0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/14/2013
The last Thursday Night Football game of the season that resulted in a San Diego Chargers upset of the Denver Broncos in the Mile High City resulted in good numbers for NFL Network. The game saw a 5.6 US household rating for just NFL Network. Numbers from local stations in San Diego and Denver have […]
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Yesterday, I included a bunch of Sunday NFL previews from the league’s TV partners. The only one I missing was NFL Network. We now have that preview. NFL Network has a pair of pregame shows, NFL GameDay First and NFL GameDay Morning. Melissa Stark hosts First. Rich Eisen hosts Morning. Here’s what’s in store for […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/13/2013
This broken by Awful Announcing, the first-year NFL on Fox announcing team of Kevin Burkhardt, John Lynch and Erin Andrews will be calling one Divisional Playoff game next month. This marks the second consecutive season Fox Sports will have assigned a team other than Kenny Albert, Daryl Johnston and Tony Siragusa to the playoffs. Last […]
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This Sunday night, NBC’s football night will involve an AFC North Division battle between the Cincinnati Bengals at the Pittsburgh Steelers. With the Steelers out of contention for a playoff spot, NBC is stuck with a less-than-attractive matchup in primetime. However, the peacock will make due with the hand it has been dealt. Al Michaels, […]
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This Sunday, Fox has the doubleheader which includes the Green Bay Packers at the Dallas Cowboys going to most of the country at 4:25 p.m. The main game early will be Seattle at the New York Giants which gets sent to 32% of the country at 1 p.m. ET. Kevin Burkhardt, John Lynch and Erin […]
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Now we move to CBS’ slate of Sunday NFL pregame shows plus a preview of the games on the Tiffany Network on Sunday. We have quotes from Phil Simms who with Jim Nantz will call the New England at Miami game at 1 p.m. ET and from Dan Dierdorf who will be partnered with Greg […]
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Let’s do our NFL previews for Week 15. We’ll begin with ESPN which has it’s slew of pregame shows starting with NFL Matchup and spanning to Monday Night Countdown. Lots of stuff to review and you can take a look at what you’ll see on ESPN’s NFL pregame shows below. ESPN NFL Programming Update – […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/12/2013
This coming from Ronald Grover and Liana B. Baker of Reuters. DirecTV and the NFL are close to renewing their agreement for the NFL Sunday Ticket package. Earlier this year, DirecTV hinted that it was willing to drop Sunday Ticket if the price was too expensive. In response, the NFL began shopping the out-of-market pay […]
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With the NFL flexing the New England Patriots at Baltimore Ravens game out of primetime and into the national 4:25 p.m. ET window on CBS, it means the Tiffany Network now has eight games to air in Week 16. Jim Nantz and Phil Simms will be heading to Baltimore to call Pats-Ravens, a rematch of […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/11/2013
All Times Eastern Thursday, December 11 Studio and Pregame Shows Around the League Live — NFL Network, 2 p.m. NFL Insiders — ESPN, 3 p.m. NFL Live — ESPN, 4 p.m. Football Night in America: Coach’s Clicker — NBCSN, 5 p.m. NFL Fantasy Live — NFL Network, 5 p.m. NFL Total Access Kickoff: Thursday Night […]
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Week 14 of the 2013 NFL season saw the NFL gain the top two programs in broadcast television as as well as the top two programs on cable. It means we watched the NFL in droves. The Seattle Seahawks at San Francisco 49ers on Fox drew the most viewers of the week with 27.6 million […]
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The Monday Night Football game between the Dallas Cowboys and Chicago Bears may have turned out to be a blowout, but it still managed to draw the highest ratings for the season and drew the most households as well. ESPN says the game drew a massive US rating of 10.2 with just under an average […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/10/2013
As Thursday Night Football begins the action for Week 15, NFL Network gets a game involving AFC West Division rivals San Diego and Denver. In addition, NFL Network gets Peyton Manning meaning that its ratings should go up. It also marks the end of the line for NFL Network for this season and perhaps the […]
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The NFL and NBC have announced a flex for Week 16. Patriots-Ravens which was the originally scheduled game for Sunday Night Football on NBC has been jettisoned out. In its place will be the Chicago Bears at Philadelphia Eagles game which was a Fox 1 p.m. ET game. Pats-Ravens goes to CBS and is now […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/9/2013
In the wake of Bell Media losing the NHL to Rogers, the company has signed a huge deal with the National Football League giving CTV and TSN rights to most of the regular season and all of the postseason inventory. Games will be seen on both CTV/CTV Two and TSN/TSN2 on Sunday afternoons. TSN will […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/8/2013
Let’s move to NFL Network’s notes and quotes for Week 14. Thanks to the fine people at the NFL’s Network of Record for sending this to me as they do every week. As usual, we have quotage from NFL GameDay First and NFL GameDay Morning. News & Sound Bites From Week 14 Editions of NFL […]
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We have the Sunday NFL pregame quotage for Week 14. We begin with Fox NFL Sunday which had to do without co-host Terry Bradshaw for the first time since the show premiered in 1994. Bradshaw was stuck in the Dallas Metroplex due to the weather issues there this weekend. It’s believed that this is the […]
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We complete our Sunday NFL previews with the primetime game for Week 14 between the Carolina Panthers and the New Orleans Saints, an NFC South battle that was flexed from a 1 p.m. ET start. Al Michaels, Cris Collinsworth and Michele Tafoya will be in the Superdome for the call of the game. Before the […]
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Let’s now go over what Fox is saying about Week 14. The NFL on Fox has the doubleheader this week and the NFC West battle between the Seattle Seahawks and San Francisco 49ers will the featured game in the 4:25 p.m. ET window. Joe Buck, Troy Aikman and Pam Oliver will be on the case […]
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Now to CBS which will once again use a gimmick to hook viewers. As the Tiffany Network airs the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show on Tuesday, a VS model will make an appearance on The NFL Today to hype the show and to have her make silly game picks. Last year, CBS had Ms. Aldrich on […]
