0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/16/2013
The NASCAR Summer Series on TNT speeds to Michigan International Speedway on Sunday. For this week, the Sprint Cup Series stop in Michigan will go 400 miles around the oval track. Adam Alexander will be the host and also call the lap-by-lap action. Wally Dallenbach, Larry McReynolds and Kyle Petty will analyze the passes and […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/8/2013
At the time that this post published, it was way past my bedtime. I promised some more sports media thoughts and I’ll do as I said in Friday’s post, but I’ll do them in quick hit style. Bullets, of course. With the Boston Bruins having punched their tickets to the Stanley Cup Final and Chicago […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/27/2013
During last night’s NASCAR race in Charlotte, the rope supporting Fox’s CableCam fell over Charlotte Motor Speedway injuring 10 fans and causing damage to several cars on the track. The collapse occurred during Lap 121 of the Coca-Cola 600. The camera itself did not fall to the track, however, the snap from the rope caused […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/9/2013
Fox Sports 1 is now 100 days from launching. Fox has released the programming schedule for Saturday, August 17. Fox Sports 1 gets its official kickoff at 8 a.m. Eastern with NASCAR Live and 7½ of NASCAR coverage culminating with the Camping World Truck Series race live from Michigan International Speedway at noon ET. Following […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/8/2013
Let’s go over the entire list of those who won hardware in the 34th Annual Sports Emmy Awards. The awards were handed out at Frederick P. Rose Hall at Lincoln Center in New York. Overall, NBC Sports Group has reason to crow with 23 Emmys, the most of any sports media group. Turner Sports was […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/7/2013
The 34th Annual Sports Emmy Awards were handed out tonight in New York at Frederick P. Rose Hall at the Time Warner Center. Thanks to Josh Krulewitz, ESPN public relations maven, I can list the individual winners. I’ll have a full list from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences tomorrow and I’ll post […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/6/2013
So Fox Sports 1 has been officially announced? What’s next? The launch on Saturday, August 17 which will include a NASCAR Truck Series race and a UFC card. During the event that introduced US version of Fox Sports 1 to the world (let’s not forget the original Fox Sports 1 in Australia), we learned that […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/5/2013
The worst kept secret in sports media finally gets pushed from behind the curtain and will be officially unveiled to advertisers and the media on Tuesday. Fox Sports officials will be at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York to tell the world what the average fan will see on the new Fox Sports 1 […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/27/2013
Let’s do some linkage while I have some time. USA Today’s Michael Hiestand notes NBC’s hiring of Tiger Woods pal Notah Begay to its golf team. He replaces Dottie Pepper who went to the PGA of America. Sports Business Journal’s John Ourand profiles ESPN PR pioneer Rosa Gatti who is retiring from the network after […]
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Sportfolio, Bloomberg’s show on sports business, host Rick Horrow looks at the business of baseball as he talks with Major League Baseball Executive Vice President for Business Tim Brosnan about the World Baseball Classic. Plus Bloomberg’s Deidre Bolton interviews defending World Series Champion San Francisco Giants CEO Larry Baer. And Rick also veers onto the […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/26/2013
After a week hiatus, the Sports Media Weekly podcast is back and with a vengeance. It’s 44 minutes long and we have two guests! Normally our first guest is our “Third Man In,” but Keith could not join John Daly and I, so it’s only a two man interview, but Keith was in for our […]
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I’m talking ratings here. And the numbers for Fox Sports for Sunday’s running of The Great American Race are good. Thanks to a race that started and ended pretty much on time. Thanks to increased interest to Danica Patrick. Thanks to increased interest from the crash from the day before during the Nationwide race, Fox […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/25/2013
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 […]
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Without weather delays, having Danica Patrick be in contention for the top spot and remaining in the Top 10 plus having an exciting finish helped to attract eyeballs to the Great American Race on Fox. The Fox Sports officials leaving Florida today are doing cartwheels and handstands in the airport today. The overnight rating for […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/24/2013
I haven’t done Sunday links in a very long while. It seems as if part of my weekends have been planned for me behind my back for almost three years straight. Finally glad to be able to do links on a weekend. Charlie White at Mashable talks about NASCAR taking down fan videos of the horrific […]
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Saturday was certainly the interesting day in sports with two sports outside of the major four dominating headlines. Let’s go over them in bullet form. In what normally is the start of NASCAR’s Nationwide Series became the sports and also news story of the first part of Saturday when a crash at Drive4COPD at Daytona […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/23/2013
Let’s do a notebook tonight, shall we? If I can’t do linkage and it always seems something gets in the way these days, I might as well do a notebook. I’ll try to provide as many links and stories as possible here. Interesting story from The Big Lead. The daily 9 a.m.-3 p.m. ET SportsCenter […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/7/2013
The 13th season of NASCAR on Fox is about to start its engines as it prepares to cover the Daytona 500. The race itself will go green on Sunday, February 24 at noon ET with a one hour prerace show. Then the coverage of the race will start at 1 p.m. Overall, Fox will air […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/7/2013
It’s been way too long since you’ve seen linkage on this site. This has been the main mission of Fang’s Bites since the beginning, but too often, I get roped into doing family stuff and it prevents me from getting on here until late. I hope to rectify that. So without further delay, here’s the […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/1/2013
Time for the look back at the Year in Sports Media in 2012. Lots of great stuff. The year has been very interesting and we have seen a lot of things. Just doing a Top Ten is never enough for the Year in Review. It’s always an even dozen with some honorable mentions mixed in. […]
