0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/8/2013
Our first set of quotage is in for Week 1 of the 2013 NFL season. It comes from CBS Sports which now has two, count ’em, two pregame shows. So you have the notes and quotes from “That Other Pregame Show” that debuted today and The NFL Today which has been around since the beginning […]
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Time for Week 2 of our wildly successful NFL on Fox Announcing Assignments Fantasy Game. Your response has been tremendous and we look forward to doing this for all 17 weeks of the regular season. For the winner at the end of the season, we will definitely have some swag. I have to finalize what […]
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You’re back! Yes, I’m back. And the primers are back too? Anything new on NFL TV this season? Yes. Where do you want to begin? How about pregames. No changes right? Au contraire! Many changes. First, there are two more Sunday pregame shows on your television this season. First, CBS Sports Network launches “That Other […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/7/2013
Sunday, September 8 1 p.m. Compass Media Networks Oakland at Indianapolis — Greg Papa/Tom Flores/Jim Plunkett//George Atkinson//JT the Brick Seattle at Carolina — Chris Carrino/Brian Baldinger ESPN Radio Tennessee at Pittsburgh — Sean McDonough/Mike Tomczak//Ian Fitzsimmons Sports USA Radio Network Cincinnati at Chicago — Larry Kahn/Ross Tucker//Troy West Westwood One Sports Atlanta at New Orleans […]
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Ok, let’s do another Westwood One Sports press release. This is regarding its announcing teams for the NFL season. Westwood One, formerly Dial Global Sports, has the contract for all NFL primetime games, Sunday, Monday and Thursday Night Football. In addition, it will air all Thanksgiving Day games and all of the NFL’s postseason games […]
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We have a 2,645-word press release from ESPN regarding its NFL coverage for the 2013 season. It not only discusses what you’ll see this season on Monday Night Football, but also its studio shows and the new analysts who have signed with the network bringing its army of NFL on-air staffers to somewhere in the […]
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Let’s continue with the Sunday NFL pregame previews. On Sunday, NFL Network begins everything with the earliest live pregame show at 7 a.m. ET with NFL GameDay First with host Melissa Stark and co-host/analyst Sterling Sharpe. They’ll be followed by NFL GameDay Morning as host Rich Eisen hands off to a cast of a thousand […]
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Ok, we move to the Fox Sports and its previews for the Opening Sunday of the season. Fox has the doubleheader this week and it will carry a full seven games. Fox NFL Sunday airs a special 90-minute edition live from Times Square in New York so it’s a home game for Michael Strahan who […]
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Let’s do our previews from the NFL TV partners for the upcoming week in The League Where They Play for Pay. We’ll begin with the NFL on CBS which has regional action this Sunday. All of its six games on Sunday will be aired in the early 1 p.m. ET window. We have what lead […]
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We have the final numbers from the Thursday night NFL season opener that saw Denver laying a 40 burger on the defending Super Bowl Champions Baltimore Ravens. NBC saw a 5% increase in viewership for Thursday’s season as compared to last year which was played on a Wednesday due to a conflict with the Democratic […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/6/2013
We have the overnight ratings for the 2013 NFL Kickoff Game on NBC. For the fourth straight year, it topped the 16 plateau with a 16.2 overnight number on Thursday. The share for the game was a 29. Due to a weather delay at the outset, the game’s number was helped as the game was […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/5/2013
Our first set of NFL pregame quotage comes from NBC for tonight’s Kickoff Game. You had Bob Costas, Dan Patrick, Tony Dungy, Scott Pioli, Peter King, Mike Florio and Cris Collinsworth on-hand. Take a look at some of the notes and quotes from tonight. NOTES & QUOTES FROM NFL KICKOFF 2013 “You can’t replace 17 […]
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Sunday, September 8 NFL Viewing Maps (the506.com) Pregame and Studio Shows NFL Matchup — ESPN, 6:30 a.m. NFL GameDay First — NFL Network 7 a.m. That Other Pregame Show (series premiere) — CBS Sports Network, 9 a.m. NFL GameDay Morning — NFL Network, 9 a.m. Fox NFL Kickoff — Fox Sports 1, 10:30 a.m. (this […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/2/2013
Lots of things happening in sports media this week. The NFL returns in the next seven days. College Football goes into its second week. Baseball heads into its final month of the regular season. Soccer goes into World Cup qualifying. The PGA Tour takes the week off and we bid adieu to Fox Soccer. TELEVISION […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/1/2013
Sometimes, you never know where a private Twitter conversation will take you. In August, Steve Bennett of the great Sports-Casters podcast and I were tossing around our thoughts on where the NFL on Fox announcing crews would be headed in Week 1. So we kicked it around and then thought that this would be a […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/28/2013
My apologies on not updating the site as usual this week. Suffice to say that I’ve been away since last Saturday and unable to do my usual job. I’ll be back home on Friday and be back in my own bed, but know that I am keeping up to date on the latest sports media […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/25/2013
We’ve survived the first full week of Fox Sports One and the premiere of new shows. We have another premiere this week, but this one on ESPN2. In addition, we get the first full week of college football as the new season begins in earnest on Thursday. Not only that, the U.S. Open gets underway […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/22/2013
This breaking late this afternoon. ESPN which had been touting its collaboration with PBS’ Frontline on an upcoming series of investigations into NFL concussions, has announced that it’s pulling out of the project effective immediately. ESPN investigative reporters Mark Fainaru-Wada and Steve Fainaru had been part of the project that had been ongoing for 15 […]
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Let’s do some linkage today. Sports Illustrated’s Richard Deitsch talks with ESPN’s Chris Fowler and looks at the first days of Fox Sports 1. Richard talks with new Fox Football Daily analyst Randy Moss. Paul Sanford at Sports Business Daily compares and contrasts Wednesday night’s edition of ESPN’s SportsCenter to Fox Sports 1’s Fox Sports […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/20/2013
Ok, our final NFL on CBS post today. It’s been a rather CBS-centric day. This weekend, the NFL on CBS gets back into action for its 54th year with two games in as many nights. Ian Eagle and Phil Simms along with Tracy “The Wolf” Wolfson will be in Green Bay for the Seattle Seahawks-Packers […]
