0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/4/2014
We have the quotage (and the probably the only one today) for the Wild Card Saturday. NFL Network has the notes and quotes from its two pregame shows, NFL GameDay First and NFL GameDay Morning. Let’s check out what was said on the two shows today. News & Sound Bites From Wild Card Saturday Editions […]
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We have ESPN’s plans for this weekend which begins the NFL Postseason. Check it out below. ESPN NFL Programming Update – Wild Card Weekend ESPN’s NFL Wild Card Weekend coverage features two editions of Sunday NFL Countdown – a two-hour special Saturday, Jan. 4, at 11 a.m. ET, and the regular three-hour edition Sunday, Jan. 5, […]
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On Sunday, the NFC Wild Card game between the San Francisco 49ers and the Green Bay Packers will be available to authenticated cable subscribers through the Fox Sports Go app. That means the game will be streamed, but only to those customers whose cable providers have agreements with Fox. As it stands now, AT&T U-Verse, […]
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NFL Network will have a double edition of NFL GameDay First and NFL GameDay Morning for this Wild Card Weekend. Both shows will air Saturday and Sunday. For the Saturday games, the shows begin at 10 a.m. But on Sunday, the shows run at their regular times. Because I fell asleep at my computer last […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/3/2014
All Times Eastern Saturday, January 4 Studio and Pregame Shows NFL Matchup — ESPN2, 8:30 a.m. NFL GameDay First — NFL Network, 10 a.m. Sunday NFL Countdown — ESPN, 11 a.m. NFL GameDay Morning — NFL Network, noon Football Night in America — NBC, 4 p.m. NFL GameDay Scoreboard — NFL Network, 7:30 p.m. NFL […]
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Cue the music. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbU4fPYRvcY&rel=0&w=560&h=315] Fox Sports has announced that the viewership for its 20th season of broadcasting the NFL was the best viewership ever. Games averaged 21.2 million viewers for the 2013 season, breaking the previous record of 20.1 million set back in 2010. In addition, the ratings at 12.5 ties its best ever ratings […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/2/2014
Ok, I’ll write the Awards tonight, but in the interim, here are the nominees for the seventh annual incarnation of my NFL TV Awards. The Pat Summerall Award for Best Play-by-Play: Kenny Albert (Fox), Kevin Burkhardt (Fox), Ian Eagle (CBS), Al Michaels (NBC), Brad Nessler (NFL Network), Mike Tirico (ESPN) Best Game Analyst: Cris Collinsworth […]
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This coming from the outstanding men and women at CBS Sports. We have the announcing assignments for the American Football Conference side of the NFL Playoffs, all of which will air on CBS. Starting this weekend, Jim Nantz and Phil Simms will be working the bulk of the games, calling three out of four games […]
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This being the final year of the NFL TV contract before the new one kicks in before the next season, NBC will air its final Wild Card Saturday doubleheader. NBC has two good games on Saturday, Kansas City at Indianapolis in the 4:30 p.m. ET slot followed by New Orleans at Philadelphia in the 8 […]
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From NBC, Sunday Night Football finished as the number one primetime television show for the fall season. It remains to be seen if the series will be the number one show for the entire season as it has for the last two television years. For the full season, NBC averaged a 12.8 rating with a […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/30/2013
Come on. You didn’t expect anyone different than Joe Buck and Troy Aikman, did you? Buck and Aikman will be in the a broadcast booth high above Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wisconsin for the game between the San Francisco 49ers and the Green Bay Packers. Kickoff time will be 4:40 p.m. ET on Sunday, […]
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NBC is proud as a peacock today after the overnight ratings came in for the Sunday Night Football season finale between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Dallas Cowboys that decided the NFC East Division title. As Philadelphia won and the game wasn’t decided until the final moments, NBC saw an average overnight rating of 16.8 […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/29/2013
Ok, playoff schedule is in. NBC has a very good Wild Card doubleheader on Saturday, January 4. It will have Kansas City-Indianapolis in the early game with New Orleans at Philadelphia in the nightcap. CBS has the early game on Sunday, January 5 with San Diego at Cincinnati at 1 p.m. ET. Fox will have […]
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Time to finish our Sunday NFL pregame quotage for the regular season with NBC’s Football Night in America. We have one more post this evening and that will be the Wild Card Weekend playoff schedule. NOTES & QUOTES FROM “FOOTBALL NIGHT IN AMERICA” — WEEK 17 “Packers fans are going to remember that…you’re going to […]
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Tonight, NBC airs the NFC East Division play-in game as the Dallas Cowboys host the Philadelphia Eagles in Arlington, TX. Before the game, Football Night in America will review all of Sunday’s action plus preview tonight’s contest. Bob Costas has interviewed Eagles’ running back LeSean McCoy and Cowboys tight end Jason Witten in advance of […]
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Now to Fox NFL Sunday from Fox Sports as seen on the Fox Television Network. FOX NFL SUNDAY NOTES – 12/29/13 Johnson: If Jay Cutler Doesn’t Play Well Today, Cut Him Loose Glazer Reports Which Coaches Are Safe, Which Are Out and Who Is Likely to Replace Them Bradshaw: Dallas Can “Rise Up” Today Against […]
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Now let’s move to CBS which its own pair of pregame shows, one on cable and the other on broadcast. You know where they air if you’re a regular visitor to this site. You don’t come here for the motherly advice. NEWS, NOTES & QUOTES FROM CBS SPORTS’ “THE NFL TODAY” WITH JAMES BROWN, DAN […]
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Last week of the regular season Sunday NFL pregame quotage. As always, we begin with NFL Network’s NFL GameDay First and NFL GameDay Morning. News & Sound Bites From Week 17 Editions of NFL Network’s NFL GAMEDAY FIRST & NFL GAMEDAY MORNING Quick Quotes from NFL GameDay First & NFL GameDay Morning – “I want […]
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For the third straight year, NBC’s Sunday Night Football airs the NFC East Division championship game involving the Dallas Cowboys. The Dallas Cowboys will host the Philadelphia Eagles in Arlington, TX. The winner will head to the playoffs and host a postseason game. The loser will go home and watch the playoffs on TV. Al […]
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ESPN begins Sunday NFL Coutndown at 10 a.m. with reporters at seven games. There will be several features as well. Check it out. Sunday NFL Countdown: Eagles-Cowboys Rivalry Revisited, Reviewing Bears QB Decision, and More Sunday NFL Countdown host Chris Berman and analysts Cris Carter, Mike Ditka, Tom Jackson and Keyshawn Johnson, will preview the […]
