0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/7/2016
All Times Eastern Thursday, September 8 Pregame and Studio Shows Good Morning Football — NFL Network, 7 a.m. NFL Total Access: Season Preview — NFL Network, 1 p.m. NFL Insiders — ESPN, 2 p.m. NFL Live — ESPN, 3 p.m. NFL Fantasy Live — NFL Network, 4 p.m. NFL GameDay Kickoff — NFL Network, 5 […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/6/2016
After ten years at ESPN serving as a pit reporter on NASCAR and then a sideline reporter on both college football and college basketball and sometimes host of College Football Live, Shannon Spake is heading to Fox Sports. Spake worked under the Fox Sports umbrella with the Motorsports network, SPEED in 2005 on NASCAR Nation. […]
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Yesterday when NBC announced its record 170 commentators for next month’s Rio Olympics, one name that was noticeably absent was Mike Tirico who officially joined the Peacock at the beginning of this month. Well, NBC has released his first three assignments for its Sports Group and one will be a familiar setting, next week’s Open […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/11/2016
On Tuesday, May 10 at Frederick P. Rose Hall at Lincoln Center in New York, the Sports Emmy Awards were handed out to the national sports networks nominated in a number of categories. FS1 was the network that received the most with 8 awards. NBC was next with 7 followed by FoxSports.com with 6 then […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/15/2016
This is going to be an interesting season for viewers of Thursday Night Football. Not only will CBS be back to air a slate of games, but so will NBC. And Twitter is on board to stream the games that CBS and NBC will be broadcasting. NFL Network will have an exclusive set of games […]
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ESPN is back with its 10th anniversary of airing Monday Night Football. Since it began carrying MNF on cable, ESPN has aired a Week 1 doubleheader which takes us into a 17-game schedule. The Week 1 doubleheader has Pittsburgh at Washington as the early game and then the Los Angeles Rams taking on the San […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/14/2016
NBC is in its 10th anniversary season of Sunday Night Football and its inaugural season in airing Thursday Night Football. =NBC will air 19 regular season primetime games as part of the SNF package, 17 Sunday night games with the traditional Thursday night season opener which this year will be a rematch of Super Bowl […]
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Coming off a Super Bowl season, CBS will be back with as the AFC network including three playoff games (one Wild Card, one Divisional Playoff Game and the AFC Championship). This marks the 57th year of the Tiffany Network broadcasting the NFL and the 19th consecutive season as the home of the American Football Conference. […]
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This is going to be a Super Bowl season for Fox. It will air Super Bowl LI in Houston as well as back to having two NFC Divisional Playoff Games in January. As usual, Fox will be the network of the NFC as it has dating back to 1994. It will have doubleheaders in Weeks […]
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It’s out. The entire 256-game schedule is here. This is another season of transition for the National Football League. We have two television networks producing Thursday Night Football, CBS and NBC. Twitter will stream the ten TNF games that are on network television. Instead of streaming the three games in the UK, the London contests […]
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Yesterday, NFL public relations maven Brian McCarthy played coy about the awaited 2016 NFL schedule by making an announcement about an upcoming announcement: So the announcement about the announcement laid the groundwork for the National Football League to finally clear programming on its own NFL Network and ESPN to clear time on its own family […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/22/2016
All Times Eastern Studio and Pregame Shows NFL GameDay First — NFL Network, 7 a.m. NFL Matchup — ESPN2, 8:30 a.m. NFL GameDay Morning — NFL Network, 9 a.m. That Other Pregame Show — CBS Sports Network, 10 a.m. NFL Insiders: Sunday Edition — ESPN, noon NFL Championship Chase — CBS, 1 p.m. Postseason NFL […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/16/2016
All Times Eastern Saturday, January 16 Studio and Pregame Shows NFL Matchup — ESPN2, 8:30 a.m. Postseason NFL Countdown — ESPN, 10 a.m. NFL GameDay First — NFL Network, 10 a.m. NFL GameDay Morning — NFL Network, noon NFL Today — CBS, 3:30 p.m. Football Night in America — NBC, 7:30 p.m. NFL GameDay Highlights […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/8/2016
All Times Eastern Saturday, January 9 Studio and Pregame Shows NFL Matchup — ESPN2, 8:30 a.m. NFL Championship Chase: Wildcard Weekend — ESPN2, 9 a.m. NFL GameDay First — NFL Network, 10 a.m. Postseason NFL Countdown — ESPN, noon NFLGameDay Morning — NFL Network, noon Postseason NFL Coundown — ABC/ESPN, 3 p.m. The NFL Today […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/4/2016
The NFL waited until the last possible moment to release the times for the Wild Card and Divisional Playoff Weekends. For the Wild Card Weekend, the NFL threw convention out the window by having an AFC doubleheader on Saturday, January 9 with Kansas City at Houston and Pittsburgh at Cincnnati while Sunday, January 10 will […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/2/2016
All Times Eastern NFL Viewing Maps (the506.com) DirecTV NFL Sunday Ticket channel assignments Studio and Pregame Shows NFL Matchup — ESPN, 6:30 a.m. NFL GameDay First — NFL Network, 7 a.m. That Other Pregame Show — CBS Sports Network, 9 a.m. NFL GameDay Morning — NFL Network, 9 a.m. NFL Insiders: Sunday Morning — ESPN, […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/1/2016
2015 was not your ordinary sports media year. We did have some upheaval in sports properties, record viewership for a new event, record viewership once again for the Super Bowl and some upheaval at ESPN. Overall, it made for an interesting year in covering the sports media beat in 2015. As is our tradition at […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/27/2015
All Times Eastern Sunday, December 27 NFL Viewing Maps (the506.com) DirecTV NFL Sunday Ticket Channel Assignments Studio and Pregame Shows NFL Matchup — ESPN, 5:30 a.m. NFL GameDay First — NFL Network, 7 a.m. That Other Pregame Show — CBS Sports Network, 9 a.m. NFL GameDay Morning — NFL Network, 9 a.m. NFL Insiders: Sunday […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/19/2015
All Times Eastern Saturday, December 19 Studio and Pregame Shows TNF GameDay live from Los Angeles, CA and Arlington, TX — NFL Network, 6 p.m. Thursday Night Kickoff live from Arlington, TX and Los Angeles, CA — NFL Network, 7:30 p.m. TNF Postgame live from Los Angeles, CA and Arlington, TX — NFL Network, 11:30 […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/9/2015
All Times Eastern Thursday, December 10 Studio and Pregame Shows NFL HQ — NFL Network, 8 a.m. Around the NFL — NFL Network, 2 p.m. NFL Insiders — ESPN, 2:30 p.m. NFL Live — ESPN, 3:30 p.m. NFL Fantasy Live — NFL Network, 5 p.m. TNF GameDay live from Los Angeles, CA and Glendale, AZ […]
