0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/10/2015
Editor’s Note: A version of this article originally appeared on Awful Announcing. To football fans in their 70’s and 80’s, Frank Gifford was known as a very good football player who first was in college at USC, then was both on offense and defense with the New York Football Giants. For sports fans ranging in […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/29/2015
This piece of news broke tonight. ESPN’s Beth Mowins will become the second woman to call NFL play-by-play next month. Steve Corkran of RaiderBeat.com tweeted the news out: From the official press release from the Raiders, Mowins will call three preseason games with former Raiders wide receiver Tim Brown: Veteran announcer Beth Mowins will handle […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/15/2015
To the notebook now. Lots of things to get to. NEWS The Women’s World Cup is still scoring for Fox. After the U.S. Women’s team’s debut last week vs. Australia which drew 3.331 million viewers on Fox Sports 1, Friday’s game against Sweden and the US’ former coach Pia Sundhage averaged 4.5 million viewers. That […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/11/2015
Let’s do another notebook for you on this Thursday. NEWS The NBA Finals are breaking records. Through three games, the series between the Cleveland Cavs and Golden State Warriors is averaging almost 18.5 million viewers and a 10.8 rating which is slaughtering all programming on broadcast and cable. Game 3 drew an 11.1 rating on […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/10/2015
Oh, bloody hell, it’s been a while since I’ve done a sports media notebook. We have quite a few things to provide so in lieu of me explaining why you haven’t seen one in months, let’s just get to the news, linkage and other stuff. NEWS A couple of things to lead with this morning. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/3/2015
Earlier this year, the NFL announced that one regular season game, the Buffalo Bills-Jacksonville Jaguars contest to be played in London, will be streamed worldwide on a platform available to all. After initial reports that there would be a charge to watch the game, it will be made available gratis to anyone who has an internet […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/21/2015
For the second straight season, CBS and NFL Network will team up for Thursday Night Football. CBS will produce all of the games and air the first seven games of the schedule from Weeks 2 through 8 and then return for Week 13. NFL Network will pick up from Weeks 9 through 11, take two […]
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Continuing the posting of the NFL schedules for 2015, we have ESPN’s Monday Night Football slate for the season. It kicks off with a Week 1 doubleheader and for the first time, it’ll involve four NFC teams. It seems appropriate that if Tim Tebow makes the Philadelphia Eagles, ESPN will have his first NFL game […]
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NBC returns with a 19-game regular season schedule which includes 17 Sunday games and two on Thursday, the traditional season opener at the defending Super Bowl champions and the Thanksgiving Night game. This upcoming season, NBC will be in Foxboro, MA at Gillette Stadium as the New England Patriots unveil their Super Bowl XLIX banner […]
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O.k. to Fox and a 101 regular season schedule that will be NFC-heavy. Fox begins with a five-game Week 1 regional schedule which will feature Green Bay at Chicago and Seattle at St. Louis early, then New Orleans at Arizona and Detroit at San Diego late. Fox will get its first opportunity to air Tim […]
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CBS Sports has announced a 104-game NFL Sunday afternoon regular season schedule. It includes the NFL on CBS’ first Week 1 doubleheader since 2000. From 2001-14, CBS had to cede the Week 1 late game to Fox due to its coverage of the U.S. Open. Now with the tennis over at ESPN, CBS no longer […]
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So the NFL schedule has been announced. It’s a 256-game schedule spread over 17 weeks. A few new things from last year. CBS gets the Week 1 doubleheader for the first time since 2000. From 2001 until last year, CBS had conceded the Week 1 late game to Fox due to its coverage of the […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/23/2015
Some big news out of the NFL Owners’ Meeting in Phoenix today. First, we find out from Wall Street Journal NFL reporter Kevin Clark that the league will stream the Buffalo Bills-Jacksonville Jaguars game in London on Sunday, October 25 online. It will either stream on Google/YouTube, Facebook, Apple or some other platform. The game […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/3/2015
Back to do a sports media notebook for you. Let’s get to it. NEWS NASCAR beat reporter Jim Utter of the Charlotte Observer notes that Sunday’s Sprint Cup race in Atlanta did well for Fox and was up from last year’s second race which was held in Phoenix. That along with increased viewership for the […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/18/2015
Time for another edition of the notebook. Let’s do this. NEWS NBC Sports has announced it will pick up radio coverage of horse racing’s Triple Crown. Over the past few years, radio coverage of the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes has been piecemeal with various syndicators producing the races. Now, NBC which has […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/17/2015
It’s been way too long since you’ve had a sports media notebook. My apologies for not providing you what I promised before the New Year. I’ll try to do better. I’ll do a full notebook for you here. Let’s start it with some news. NEWS Tom Jones at the Tampa Bay Times was first to […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/9/2015
It all began with the NFL Championship in 1962 when Ed Sabol bought the rights to film the game for Blair Motion Pictures. Two years later, the NFL purchased Blair Motion Pictures and it became NFL Films with the task to preserve all games on film and it has done that diligently ever since. Sabol […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/3/2015
Time for a sports media notebook. Plenty of stuff out there and I need to clear my browser tabs of all the links I have for you. First some news. NEWS As you’re aware by now, Super Bowl XLIX was declared the most-watched television program in U.S. history with an average of 114.4 million viewers. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/2/2015
Well, it’s official now. Super Bowl XLIX on NBC is the most-watched television program in U.S. history with 114.4 million viewers breaking the previous record of 112.3 set last year by Super Bowl XLVIII on Fox. The viewership peaked at over 120 million in the last ten minutes of the game. Thanks to a close […]
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In NBC’s third Super Bowl since returning to the NFL in 2006, the Peacock had the opportunity to showcase its production and broadcasting booth, both of which are the among the best in the business. Al Michaels and Cris Collinsworth were both on top of trends and first-guessed on plays. And during the big play […]
