0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/22/2012
The NBA regular season is about to close up shop for 2012 and NBA TV will end its regular season schedule tonight and tomorrow. It will carry a doubleheader tonight and a single game tomorrow. Here’s the blurb from Turner Sports/NBA TV. NBA TV Concludes 96-Game Regular-Season Schedule April 22 & 23 Season Finales of […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/22/2012
Due to crazy personal schedules on Tuesday and Wednesday, I wasn’t able to update the site as much as I would like. I apologize to you as I’ve been trying to keep you apprised of the latest sports media news. A few housekeeping notes, first I did some Sports Media Thoughts earlier this morning and […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/20/2012
We have the nominations, all 170 in 33 different categories, for the 33rd Annual Sports Emmy Awards. They just came out today. There are some surprises like massive hockey charlatan Pierre McGuire nominated in the Sports Reporter category and for some really strange reason, Skippy Bayless of ESPN2’s First Take was nominated for Best Studio […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/14/2012
On Thursday, NBA TV goes live at 2 p.m. ET and over the following two hours, it will keep track of the wheeling and dealing as teams try to get that one player to put them over the top to the playoffs and possibly the NBA Championship. Vince Cellini will host the Trade Deadline Show […]
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Time for some linkage on this Wednesday. In case you missed it from early this morning, I wrote a post on how you can avoid paying the $3.99 fee to watch the March Madness Live app on your mobile, iPad or online. And Maine Sports Media has a legal promo code which you can use […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/2/2012
Lots of things to get to today. Couldn’t do the links yesterday. Going to do a big megalink edition for you. Let’s get cracking, but first, there’s the Weekend Viewing Picks complete with a link to the busy College Basketball Viewing Picks which will be updated throughout the weekend. National USA Today’s Michael Hiestand talks […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/19/2012
On January 14, NBA TV received its best ratings ever for a regular season game between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Los Angeles Clippers. As the Denver-New England NFL Divisional Playoff game was reaching blowout proportions, an audience of 756,000 viewers turned to Lakers-Clippers on NBA TV. It outpaced the previous record set a […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/3/2012
On this day when many of you head back to work after the lazy holiday season, let’s provide some links as we get into the New Year. I’m still saddened today by the passing of Turner Sports and PGA.com essayist Jim Huber. Reading the tributes on Twitter from those who knew him and those who […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/13/2011
NBA TV analysts Greg Anthony, Steve Smith and Chris Webber along with NBA Digital Vice President of Content (and Marv Albert’s favorite NBA on TNT producer) Albert “Scooter” Vertino took part in a media conference call on this date. Discussed today was the upcoming NBA season and what we can expect to see. In addition, […]
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A couple of things from Turner Sports which runs NBA TV. First, Greg Anthony who has done work with the NBA on TNT and NBA TV, will be part of the network’s Fan Night, which allows the fans to choose which game will be aired that night. Anthony, who is also CBS’ NCAA Tournament studio […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/8/2011
We complete the NBA television partner posts with the entire 96 game schedule for NBA TV. Games will be aired mostly on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday nights plus some Sundays thrown in. We’ll check out the schedule after a jump break. Here’s what NBA TV is saying about its schedule. NBA TV Releases its […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/6/2011
I forgot to put the NBA schedule launch in the viewing picks today. My bad. Anyway, with the NBA getting ready to resume training camp and open its season on Christmas Day, NBA TV got into high gear by releasing the 2011-12 schedule. We have the quotage from host Vince Cellini with Turner Sports analysts […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/2/2011
Let’s give you some linkage on this Friday. Been a busy day. You deserve some links The Weekend Viewing Picks provide your sports and entertainment TV watching. And now to your links. National USA Today’s Michael Hiestand and Mike McCarthy debate whether networks should hire ex-coaches knowing full well they could make news and leave […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/22/2011
Early evening again. Let’s do some linkage here. The Poynter Institute’s Jason Fry writes an article as the ESPN Ombudsman on how whiskey maker Jameson’s got stuck sponsoring the ESPN Films “Unguarded” documentary on addict Chris Herren. Michael Bradley writing for the Indiana University National Sports Journalism Center looks at a new e-book from Dallas […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/21/2011
Without any live games to air due to the lockout, NBA TV can only go so far showing classic games from the 1970’s through 1994 and movies like “Teen Wolf”. So starting Tuesday, it’ll premiere a new studio show named, “Open Court” hosted by Ernie Johnson, Jr. and featuring several of the Turner Sports NBA […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/14/2011
After not being able to provide linkage for a few days, let’s get back to it. I probably won’t be able to do the links as I have to undergo a medical procedure. Nothing serious. I should be back on Wednesday. Let’s do your links. Sports Business Daily looks over the reviews of ESPN’s handling […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/30/2011
Let’s some linkage on this Sunday. Mike Reynolds from Multichannel News writes that the NBA lockout has forced the cancellation of the rest of its November games forcing ESPN, TNT, NBA TV and regional sports networks to fill huge programming holes. Michael Malone at Multichannel notes that some Hawaiian viewers lost part of Thursday’s Game […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/11/2011
With the cancellation of the first two weeks of the regular season and the loss of 18 nationally televised games on ESPN, NBA TV and TNT, the NBA’s TV partners will now have to look for replacement programming. As we noted yesterday, ABC, ESPN and TNT will lose ad revenue in the wake of its […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/10/2011
Just announced by NBA Commissioner David Stern, the league has canceled the first two weeks of the regular season after it could not reach an agreement with the NBA Players Association. The two sides had been negotiating throughout the weekend but according to CNBC’s Darren Rovell,
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/15/2011
ESPN2 starts its WNBA postseason coverage today and then on Friday, it will be NBA TV’s turn to air some playoff action as the league-owned channel will have playoff doubleheaders both on Friday and Saturday. NBA TV airs games both all four Conference semifinals as they’re all a Best of Three series. Here’s the announcement […]
