0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/21/2014
As we go to Week 3 of the NFL regular season, we hope that we can go a full 7 days without off the field incidents dominating the news, but baby steps and one day at a time. NFL Network’s pregame programming begins at 7 a.m. ET with NFL GameDay First and that will be […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/18/2014
All Times Eastern Thursday, September 18 8:30 p.m. Tampa Bay at Atlanta — Ian Eagle/Mike Mayock//Derek Rackley Sunday, September 21 1 p.m. Dallas Cowboys Compass Media Radio Network Dallas at St. Louis — Kevin Ray/Danny White Oakland Raiders Compass Media Radio Network Oakland at New England — Greg Papa/Tom Flores//Lincoln Kennedy Indianapolis at Jacksonville — […]
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All Times Eastern Thursday, September 18 Pregame and Studio Shows Around the NFL — NFL Network, 2 p.m. NFL Insiders — ESPN, 3 p.m. NFL Live — ESPN, 4 p.m. NFL Fantasy Live — NFL Network, 5 p.m. NFL Total Access Kickoff live from the Georgia Dome, Atlanta, GA — NFL Network, 6 p.m. Fantasy […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/16/2014
Last week, CBS pulled Rihanna singing Jay-Z’s “Run This Town” off Thursday Night Football due to the Ray Rice controversy and also due to her own connection with domestic violence thanks to Chris Brown. CBS had planned to use her song for the rest of the season, but then this morning she reacted in a […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/15/2014
We end the quotage posts with NBC’s Football Night in America. Lots of stuff on Adrian Peterson and Ray Rice as expected. Here’s the notes and quotes for you. NOTES & QUOTES FROM FOOTBALL NIGHT IN AMERICA – WEEK 2 “As football fans, we were let down by everybody last week.” – Collinsworth “On Monday, […]
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And we move to the quotage on the networks of CBS Sports, the NFL Today on CBS and That Other Pregame Show on CBS Sports Network. By the way, I start a weekly review of NFL pregame shows on Monday on Awful Announcing and I’ll start with TOPS. Look for it. Anyway, here’s the quotage. […]
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Let’s go to Fox’s quotage for Sunday. They have two shows worth of notes and quotes, from Fox NFL Kickoff and Fox NFL Sunday. Here’s the stuff for you. FOX NFL SUNDAY NOTES – 9/14/14 Moss to Fitzgerald on His Role in Arizona: ‘It’s the Changing of the Guard, Larry, so Understand What They are […]
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Now to ESPN’s quotage for Sunday NFL Countdown in which this edition became known for Cris Carter’s impassioned segment on Adrian Peterson and his alleged abuse of his son that came to light late last week. The entire video is below. For the quotage, we have the transcripts below. ESPN’s Sunday NFL Countdown Notes and […]
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Time to check out the Sunday NFL pregame quotage. We’ll begin as always with NFL Network’s two programs, NFL GameDay First and NFL GameDay Morning. Lots of quotage from the two shows. QUOTES FROM WEEK 2 EDITIONS OF NFL NETWORK’S NFL GAMEDAY FIRST & NFL GAMEDAY MORNING Quick Quotes from NFL GameDay First & NFL […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/14/2014
Ok, it was a tumultuous week for the NFL and today, the games will be played. However, two clouds still hang over the league, Ray Rice and Adrian Peterson. Let’s take a look at what’s happening this week. So, besides the off the field stuff, what’s new in the NFL? Well, the off the field […]
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Sunday Night Football travels to Santa Clara, CA for its first-ever visit to the spanking brand new Levi’s Stadium, the new home of the San Francisco 49ers. The Niners host the Chicago Bears in the first-ever regular season game at Levi’s. Al Michaels, Cris Collinsworth and Michele Tafoya will be the game broadcast crew. Of […]
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Fox has regional coverage once again this week and from its preview of the coverage has no word on what it will broach on its pregame shows, but you can expect Ray Rice and Adrian Peterson talk. What else you’ll see on Fox tomorrow, like the regional splits and announcing assignments. Well, you won’t be […]
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This is what networks hope for when they sign the NFL, big viewership numbers. And for the season premiere of Thursday Night Football simulcast on CBS and NFL Network, the numbers are good. An average 20.8 million viewers watched Pittsburgh at Baltimore. And if you want the breakdown, you shall receive it. An estimated 17.4 […]
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ESPN’s Sunday NFL Countdown and Monday Night Countdown will have their usual pregame features before the games this weekend, however, there’s no mention of the Ray Rice story. I’m sure that story and the Adrian Peterson situation will be discussed at length at least on Sunday. We’ll see. Here’s what else you’ll see on Sunday. […]
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Let’s do our Sunday NFL pregame previews for Week 2. NFL Network will have six hours of pregame coverage beginning at 7 a.m. ET. While the Adrian Peterson story is not listed and it happened after this press release was sent out, expect that to be discussed on both NFL GameDay First and GameDay Morning […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/12/2014
Whether it was Ray Rice or people are just starved for football, another network TV primetime NFL package scored in the ratings. The Pittsburgh-Baltimore game to kick off the new combined CBS/NFL Network Thursday Night Football series gave the networks a 13.7 overnight rating with a 23 share. That’s up a whopping 108% from last […]
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I’m not sure I’ll be posting this every week, but with CBS/NFL Network focusing on the Ray Rice situation before the Pittsburgh-Baltimore game, this was quite newsworthy in particular the first half of the program. The first half of the program, the 7:30 – 8 p.m. ET portion was Ray Rice-centric with James Brown tossing […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/11/2014
All Times Eastern Thursday, September 11 8:25 p.m. Pittsburgh at Baltimore — Ian Eagle/Boomer Esiason//Ross Tucker Sunday, September 14 1 p.m. Compass Media Cowboys Radio Network Dallas at Tennessee — Kevin Ray/Danny White Arizona at New York Giants — Mark Kestecher/Shaun O’Hara//Ian Fitzsimmons New England at Minnesota — Larry Kahn/John Robinson//Troy West New Orleans at […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/10/2014
All Times Eastern Thursday, September 11 Studio & Pregame Shows Around the NFL — NFL Network, 2 p.m. NFL Insiders — ESPN2, 3 p.m. NFL Live — ESPN2, 4 p.m. NFL Fantasy Live — NFL Network, 5 p.m. NFL Total Access Kickoff: Thursday Night Football Preview (season premiere) — NFL Network, 6 p.m. NFL Thursday […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/9/2014
The ESPN opening week Monday Night Football doubleheader did well for the network. The New York Giants at Detroit and San Diego at Arizona were the top two programs in primetime across cable and beat all broadcast offerings. The first game, Giants-Lions secured an 8.4 rating with 13.7 million viewers. New York received a combined […]
