0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/14/2012
All Times Eastern Week 2 NFL Coverage Maps (The506.com) Pregame & Studio Shows First on the Field — NFL Network, 7 a.m. NFL Matchup — ESPN, 7:30 a.m. NFL GameDay Morning — NFL Network, 9 a.m. Fantasy Football Today — CBS Sports Network, 11 a.m. The NFL Today — CBS, noon Fantasy Football Now — […]
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Schedule courtesy of Matt’s College Sports Pregame and Studio Shows College GameDay live from Knoxville, TN — ESPNU, 9 a.m./ESPN, 10 a.m. BTN Football Pregame — Big Ten Network, 11 a.m. ACC Blitz — ACC Network, noon College Football Today — CBS, 3 p.m. College Football Scoreboard — ESPN2, 3 p.m. BTN Football Postgame — […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/13/2012
In a repeat of last year’s successful programming of NFL Sundays, Fox Sports has decided to bring back tape delayed English Premier League games and UFC shows to help fill the period before or after NFL regional action on five separate weeks. Fox found an audience for the English Premier League games and the UFC […]
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Just a day after announcing a new agreement with Oklahoma University of the Big 12 Conference, Fox Sports unveils a similar rights deal with Texas Tech University. Under the deal, Fox Sports will air one Texas Tech football game a year, have exclusive replays, live basketball games plus coverage of various Olympic sports. The programming […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/12/2012
I’ll provide a few links on this Wednesday afternoon. Michael Hiestand of USA Today looks at CBS pushing its Sunday primetime lineup to 7:30 p.m. ET to accommodate the NFL. Michael Kruse of Grantland has a very good story catching up with former ESPN Radio host Nanci Donnellan aka “The Fabulous Sports Babe”. Ed Sherman […]
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Fox Sports officially announced its long-anticipated rights agreement with the University of Oklahoma. Utilizing existing platforms in Fox Sports Oklahoma, Fox Sports Southwest and Fox College Sports, Oklahoma University will receive up to 1,000 programming hours that will be made available to 9 million homes in four states. Sooner Sports TV, as it will be […]
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This in from the National Football League, it declares another victory in the Week 1 ratings through its broadcast TV partners. The NFL says a total of 105.9 million people watched the NFL from last Wednesday’s Kickoff Game on NBC through the games on Sunday. It marks the third straight Kickoff Weekend that viewership topped […]
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Time for the Fox networks’ schedule of games on Fox, FX, Fox Sports Net, Fox College Sports and Big Ten Network. Fox’s game in primetime will be in the Pac-12 with USC visiting the Stanford Cardinal. FX has a Big 12/Pac-12 doubleheader starting at noon ET. Big Ten Network has regional coverage of eight games […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/10/2012
After a steady diet of Pac-12 games in primetime in the first three weeks of the college football season, Fox will finally be able to show a Big 12 game on September 22 as its new contract with the conference kicks in. Fox Sports announced today that it will air Kansas State at Oklahoma at […]
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Was out for a bit today so I’m behind in what I want to get done here. I’ll do some links for you to tie you over. I’ll start with a couple of stories from Sports Business Daily which looks at some record overnight ratings for Fox and NBC for the first Sunday of the NFL […]
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Just received this tweet from Fox Sports PR man Lou D’Ermilio about the network’s overnight numbers for the Week 1 doubleheader. Fox received a 17.2 rating for the 4:25 p.m. games led by San Francisco at Green Bay. The regional games at 1 p.m. ET saw a total of 10.2.
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A few sports media thoughts on this Monday. Yes, they’re in bullet form. I finally had an opportunity to see Fox’s college football production on Saturday. While Gus Johnson and Charles Davis were on top of their form for Nebraska-UCLA, the same cannot be said about the studio. I missed the Pregame, but watched halftime […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/9/2012
Let’s do the quotage from Fox NFL Sunday. I’ll also post some videos as well. FOX NFL SUNDAY NOTES – 9/9/12 Bradshaw to NFL: Show Me the Evidence Against the Saints Glazer Reports NFL Showing No Signs of Ending Lockout Against Referees, Even After NFLPA Request for Officials to Return Siting Player Safety Johnson: Improved […]
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Let’s do some Sunday linkage on this first NFL regular season Sunday of 2012. We’ll begin with Pat Eaton-Robb of the Associated Press with an interesting story on how Connecticut is fast becoming home of major sports media companies. Candace Jackson of the Wall Street talks about her visit to Rich Eisen and his wife, […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/8/2012
I hope to be doing this for you before each week of the NFL regular season and into the postseason. I’ll give you a few facts and pick a couple of games from each network to watch. So let’s give you some quick viewing facts for the very first week of the 2012 NFL season […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/7/2012
Earlier today, ESPN announced its deal with the Big 12 Conference. Now it’s Fox’s turn to announce its half of the rights deal. As with ESPN’s half of the Big 12 contract, this is a 13 year agreement that runs through the 2024-25 season. ESPN and Fox will share football rights. It allows Fox to […]
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All Times Eastern Week 1 Coverage Maps Courtesy of the506.com Pregame & Studio Shows First on the Field (series premiere) — NFL Network, 7 a.m. NFL Matchup — ESPN2, 8:30 a.m. NFL GameDay Morning — NFL Network, 9 a.m. Fantasy Football Now — ESPN2, 11 a.m. The NFL Today — CBS, noon Fox NFL Sunday […]
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Schedule courtesy of Matt’s College Sports Pregame & Studio Shows College GameDay live from College Station, TX — ESPNU, 9 a.m./ESPN, 10 a.m. BTN Football Pregame — Big Ten Network, 11 a.m. Inside College Football — CBS Sports Network, 2:30 p.m. College Football Scoreboard — ESPN/ESPN2, 3 p.m. College Football Scoreboard — ESPN2, 7 p.m. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/6/2012
Let’s provide the announcing assignments, regional splits plus a preview of what will be seen on the premiere of Fox NFL Sunday at noon ET on September 9. There are a couple of newbies on Fox’s pregame show this Sunday, Rob Riggle replaces Frank Caliendo as the comic relief and prognosticator and Erin Andrews makes […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/5/2012
Can you believe it’s Wednesday already? Holiday on Monday makes the work week go faster. To the linkage which has been too scarce on the site. Michael Hiestand of USA Today looks at some of the changes on the NFL’s TV partners this season. John Ourand of Sports Business Journal talks about the fierce bidding […]
