0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/19/2014
With the Olympics heading into the home stretch, I speak with writers who have extensively covered the Olympics either through NBC’s eyes or through their own eyes. New York Times sports media writer Richard Sandomir is our first guest. We discuss the following topics: NBC’s handling of the XXII Olympic Winter Games The Christin Cooper […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/3/2014
This wraps up the coverage of Super Bowl XLVIII with a podcast that reviews the game itself, looks at the ratings, how the ads did for their marketers and a review of the ads themselves. The guests are one veteran of the old Sports Media Weekly podcast and two newcomers. Our first guest is John […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/30/2014
Yesterday in Part 1 of this week’s Fang’s Bites podcast, I gave you the national perspective from those at Fox Sports who will be covering Super Bowl XLVIII. Today, I give you the local angle from Denver and New York. The guests today are
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/29/2014
On Tuesday, your humble blogger went to New York to cover the Fox Sports Media Day at the NFL Media headquarters inside the Sheraton Times Square Hotel. There, I was able to interview four of Fox Sports’ personnel about their preparation and anticipation for the Big Game at the New Meadowlands in New Jersey. In […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/8/2014
The first Fang’s Bites podcast of 2014 is up. We have two guests and one is a familiar one if you were a regular listener of the Sports Media Weekly podcast and the other is a totally new one. Ed Sherman of The Sherman Report joins me to discuss what we’ll see on sports television […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/31/2013
I stole that from the final episode of M*A*S*H, but it’s a good title for the final podcast of Sports Media Weekly. As Keith Thibault puts the wraps on seven years at Sports Media Journal, it’s also the final edition of the Sports Media Weekly podcast which I have co-hosted with him since 2010. We […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/20/2013
Time for the second edition of the Fang’s Bites podcast. No breaking news this time, but I wanted to get two former local TV sports anchors on to talk about their experiences in covering sports in their local markets of Dallas and Charlotte in the day and age of social media. The first guest is […]
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This is the next-to-last edition of the Sports Media Weekly podcast as Keith Thibault of Sports Media Journal announced earlier this week that he is shutting down his site as of January 1. A sad day for those of us who have gotten to know Keith. I understand why he’s doing it as Keith wants […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/12/2013
Just a couple of editions of the Sports Media Weekly podcast before the end of the year. This week’s podcast is an action-packed one. Keith Thibault of Sports Media Journal and I look at the Week in Sports Media and have a guest as well. We bring in Joe Flint, media and entertainment reporter from […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/27/2013
Welcome to the premiere episode of the Fang’s Bites podcast. This is not to replace what I do with Keith Thibault on the Sports Media Weekly podcast, this podcast will post when there is breaking sports media news. The new Rogers-NHL media rights deal certainly classifies as breaking news. In the initial episode, I talk […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/14/2013
Back with another edition of the Sports Media Weekly Podcast and it’s quite an entertaining one. It’s almost an hour, but stay with it. It’s one of the funniest editions we’ve had. Keith Thibault of Sports Media Journal and I have our usual two segments. Our “Third Man In” was Chad Finn, media writer and […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/12/2013
Another edition of the Sports Media Weekly podcast. I’ve been lax in posting these. My apologies. In this particular episode, we have another two guests. For the “Third Man In,” we go to the always hustling Steve Lepore who just joined Awful Announcing and just this week, said he will do some work for USA […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/2/2013
This week’s Sports Media Weekly podcast will be with Don Orsillo, the Boston Red Sox play-by-play man for NESN and who has been calling the MLB Postseason for TBS since 2007. Orsillo will call the Detroit-Oakland American League Division Series for TBS starting on Friday. As he was packing for Oakland, Don took a few […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/19/2013
Back for another edition of the Sports Media Weekly podcast. It’s definitely a newsworthy edition. Keith Thibault of Sports Media Journal and I are back to talk about the current events in sports media and a guest in the world of TV and radio. As usual, we have a “Third Man In” and this week, […]
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Coming later tonight, the Sports Media Weekly podcast will be out with guests Pete Dougherty of the Albany Times Union and Michelle Beadle of NBC. During the interview with Michelle, I had the opportunity to discuss several topics including her NBCSN show, The Crossover with Michelle Beadle, hosting the Olympics and what role she would […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/14/2013
This week’s version of the Sports Media Weekly podcast returns with another good edition. Keith Thibault of Sports Media Journal and I are back with our usual segments. Our “Third Man In” is Mike McCarthy, sports business reporter for Advertising Age. Here’s what we discussed this week. The NFL’s viewership numbers for Week 1. A […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/5/2013
Back to podcast after a week’s absence while I was away. Actually, I’m partly back. I was missing from the “Third Man In” segment due to some scheduling conflicts so Keith Thibault of Sports Media Journal and Matt Yoder of Awful Announcing handle the News of the Week segment. Among the topics discussed: The high […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/15/2013
One of our longer editions of the Sports Media Weekly podcast, but we have a lot of things to talk about. Hopefully, you’ll enjoy this episode. Keith Thibault of Sports Media Journal and I get together with our Third Man In, Ken Schott from the Schenectady Gazette to discuss the following in the News of […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/1/2013
It’s another edition of the Sports Media Weekly podcast. Keith Thibault of Sports Media Journal and I have a good episode on our hands here. Our “Third Man In” for the News of the Week segment is Chad Finn of the Boston Globe. During this segment, we talked about the following topics: NBC Sports and […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/25/2013
The Sports Media Weekly podcast is back with another edition. Not only did Keith Thibault of Sports Media Journal and I have a usual “Third Man In” for our News of the Week segment, we had a “Fourth Man In.” John Ourand of Sports Business Journal was our originally “Third Man In” and then, we […]
