0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/7/2013
After Faith Hill announced that she would no longer sing “(I’ve Been) Waiting All Day for Sunday Night,” NBC Sports went searching for a replacement. Sunday Night Football producer Fred Gaudelli says he only had one person in mind and that was Carrie Underwood. And it has come to fruition. NBC has formally announced that […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/6/2013
Paul M. Banks of Chicago Sports Media Watch and the Sports Bank appears to have broken the story of Carrie Underwood becoming the new singing voice of Sunday Night Football. Earlier this year, Faith Hill announced that the 2012-13 season would be her last to sing the Sunday Night Football theme of “I’ve Been Waiting […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/30/2013
Monday was quite the day in the sports world. As people were getting up and preparing to go to work on the East Coast, little would they know how things were going to develop. Let’s review what happened as events occurred. All times listed below are Eastern. 7:53 a.m. —
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/29/2013
This is the first of three ESPN-centric posts. This one deals with the NFL Draft which concluded on Saturday. ESPN says it averaged a 2.1 rating for the three days of coverage which is up 3% from last year. In addition, ESPN saw an average viewership of 3.035 million viewers for that period and that […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/28/2013
I need to be posting more. I’ve been busy during the day and find myself trying to catch up on Viewing Picks at night and it’s been a losing proposition. I’ll do my best to update more often here in the coming weeks. Let’s do some thoughts while I can. As usual, they come in […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/24/2013
NFL Network will be on the case live from Radio City Music Hall in New York for the 2013 Draft. NFL Network’s desk will be filled with Rich Eisen manning the host chair with Mike Mayock as the main draft analyst. They’ll be joined by Charles Davis, Michael Irvin, Steve Mariucci, Deion Sanders and former […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/23/2013
I know. I haven’t done links in a very long time. Let me provide some for you. I won’t make promises about providing them regularly as every time I do, something happens to make me break that promise. But I hope to bring linkage to you more often. I’ll begin with John Ourand of Sports […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/22/2013
The NFL Draft is set to begin this week. The three day affair starts Thursday in primetime at 8 p.m. ET and will continue through Saturday afternoon. ESPN will be there will with a cast of thousands and a new anti-tweeting policy that won’t “spoil” the picks before Commissioner Roger Goodell announces them. For the […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/19/2013
Lots of stuff to post and we continue the NFL schedule posts with what you’ll see on CBS this season. As the home of the American Football Conference, the Tiffany Network will air 103 regular games over 17 weeks, then air four postseason games including the AFC Championship Game on January 19, 2014. CBS will […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/18/2013
We have the ESPN Monday Night Football schedule for the 2013 season. It begins on Monday, September 9 with its annual doubleheader, Philadelphia at Washington and Houston at San Diego. Highlights of ESPN’s 17 game schedule include Pittsburgh at Cincinnati in Week 2, Indianapolis at San Diego in Week 6, Minnesota at the New York […]
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Let’s start posting the NFL schedules. Lots of of things to go over. NBC will open the season as usual on Thursday night, September 5 with the defending Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ravens traveling to Denver to take on the Broncos. Then in its season premiere, NBC will air the New York York Football Giants […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/17/2013
With the sad news of the passing of former NFL player and broadcaster Pat Summerall, I’ll provide you with a timeline of his broadcasting career. Summerall was one of the best NFL play-by-play announcers of all time. One of the few who did both play-by-play and analysis during his career, he also branched out to […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/4/2013
The NFL on Fox has three games in the 2013 Postseason, two of which will be on the same weekend, Friday, August 16 and Sunday, August 18. Fox Sports points out this wraps around the Fox Sports 1 launch on Saturday, August 17. Both those games will be primetime. Fox’s third game will be on […]
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ESPN gets the most NFL preseason games between it, CBS, Fox and NBC. ESPN will carry four games and oddly enough, most of them are Thursday nights instead of the usual Monday. As usual, the Monday Night Football crew of Mike Tirico, Jon Gruden and Lisa Salters will be at all of the games. Here’s […]
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CBS Sports will carry two NFL preseason games on consecutive nights on Friday, August 23 and Saturday, August 24. Both games will be at two iconic NFL cities, Green Bay and Denver. Announcers for each game will be announced at a later date. Here’s the CBS announcement about its schedule. CBS SPORTS ANNOUNCES 2013 NFL […]
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The National Football League has released the schedule for the 2013 Preseason. ESPN will have four games, while Fox has three and CBS and NBC will have two each. NFL Network will carry everything else including a gaggle of games live. The NFL Preseason kicks off on August 4 with the AFC-NFC Hall of Fame […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/21/2013
NFL Media comprising of NFL Network, NFL Films and NFL.com received what it says was 24 Sports Emmy nominations. While the official National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences lists 17, NFL Media is also counting collaborations with other networks like HBO, CBS/Showtime and the like. In the major categories, Rich Eisen, Inside the NFL, […]
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NBC received a total of 58 nominations for the 34th annual Sports Emmy Awards. The NBC Sports Group consisting of NBC, NBC Sports Network, Golf Channel, Bravo, CNBC, MSNBC and NBCOlympics.com received the most nominations of any sports media group over ESPN, Fox Sports Media Group, CBS and Turner Sports. Of course, NBC is coming […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/13/2013
This was accompanied by an appearance on ESPN SportsCenter this morning. A move that had been speculated since the end of last season has been made official. Former Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis will join ESPN’s programs including Sunday NFL Countdown and every week on Monday Night Countdown where he’ll travel to each site to […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/9/2013
I haven’t done a post like this in a very long time. Viewers take watching sports for granted. We watch the games in high definition or some cases, 3-D, get instant replays, we can rewind plays instantly on our DVR’s, know how far a team has to go in order to get a first down, […]
