This is the first of four Fox/Fox Sports/Fox Sports 1 Super Bowl XLVIII-centric posts. Yesterday, the Fang’s Bites inbox received the Fox Super Bowl press bundle and four announcements were attached. Those for announcements will be posted here. The first announcement deals with the promotional campaign the Fox TV networks on both broadcast and […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/13/2014
This from Fox Sports which is steaming towards the NFC Championship Game with plenty of momentum. Coming off Wild Card Weekend which saw Fox garner 47.1 million viewers for San Francisco at Green Bay, the network averaged 32.2 million viewers for its two Divisional Playoff games. For Saturday afternoon’s New Orleans at Seattle contest, Fox […]
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Here are a couple of notes that you may have missed from the last couple of weeks: Right at the start of the new year, the Philadelphia Phillies and Comcast SportsNet announced a new 25-year agreement that keeps the team on the RSN well past the current agreement that expires in 2015. Sports Business Daily […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/12/2014
The Conference Championships are set. Both CBS and Fox have to be happy with the results. CBS gets the AFC Championship in the early timeslot at 3 p.m. ET. Fox will air the NFC Championship at 6:30 p.m. Here’s what we have including the TV announcing assignments. We’ll get the Westwood One Sports radio assignments […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/11/2014
Now we move to Fox Sports which has two games this weekend, New Orleans at Seattle on Saturday and then San Francisco at Carolina on Sunday. Both games are the early games of the playoff doubleheaders. Saturday’s game will air at 4:30 p.m. ET while Sunday’s game kicks off at 1 p.m. ET Fox NFL […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/10/2014
Fox Sports Go will stream both of Fox’s NFC Divisional Playoff Games this weekend, the New Orleans Saints at Seattle Seahawks contest on Saturday and the San Francisco 49ers at Carolina Panthers match on Sunday. Once again, you will have to be an authenticated subscriber of a participating cable provider to see the games on […]
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All Times Eastern Saturday, January 11 Studio and Pregame Shows NFL Matchup — ESPN, 8:30 a.m. Sunday NFL Countdown — ESPN, 10 a.m. NFL GameDay First — NFL Network, 10 a.m. NFL GameDay Morning — NFL Network, noon Fox NFL Sunday — Fox, 3:30 p.m. The NFL Today — CBS, 7:30 p.m. The OT — […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/6/2014
You want to talk about why the National Football League is king? Look at the ratings for the NFC Wild Card Playoff Game between the San Francisco 49ers and the Green Bay Packers. Fox saw the best ratings for an NFL Wild Card Game dating back to … wait for it … it’s truly mind […]
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Over the last four months, there’s been talk that the National Football League wants to expand its ever-so-popular playoffs. he was told that the NFL wants to expand the playoffs by two teams. The NFL quickly countered that no such decision has been made and any change has to be made by the owners. Even […]
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These are a week late. I was hoping to have these up for Week 17, but so many things got in the way. Getting them up now. I vow to get the 8th Annual Awards posted by the New Year of 2015. That’s my hope anyway. Well, with another NFL season wrapping up, it’s time […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/4/2014
On Sunday, the NFC Wild Card game between the San Francisco 49ers and the Green Bay Packers will be available to authenticated cable subscribers through the Fox Sports Go app. That means the game will be streamed, but only to those customers whose cable providers have agreements with Fox. As it stands now, AT&T U-Verse, […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/3/2014
All Times Eastern Saturday, January 4 Studio and Pregame Shows NFL Matchup — ESPN2, 8:30 a.m. NFL GameDay First — NFL Network, 10 a.m. Sunday NFL Countdown — ESPN, 11 a.m. NFL GameDay Morning — NFL Network, noon Football Night in America — NBC, 4 p.m. NFL GameDay Scoreboard — NFL Network, 7:30 p.m. NFL […]
