0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/7/2013
Let’s do some Sunday NFL pregame previews for Week 14. We’ll begin with ESPN as it will be busy with Sunday NFL Countdown’s features and the coverage leading up to Monday Night Football which will be at Soldier Field for an old school NFC battle between the Dallas Cowboys and the Chicago Bears. Mike Tirico, […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/6/2013
This comes from the National Football League. During Thanksgiving Weekend, also known as Week 13 in the National Football League, the games on Thanksgiving Day and on the Sunday following the big holiday averaged big viewerships. I mean, we’re talking massive. And this is not in primetime either, this is in the late afternoon timeslots. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/5/2013
The NFL gave us a game at 11:35 p.m. ET on a Sunday earlier this season. Next year, it will attempt a game at 9:30 a.m. ET. That game will be played in London. In what could be a harbinger of things to come, the NFL has scheduled the Detroit-Atlanta game on October 26, 2014 […]
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All Times Eastern Blackout: San Diego Thursday, December 5 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. NFL Fantasy Live — NFL Network, 5 p.m. NFL Total Access: Thursday Night Football Preview — NFL Network, 6 p.m. NFL […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/4/2013
This from our friends at Fox Sports. All in-game ads for Super Bowl XLVIII at New Meadowlands Stadium in New Jersey has been sold out. That means the game is sold out with just under two months until the game is played on Sunday, February 2, 2014. Fox says some advertising inventory for the online […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/2/2013
The final Week 15 schedule is out and the National Broadcasting Company and the National Football League have jointly announced that there will be no primetime flex in Week 15. It means the originally scheduled game, Cincinnati at Pittsburgh will remain on Sunday Night Football and the game NBC was hoping for, Green Bay at […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/1/2013
We complete our Sunday NFL pregame quotage with NBC’s Football Night in America which had a plethora of subjects to discuss in its program. Check it all out. NOTES & QUOTES FROM “FOOTBALL NIGHT IN AMERICA” — WEEK 13 “This team reminds me so much of our 2006 Super Bowl team in Indy.” – Dungy […]
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We conclude the early Sunday NFL quotage with ESPN’s Sunday NFL Countdown. Some strange thoughts here. Sunday NFL Countdown Notes and Quotes: Week 13 Host Chris Berman and analysts Cris Carter, Mike Ditka, Tom Jackson, Keyshawn Johnson and Ron Jaworski previewed today’s NFL games on ESPN’s Sunday NFL Countdown. Highlights: On news reports about quarterback Robert […]
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Before tonight’s New York Giants-DC NFL Team, NBC’s Football Night in America will review the day’s highlights and scores plus preview the Sunday Night Football game. Football Night in America host Bob Costas will interview Giants two-time Super Bowl winning coach Tom Coughlin about this season and also provide an essay about Washington quarterback Robert […]
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Now we move to the NFL on Fox and the quotage from the Fox NFL Sunday pregame show. FOX NFL SUNDAY NOTES – 12/1/13 Glazer Reports On Possible Punishment For Tomlin; Incognito-Martin Update; John Fox Return Bradshaw on the Lions: They Need To Protect The Ball In Order To be A Complete Football Team Long […]
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Now to the CBS tandem of pregame shows, That Other Pregame Show on cable and the NFL Today on broadcast. Lots of discussions on the shows today. Check out the quotage we have for you on this Sunday. NEWS, NOTES & QUOTES FROM CBS SPORTS’ “THE NFL TODAY” WITH JAMES BROWN, DAN MARINO, SHANNON SHARPE, […]
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Let’s do some Sunday NFL pregame quotage for Week 13. We go to NFL Network and its brother-sister act of NFL GameDay First and NFL GameDay Morning. Here’s today’s notage and quotage from the Melissa Stark and Rich Eisen-fronted programs. News & Sound Bites From Week 13 Editions of NFL Network’s NFL GAMEDAY FIRST & […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/30/2013
On Sunday, NBC airs the less-than-attractive New York Football Giants at DC NFL Matchup. Matt Yoder at Awful Announcing explains why the game wasn’t flexed out despite the records of both teams. Another factor was NBC’s Thanksgiving Night game in Baltimore. The Sunday Night Football production truck could easily drive the 32½ miles from Baltimore […]
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Due to my schedules, I haven’t been able to post the NFL Sunday pregame previews. With some time today, I’ll post them. Here’s the preview for NFL Network’s two pregame shows tomorrow. WEEK 13 EDITIONS OF NFL NETWORK’S ‘NFL GAMEDAY FIRST’ & ‘NFL GAMEDAY MORNING’ Former Pro Bowl WR Drew Pearson Joins ‘NFL GameDay First’ […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/28/2013
We have a short blurb from CBS on a feature that ran on The NFL Today on Thanksgiving Day. NEWS, NOTES & QUOTES FROM CBS SPORTS’ “THE NFL TODAY” WITH JAMES BROWN, DAN MARINO, SHANNON SHARPE, BILL COWHER AND BOOMER ESIASON FOR WEEK 13 ON THANKSGIVING DAY, NOVEMBER 28 THE NFL TODAY featured an emotional […]
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We actually have NFL pregame quotage for Thanksgiving. This is the first time that I can recall getting press release quotage. Here is what we have from NFL Network today. News & Sound Bites From Special Thanksgiving Edition of NFL Network’s NFL GAMEDAY MORNING A special Thanksgiving edition of NFL Network’s NFL GameDay Morning aired […]
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All Times Eastern Blackout: San Diego Thursday, November 28 Studio and Pregame Shows NFL GameDay Morning — NFL Network, 10 a.m. Fox NFL Sunday Thanksgiving Day Special — Fox, 11:30 a.m. Fox NFL Postgame — Fox, 3:30 p.m. NFL GameDay Scoreboard — NFL Network, 3:30 p.m. The NFL Today — CBS, 4 p.m. Football Night […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/27/2013
Two, count ’em, two NFL games saw audiences register over 25 million viewers in Week 12. That means a lot of people were interested in watching football on Sunday. On Fox, Dallas-New York Giants averaged just under 28 million viewers making it the most-watched program of the week ending on November 24. Then in primetime, […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/26/2013
The Sunday Night Football game between the Denver Broncos and New England Patriots that spilled to half past midnight on the East Coast garnered some very good numbers for NBC. The Peacock saw an impressive number of 15.6/25 which tops all primetime programming for the week. In addition, the game which pitted quarterbacks Peyton Manning […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/25/2013
This from NBC, the Sunday Night Football turnover-filled overtime game between the Denver Broncos and New England Patriots that spilled way past midnight on the East Coast scored very well. It garnered a 17.0 overnight rating with a 28 share, the fifth-highest number for Sunday Night Football since NBC took over the series in 2006. […]
