0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/14/2013
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, Fox with a lot of pomp and circumstance announced Fox Sports 1, the new national […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/8/2013
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 to crow with 23 Emmys, the most of any sports media group. Turner Sports was […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/7/2013
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 full list from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences tomorrow and I’ll post […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/6/2013
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” that will air at 11 p.m. ET. Onrait and O’Toole have become so popular, Canada’s […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/17/2013
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 few who did both play-by-play and analysis during his career, he also branched out to […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/6/2013
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 games to the masses. This week, we have Joe Buck, Tim McCarver, Ken Rosenthal and […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/4/2013
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 Saturday, August 17. Both those games will be primetime. Fox’s third game will be 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 live. The NFL Preseason kicks off on August 4 with the AFC-NFC Hall of Fame […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/30/2013
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 includes the Opening Night game tomorrow when the Texas Rangers take on the Houston Astros […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/27/2013
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 younger audience by putting their open in Auto-Tune. Pretty funny.
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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 overrated by the New York media when he was with the Mets in the 1980’s […]
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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 joined Fox in 1996. He started broadcasting with the Philadelphia Phillies back in 1980, then […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/24/2013
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 the regular season. I’ll do a bonus TV Awards for the NCAA Tournament after the […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/20/2013
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 and Turner in third with 27. Bob Costas was nominated yet again for Outstanding Studio […]
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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 will have control of all men’s basketball games, selected women’s basketball games and various Olympic […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/19/2013
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, Creighton and Butler, will be unveiled as those joining the Catholic 7. So before the […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/18/2013
Haven’t done a sports media thoughts post in a while. Figured you’re owed one. Let’s do this in bullet form, of course. ESPN’s 30 for 30 series has been good since it started, but Sunday’s “Survive and Advance” documentary on the 1983 North Carolina State NCAA Championship team elevated it to something very special. Directed […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/9/2013
I haven’t done a post like this in a very long time. Viewers take watching sports for granted. We watch the games in high definition or some cases, 3-D, get instant replays, we can rewind plays instantly on our DVR’s, know how far a team has to go in order to get a first down, […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/7/2013
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 Sports Media Journal and I did our News of the Week segment and Ed Sherman […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/6/2013
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 the world (let’s not forget the original Fox Sports 1 in Australia), we learned that […]
