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NHL 2016 1st Round Playoff Schedule

With the NHL regular season over, it’s now time for the 0ne 0f the best postseasons in sports. In the United States, the networks of NBC Sports Group will be airing games, NBC, NBCSN, CNBC and USA Network will be involved. NHL Network will also air a few contests when necessary. In Canada, CBC, Sportsnet […]

Sports Media Notebook for Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Trying to bring you some fresh content in the mornings while figuring out my schedule. I’ll get this down eventually. Anyway, won’t do linkage today, but I do want to provide you with some info and let’s get to it without further delay. THOUGHTS AND THINGS That’s a bad title, but I can’t think of […]

NHL on NBC Announcing & Network Assignments for 04/20/2015

Three Games Three tonight in the NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs. NBCSN will air one game in its entirety as the New York Rangers at Pittsburgh plays at 7 p.m. ET. The old TSN team of Gord Miller and Pierre McGuire reunite on NBCSN. Then at 9:30 p.m., NBCSN picks up Anaheim-Winnipeg in progress. NHL Network […]

NBC Sports Group Unveils Announcing Assignments for 1st Two Days of 2015 NHL Playoffs

After March Madness, the NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs are the best drama series on television for two months. Starting Wednesday, the tournament to determine the Champions of Professional Hockey will provide lots of drama, controversy and great athletic competition. In addition to the NHL’s flagship cable network, NBCSN which will air three games between Wednesday […]

The 2015 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs 1st Round Schedule

Just what the NHL was thinking in releasing the 2015 Stanley Cup Playoffs 1st round schedule at 1:50 a.m. ET Sunday is beyond me. Why it couldn’t wait until later in the morning or even in the afternoon when it could maximize its exposure shows some strange thinking at the NHL offices. It’s not like […]

Sunday’s Sports Media Notebook — 03/01/2015

It’s been more than ten days since you had a notebook. Things have gone rather haywire and I’ve been quite busy dealing with issues at home, but you don’t have to be bogged down with what I’m going through. You want content so here it is. NEWS With Monday being the NHL Trade Deadline, fans […]

NFL Viewing Picks for Wild Card Weekend

All Times Eastern Saturday, January 3 Studio and Pregame Shows NFL Matchup — ESPN, 6:30 a.m. Postseason NFL Countdown — ESPN, 10 a.m. NFL GameDay First — NFL Network, 10 a.m. NFL GameDay Morning — NFL Network, noon Postseason NFL Countdown — ESPN, 3 p.m. Football Night in America — NBC, 7:30 p.m. NFL GameDay […]

NHL Network to Launch Simulcast of Rogers Sportsnet Programming

If you’re an NHL fan, you may already have noticed that NHL Network has picked up Sportsnet’s Hockey Central’s radio simulcast at noon ET. This will be the first of several programs that NHLN will simulcast from the league’s new Canadian TV partner. Weeknights, NHL Network will air the Hockey Central nightly recap show. On […]

NFL Viewing Picks for Week 1 of the 2014 NFL Season

All Times Eastern Thursday, September 4 Studio & Pregame Shows Around the NFL — NFL Network, 2 p.m. NFL Insiders — ESPN, 3:30 p.m. NFL Live — ESPN, 4 p.m. NFL Fantasy Live — NFL Network, 4 p.m. NFL GameDay: Kickoff 2014 — NFL Network, 5 p.m. NFL Kickoff 2014 — NBC/NFL Network, 7:30 p.m. […]

NHL on NBC Announcing Assignments for 04/22/2014

Four games tonight across the NBC Sports Group and two of them are simulcasts. NHL Network is airing Game 4 of Tampa Bay at Montreal through CBC. NBCSN is taking Game 3 of San Jose-Los Angeles from Comcast SportsNet California. Boston-Detroit on NBCSN and New York Rangers at Philly on CNBC are NBC Sports productions. […]

NHL on NBC Announcing Assignments for 04/21/2014

MONDAY, APRIL 21 (All times ET) Time Coverage Network Commentators 6:30 p.m. NHL Live NBCSN Kathryn Tappen, Mike Milbury, Keith Jones 7 p.m. Game 3 – (1) Pittsburgh at (4) Columbus NBCSN Kenny Albert, Pierre McGuire 7 p.m. Game 3 – (1) Colorado at (4) Minnesota NHL Network (TSN Simulcast) Gord Miller, Ray Ferraro, Farhan […]

NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs on NBC Sports Group — Day 2

Tonight, four games in the NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs, all Games 1 and three of them in the Western Conference. As with last night when NBC relied on a simulcast, it will do so again for one game. Both CNBC and NBCSN will have doubleheaders. CNBC starts it all with the New York Rangers at […]

2014 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs 1st Round Schedule

The regular season is over. The playoffs are here and some of the most compelling action you’ll see will begin Wednesday. All eight of the playoff series are listed below with US and Canadian networks. In the first round, the US local regional sports networks have exclusivity except when games are picked up by NBC. […]

NBC Sports Group Will Be All Over 2014 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs

For the third straight year, every NHL Stanley Cup postseason game will be aired nationally across the platforms of the NBC Sports Group. Utilizing NBC, NBCSN, CNBC and NHL Network as well as streaming on the NBC Sports Live Extra app, fans will be able to watch every single playoff game from the first round […]

NHL Revealed Premieres Tonight on NBCSN; Thursday on CBC

The NHL’s newest reality series, NHL Revealed: A Season Like No Other, will premiere this week on three North American networks and on various platforms including iTunes. The show will look at nine teams as they prepare for various games including the NHL Stadium Series outdoor games, the Heritage Classic, the 2014 Sochi Olympics and […]

The Week Ahead in Sports Media, October 7 — 13, 2013

Back with an overdue Week Ahead post. Lots of things happening in the Week Ahead so let’s not delay any further and get to what’s happening in the Sports Media over the next seven days. TELEVISION PBS Frontline The already controversial PBS Frontline documentary “League of Denial: The NFL’s Concussion Crisis” airs in two parts […]

The Week Ahead in Sports Media, September 23 — 29, 2013

After a week’s absence, it’s time for The Week Ahead to return. With the season turning to fall, baseball points towards the postseason, college football has some decent games in Week 5 after some horrible games this past weekend, the English Premier League speeds on with more good matches and the NFL heads to London. […]

NFL Network Previews Week 1 of the 2013 NFL Season

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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