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NFL Viewing Picks for Week 4, 10/04-05/2015

All Times Eastern Sunday, October 4 Byes: New England & Tennessee NFL Viewing Maps (the506.com) DirecTV NFL Sunday Ticket Channel Assignments Studio and Pregame Shows NFL Matchup — ESPN, 6:30 a.m. NFL GameDay First — NFL Network, 7 p.m. The NFL Today — CBS, 9 a.m. That Other Pregame Show — CBS Sports Network, 9 […]

College Football Viewing Picks for Week 5, 10/03/2015

All Times Eastern Schedule courtesy of Matt’s College Sports on TV Announcing assignments courtesy of Eye on Sky and Air Sports noon Texas at TCU — ABC (Sean McDonough/Chris Spielman/T0dd McShay) Pittsburgh at Virginia Tech — ACC Regional/Fox Sports Net (Wes Durham/James Bates//Jenn Hildreth) Michigan at Maryland — Big Ten Network (Kevin Kugler/Matt Millen//Lisa Byington) […]

College Football Viewing Picks for Week 4, 09/26/2015

All Times Eastern Schedule courtesy of Matt’s College Sports on TV Announcing assignments courtesy of Eye on Sky and Air Sports Studio and Pregame Shows College GameDay live from Tucson, AZ — ESPN, 9 a.m. SEC Nation live from Gainesville, FL — SEC Network, 10 a.m. B1G Football Pregame — Big Ten Network, 10:30 a.m. […]

NFL Viewing Picks for Week 3, 09/24-28/2015

All Times Eastern Thursday, September 24 Studio and Pregame Shows NFL HQ — NFL Network, 8 a.m. Around the NFL — NFL Network, 2 p.m. NFL Insiders — ESPN, 2:30 p.m. NFL Live — ESPN, 3:30 p.m. NFL Fantasy Live — NFL Network, 5 p.m. TNF GameDay live from East Rutherford, NJ and Los Angeles, […]

College Football Viewing Picks for Week 3, 09/19/2015

All Times Eastern Schedule courtesy Matt’s College Sports on TV Announcing assignments courtesy of Eye on Sky and Air Sports Studio and Pregame Shows College GameDay live from Tuscaloosa, AL — ESPN, 9 a.m. SEC Nation live from Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA — SEC Network, 10 a.m. B1G Football Pregame — Big Ten […]

NFL Viewing Picks for Week 2, 09/17-21/2015

All Times Eastern Thursday, September 17 Studio and Pregame Shows NFL HQ — NFL Network, 8 a.m. Around the NFL — NFL Network, 2 p.m. NFL Insiders — ESPN, 2:30 p.m. NFL Live — ESPN, 3:30 p.m. NFL Fantasy Live — NFL Network, 5 p.m. Thursday Night Football GameDay live from Kansas City, MO and […]

NFL on Fox Quotage for Week 1 of the 2015 Season

We continue our pregame quotage and we have what was said on Fox today as Fox NFL Kickoff made its broadcast network debut today and then it was the 21st season premiere of Fox NFL Sunday. Not all of Fox’s affiliates picked up Fox NFL Kickoff with some shuffling the show to MyNetwork stations or […]

NFL Viewing Picks for Week 1, 09/10-14/2015

All Times Eastern Thursday, September 10 Studio and Pregame Shows NFL HQ — NFL Network, 8 a.m. Around the NFL — NFL Network, 2 p.m. NFL Insiders — ESPN, 2:30 p.m. NFL Live — ESPN, 3:30 p.m. NFL Fantasy Live — NFL Network, 4 p.m. NFL GameDay: Kickoff — NFL Network, 5 p.m. NFL Kickoff […]

College Football Viewing Picks for Week 2, 9/10-12/2015

All Times Eastern Schedule courtesy of Matt’s College Sports on TV Announcing Assignments courtesy of Eye on Sky and Air Sports Thursday, September 10 Studio and Pregame Shows B1G Football & Beyond — Big Ten Network, noon CFB Daily — ESPNU, 1 p.m. College Football Live — ESPN, 2 p.m. Inside College Football — CBS […]

College Football Viewing Picks for Week 1 — 09/03-07/2015

All Times Eastern Schedule courtesy of Matt’s College Sports on TV Announcing Assignments courtesy of Eye on Sky and Air Sports Thursday, September 3 Pregame and Studio Shows College Football Live — ESPN2, 1 p.m. CFB Daily — ESPNU, 1 p.m. Inside College Football — CBS Sports Network, 5 p.m. College Football Countdown — ESPN, […]

The 2015 MLB Postseason Schedule

Major League Baseball has released the schedule for the 2015 Postseason and for the third time, the World Series will start in very late October, in fact, this year’s Fall Classic begins on Tuesday, October 27, the second time it will do so. Back in 2001, the World Series began on October 27 due to […]

Fox Sports and Big Ten Network’s 2015 College Football Announcing Teams

We keep getting press releases which unveil the announcers for the upcoming football season. Now it’s Fox’s turn to tell us who will be calling the games for the 2015 college football campaign. We have wholesale changes for Fox as Charles Davis who has been the network’s top analyst for college football moves to the […]

Sports Media Notebook for 08/14/2015 — Sports Media Thoughts

Let’s do some thoughts for you on this Friday. It’s all about providing you with fresh content. So without further delay, here’s the column: Earlier this week, Al Michaels broke some news on the Dan Patrick Show. Unfortunately, this interview is not available on the show’s YouTube page, but the audio is on his website […]

Worst Kept Secret is Now Official: Colin Cowherd Joins Fox Sports

When it was announced that he was leaving ESPN and after departing in disgrace last month, Fox Sports has announced that Colin Cowherd will join its organization. His first appearance will be on Fox Sports 1, Thursday, September 3 for the Michigan at Utah game. The news was broken by the Hollywood Reporter in an […]

NFL on Fox Unveils Announcing Teams for the 2015 Season

Fox Sports has announced its roster for the NFL this season. No changes for the “A” and “B” teams as Joe Buck, Troy Aikman and Erin Andrews and Kevin Burkhardt, John Lynch and Pam Oliver remain in place. The other teams have had wholesale changes. Laura Okmin joins Kenny Albert and Daryl Johnston on the […]

Handicapping the English Premier League U.S. Rights

As NBC goes into its final year of its three-year deal to air all 380 games per season. Utilizing mostly NBCSN and then NBC, CNBC and the Extra Time channels, the way the Peacock has distributed the matches plus the plethora of studio programming (Premier League Live, Goal Zone, Match of the Day) as well […]

Bundesliga on Fox Sports 1/Fox Sports 2/Fox Sports Go Begins Next Friday

Fox Sports begins a new era with the Bundesliga next Friday, August 14. It signed a five-year contract back in 2013 and had to wait until Gol TV completed its deal to air Germany’s premier soccer league just last season. Under its rights, Fox will air all 306 league games on its various platforms, Fox […]

Fox Scores a “Gol” in its First World Cup Effort

When Fox landed the rights to the FIFA World Cup in 2011, there were fears and worries that the network would not provide the gravitas that ESPN had given soccer especially after the 2010 men’s and 2011 Women’s World Cups. But now after the 2015 Women’s World Cup, we see that Fox can treat the […]

USA-Japan Draws Over 21 Million Viewers

The numbers for USA vs. Japan in the Women’s World Cup continue to come in and they continue to amaze. This from the Sports TV Ratings account: So if the numbers hold, that smashes the record for the 1999 Women’s World Cup Final on ABC (17.3 million viewers). Fox has to be celebrating with 20.35 […]

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