0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/21/2012
Fox Saturday Baseball is back with three games today. It also means that Joe Buck off for the second week in a row. He’ll have called 12 out of a possible 16 games this season. Tim McCarver is also off, but he has a legitimate excuse with him going to Cooperstown, NY for tha Baseball […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/19/2012
Fox Sports announced today that it will be getting into the sports documentary genre with a new series called “Being”. According to Fox Sports President Eric Shanks, “Being” is “the next level of non-fiction storytelling…” The first installment of this new series will air on September 16 surrounding the NFL on Fox. And the first […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/18/2012
Time for the links on this Wednesday. Let’s check out what we have. Marisa Guthrie of the Hollywood Reporter talks with NBC’s Bob Costas about the Olympics, Jerry Sandusky and being short. That’s right. Daniel Kaplan from the Sports Business Journal writes that the NFL will not sign a telecommunications partner this season and will […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/17/2012
I was expecting to be out of the office today, but with the temperatures over 90 in Southern New England, being inside with air conditioning is probably the way to go today. I hope wherever you are, you’re staying cool and away from the sun. I have some links. Georg Szalai of the Hollywood Reporter […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/15/2012
It used to be that I would be able to provide linkage all seven days of the week, but my schedule has been crazy lately especially on the weekends. My apologies for not being able to provide more weekend content. But as I’m free right now, let’s not dilly-dally any longer and here are some […]
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Let’s provide a few sports media thoughts on this Sunday. They’ll be in bullet form. Last Thursday’s release of Louis Freeh’s report on Penn State University’s conduct in the Jerry Sandusky scandal was the sports media’s version of the Obamacare Supreme Court decision. Unlike the Obamacare decision, no media outlet made errors in reporting. But […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/14/2012
After eight consecutive weeks in primetime, Fox Saturday Baseball returns to its regular time of 4 p.m. ET today. Fox has given both Joe Buck and Tim McCarver the day off. And for Joe, it means he’ll have worked 12 out of a possible 15 Fox Saturday Baseball games. Check out the schedule. FOX SPORTS […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/11/2012
The MLB All-Star Game was a blowout on Tuesday resulting in an 8-0 win for the National League. Because the game was never in doubt, the ratings were lower than what they could have been. While the overnight ratings for the Mid-Summer Classic were 3% higher than last year, the final rating still resulted in […]
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Lots of stuff to get to. Let’s not waste time. Sports Illustrated’s Richard Deitsch reports on ESPN’s signing of four of its NFL insiders to long-term contracts. SI’s Tom Verducci gives us some myths and truths about the MLB All-Star Game. Tim Kenneally of The Wrap says the All-Star Game won the night for Fox […]
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Let’s do a few sports media thoughts and a couple non-sports thoughts. They’re in bullet form, of course. Fox did its usual good job in covering the MLB All-Star Game. The production was spot on. Joe Buck was decent. Ken Rosenthal was good in his role. Fox did not shove Erin Andrews down our throats […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/10/2012
This comes to us directly from Major League Baseball. During tonight’s All-Star Game, MLB will unveil a spot celebrating the first half accomplishments of 2012 and then pointing us to the postseason that will air exclusively on TBS and Fox. I’m sure ESPN will be happy to see this spot showing specifically that it’s shut […]
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This in from Major League Baseball, the ratings for the Home Run Derby on Monday were up 3% from last year. The ratings were 4.81 with an average viewership of just under 6.9 million viewers. That’s up from last year’s 4.67 rating and 6.7 million viewers. Kansas City led all markets with a stunning 15.1 […]
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Let’s do some links. Couldn’t get to them yesterday. Time to grind some out today. Michael Hiestand of USA Today says ESPN won’t be an oasis away from political advertising this fall. Michael also has the ratings on Wimbledon and NASCAR. Bill King of Sports Business Journal looks at NBC bringing back boxing to network […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/8/2012
Let’s provide a few sports media thoughts on this Sunday. You know they’ll be in bullet form. ESPN’s live coverage of Wimbledon has been a joy over the last two weeks. Most everything has been shown on the Family of Networks. And in the second week when both ESPN and ESPN2 were deployed for the […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/6/2012
Time for Friday linkage. The Weekend Viewing Picks have your sports and entertainment suggestions. Let’s get cracking. National Michael Hiestand from USA Today looks at TNT’s plans to go mostly split-screen during breaks for Saturday’s NASCAR race. Tom Perrotta of the Wall Street Journal reports that the one Wimbledon souvenir the players want is the […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/5/2012
So weird to have the 4th of July in the middle of the week. You get the holiday after two work days and then have two work days afterwards. Some of you have the entire week off which is good, but for me, there’s no such thing as a vacation. In fact, I haven’t had […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/4/2012
Baseball Night in America on Fox ends its eight week run with three games. Most of the nation will see the New York Yankees taking on the Boston Red Sox and you all know that’s where Joe Buck, Tim McCarver and Ken Rosenthal will be on Saturday night. A whopping 74% of the country will […]
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On this 4th of July holiday, let’s do some All-American sports media thoughts. They’re in bullet form as always. The New York Times’ Richard Sandomir gave us some food for thought in his latest column this week on the MLB rights negotiations. Richard raised the possibility of MLB awarding the entire broadcast contract to one […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/3/2012
Ok, maybe you’re not jonesing for the linkage, but at least you can read them at your leisure. Sometimes I think way too long about the title of the post and this is the case today. Anyway, let’s get to the links. Joel Schectman of the Wall Street Journal reports that NBC and Google are […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/2/2012
On Sunday when Fox Sports formally announced it had hired Erin Andrews from ESPN, your humble blogger was told that she would make her Fox debut on September 1 when primetime college football games premiere on the network. @
