0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/27/2011
This is the first of what I hope will be weekly Sunday posts. I’ll provide three or four thoughts into one post and I hope you enjoy them. Consider this to be a throwback to when sports media writers would write a lengthy column in the Sunday newspapers. As I mentioned, I hope to make […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/4/2010
With the baseball season over, it’s time to bring you the 2nd Fang’s Bites Awards for broadcasting. You can see what transpired last year. This will deal with the national partners, not local. Some of the choices will be obvious, some might not. Let’s get to this so we can bring the season to a […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/25/2010
Now that I’ve returned to the regular office, it’s time to bring you the linkage as it’s a back to work day for most of us. Let’s go. Michael Hiestand of USA Today writes that the NFL’s TV partners took a close look at the hard hits on Sunday. Nat Worden of the Wall Street […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/24/2010
Fox says the just completed National League Championship Series ended being the highest rated NLCS on Fox since 2006. Last night’s Game 6 received a 6.7 rating and garnered 11.6 million viewers. Let’s look at the press release from Fox Sports. GIANTS/PHILLIES ON FOX CLINCHES HIGHEST-RATED & MOST-WATCHED NLCS SINCE 2006 Series Viewership Up +49%, […]
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Two MLB-centric press releases for you now. First, Major League Baseball says the ratings for the 2010 League Championship Series were the highest since 2007. While the LCS got beat by both Sunday Night and Monday Night Football, baseball held its own in the ratings and still did well as each series went six games. […]
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Let’s get busy with the Sunday linkage. Some good stuff to get to. On Fox NFL Sunday, Jay Glazer reported that Vikings quarterback Brett Favre denied sending pictures of his shlong to Jenn Sterger, but did admit to leaving voicemails on her cell phone. I’ll have video of that segment during the Fox NFL Sunday […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/23/2010
We have the final ratings for the 2010 American League Championship Series on TBS. The series ended with an average rating of 5.1 with 8.2 million viewers. For Game 6 on Friday night, TBS received a strong 7.2 rating and 11.9 million viewers. It’s the 2nd most watched ALCS game on the old Superstation, just […]
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Time to provide some linkage on this Saturday. Lots of stuff going on. Tom Van Riper of Forbes.com notes that Cablevision and Fox are now acting like spoiled little children. John Simon from Bloomberg reviews the Broadway play, “Lombardi”. At the Indiana University National Sports Journalism Center, Dave Kindred wants to see the wall of […]
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I want to thank the people at Turner Sports for sending the MLB Postseason quotage and it’s been much appreciated. I said it before and I’ll say it again, the Turner Sports PR department is one of the best I’ve dealt with. Requests are met. Questions are answered and releases are sent rather efficiently. Not […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/21/2010
With the Yankees winning Game 5 of the American League Championship Series, you know that TBS is really happy over having another game tomorrow night. We have the quotage from last night’s contest from the pre and postgame shows, plus the game itself. Take a look. Notes from MLB Postseason on TBS – ALCS Game […]
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For a late afternoon game on the East Coast, TBS received a decent audience for Game 5 of the American League Championship Series. TBS garnered a 4.1 rating and 6.1 million viewers. We have the TBS press release for you. TBS’ Exclusive Coverage of Game 5 of Rangers/Yankees Draws 6.1 Million Viewers Network Scores Overall […]
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Let’s do your Thursday links. I’m a bit behind on things. But let’s get to the links while I can. USA Today’s Christine Brennan analyzes why baseball was beaten in the TV ratings by a lackluster Monday Night Football game. ESPN Ombudsman Don Ohlmeyer is out from hibernation and he answers readers questions on ESPN […]
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Just received a press release from MLB regarding the local ratings for yesterday’s action for the League Championship Series. We don’t have national numbers yet, but I’m sure they’ll be coming shortly. This is what we have for now thanks to the Major League Baseball Public Relations department. Take a look at the numbers especially […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/20/2010
Let’s do some linkage. I had to catch up on paperwork in the morning and I’ll provide some links now. Lots of good stuff today. We begin with Sports Business Daily and a story on ESPN starting a three part series on how the public views LeBron James? Does this require three days? The Alleged […]
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MLB gives us this release on the numbers for the LCS to date. We know about the American League Championship Series ratings for Tuesday. We don’t have Fox’s ratings for Tuesday afternoon, but we do have overall numbers for both the American and National League series combined. POSTSEASON TV VIEWERSHIP CONTINUES TO GROW With two […]
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It’s not NFL viewing numbers, but this is pretty good for MLB. TBS 9.9 million viewers for Game 4 of last night’s American League Championship Series. The rating was 6.3 and was the 2nd highest rated and 2nd most watched LCS game since 2008. Nice to see the numbers going up for the LCS, but […]
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Let’s provide your quotage from last night’s destruction of the Yankees at the hand of the Texas Rangers. TBS provided some excellent pictures last night from the interference in right field that was not reviewed, to the home run hit by Nick Swisher that was reviewed and called foul, to the reaction by Alex Rodriguez […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/19/2010
We have this release from MLB says the ratings for the League Championship Series involving major markets in New York, Philadelphia, Dallas and San Francisco are up to their highest levels since mid-decade. And while the NFL is beating MLB, there is interest in the games as I can gauge from Twitter and Facebook. DRAMATIC […]
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Despite people writing doom and gloom over ESPN’s Monday Night Football beating TBS’ coverage of the ALCS last night, Turner Sports appears happy over the numbers it has received for the first three games of the series. Last night, the rating was a 5.2 with 8.2 million viewers. That’s up 29% from TBS’ coverage of […]
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Ok, I was trying to work out some e-mail issues at the home office and now I’m back at the Massachusetts office so it’s time to give you some linkage today. Michael Hiestand of USA Today notes that the NFL continues to rule the ratings roost over baseball. CNBC’s Darren Rovell says with Monday Night […]
