0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/4/2012
For the first time this season, Joe Buck will not work a Fox Saturday Baseball telecast meaning he’ll have worked four out of five possible weeks for the MLB on Fox. Instead, Matt Vasgersian leaves the Fox Saturday Baseball Pregame Show studios at MLB Network headquarters in New Jersey and join Tim McCarver in Detroit […]
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UFC hits the New York market and primetime on Fox tomorrow night. From the Izod Center in East Rutherford, NJ, UFC has a card of four fights including the headliner, lightweights Nate Diaz against Jim Miller for a title shot. This marks the first time for UFC in East Rutherford since 2001. Curt Menefee will […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/1/2012
The Fox Sports Media Group was a multiple Sports Emmy Award-winner on Monday, bringing a total of five statues home to its headquarters in Southern California. MLB on Fox took four Sports Emmy Awards including Outstanding Live Sports Special for the 2011 World Series. The man who called the Fall Classic for Fox, Joe Buck […]
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Throughout the day, I will be posting various press releases from the networks touting their Sports Emmy Awards. Last night, I posted the winners as they were handed out. Now, we have the official press release from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences which holds the annual ceremonies. These include the names who […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/30/2012
The Sports Emmy Awards are being handed out in New York tonight. Through various sources at the event, I’ll be able to update this post as awards are being doled to the various winners. And no, I’m not there, but I can provide the winners as soon as they become available. For the full list […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/27/2012
Fox goes early and will cover three games this week. And yes, Joe Buck is back to complete a full month of games. Hallelujah! It means he’ll have worked four out of four possible games for Fox. So the games are as follows, Milwaukee at St. Louis going to most of the country, Anaheim Angels […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/26/2012
Let’s get to some linkage. Four days in a row. Let’s keep up the momentum. Chris Mortensen of ESPN reports that the NFL is considering suspending the Pro Bowl. Stuart Kemp of the Hollywood Reporter writes that BBC’s staff to cover the London Olympics will outnumber the British athletic contingent to the Games. Tim Baysinger […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/25/2012
Let’s do some linkage today. Been doing pretty good in providing links this week and I don’t want to stop. Starting with Michael Hiestand of USA Today, he talks with ESPN bloviator Chris Berman who compares himself to Ted Williams, then tries not to compare himself to Ted Williams, claims he doesn’t pay attention to […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/24/2012
Let’s provide a few links here. Don’t think I can do a full set, but I’ll try. In Sports Business Journal, John Ourand says MLB and Sirius XM have come to terms on streaming audio of live baseball games and will eventually be able to provide both home and away feeds starting next month. Brian […]
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These grids comes courtesy of Matt’s College Sports. This is the schedule of primetime football games in the Big Ten Conference this season. The regular season games will be on either ABC, Big Ten Network, ESPN or ESPN2. As it was last year, the Big Ten Conference Championship Game will air on Fox and be […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/23/2012
Let’s go for some linkage now. Michael Hiestand of USA Today says ESPN and NFL Network have agreed not to show prospects on the phone spoiling the suspense of the NFL Draft. Richard Deitsch of Sports Illustrated goes behind-the-scenes with ESPN and NFL Network as they prepare for their NFL Draft coverage later this week. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/20/2012
Why just 8% of the USA will not get Yankees-Red Sox on Saturday is beyond me, but that’s the determination by Fox for its Saturday Baseball. Over 90% of the country will receive Yankees-Red Sox as Fenway Park goes into its second century of existence. Joe Buck is back to call his third straight game […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/19/2012
Why not do some links while I can? We begin with USA Today and the national NFL TV schedule for this upcoming season. Carolyn Giardana with the Hollywood Reporter writes that NBC will utilize Avid Technology systems to develop video feeds for the London Summer Olympics. George Winslow at Broadcasting & Cable says NESN has […]
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The English Premier League’s season is winding down and as teams fight to stay in the league in an attempt to stave off relegation to lower leagues (I love that concept and would wish MLB and the NHL could do such a thing with its minor leagues), Fox Sports Media Group will pull off an […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/17/2012
Fox Sports, the home of the National Football Conference, will air a total of 103 regular season games including 9 doubleheaders. Fox’s season includes one NFC Wild Card Playoff game, two Divisional Playoff games and the NFC Championship. Among the highlights for Fox this upcoming season, a Week 4 game between New Orleans at Green […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/15/2012
I haven’t done a sports media thoughts post in a while and there has been so much that has transpired since the last time I wrote one. As always, they’re in bullet form. Let’s do this. Just four days into the NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs and I like how the networks of NBC are handling […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/13/2012
With a NASCAR race in primetime, Fox Saturday Baseball moves up to 1 p.m. ET and its MLB Network-produced pregame shows will also move up, to noon ET. Three games will divvied up throughout the country. The main game, Anaheim at the New York Yankees will be the main contest heading to 63% of the […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/10/2012
Let’s do linkage again. Trying to get this done as I have several errands to run in the afternoon. At Multichannel News, Mike Reynolds says Fox Sports is eying several sports properties which are coming up for grabs as potential programming for a cable channel which would challenge ESPN. Mike talks with the President of […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/9/2012
We now will post the entire Fox Sports Saturday primetime press release. No need to reinvent another introduction. Read the press release. For reals. Seriously. SATURDAY NIGHT’S ALRIGHT FOR FOX SPORTS Big Events Dominate Saturday Nights from April to December Almost 100 Hours of MLB, College Football, NASCAR, NFL & UFC Scheduled New York & […]
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I’m away from my computer and not able to post the complete Fox Sports press release on its Saturday Primetime schedule. It starts this Saturday, April 14 with the NASCAR Sprint Cup event in Texas and goes all the way to December 8. Fox Sports will fill 28 out of the 32 week span with […]
