0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/9/2012
Been so busy lately that it’s been effecting the blog. Sorry about that. This weekend was planned for me again, so I really couldn’t post too much around the personal events. It also meant I couldn’t watch any of The Masters® or any baseball. The only things I could watch was The Amazing Race and […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/8/2012
This coming in from Josef Adalian at Vulture, Fox Sports will be taking over Saturday primetime as the main network cuts back on its order of the long-running series, Cops. Saturday nights had been known as a law enforcement night with Cops filling the 8 p.m. ET hour and America’s Most Wanted at 9 p.m. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/5/2012
Fox Sports will open the 2012 MLB season with a whole new on-air lineup beginning with one hour of MLB-produced programming. At 3 p.m., Fox has MLB Player Poll and at 3:30 p.m., it will be the MLB Network-produced Fox Saturday Baseball Pregame Show hosted by Matt Vasgersian. This Saturday, Fox will divide the country […]
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Fox Sports will have three NFL preseason games in August and it will carry them in a span of ten days between August 16 through August 26. Two games will be in primetime and the other will be aired on Sunday afternoon, August 26 at 4 p.m. ET. With the first two airing on consecutive […]
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Catching up on yesterday’s announcement that of the NFL preseason schedules. We’ll begin with the National Football League’s official announcement, then go to the network’s press releases of their preseason schedules. For the national TV partners, ESPN will air 4 preseason games, Fox 3, CBS and NBC 2 each. NFL Network will air all preseason […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/3/2012
This just announced by MLB. Fox Sports will air “MLB Player Poll” produced by MLB Productions. This will hit air at 3 p.m. ET on Saturdays, except for four weeks during the season when Fox Saturday Baseball airs earlier in the day due to NASCAR and will air at noon ET. MLB Player Poll will […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/2/2012
Let’s do some links on this Monday. Michael Hiestand of USA Today says the NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship Game has become a showcase for upcoming NBA talent. Mike Reynolds from Multichannel News writes that NBC Sports Network will get a lion’s share of coverage for the London Summer Olympics. Brian Stelter of the New York […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/30/2012
This week has been hellish for me and I apologize for not being able to post as much as I would like. I’ve been away from my computer for most of the day and by the time I get home, I’m tired and don’t want to update the blog. Well, with me already done my […]
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All times are Eastern. 3:30 p.m. Fox Saturday Baseball Pregame Show 4 p.m. Boston at Detroit — Joe Buck/Tim McCarver St. Louis at Milwaukee — Thom Brennaman/Eric Karros San Francisco at Arizona — Daron Sutton/Eric Byrnes Kansas City at Anaheim Angels — Kenny Albert/Mark Gubicza You probably notice that Fox has tapped its regional Fox […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/28/2012
Bloomberg’s Andy Fixmer and Alex Sherman are reporting that News Corp., the parent company of Fox plans to launch an all-sports cable network to challenge ESPN. Now News Corp. tried this once before in the 1990’s through its Fox Sports Net affiliates, but after a brief, but failed rivalry, Fox decided to shift the focus […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/26/2012
As promised earlier today, I’m giving you more links. I was out earlier today and I’ll be out again tomorrow so it’s going to be a bit crazy for me. So let’s get to the linkage right now. Sports Illustrated’s Richard Deitsch looks at the media circus that was the Tim Tebow press conference at […]
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Don’t have much time today. I’ll do a few links for you here while I can. USA Today’s Michael Hiestand has CBS/Turner’s Clark Kellogg saying he wouldn’t be surprised if Kentucky lost in the Final Four this weekend. Mr. College Football, Tony Barnhart of CBS Sports, remembers his former colleague at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Furman […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/24/2012
It’s been a long time since I was able to provide Saturday linkage. Many times, it’s due to the fact I try to sleep in or my weekend was planned for me behind my back and I have to play chauffeur. Anyway, I’m able to provide some links and since I did not do the […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/22/2012
Due to crazy personal schedules on Tuesday and Wednesday, I wasn’t able to update the site as much as I would like. I apologize to you as I’ve been trying to keep you apprised of the latest sports media news. A few housekeeping notes, first I did some Sports Media Thoughts earlier this morning and […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/21/2012
Starting April 7, MLB Network will produce a 30-minute pregame show for Fox to be hosted by MLB Tonight Live’s Matt Vasgersian. He’ll be joined by fellow MLB Network staffers Harold Reynolds, Mitch “Wild Thing” Williams and Kevin Millar on a rotational basis. Other MLB Network analysts will be used throughout the season. For primetime […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/20/2012
We have the nominations, all 170 in 33 different categories, for the 33rd Annual Sports Emmy Awards. They just came out today. There are some surprises like massive hockey charlatan Pierre McGuire nominated in the Sports Reporter category and for some really strange reason, Skippy Bayless of ESPN2’s First Take was nominated for Best Studio […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/12/2012
Since we did our linkage this morning, there have been several stories worthy of links and they really should not wait until Tuesday. So I’ll do a set of links right now. We start with Jason McIntyre of The Big Lead who reports on a fake tweet about ESPN’s Erin Andrews leaving the network (her […]
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Let’s do our Monday linkage today. Michael Hiestand from USA Today writes that CBS/Turner’s Clark Kellogg will have a big “get” during halftime of Tuesday’s NCAA Tournament First Four game. Mike Reynolds at Multichannel News says MSG Network has a new show dedicated to the best and worst baseball trades and deals. Mike says YES […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/2/2012
Lots of things to get to today. Couldn’t do the links yesterday. Going to do a big megalink edition for you. Let’s get cracking, but first, there’s the Weekend Viewing Picks complete with a link to the busy College Basketball Viewing Picks which will be updated throughout the weekend. National USA Today’s Michael Hiestand talks […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/29/2012
Let’s do our linkage for today. It’s going to snow in Southern New England so I’m doing this early in case I have bug out later. Starting with USA Today’s Michael Hiestand, we learn that ESPN will be streaming its Championship Week games on Facebook, but not everyone will be able to see the games. […]
