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NFL Viewing Picks for Week 10 of the 2014 Season

All Times Eastern Byes: Houston, Indianapolis, Minnesota, New England, San Diego, Washington Thursday, November 6 Studio and Pregame Shows NFL Total Access Kickoff live from Paul Brown Stadium, Cincinnati, OH — NFL Network, 6 p.m. Fantasy Football Live — NBCSN, 6:30 p.m. Fantasy Football Uncensored — Fox Sports 1, 7 p.m. NFL Thursday Night Football […]

NFL Viewing Picks for Week 9 of the 2014 Season

All Times Eastern Byes: Atlanta, Buffalo, Chicago, Detroit, Green Bay, Tennessee Thursday, October 30 Studio and Pregame Shows Around the NFL — NFL Network, 2 p.m. NFL Insiders — ESPN, 3 p.m. NFL Live — ESPN, 4 p.m. NFL Fantasy Live — NFL Network, 5 p.m. Fantasy Football Live — NBCSN, 6 p.m. NFL Total […]

2014 World Series Schedule With TV and Radio Announcers

With the World Series finally about to get underway, we have the Kansas City Royals and the San Francisco Giants ready to start. Fox and ESPN Radio are the national rightsholders to the Fall Classic. There won’t be any Fox Sports 1 simulcasts as we had during the National League Championship Series. FS1 will have […]

2014 MLB League Championship Series Schedule and Times

As the League Championship Series is about to start, Major League Baseball has set the times for all of the games in both the American and National League. The ALCS begins Friday at 8:07 p.m. ET on TBS. The NLCS starts Saturday at 8:07 p.m. on Fox and Fox Sports 1. We have all of […]

Fox Sports 1 Will Be All Over the National League Division Series

In its second year of existence, Fox Sports 1 will air all but two games of the National League Division Series. Fox will air the San Francisco-Washington Nationals series and St. Louis Cardinals-Los Angeles Dodgers series. One game in each series will be given to MLB Network and in each case, the most of the […]

NFL Viewing Picks for Week 5 of the 2014 Season

All Times Eastern Thursday, October 2 Byes: Miami & Oakland Studio & Pregame Shows Around the NFL — NFL Network, 2 p.m. NFL Insiders — ESPN, 3 p.m. NFL Live — ESPN, 4 p.m. NFL Fantasy Live — NFL Network, 5 p.m. NFL Total Access Kickoff live from Lambeau Field, Green Bay, WI — NFL […]

2014 MLB League Division Series Schedule

Now with the eight teams set for the MLB League Division Series, let’s post the date and start times for the LDS games. Unlike the period between 2007 and 2013 when TBS aired all of the games with the exception of a couple saved for MLB Network. Now, we have Fox Sports 1 joining TBS […]

Fox Unveils Its MLB Postseason Crews

After seven years of airing only the League Championship Series and World Series, Fox Sports begins a new era with taking back the League Division Series. This season, Fox and Fox Sports 1 will be the home of the National League and will air two League Division Series and the League Championship Series. It will […]

NFL on Fox Previews Week 4 of the 2014 Season

Fox isn’t saying much about its pregame programming choosing to focus on the games it will air on Sunday. So we won’t say much either. Here’s the Fox schedule for Week 4 which is a doubleheader week for the network. FOX SPORTS HIGHLIGHTS NFL on FOX: AMERICA’S GAME OF THE WEEK Returns with Eagles at […]

NFL Viewing Picks for Week 4 of the 2014 Season

All Times Eastern Thursday, September 25 Studio & Pregame Shows Around the NFL — NFL Network, 2 p.m. NFL Insiders — ESPN, 3 p.m. NFL Live — ESPN, 4 p.m. NFL Fantasy Live — NFL Network, 5 p.m. NFL Total Access Kickoff live from Landover, MD — NFL Network, 6 p.m. Fantasy Football Live — […]

NFL Viewing Picks for Week 3 of the 2014 Season

All Times Eastern Thursday, September 18 Pregame and Studio Shows Around the NFL — NFL Network, 2 p.m. NFL Insiders — ESPN, 3 p.m. NFL Live — ESPN, 4 p.m. NFL Fantasy Live — NFL Network, 5 p.m. NFL Total Access Kickoff live from the Georgia Dome, Atlanta, GA — NFL Network, 6 p.m. Fantasy […]

NFL on Fox Previews Week 1 of the 2014 Season

Let’s continue our Sunday previews with the NFL on Fox which is entering its 21st year broadcasting the country’s favorite sport. As the network began in 1994 airing the National Football Conference, the NFL gave Fox much needed credibility as a network and began the sports division that eventually spread to the NHL, MLB, NASCAR, […]

NFL Viewing Picks for Week 1 of the 2014 NFL Season

All Times Eastern Thursday, September 4 Studio & Pregame Shows Around the NFL — NFL Network, 2 p.m. NFL Insiders — ESPN, 3:30 p.m. NFL Live — ESPN, 4 p.m. NFL Fantasy Live — NFL Network, 4 p.m. NFL GameDay: Kickoff 2014 — NFL Network, 5 p.m. NFL Kickoff 2014 — NBC/NFL Network, 7:30 p.m. […]

NFL on Fox Unveils Announcing Teams for 2014

Fox has provided its announcing teams for the 2014 NFL season. A few changes that have been chronicled before this week’s announcement. Erin Andrews becomes the sideline reporter for the “A” team with Joe Buck and Troy Aikman. Pam Oliver is sent to the “B” team of Kevin Burkhardt and John Lynch. Former New York […]

A Quick Thursday Sports Media Notebook

As I get back into sports media mode after spending five days in California for my cousin’s wedding, let’s provide some news that you may have missed over the last couple of days. I’m still a bit on West Coast time and I totally understand what Tony Bennett meant when he sang “I Left My […]

REPORT: Joe Buck and Greg Norman Are Your New US Open Broadcast Team

Reported by John Ourand at Sports Business Daily reports that Fox will name Joe Buck and Greg Norman as the lead broadcast team for the U.S. Open when the network takes over broadcasting golf’s second major of the season in 2015. Fox signed a 12-year contract, over $1 billion contract with the United States Golf […]

The Nominees for the 35th Annual Sports Emmy Awards

The nominees are out. A few interesting developments for this year’s Emmys. In the play-by-play category, Al Michaels is noticeably absent. Marv Albert, Mike Breen, Joe Buck, Bob Costas (?) and Mike Emrick are nominees. I guess the Academy decided to put Bob in this category in addition to his customary Studio Host nomination. For […]

Fox Stepped Up at the Super Bowl Even Though Big Game Failed

A network broadcasting the Super Bowl depends so heavily on the game being close. Unfortunately after a stretch of ten years of relatively close contests, we were bound to get a stinker and that’s what happened on Sunday when Super Bowl XLVIII started with a safety and went downhill from there, resulting in a dominant […]

Fox Previews Super Bowl XLVIII

Starting at noon ET, Fox will begin its schedule for Super Bowl XLVIII with the NFL Films-produced Road to the Super Bowl narrated by actor Andre Braugher. Then at 1 p.m., Fox airs Football Stories: Our America which is another NFL Films-produced special. That will be hosted by actor Forest Whitaker. When the clock hits […]

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