0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/1/2012
The Super Bowl edition of Inside the NFL debuted Wednesday on Showtime. If you missed the premiere, there will be replays throughout the weekend leading up to the game. On this week’s edition, New York Giants defensive end Justin Tuck and New England Patriots wide receiver Deion Branch made guest appearances and answered questions from […]
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Time to do some original content here. The thoughts come to you in bullet form as always. As the Super Bowl fast approaches, we hear from those who know more than your humble blogger that Sunday’s Big Game could set a viewing record. Super Bowl XLV on Fox between Green Bay and Pittsburgh set the […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/30/2012
NBC kicks off its Super Bowl coverage on Sunday with the NFL Films-produced special, “Road to the Super Bowl” starting at noon ET. The show will review the 2011 season and show viewers how the New England Patriots and New York Giants ended up in Indianapolis for Super Bowl XLVII. NFL Films has culled through […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/28/2012
The first great sports documentary of 2012 will air Saturday night on HBO. The 90 minute film was co-produced by HBO Sports and NFL and gives us a look at Joe Namath’s life and career starting in high school in Beaver Falls, PA, to college in Alabama, then to the New York Jets of the […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/27/2012
With a rainy day in Southern New England, it’s time to provide you with some media links. Lots of them on a Friday. You can check out the Weekend Viewing Picks for the sports and entertainment programming suggestions. Now to the links. National USA Today’s Michael Hiestand talks with NBC’s Al Michaels about calling his […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/25/2012
Last week, Showtime’s “Inside the NFL” brought in the man known as “LT”, LaDanian Tomlinson to be a guest for the entire hour of the show. This week, it brings in the original “LT”, Hall of Fame New York Giants linebacker Lawrence Taylor to talk about next week’s Super Bowl between his G-Men and the […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/23/2012
I’ll do some links that I’ve gathered over the day. You deserve some. Michael Hiestand of USA Today discusses the monster ratings for Championship Sunday in the NFL. Michael says with NBC reacquiring the rights to the Breeders Cup, ESPN has gotten out of the horse racing business. And Michael discusses Jim Rome’s CBS debut […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/18/2012
On Wednesday’s edition of Showtime’s Inside the NFL, LaDanian Tomlinson took the opportunity to talk about the New York Jets’ failure to make the playoffs plus the controversy of recently leaked stories to the media on the infighting among the team. L.T. talked to the Inside the NFL team of James Brown, Cris Collinsworth, Phil […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/14/2012
To kick off its big day of sports programming today, CBS Sports will air a special produced by NFL Films called “They Call It The Playoffs.” The special will focus on some of the best moments in the NFL postseason including the Miami-Kansas City double overtime game from the 1971 season, “The Catch” from the […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/5/2012
Time to hand out the 5th edition of the Fang’s Bites NFL TV Awards. On Christmas Day, I provided the list of nominees for this year’s edition. Now, with the regular season over, let’s hand out the hardware for the 2011-12 campaign. Best Play-by-Play: The Nominees are Marv Albert, CBS; Ian Eagle, CBS; Al Michaels, NBC; […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/30/2011
Time for the Fang’s Bites Sports Media Year in Review. The year isn’t big enough for a Top Ten, but it is big enough for a Big Dozen. Let’s get to the list and we’ll count down from 12 and also have some Honorable Mentions. 12. ESPN The Book One of the most anticipated books […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/21/2011
It won’t be actual games since CBS will have a full slate on Christmas Eve, but if you’re jonesing for football on Sunday and you can’t wait until Bears-Packers on NBC at 8:30 p.m. ET, CBS has a small fix for you in the afternoon. CBS will air the NFL Holiday Spectacular on Sunday at […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/19/2011
On Christmas Day, NFL Network will air a one hour special on the 40th anniversary on “The Longest Game Ever Played,” a divisional playoff game between the Miami Dolphins and the Kansas City Chiefs. The game went into double overtime and was broadcast on NBC. Curt Gowdy did the play-by-play while Al DeRogatis was the […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/22/2011
Just announced by HBO and NFL Films, a new documentary on Joe Namath. Both HBO and NFL Films have teamed up before, most recently for their successful “Lombardi” documentary which won the Sports Emmy for Best Documentary. I expect high quality from this documentary as HBO certainly knows how to do the sports documentary and […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/20/2011
The NFL Films-produced critically acclaimed “A Football Life” documentary series continues tonight on NFL Network with a look at NFL Films founder and Hall of Famer Ed Sabol. Earlier this summer, NFL Films gave a look at Sabol’s career and his reaction getting into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. This new film on Mr. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/10/2011
NFL Network continues the critically-acclaimed NFL Films series, “A Football Life” with the latest installment on the late Chicago Bears running back Walter Payton. Friends, family, coaches and teammates will be part of the NFL Films documentary. Among those featured, former coach Mike Ditka, Payton’s widow Connie, Payton’s son Jarrett as well as his daughter […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/21/2011
Versus will air its new NFL Films-produced show an hour earlier on Thursday, at 9 p.m. ET with the show repeating at its regular time of 10 p.m. I think this is being done so as not to interfere with the Bill Belichick documentary on NFL Network. Here’s the Versus announcement. SECOND EPISODE OF NFL […]
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Last week, NFL Network aired Part One of the NFL Films documentary, “Bill Belichick: A Football Life” to plenty of critical acclaim. The documentary shows Belichick behind the scenes during the 2009 season. The documentary shows Patriots coach Bill Belichick in a totally different light, for instance, seeing him get emotional as he tours the […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/17/2011
A beautiful fall-like Saturday in Southern New England. Already been out today and it’s so nice outside. I hope you enjoy your weekend if you don’t have to work. Some linkage for you. John Eggerton from Broadcasting & Cable writes that the NFL Films documentary on Bill Belichick scored very well for NFL Network. Timothy […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/16/2011
Let’s do some linkage. The Weekend Viewing Picks give you everything to you need for your viewing pleasure. Let’s do this. National Michael Hiestand of USA Today writes that primetime is the right time for college football. Tripp Mickle of Sports Business Daily reports that ESPN has sold out its ad inventory for its new […]
