0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/4/2015
As we hit mid-week, let’s do another edition of the notebook. NEWS CBS announced on Tuesday that it has hired former Colorado, Washington and UCLA football coach Rick Neuheisel as a studio analyst. He’ll join the cast of College Football Today before SEC games and Inside College Football on CBS Sports Network. Neuheisel had been […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/23/2014
Received this notice from Golf Channel today regarding its coverage of the LPGA Tour in 2014. The network will air 32 tournaments and 355 hours of play throughout the calendar year leading to the inaugural “Race to the CME Globe” which is the LPGA’s version of the PGA Tour’s Playoffs. Golf Channel’s coverage of the […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/22/2014
Golf Channel will be busy starting early this morning through Sunday as it air live golf action from Qatar, the Bahamas and continue the PGA’s West Coast Swing from Southern California. Overall, it will have three live tournaments involving the European PGA Tour, the PGA Tour and the start of the 2014 LPGA Tour. Early […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/8/2013
Well, let’s take a look at what’s ahead in the sports media for the upcoming week. It’s another busy week and we’ll preview it for you right now. TELEVISION NFL Premieres The NFL continues to dominate the week. Monday has the annual Week 1 doubleheader on ESPN with Philadelphia taking on the DC NFL Team […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/25/2013
We’ve survived the first full week of Fox Sports One and the premiere of new shows. We have another premiere this week, but this one on ESPN2. In addition, we get the first full week of college football as the new season begins in earnest on Thursday. Not only that, the U.S. Open gets underway […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/19/2013
Once again, it’s another busy week. Lots of premieres of various studio programs begin this week as Fox Sports 1’s launch continues. In addition, there are plenty of live games as we speed towards the beginning of college football next week and the NFL in September. Let’s get started. TELEVISION We have a lot of […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/29/2013
I’ve been meaning to start a regular Monday feature and since Richard Deitsch has a weekly Monday column at SI.com and Tom Hoffarth has his Southern California Sports Calendar, I figured I would preview the upcoming week in the sports media. With a little luck, this will be a signature post on Fang’s Bites. Give […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/20/2012
This week, the PGA Tour ends its FedEx Cup playoff with The Tour Championship in Atlanta and the LPGA continues with the Navistar tournament. Golf Channel will have coverage of both tournaments. Golf Channel and NBC Sports will combine for The Tour Championship which will determine the PGA Tour’s Champion for 2012. Overall, the NBC […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/18/2012
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 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 3/14/2012
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 8/18/2011
Today is going to be a busy day with the UFC on Fox press conference and the NHL TV schedule announcement. I figure now would be a good time to linkage and I hope I don’t get interrupted here at work. The big news that broke late yesterday was DirecTV announcing that it would offer […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/17/2011
This weekend, Golf Channel has action from four golf tours this weekend. Most all of the action will be seen live. There will be action from the PGA, LPGA, Champions and European PGA Tours. Let’s see where they will take place and what times they will be seen starting on Thursday. Here is your schedule. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang
Let’s do some linkage on this Wednesday. Trying to do this early instead of late. Starting with Michael Hiestand of USA Today who tells us what ESPN has promoted Trent Dilfer among its NFL analysts and dropped Matt Millen although he remains on its college football coverage. Cam Martin of SportsNewser is as confused as […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/20/2011
Golf Channel has coverage of four tournaments from four separate tours. Golf Channel will be live from the the PGA Tour’s Canadian Open and have taped coverage of the LPGA Evian Masters which will become a major on the tour in 2013. We have details of what will be aired starting Thursday. Golf Channel Live […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/10/2011
I’m at work again, but I’m trying to cope by flicking on the Watch ESPN for the Women’s World Cup game against Brazil. I’ll give you what linkage I can find today. Mike McCarthy of USA Today says Turner Sports has reportedly hired Shaquille O’Neal for its NBA coverage. Still no official comment from Turner. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/23/2011
This Golf Channel press release has been coming too few and far between lately. This used to come every Wednesday and I would try to post this before the golf tournaments began on Thursday. However, this release came this afternoon after two tournaments started airing. But out of loyalty to the good people at the […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/30/2011
Golf Channel is going to be quite busy as it takes full four round coverage of the first LPGA Major tournament of the year, the LPGA Kraft Nabisco, better known to some as Dinah Shore Weekend. In addition, Golf Channel will be live for the PGA’s Houston Open. Golf Channel will also carry live coverage […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/27/2011
Let’s provide some links on this Sunday. Original plans to go to work have been scrapped leaving me free to do links which is good for you. I certainly hope you had a chance to read my Sunday thoughts which I hope to make a weekly feature here at Fang’s Bites. Here are the links. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/16/2011
Golf Channel will have three live tournaments, the PGA Tour’s Transitions Championship, the LPGA Founders Cup in Arizona and then the European PGA Tour’s Sicilian Open in Italy. What day and what time is coming up. Golf Channel Live Tournament Coverage: March 17-20 Live Tournament and Wraparound News Coverage On-Site at Transitions Championship LPGA Kicks […]
