0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/5/2016
TBS’ first NCAA Men’s Basketball National Championship Game could not gone any better after a Final Four that could not have gone worse. A barnburner between North Carolina and Villanova with dueling three pointers at the end with Marcus Paige hitting a game-tying three pointer with 4.7 seconds left, then Kris Jenkins hitting the buzzer […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/2/2016
All Times Eastern Saturday, April 2 Men’s College All-Star Game, NRG Stadium, Houston, TX East vs. West — CBS, 1 p.m. (delayed from 4/1) NCAA Tournament Division I Men’s Championship National Semifinals, NRG Stadium, Houston, TX Studio and Pregame Shows With a Kiss — CBS, noon NCAA March Madness 360 — CBS Sports Network, 1:30 […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/27/2016
With Turner Sports airing the Final Four® for the third straight year, we get the “Team Stream” concept a.k.a. the “Homer calls.” It means that TBS will have the main call with Jim Nantz, Grant Hill, Bill Raftery and Tracy Wolfson while TNT and truTV will have the homer calls for the four teams in […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/26/2016
It’s an all-ACC Easter Sunday as Virginia-Syracuse and North Carolina-Notre Dame will ensure that the Atlantic Coast Conference will have two teams in the Final Four. TBS will air the Sunday regional finals from Chicago and Philadelphia and will take us the rest of the way to the National Championship Game marking the first time […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/25/2016
All Times Eastern Saturday, March 25 Men’s Studio and Pregame Shows Best of College Basketball 2016 — CBS, 2 p.m. NCAA March Madness 360 — CBS Sports Network, 4 p.m. Road to the Final Four — CBS, 5 p.m. NCAA March Madness 360 — CBS Sports Network, 8 p.m. NCAA March Madness 360 — CBS […]
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CBS’ last games for the 2016 NCAA Tournament air this Saturday. On Sunday, TBS will take us the rest of the way from the Midwest and South Regional Finals to the Final Four and then the National Championship Game. With Duke out of the Tournament, it means the West Regional Final will be the early […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/19/2016
All Times Eastern Saturday, March 19 Men’s National Invitation Tournament 2nd Round (Home Sites) Wagner at Creighton — ESPN, noon (Doug Sherman/Daymeon Fishback) NCAA Tournament 2nd Round Pregame and Studio Shows NCAA March Madness 360 — CBS Sports Network, 4 p.m. NCAA Tip-Off — TNT, 5:30 p.m.NCAA March Madness 360 — CBS Sports Network, 8 […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/18/2016
Here we go, the NCAA Broadcasting Consortium of CBS, TBS, TNT and truTV have released the tip times, networks and announcing assignments for Sunday’s second round action. CBS will have a tripleheader that begins at noon ET and ends at approximately 7:15 p.m. truTV will have one game while TBS and TNT will both have […]
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After an exciting day of NCAA Tournament action which saw Yale get past Baylor, Arkansas-Little Rock parlay a miracle 30 foot tying shot in regulation into a two-overtime win over Purdue and Providence somehow advancing in a last-second win against USC. With that in mind, let’s provide the tip times, networks and announcing assignments for […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/13/2016
Well, here we go. The 68-team field for the 2016 NCAA Tournament has been set, the networks are set to go and the announcers have been assigned for the First Four and the 1st/2nd Round sites. And yes, we return to the 1st and 2nd rounds for the Thursday/Friday and Saturday/Sunday games. As you should […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/7/2015
CBS ends 34 years of consecutively airing the NCAA Division I Men’s Championship Game on a high note. After last year’s game between UConn and Kentucky which averaged a 12.5/20 final rating/share, this year’s contest pitting Duke and Wisconsin saw a rise of 28% to 16.0/28. Viewership also saw a big jump as Duke-Wisconsin averaged […]
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The overnight ratings are in and the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship between Duke and Wisconsin turned out well for CBS. For those who thought the game would not attract big numbers without Kentucky were wrong. Duke-Wisconsin attracted a big 17.7/27 overnight rating/share which is 33% better than last year’s UConn-Kentucky contest which could […]
0 comments by Ken Fang
Usually I post this within a half-hour of the National Championship game, but because I have a bitter taste over Duke winning, my enthusiasm for posting is a bit subdued. With this ending the 34-year streak for CBS airing the NCAA Championship dating back to 1982 (TBS airs the Final Four and National Championship next […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/5/2015
The Turner triumvirate of TBS, TNT and truTV couldn’t be happier with the numbers from this year’s Final Four. First, the Kentucky-Wisconsin game broke the rating and viewership record of last week’s Kentucky-Notre Dame Midwest Regional Final on TBS becoming the most-watched college basketball game in U.S. cable television history. The game averaged a 12.4 […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/3/2015
All Times Eastern Saturday, April 4 Studio and Pregame Shows At the Final Four — TBS, 3 p.m. College GameDay live from Indianapolis, IN — ESPN, 3:30 p.m. The Final Four Show — TBS, 4 p.m. BTN Tip-Off Show 2015: Final Four Pregame — Big Ten Network, 5 p.m. Best of College Basketball — CBS […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/23/2015
Observers may have criticized the NCAA Tournament Selection Committee over seedings and various teams getting into the Big Dance, but the games and matchups that resulted from the First Four to the Round of 32 has generated record ratings for the CBS/Turner broadcast consortium. For the first week on CBS, TBS, TNT and the much-maligned […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/22/2015
O.k, CBS/Turner has released the tip times for the next round of the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship before all of the games are finished. Either the staffers there have become extremely efficient or they all want to go to bed at a decent hour. I have a feeling this is a combination of […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/21/2015
All Times Eastern Saturday, March 21 Men’s NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship 3rd Round Studio and Pregame Shows NCAA Tip-Off — TNT, 5 p.m. NCAA March Madness 360 — CBS Sports Network, 6 p.m. NCAA March Madness 360 — CBS Sports Network, 11 p.m. Inside March Madness — TBS, midnight College GameDay — ESPN2, […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/20/2015
Ok, we get the tip times for the Round of 32 action on Sunday, March 22 as CBS and Turner don’t want to wait until the Providence-Dayton game is over as the PR people want to sleep at a decent hour. CBS has a tripleheader on Sunday starting at 12:10 p.m. ET with the tasty […]
0 comments by Ken Fang
Yes, there’s the First Four™, but that’s really the appetizer for the real action of the NCAA Tournament which began on Thursday with 16 games. By having 5 one-point games, two 14 seeds advancing and five Texas teams going 0-for-Thursday, CBS, TBS, TNT and truTV had a tremendous day of the 2015 Tournament. Fans had […]
