0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/3/2014
This broken by Steve Lepore at Awful Announcing today, Fox Sports Executive Producer John Entz has confirmed that Fox Sports 1 will air on League Championship Series in its entirety this season. TBS will air the other LCS. It means that the League Championship Series just like the League Division Series and the Wild Card […]
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This coming from NESN, the home of the Boston Red Sox. Steve Lyons has been hired as a studio analyst. For the past nine seasons, he was with Fox Sports Prime Ticket working as both as pregame/postgame analyst as well as a game analyst on Los Angeles Dodgers games. When the Dodgers moved to SportsNet […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/28/2014
It’s hard to believe that ESPN and Major League Baseball go back 25 years, but it’s true. Their relationship began in 1990 and has gone non-stop ever since. It first began with Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday Night Baseball, then expanded to postseason coverage in 1996 followed by getting shut out of the postseason by […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/27/2014
Finally, after what has seemed to be an endless two months of unwatchable Spring Training games, the season is ready to start for real. Not counting those two games in Australia, the 2014 Major League Baseball season begins in earnest on Sunday when the Los Angeles Dodgers visit the San Diego Padres. ESPN will air […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/26/2014
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 […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/13/2014
Announced this week by MLB Network, Bob Costas and Matt Vasgersian will be the main play-by-voices for games that are produced in-house. Joining them on the broadcasts as analysts will be Jim Kaat and John Smoltz. Sam Ryan and Tom Verducci will be the on-field reporters for the games. MLB Network plans a schedule of […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/10/2014
A week after announcing that Joe Buck, Harold Reynolds and Tom Verducci are the “A” MLB on Fox team, we have this stating that MLB Network stalwarts Matt Vasgersian and John Smoltz are another team. They would be likely the “B” team for Fox. They’ll call games on both Fox and Fox Sports 1. Vasgersian […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/3/2014
It’s been reported and speculated since we received word last year that Fox would go in a different direction from analyst Tim McCarver. After McCarver called the last out of the 2013 World Series, Fox started to look for a new partner for play-by-play man Joe Buck. After a few practice games, Fox Sports felt […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/27/2014
This being reported by Jason McIntyre of The Big Lead. Fox has decided to team Harold Reynolds and Sports Illustrated baseball insider Tom Verducci with lead MLB announcer Joe Buck for the 2014 season. Reynolds and Verducci would replace Tim McCarver who left after last season. It’s an intriguing choice. Reynolds has been the main […]
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One of the reasons why Fox launched Fox Sports 1 last year was to air baseball in bulk. Fox Sports 1 will air 40 games this season including 10 exclusive Saturday doubleheaders and an additional 10 doubleheaders split with Fox. In addition, Fox Sports 1 will occasional games during the week including its first MLB […]
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Next month, the Arizona Diamondbacks and Los Angeles Dodgers will open the 2014 MLB regular season in Sydney, Australia at the Sydney Cricket Ground on March 22 and 23. MLB Network will air the games live in the United States. In Australia, the 9 Network and ESPN Australia will simulcast the games. The games will […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/13/2014
In a move that Americans are trying to wrap their proverbial heads arounds, news broke Wednesday night that the largest U.S. cable provider, Comcast, has entered into an agreement to purchase the second largest, Time Warner Cable. According to CNBC (owned by Comcast), this megadeal is worth $159 per share or somewhere in the neighborhood […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/25/2014
Time to do a quick notebook for you on this early Saturday morning. They’ll be bullet form. Fox has increased its stake in the YES Network. In late 2012, it purchased a 49% share in the regional sports network. On Friday through a press release from parent company 21st Century Fox, YES will become a […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/19/2014
Time to do some thoughts before the NFL Conference Championship Games. Once they start, I won’t be able to get this done. As usual, they come in bullet form. Last week, Grantland put forth a story by Caleb Hannan on the science behind a golf putter and the person who invented it. And while it’s […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/17/2014
This from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Dan Caesar, Tim McCarver has reached an agreement with Fox Sports Midwest to be on 30 Cardinals games this season. Nothing is final yet, but McCarver tells Caesar he expects his contract with Fox Sports Midwest to be ironed out soon. Last season, Fox Sports gave McCarver a […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/16/2014
Major League Baseball has just announced that all 30 clubs have approved the instant replay system. And it went from being the most archaic to one of the better systems along with the National Hockey League’s War Room. First, MLB will establish a Replay Command Center in New York and staff them with MLB umpires. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/15/2014
One of the few sports that begins and ends in the same calendar year, Major League Baseball has announced the game times for all of the games in the 2014 regular season. The season begins with two games in Sydney, Australia between the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Los Angeles Dodgers on Saturday, March 22 at […]
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ESPN has released 10 games of its 2014 Sunday Night Baseball schedule. The Boston Red Sox, Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Yankees and St. Louis Cardinals are slated to appear three times in that span. The Baltimore Orioles have two appearances. For the fourth straight year, Sunday Night Baseball has a change in its announcing […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/13/2014
Here are a couple of notes that you may have missed from the last couple of weeks: Right at the start of the new year, the Philadelphia Phillies and Comcast SportsNet announced a new 25-year agreement that keeps the team on the RSN well past the current agreement that expires in 2015. Sports Business Daily […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/9/2014
Pitchers and catchers report next month so as we try to thaw out in the Northeast from the cold and the Midwest hopes to warm up from the extreme chill, we can look forward to baseball and warmer weather. Starting on March 30, ESPN will air six games to open the 2014 regular season including […]
