0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/9/2012
Ok, I’m steaming after seeing Bob Costas’ commentary on the late Art Modell. As a Browns fan, I’m still angry about the move from Cleveland. I know Baltimore fans couldn’t be happier about him. Costas lecturing Browns fan about eventually forgiving Modell is just the thing we want to hear. I’m posting the text without […]
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Let’s conclude the Sunday NFL pregame quotage with Football Night in America. We’ll have one more piece of quotage tonight and that will be Bob Costas’ halftime commentary on the legacy of former Cleveland Browns and Baltimore Ravens owner Art Modell. I may be angry when I post it, just to warn you ahead of […]
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For tonight, Football Night in America will air interviews with the quarterbacks in the Sunday Night Football game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Denver Broncos. Bob Costas talks with Ben Roethlisburger. Tony Dungy interviews his old Colts QB Peyton Manning. We have partial transcripts below. “FOOTBALL NIGHT IN AMERICA” PREVIEW – WEEK 1 TONY […]
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And let’s finish out the early Sunday NFL pregame quotage. This comes from ESPN and Sunday NFL Countdown, the second longest NFL pregame show after NFL GameDay Morning. Check it out. ESPN’s Sunday NFL Countdown Notes and Quotes: Week One Sunday NFL Countdown (10 a.m.-1 p.m. ET, ESPN) returns for the season with ESPN’s Chris […]
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Now let’s move to CBS and it’s notes and quotes from today’s season premiere. NEWS, NOTES & QUOTES FROM CBS SPORTS’ “THE NFL TODAY” WITH JAMES BROWN, DAN MARINO, SHANNON SHARPE, BILL COWHER AND BOOMER ESIASON FOR WEEK 1 ON SEPTEMBER 9 ?THE NFL TODAY’S BOOMER ESIASON SAT DOWN WITH N.Y. JETS QUARTERBACK TANDEM MARK […]
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Let’s do the quotage from Fox NFL Sunday. I’ll also post some videos as well. FOX NFL SUNDAY NOTES – 9/9/12 Bradshaw to NFL: Show Me the Evidence Against the Saints Glazer Reports NFL Showing No Signs of Ending Lockout Against Referees, Even After NFLPA Request for Officials to Return Siting Player Safety Johnson: Improved […]
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Let’s do your Sunday NFL pregame show quotage, the first of a set of quotes from the league’s TV partners that I’ll be posting every week. As usual, NFL Network’s quotage from NFL GameDay Morning with Rich Eisen, Steve Mariucci, Michael Irvin, Warren Sapp, Kurt Warner and Marshall Faulk plus several others is quite extensive. […]
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Let’s do some Sunday linkage on this first NFL regular season Sunday of 2012. We’ll begin with Pat Eaton-Robb of the Associated Press with an interesting story on how Connecticut is fast becoming home of major sports media companies. Candace Jackson of the Wall Street talks about her visit to Rich Eisen and his wife, […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/8/2012
I hope to be doing this for you before each week of the NFL regular season and into the postseason. I’ll give you a few facts and pick a couple of games from each network to watch. So let’s give you some quick viewing facts for the very first week of the 2012 NFL season […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/7/2012
All Times Eastern Week 1 Coverage Maps Courtesy of the506.com Pregame & Studio Shows First on the Field (series premiere) — NFL Network, 7 a.m. NFL Matchup — ESPN2, 8:30 a.m. NFL GameDay Morning — NFL Network, 9 a.m. Fantasy Football Now — ESPN2, 11 a.m. The NFL Today — CBS, noon Fox NFL Sunday […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/6/2012
Let’s take a look at what CBS is saying about Week 1 in the NFL. We have highlights of a CBS Sports conference call with Chairman Sean McManus along with the network’s top announcing team of Jim Nantz and Phil Simms plus NFL Today analysts Dan Marino and Shannon Sharpe discussing what they think is […]
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Just as NFL Network announced its extensive programming for the NFL season, ESPN has done the same today. There are a bunch of NFL shows including a new series, Mike and Mike’s Best of the NFL which has ESPN Radio’s Mike Greenberg and Mike Golic reviewing the highlights of the week. NFL 32 returns with […]
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Despite competition from the Democratic National Convention on two broadcast networks and multiple channels on cable, NBC still received very good ratings and viewership for last night’s NFL Kickoff Game which pitted the defending Super Bowl champs the New York Giants against the Dallas Cowboys. NBC received a 14.7 final rating with a 23 share. […]
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This in from ESPN. To celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Rolling Stones (has it been that long?), Monday Night Football will use 16 classic songs from the band throughout the season. This is to mark the release of the Stones’ release of its greatest hits collection called “GRRR!” that will be out in November. […]
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Let’s provide the announcing assignments, regional splits plus a preview of what will be seen on the premiere of Fox NFL Sunday at noon ET on September 9. There are a couple of newbies on Fox’s pregame show this Sunday, Rob Riggle replaces Frank Caliendo as the comic relief and prognosticator and Erin Andrews makes […]
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The overnight ratings are in for the NFL Season Opener which moved to Wednesday this year to avoid conflicting with the nominating speech for President Obama at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, NC. And last night with heavy viewership focusing on former President Bill Clinton’s speech in the 10 p.m. ET hour, the rating […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/5/2012
Ah yes. It’s football season and we know it’s here when we get pregame show quotage. In this case, it’s NBC’s transcripts from tonight’s NFL Kickoff 2012 show that was simulcast on the Peacock and NFL Network. I like how we get quotage from NBC just an hour after the show ended. Very nice job, […]
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Can you believe it’s Wednesday already? Holiday on Monday makes the work week go faster. To the linkage which has been too scarce on the site. Michael Hiestand of USA Today looks at some of the changes on the NFL’s TV partners this season. John Ourand of Sports Business Journal talks about the fierce bidding […]
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NBC can certainly crow about its ratings over the Olympics, but they happened during the dead month of August when network fare is as original as a Jason Blair article. It took me ten minutes to think of that. Anyway, the top-rated primetime series of 2011-12, Sunday Night Football returns to NBC this week and […]
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I haven’t posted an NFL Network programming press release in a very long time. Since the NFL season begins Wednesday, it’s time to change that. There’s plenty of pregame programming on NFL Network in advance of the Season Opening game between the defending Super Bowl Champions the New York Football Giants and the Dallas Cowboys. […]
