0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/9/2014
Even though the NFL isn’t having the best of weeks, it can crow a little bit about the ratings for the NFL Kickoff game last Thursday between the Green Bay Packers and defending Super Bowl champs Seattle Seahawks as well as the Sunday Night Football season premiere which pitted the Indianapolis Colts and Denver Broncos. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/8/2014
Let’s conclude with Football Night in America quotage for which NBC also debuted a new studio in the NBC Sports world headquarters in beautiful downtown Stamford, CT. With Bob Costas, Cris Collinsworth and Hines Ward in Denver and Dan Patrick, Tony Dungy and Rodney Harrison in Stamford, we get the following quotage. NOTES & QUOTES […]
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Let’s turn to the NFL on CBS quotage from the two pregame shows, That Other Pregame Show on CBS Sports Network and the NFL Today on CBS. Both shows debuted new casts with That Other Pregame Show bringing in London Fletcher and Anita Marks joining holdovers Adam Schein, Amy Trask and Brandon Tierney and on […]
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We now have the quotage from the two Fox Sports pregame shows, Fox NFL Kickoff and Fox NFL Sunday. It marks the first time that Fox is sending notes and quotes from Fox NFL Kickoff. Here’s what we have for you. FOX NFL SUNDAY NOTES – 9/7/14 McNabb to Brown’s QB Hoyer: ‘Stop Looking Over […]
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ESPN’s Sunday NFL Countdown premiered with a new studio and plenty of opinions. Let’s take a look at some of the quotes from the program. ESPN’s Sunday NFL Countdown Notes and Quotes: Week One New Studio; NFL Suspensions; Short Leash for Brian Hoyer; RGIII Resurgence; and more ESPN’s Sunday NFL Countdown host Chris Berman and […]
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We’re doing the NFL Sunday pregame quotage late, but it won’t going up on Sunday nights/early Monday morning after this week. It usually will go up as soon as they’re received, but today was a busy day. Anyway, we begin as always with the NFL Network quotage from NFL GameDay First and NFL GameDay Morning, […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/7/2014
Here’s our first preview of NBC’s Football Night in America for the 2014 season. It will mark our first appearance of Matt Lauer’s successor Josh Elliott (I kid … maybe not) on the show. He’ll interview Indianapolis quarterback Andrew Luck. FNIA host Bob Costas sits down with Denver signal caller (does anyone still use “signal […]
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Ok, the 2014 NFL season is upon us. Let’s take a look at what you can expect to see on television this season and beyond in this new TV contract. So any blackouts? No, not this week. And it appears that blackouts will be at a minimum this season. One market, Tampa-St. Petersburg which had […]
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Ok, we end our Sunday previews with NBC Sports and its look at the season premiere of Sunday Night Football. Sunday night pits the Indianapolis Colts at the Denver Broncos at the new Mile High Stadium. Al Michaels, Cris Collinsworth and Michele Tafoya will be on hand for the call. They’ll be the crew along […]
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Let’s continue our Sunday previews with the NFL on Fox which is entering its 21st year broadcasting the country’s favorite sport. As the network began in 1994 airing the National Football Conference, the NFL gave Fox much needed credibility as a network and began the sports division that eventually spread to the NHL, MLB, NASCAR, […]
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CBS begins its 55th year of broadcasting National Football League games by airing mostly American Football Conference games with a few NFC-centric contests sprinkled in. This weekend marks the final year that CBS will have to deal with the U.S. Open tennis tournament in the late window and only 1 p.m. ET games. Overall, CBS […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/6/2014
The NFL on CBS has provided its announcing assignments for the next three weeks. Week 2 is when CBS begins Thursday Night Football coverage. Also note that Jim Nantz, Phil Simms and Tracy Wolfson will be doing double duty on Thursdays and Sundays in Weeks 2 and 3. In Week 4, Ian Eagle, Dan Fouts […]
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ESPN has a big weekend in store. It begins with Sunday NFL Countdown in a new studio that is located in the new 100 square mile wide Death Star Building (kidding about the square mileage … maybe not). The NFL programming including Sunday NFL Countdown and Monday Night Countdown will be produced in the new […]
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Ok, with the NFL season underway, let’s do our usual previews by the NFL TV partners as they prepare their material for their Sunday pregame shows As always we’ll begin with NFL Network and their various studio programming that begins at 7 a.m. ET with NFL GameDay First, then NFL GameDay Morning at 9 a.m., […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/4/2014
This week, we’re back with another edition of the Fang’s Bites podcast. Our guest is former Adweek writer and freelancer extraordinaire Anthony Crupi. As the NFL begins this week, we discuss the beginning of the season and what we can expect with the new TV contracts that are about to take effect. Among the topics […]
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All Times Eastern Thursday, September 4 8:30 p.m. Westwood One Green Bay at Seattle — Kevin Harlan/Boomer Esiason//Mark Malone Sunday, September 7 1 p.m. Compass Media Oakland Raiders Radio Network Oakland at New York Jets — Greg Papa/Tom Flores//Lincoln Kennedy ESPN Radio New England at Miami — Mark Kestecher/Louis Riddick//Ian Fitzsimmons Sports USA Radio New […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/3/2014
All Times Eastern Thursday, September 4 Studio & Pregame Shows Around the NFL — NFL Network, 2 p.m. NFL Insiders — ESPN, 3:30 p.m. NFL Live — ESPN, 4 p.m. NFL Fantasy Live — NFL Network, 4 p.m. NFL GameDay: Kickoff 2014 — NFL Network, 5 p.m. NFL Kickoff 2014 — NBC/NFL Network, 7:30 p.m. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/2/2014
Westwood One Radio announces that Kurt Warner will be the 2nd analyst for Monday Night Football. When Boomer Esiason is unable to call a game, Warner will join play-by-play man Kevin Harlan in the booth. Jim Gray remains the studio host for MNF on Westwood One. Warner replaces Dan Fouts who had been the secondary […]
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If you’re not a fan of musical opens for primetime football games, then this post is not for you. CBS and NFL Network have announced a new open for Thursday Night Football. Now, anything would be an improvement from CeeLo Green’s awful fracturing of The Ramones in 2012. And it should be better than whatever […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/22/2014
Five guests on this particular podcast, all recorded during the NFL on CBS Media Day in New York earlier this week. Most of the interviews are about five minutes or so. The last interview is 15 minutes and the total length of this podcast is 47:22 so you don’t have to spend too much time […]
