0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/23/2014
CBS/Turner Sports has released the tip times and announcers for the NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 on Thursday, March 27 and Friday, March 28. With TBS airing two regional finals on Saturday and CBS the other two on Sunday, the announcers are split along network lines. Marv Albert, Steve Kerr and Craig Sager have been assigned […]
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The NCAA Tournament appears to have caught on with fans. When viewership goes up three straight days, you have a trend. For Saturday’s 3rd round action which had an afternoon of three bad games, but then an evening of barnburners, CBS/Turner averaged 10 million total viewers for the eight games which was the best in […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/22/2014
Once again, CBS/Turner saw some record numbers for the NCAA Tournament. yesterday’s numbers were the best for the opening Friday of the tournament dating back to 1991 when CBS took over the full rights for March Madness. The four telecast windows averaged 8.4 million viewers which is the highest since 1991. CBS/Turner saw a combined […]
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All Times Eastern Saturday, March 22 Men’s Studio and Pregame Shows NCAA March Madness 360 — CBS Sports Network, 5 p.m. NCAA Tip-Off — TNT, 5 p.m. NCAA March Madness 360 — CBS Sports Network, 7:30 p.m. Inside March Madness — TBS, midnight College GameDay — ESPN2, 12:30 a.m. (Sunday) NCAA March Madness Bracket Breakdown […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/21/2014
Mercer pulled off the upset of the NCAA Tournament thus far as the #14 seed in the South Region defeated the #3 seed Duke 78-71. While CBS aired the game and probably got some decent ratings in the midday window, WestwoodOne Sports also broadcast the game on radio and through the Tune In app and […]
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With some exciting games and big upsets, CBS/Turner garnered the best viewership in 23 years for the opening Thursday of the NCAA Tournament. An average of 8.6 million people watched the action on the CBS, TBS, TNT and truTV consortium. That’s a 6% increase from last year. And the total rating for all four networks […]
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The NCAA Tournament began in earnest on Thursday and with an evening of four overtime games, the excitement brought the fans out in droves. Overall, CBS, TBS, TNT and truTV garnered a 6.0 overnight rating with a 14 share making it the highest first Thursday rating for the games in 23 years. That’s up from […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/19/2014
The networks of ESPN will air all 63 games of the NCAA Women’s Tournament starting this Saturday. ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN3, WatchESPN and ESPN Full Court will all be utilized during the three week tourney that culminates with the Women’s Final Four in Nashville, TN on Sunday, April 6 and the National Championship Game on Tuesday, […]
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For the sixth straight year, ESPN will air President Barack Obama filling out his NCAA Men’s and Women’s Tournament bracket. Andy Katz was at the White House watching the President do the men’s bracket while Rebecca Lowe witnessed him unveiling his women’s bracket. The unveiling will be part of a half-hour program which airs Wednesday, […]
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We can’t forget the radio partner of the NCAA Tournament, WestwoodOne which will broadcast all of the games. Granted, you won’t be able to hear all of them, but at least WW1 is providing listeners access to the games either through the March Madness Live app, Tune In, WestwoodOneSports.com, SiriusXM and on terrestrial radio. So […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/16/2014
Thanks to its contract with the National Collegiate Athletic Association, SiriusXM will carry all of the NCAA Tournament games on five dedicated channels on both the Sirius and XM platforms. On Selection Sunday, Mad Dog Radio’s Chris Russo and Steve Torre co-host a four-hour program beginning at 5 p.m. ET going over all of the […]
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WestwoodOne Sports continues as the exclusive radio home of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. The radio network will provide audio coverage of all of the games. WestwoodOne’s coverage can be heard in a myriad of ways either through SiriusXM, the March Madness Live mobile and tablet apps, NCAA.com and on WestwoodOneSports.com. In addition to the […]
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ESPN will carry the ACC and SEC Championship Games as well as provide the selections for the 68-team field NCAA Tournament. While ESPN is not the official network to provide the brackets for the tournament, it can do them once the announcements are made on CBS. So once the games are over, ESPN will have […]
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When all of the conference championship basketball games are done, CBS Sports takes over to inform American where the Field of the 68 will go and play. Greg Gumbel will host as he has annually since 1998 and he’ll be joined by analysts Clark Kellogg, Seth Davis and for some insane reason, Doug Gottlieb. The […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/11/2014
As we get ready for another year of fantastic college basketball during the NCAA Tournament, the CBS/Turner consortium of CBS/TBS/TNT/truTV will once again combine to show every game from the “First Four™” all the way to the Final Four®. There are a couple of changes in this year’s tournament as compared to the last three […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/27/2014
I’m late on this. I’m doing my best to catch up over the next couple of days. Earlier this week, CBS Sports and Turner Sports made public their announcing teams for the 2014 NCAA Tournament. There are some changes from last year. As previously announced, Greg Anthony joins the “A” team with Jim Nantz and […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/19/2013
After a whirlwind in the sports media world, things have been slowing down and maybe that’s a good thing. So in lieu of constantly posting press releases, I provide some linkage on this Tuesday. Sports Illustrated’s Richard Deitsch looks at NBC’s approach for the Sunday night game between Denver and New England. In Sports Business […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/18/2013
Reported today by John Ourand in this week’s Sports Business Journal, Turner Sports will produce three separate versions of the NCAA Men’s Final Four™ in 2014 and in 2015. Earlier this year, Turner announced that it would carry the NCAA Division I Men’s National Semifinals with CBS airing the NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship this and […]
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 […]
