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College Basketball Viewing Picks For 02/02 & 02/03/2013, All Times Eastern

Men’s Schedule courtesy of Matt’s College Sports Announcing Assignments courtesy of Eye on Sky and Air Sports Saturday, February 2 Pregame & Studio Shows College GameDay live from Bloomington, IN — ESPNU, 10 a.m./ESPN, 11 a.m. Big Ten Tip-Off Show — Big Ten Network, 6:30 p.m. College GameDay live from Bloomington, IN — ESPN, 8 […]

NESN Scores With Boston Bruins Season Opener

The Boston Bruins season opener occurred four months late, but it did not damper the audience for the game. The New England Sports Network, a.k.a. NESN, received a spectacular 9.4 household rating in Boston for the game and a 17.4 share for the Bruins game against the New York Rangers. The previous high was an […]

College Basketball Viewing Picks For 01/19 & 01/20/2013, All Times Eastern

Men’s Schedule Courtesy of Matt’s College Sports Saturday, January 19 Pregame & Studio Shows College GameDay live from Indianapolis — ESPNU, 10 a.m./ESPN, 11 p.m. College GameDay live from Indianapolis — ESPN, 8 p.m. 11 a.m. Virginia Military Institute at Coastal Carolina — ESPNU (Adam Amin/Brooke Weisbrod) noon St. John’s at DePaul — Big East […]

College Basketball Viewing Picks For 01/12 & 01/13/2013, All Times Eastern

Men’s schedule courtesy Matt’s College Sports Saturday, January 12 Pregame & Studio Shows College GameDay — ESPN2, 10 a.m. College GameDay — ESPNU, 11 a.m. Big Ten Tip-Off Show — Big Ten Network, 11:30 a.m. Big Ten Game Break — Big Ten Network, 2 p.m. The Fab Five — ESPN, 5:30 p.m. Big Ten Finale […]

College Basketball Viewing Picks For 01/05 & 01/06/2013, All Times Eastern

Men’s Schedule courtesy of Matt’s College Sports Saturday, January 5 11 a.m. Pittsburgh at Rutgers — ESPN2 noon Virginia Tech at Maryland — ACC Network Seton Hall at Notre Dame — Big East Network Purdue at Michigan State — Big Ten Network Delaware at Old Dominion — Comcast SportsNet (Bay Area/Mid Atlantic/Philadelphia)/CSS Wake Forest at […]

College Basketball Viewing Picks For 12/29 & 12/30/12, All Times Eastern

Men’s schedule courtesy of Matt’s College Sports Saturday, December 29 Studio Shows ACC Basketball Pre Season Tip-Off Show — ACC Network, check your local listings 75 Years of March Madness: Behind the Mic — CBS, 2 p.m. 75 Years of March Madness: A Coach’s Perspective — CBS, 3 p.m. Big Ten Finale ’12-’13 — Big […]

College Basketball Viewing Picks For 12/22 & 12/23/2012, All Times Eastern

Men’s schedule courtesy of Matt’s College Sports Saturday, December 22 Gotham Classic, New York, NY Syracuse vs. Temple — ESPN2, noon Diamond Head Classic, Honolulu, HI Quarterfinals Indiana State vs. Mississippi — ESPNU, 4 p.m. San Diego State vs. San Francisco — ESPNU, 6:30 p.m. Arizona vs. Tennessee State — ESPNU, 10:30 p.m. Miami (FL) […]

College Basketball Viewing Picks, 12/08 & 12/09/12, All Times Eastern

Men’s schedule courtesy of Matt’s College Sports MSG Holiday Classic, New York, NY Fordham vs. St. John’s — MSG Plus, 7 p.m. Rutgers vs. Iona — MSG Plus, 9:30 p.m. noon Towson at Georgetown — Big East Network Long Beach State at Ohio State — Big Ten Network Arkansas at Michigan — CBS Portland at […]

College Basketball Viewing Picks For 12/01 & 12/02/2012, All Times Eastern

Men’s Schedule Courtesy of Matt’s College Sports Saturday, December 1 SEC/Big East Challenge Mississippi State at Providence — ESPNU, noon Rutgers at Mississippi — ESPNU, 2 p.m. Alabama at Cincinnati — ESPN2, 3 p.m. Villanova at Vanderbilt — ESPNU, 6 p.m. John Wooden Classic, Anaheim, CA San Diego State vs. UCLA — ESPNU, 10 p.m. […]

College Football Viewing Picks For Week 13, 11/23 & 11/24/2012, All Times Eastern

Schedule Courtesy of Matt’s College Sports Friday, November 23 Pregame & Studio Shows Best of College Football 2012 — CBS, 1:30 p.m. Fox College Football Saturday — Fox, 3 p.m. 11 a.m. Syracuse at Temple — ESPN2 (Tom Hart/John Congemi) Ohio at Kent State — ESPNU (Adam Amin/Tom Luginbill) noon Nebraska at Iowa — ABC […]

Doing Some Friday Megalinks

Let’s do some Friday megalinks. Haven’t done any in a couple of weeks. The Weekend Viewing Picks have all of your sports and entertainment TV needs. Time for the linkage. National Michael Hiestand of USA Today notes the rising rights fees for the college football postseason. Michael writes about Today show Executive Producer Jim Bell […]

College Football Viewing Picks For Week 11, 11/10/2012, All Times Eastern

Schedule Courtesy of Matt’s College Sports Pregame & Studio Shows College GameDay live on board the USS San Diego — ESPNU, 9 a.m./ESPN, 10 a.m. BTN Football Pregame — Big Ten Network, 11 a.m. ACC Blitz — ACC Network, noon BTN Football Postgame — Big Ten Network, 3 p.m. College Football Scoreboard — ESPN, 3 […]

College Football Viewing Picks for Week 10, 11/03/2012, All Times Eastern

Schedule courtesy of Matt’s College Sports Pregame & Studio Shows College GameDay live from Baton Rouge, LA — ESPNU, 9 a.m./ESPN, 10 a.m. BTN Football Pregame — Big Ten Network, 11 a.m. Inside College Football — CBS Sports Network, 11:30 a.m. ACC Blitz — ACC Network, noon Fox College Football Saturday — Fox, 2 p.m. […]

Some Quick Wednesday Linkage

Let’s do some links now. Austin Karp at Sports Business Daily says the MLB TV partners saw record low ratings this season. Sports lllustrated’s Richard Deitsch reviews ESPN2’s first foray into pro hockey since losing the NHL in 2005. Michael Hiestand of USA Today notes that Bob Costas is back calling postseason baseball for the […]

Some Rare Sunday Linkage

It used to be that I would be able to provide linkage all seven days of the week, but my schedule has been crazy lately especially on the weekends. My apologies for not being able to provide more weekend content. But as I’m free right now, let’s not dilly-dally any longer and here are some […]

Jonesing For Tuesday Linkage

Ok, maybe you’re not jonesing for the linkage, but at least you can read them at your leisure. Sometimes I think way too long about the title of the post and this is the case today. Anyway, let’s get to the links. Joel Schectman of the Wall Street Journal reports that NBC and Google are […]

Former Red Sox Knuckleballer Tim Wakefield Joins NESN As Studio Analyst

Announced by NESN at the same time the Erin Andrews-to-Fox story broke, we learn that retired Red Sox pitcher Tim Wakefield will now become a studio analyst for the network. Wakefield retired during Spring Training this year after a stellar career with the Red Sox. He had spanned 16 years in Boston starting in 1995 […]

Your Tuesday Linkage

Let’s do some Tuesday links. We’ll start with Matt Hayes of AOL Sporting News and he writes that the BCS is looking for a $5 billion TV deal over a decade for its new college football playoff. In the Indiana University National Sports Journalism Center, Michael Bradley says the new college football playoff still can […]

NESN & WJAR-TV Form New Partnership

Just as NESN and WBZ-TV formed a partnership last month, NESN and Providence television station, WJAR have formed a strategic partnership. It means that NESN’s Don Orsillo, Jerry Remy and/or Jenny Dell will make appearances (probably via tape) on WJAR’s noon and 6 p.m. newscasts. In addition, WJAR sports director Frank Carpano will make appearances […]

Let's Get Some Linkage Out

I’ve accumulated a lot of links. They’re slowing down my browser so let’s clear them so I can let my computer get back some memory. Lots of stuff going on. Let’s start with ESPN stuff as it dominated the news today with its network upfront presentation to advertisers and also confirmed personnel moves. First, Sports […]

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