0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/6/2011
Continuing its soccer commitment, Fox Sports announced this week that it will air a live English Premier League game on the morning of the NFC Championship Game on January 22 at 10:30 a.m. ET. The NFC Championship is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. the same day. This is the second announcement of a live EPL game […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/5/2011
As reported by Daniel Kaplan and John Ourand in this week’s issue of Sports Business Journal, the NFL’s broadcast TV partners, CBS, Fox and NBC are about to finalize a deal to renew their contracts with the league. The deals would begin with the 2014 seasons. Each network would pay over $1 billion per season […]
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We’re hearing that the NFL is about to close renewals with its over the air TV partners, CBS, Fox and NBC. Sports Business Journal is reporting that all three networks will continue in their present packages, the AFC, NFC and Sunday Night Football, respectively for another 8 seasons starting in the 2014 season. All three […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/4/2011
With all of the bowl matchups announced, let’s provide you with the TV schedule and network. Let’s be honest, the ESPN Family of Networks airs all but two of the games. CBS has the Sun Bowl while Fox continues to air the Cotton Bowl. There was a time when the bowls were aired on all […]
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And we’ll complete the Sunday NFL pregame show quotage with what Fox aired today. FOX NFL SUNDAY NOTES – 12/4/11 Johnson: Stick A Fork In The Giants, They’re Done FOX NFL Insider Jay Glazer: Bears Have No Interest In McNabb Bradshaw: Bengals QB Andy Dalton Is My Rookie Of The Year ———————————————————————————————— Jimmy Johnson doesn’t […]
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I’ll be away for most of the day as my Sunday has been planned behind my back once again. I’ll have the Sunday NFL pregame quotage later in the afternoon. Let’s provide some sports media thoughts. As always, they’ll go in bullet form. In its first college football conference championship weekend, Fox Sports had a […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/2/2011
Let’s give you some linkage on this Friday. Been a busy day. You deserve some links The Weekend Viewing Picks provide your sports and entertainment TV watching. And now to your links. National USA Today’s Michael Hiestand and Mike McCarthy debate whether networks should hire ex-coaches knowing full well they could make news and leave […]
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NFL Coverage Maps (the 506.com) Blackouts: Buffalo, Tampa-St. Petersburg NFL GameDay Morning — NFL Network, 9 a.m. Fox NFL Sunday — Fox, noon 1 p.m. CBS Cincinnati at Pittsburgh — Jim Nantz/Phil Simms Indianapolis at New England — Marv Albert/Rich Gannon Kansas City at Chicago — Kevin Harlan/Solomon Wilcots New York Jets at Washington — […]
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Schedule courtesy of Matt’s College Sports College GameDay live from the SEC Championship, Atlanta, GA — ESPNU, 9 a.m./ESPN, 10 a.m. ACC Championship, Charlotte, NC Virginia Tech vs. Clemson — ESPN/ESPN 3D, 8 p.m. Big Ten Championship, Indianapolis, IN Wisconsin vs. Michigan State — Fox, 8 p.m. Conference USA Championship, Houston, TX Southern Mississippi at […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/1/2011
This week has been a bad one for me. Haven’t been able to provide links since last Friday and that’s not good. Been busy and it’s cutting into bringing you the latest sports media news. I’ll try to do better over the next few days. We’ll begin with Sports Illustrated’s Richard Deitsch who speaks with […]
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Fox Sports gets some college football to make for a busy weekend. The Pac-12 Championship airs on Friday night from Eugene, Oregon as the UCLA Bruins take on the Oregon Ducks in the first-ever championship game for the Pac-12. Then there’s the inaugural Big Ten Championship on Saturday at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis between […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/29/2011
Fox has two conference championship games on consecutive nights, the Pac-12 Championship and Big Ten Championship, Friday and Saturday. Fox Sports Net also has one game and that will end Fox’s college football coverage for the season. Overall, it’s been great having Gus Johnson calling college football, although the quality of games weren’t great, quite […]
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We have the games on the Fox Sports cable networks including Big Ten Network, Fox College Sports and Fox Sports Net. These include both men’s and women’s games from tonight all the way through December 11. Lots of games. College Basketball on FOX Advance Programming November 29 – December 11 All times Eastern unless otherwise […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/28/2011
While I’m away from a computer this morning, I provide these thoughts to you so you have some fresh material here. I hope you had a good Thanksgiving weekend. As usual, I’ll go in bullet form. We’re three games into NFL Network’s Thursday Night Football schedule and the duo of Brad Nessler and Mike Mayock […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/27/2011
Now we go to Fox NFL Sunday and its notes and quotes for today. FOX NFL SUNDAY NOTES – 11/27/11 Strahan: Suh Definitely Needs To Get Himself Under Control Long: Suh Believes He is Above the Rules That Are Applied to Everyone Else Glazer Reports NFL Commissioner’s Office Expected to Suspend Suh For One or […]
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We move to Fox Sports and what it has in store for us on Sunday. FOX SPORTS NOTES, QUOTES & ANECDOTES Week 12 NFL Action Kicks-Off with America’s No. 1 Pregame FOX NFL SUNDAY TEAMS DEALING WITH INJURY CONCERNS HIGHLIGHT WEEK 12 SUNDAY SLATE – On Sunday, Nov. 27 FOX Sports continues Week 12 with […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/25/2011
I hope you survived the Black Friday experience if you went out today. If you decided to shop online, better to do that than wait outside in the cold especially in the Northeast where the temperatures dropped below freezing overnight. No fun. Anyway, I’ll provide the links. The Weekend Viewing Picks are here. To the […]
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NFL Coverage Maps (the506.com) Blackouts: Cincinnati Byes: None NFL GameDay Morning — NFL Network, 9 a.m. The NFL Today — CBS, noon 1 p.m. CBS Buffalo at New York Jets — Marv Albert/Rich Gannon Cleveland at Cincinnati — Bill Macatee/Steve Tasker Houston at Jacksonville — Kevin Harlan/Solomon Wilcots FOX Arizona at St. Louis — Sam […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/23/2011
Let’s do a few links for you on this day before Thanksgiving. And my best to you. Be safe in your travels. We begin with John Ourand of Sports Business Daily who convenes a roundtable of fellow SBD writers to look at ESPN’s new NFL studio shows. Mason Levinson of Bloomberg News says ESPN college […]
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On Thursday, Fox kicks off our Thanksgiving Day football menu with a good game in Detroit, Green Bay Packers at the Lions. The game kicks off at 12:30 p.m. ET. Fox NFL Sunday starts it all off with a special edition of its pregame show at 11:30 a.m. ET. Joe Buck, Troy Aikman and Pam […]
