0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/11/2012
Let’s do some Friday megalinks. You’ve been owed some and I haven’t been able to do links for most of the week. Of course, you have the Weekend Viewing Picks which provide plenty of college sports, soccer, baseball and the NBA and NHL postseason action. Now let’s do your links. National Michael Hiestand of USA […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/29/2012
I need to clear my brower of links I was hoping to get to sometime over the last few days. Since I couldn’t do the Friday megalinks or any Saturday morning linkage, I’ll do some Sunday evening leftover links. Consider this the Sunday entrée to the beginning of the workweek. I honestly don’t know what […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/18/2012
Time for some linkage again. Starting with Sports Business Daily which gauges media reaction to last night’s extravagant NFL regular season schedule release on both ESPN and NFL Network. Mike Reynolds from Multichannel News reviews both the Monday Night and expanded Thursday Night Football schedules. Ed Sherman at the Sherman Report has your potential hits […]
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Starting tonight, Golf Channel will carry the LPGA LOTTE Championship from the Ko Olina Golf Club on the beautiful island of Oahu, Hawaii. The four round coverage will be live in primetime starting at 6:30 East tonight and going through Sunday evening. Tom Abbott will be the main at the 18th tower along with Judy […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/12/2012
Now that golf’s first major tournament is done, the next one won’t be coming for a couple of months. This week, the PGA Tour is in Hilton Head, SC, the Champions Tour will be in Florida and the European Tour continues its Asian swing in Malaysia. It’s all on Golf Channel this week. GOLF CHANNEL […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/3/2012
Now that college basketball is winding down, we can shift to other sports and with the first week of April comes The Masters®. While ESPN and CBS will provide the live coverage on-course, Golf Channel will be at Augusta to provide coverage of the news conferences, do live interviews and provide analysis. Coverage began on […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/28/2012
The first major tournament on the LPGA calendar, the Kraft Nabisco is this week and Golf Channel has announced a three year extension to air the Championship beginning in 2013. Golf Channel took over the rights to the Kraft Nabisco, formerly known as the Dinah Shore Invitational from ESPN2/CBS in 2011. Before last year, three […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/20/2012
Overall, the NBC Sports Group has the second highest amount of Sports Emmy Award nominations after ESPN’s 52. Combined with NBC Sports, Golf Channel, Versus (now NBC Sports Network) and NBCSports.com, the Group has a whole slew of nominations. Some of the more notable nominations include Studio Host (Bob Costas & Dan Patrick), Play-by-Play (Al […]
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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 3/15/2012
I’m writing this past midnight on a Thursday. I want to sleep, but I’ll pound this out to get these off my chest. This will be in bullet form as always. It seems every sports media writer and blogger has offered thoughts and potential landing spots for ESPN’s Big Three Free Agents, Michelle Beadle, Erin […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/14/2012
There have been a couple of LPGA Tour events so far this year, however, they’ve taken place in Asia. Now the LPGA comes back to America starting this weekend with the LPGA Founders Cup. It kicks off 23 events on the calendar including four round coverage of tour major tournaments such as the Kraft Nabisco […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/12/2012
Golf Channel has sent out a press release unveiling the cast of Big Break Atlantis. This upcoming season will be an all-female affair. The 12 golfers are vying for a chance to receive an exemption in an LPGA event and an undetermined (thus far) amount of cash. I love watching Big Break as each show’s […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/1/2012
This weekend, NBC Sports and Golf Channel will air simultaneous coverage of the Honda Classic. While NBC will air its traditional shot-by-shot coverage of the PGA National Resort Championship Course, Golf Channel will focus on holes 15, 16 & 17 with its own production crew and commentators. This trio of holes known as “The Bear […]
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We have two Golf Channel press releases. I figured why not? First, Golf Channel will air the Honda Classic, the beginning of the PGA Tour’s Florida Swing. Golf Channel and sister network NBC will combine for complete four round coverage starting today from the PGA National Champion Course in Palm Beach Gardens. Rory McIlroy, Tiger […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/20/2012
This week is going to be busy for me. I was cleaning out an office for most of the day and it looks like that will be on the agenda for the rest of the month. I’ll do my best to post what I can here. But just know that I may be scarce. I’ll […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/16/2012
Ok, going to attempt some linkage here. Quite busy, but I’ll try to sneak some stuff for you. Eric Fisher of Sports Business Daily looks at the new $3.99 charge for the new March Madness Live app for the NCAA Tournament. R. Thomas Umstead of Multichannel News/Broadcasting & Cable also writes about the new March […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/5/2012
Last night’s Feherty Live at the Super Bowl featured Tim Tebow, Fuzzy Zoeller and Joe Theismann. I didn’t see the show, but people were raving about it. We do have some quotage from the show and we have a look for you. HIGHLIGHTS FROM ‘FEHERTY LIVE’ AT SUPER BOWL XLVI FEATURING TIM TEBOW, JOE THEISMANN, […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/4/2012
David Feherty’s Golf Channel show will air from Indianapolis on Saturday. It was taped Friday in front of a live studio apartment. Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow will be a guest as will golfer Fuzzy Zoeller. Golf Channel gives us details of what the show will entail. TIM TEBOW JOINS ‘FEHERTY LIVE’ FROM THE SUPER […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/1/2012
The last season of Golf Channel’s Big Break went to the Emerald Isle. The entire season was taped during the wind and rainy season as it led to some crazy golf. And while it was a mixed cast, the dynamic of the reality show really wasn’t good. So Big Break for the new season premiering […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/25/2012
On Tuesday, I gave you NBCUniversal’s programming for Super Bowl Week. Apparently, that was just the tip of the iceberg as we’ll get even more networks and more shows with a Super Bowl theme on the NBCUniversal family. But that’s later. Right now, I’m going to give you the overview of what the NBC Sports […]
