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NFL Viewing Picks for Week 5 of the 2013 NFL Season

Byes: Minnesota, Pittsburgh, Tampa Bay & Washington Thursday, October 3 Studio & Pregame Shows Around the League Live — 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 — NFL Network, 6 p.m. Prekick Show — […]

Your Week 4 Primer for the 2013 NFL Season

So any blackouts today? No, none. Through four weeks, all games have been sold out ensuring fans in all of the home markets can watch their favorite teams. Now, depending on where you live, that may not be a good thing. There’s a game in London today? Yes. The Pittsburgh Steelers and the Minnesota Vikings […]

NFL Viewing Picks for Week 4 of the 2013 Season

Thursday, September 26 Studio & Pregame Shows Around the League Live — 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: Thursday Night Football Preview — NFL Network, 6 p.m. NFL Prekick Show — NFL Network, […]

NFL on Fox Previews Week 3 of the 2013 Season

Now to the NFL on Fox and what you’ll see on the Fox NFL Sunday pregame. Lots of corporate synergy as Mike Tyson appears on the pregame to hype the new Fox Sports documentary series “Being: Mike Tyson” and on the postgame as Fox Sports 1’s Jay Onrait and Dan O’Toole do the highlights. Ya […]

NFL Viewing Picks for Week 3 of the 2013 Season

Thursday, September 19 Studio & Pregame Shows Around the League Live — 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: Thursday Night Football Pregame — NFL Network, 6 p.m. Prekick Show — NFL Network, 8 […]

NFL Viewing Picks for Week 2 of the 2013 Season

Thursday, September 12 Studio and Pregame Shows Around the League Live — 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 — NFL Network, 6 p.m. NFL Total Access Postgame — NFL Network, 11:30 p.m. 8:25 […]

NFL Viewing Picks for Week 1 of the 2013 Season

Sunday, September 8 NFL Viewing Maps (the506.com) Pregame and Studio Shows NFL Matchup — ESPN, 6:30 a.m. NFL GameDay First — NFL Network 7 a.m. That Other Pregame Show (series premiere) — CBS Sports Network, 9 a.m. NFL GameDay Morning — NFL Network, 9 a.m. Fox NFL Kickoff — Fox Sports 1, 10:30 a.m. (this […]

2013 NFL on Fox Announcing Teams

Announced today, the seven announcing tandems for the NFL on Fox for the 2013 regular season. No real changes among the top three teams. You have Joe Buck, Troy Aikman and Pam Oliver as the “A” team; Kenny Albert, Daryl Johnston and Tony Siragusa as your “B” team; and Thom Brennaman, Brian Billick and Laura […]

Grinding Out the Tuesday Linkage

Ok, lots of linkage to get to. Let’s not waste any time. Ken Fuchs, the Vice President of Yahoo Global Media talks about two new programs being co-produced by Yahoo and NBC Sports. John Ourand and Tripp Mickle in Sports Business Journal recap how NBC was able to land a huge NASCAR contract which will […]

Some Monday Linkage

Trying to get back into the swing of things after a bad couple of weeks for this site. Been quite busy on the personal front. I hope to provide more original content for you from this point on. Some links for you as a token of appreciation for your patience. Let’s begin with John Ourand […]

A Much Too Rare Case of Wednesday Linkage

I’ve been neglecting a couple of things that have been staples of this site, linkage and sports media thoughts. I’m taking care of linkage today. I hope to have a sports media thoughts post this week. It’s all about managing time. Let’s go. Richard Deitsch of Sports lllustrated has his usual weekly media column. He […]

Tim McCarver in Auto-Tune

I posted this last year and since Tim McCarver is leaving Fox at the end of this upcoming MLB season, I figured I would bring this promo back. It has him and partner Joe Buck trying to appeal to a younger audience by putting their open in Auto-Tune. Pretty funny.

The Tim McCarver Broadcasting Timeline

No matter what you think of Tim McCarver and judging from the reaction on social media, a lot of people are happy he’s leaving the Fox broadcast booth after this season. I was not a fan and felt he was overrated by the New York media when he was with the Mets in the 1980’s […]

A Monday Sports Media Notebook

Let’s get cracking on some fresh content on this Monday afternoon. Plenty of stuff to go over. Sports Illustrated’s Richard Deitsch’s Monday column discusses Baltimore Ravens safety Ed Reed reporting on the Red Carpet at The Oscars and reviews Fox’s Daytona 500 coverage.  The man who started SportsGrid, ABC News legal analyst Dan Abrams, the […]

Super Bowl Broadcast History

I provide this table which has all of the Super Bowls to date including their networks and broadcasters. I thought you might get a kick out of it to see who has called which games. The CBS lines are in bold because this table was compiled by CBS. SUPER BOWL BROADCASTERS HISTORY (1967-2013) Super Bowl […]

NFL Viewing & Listening Picks For Conference Championship Sunday, 01/20/2013

All Times Eastern Pregame & Studio Shows First on the Field — NFL Network, 7 a.m. SportsCenter Special: Parcells’ Conference Championship Preview — ESPN2, 8 a.m. NFL Matchup — ESPN2, 8:30 a.m. NFL GameDay Morning — NFL Network, 9 a.m. Sunday NFL Countdown — ESPN, noon NFL Championship Chase — Fox, 1 p.m. Fox NFL […]

NFL Viewing Picks For 2013 Divisional Weekend, 01/12 & 01/13/2013

All Times Eastern Saturday, January 12 Pregame & Studio Shows NFL Matchup — ESPN, 6:30 a.m. Sunday NFL Countdown — ESPN, 10 a.m. First on the Field — NFL Network, 10 a.m. NFL GameDay Morning — NFL Network, noon The NFL Today — CBS, 3:30 p.m. The NFL Today Postgame — CBS, 7:30 p.m. Fox […]

NFL on Fox Previews 2013 Wild Card Sunday

Fox Sports has the last game of NFL Wild Card Weekend, Seattle at Washington at 4:30 p.m. The network’s “A” team of Joe Buck, Troy Aikman and Pam Oliver will be joined by Erin Andrews for the entire run of the playoffs. Fox NFL Sunday will take the air at 4 p.m. ET from the […]

NFL Viewing Picks For Wild Card Weekend, 01/05 & 01/06/2013

All Times Eastern Saturday, January 5 Pregame & Studio Shows NFL Matchup — ESPN2, 8:30 a.m. First on the Field — NFL Network, 10 a.m. Sunday NFL Countdown — ESPN, 11 a.m. NFL GameDay Morning — NFL Network, noon Football Night in America — NBC, 4 p.m. NFL GameDay Scoreboard — NFL Network, 7:30 p.m. […]

NFL Viewing Picks For Week 17, 12/30/2012

All Times Eastern NFL Viewing Maps (the506.com) Pregame & Studio Shows First on the Field — NFL Network, 7 a.m. NFL Matchup — ESPN2, 8:30 a.m. NFL GameDay Morning — NFL Network, 9 a.m. Sunday NFL Countdown — ESPN, 10 a.m. Fantasy Football Today — CBS Sports Network, 11 a.m. Fantasy Football Now — ESPN2, […]

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