0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/30/2011
Time for some linkage on this Saturday. Etan Vlessing of the Hollywood Reporter notes that NBC had its best opening round NHL playoff ratings in 7 years. Mike Reynolds from Multichannel News says ESPN’s NFL Draft ratings were down from last year while NFL Network saw a slight increase. Mike notes that Root Sports has […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/15/2011
Southern New England media mogul Keith Thibault and I get together for another edition of our podcast. For our short news segment, Keith and I talk about our favorite baseball announcers both nationally and locally. We also look at the new ESPN Front Row blog which looks at what’s going on at ESPN worldwide. And […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/11/2011
ESPN has announced it received its highest Sunday Night Baseball overnight rating since 2009. Both games involved the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox. While fans across the country may say they’re sick of seeing these two teams play, they obviously generate ratings. Last night, ESPN received a 3.5 overnight rating which is its […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/8/2011
During today’s New York Yankees-Boston Red Sox game came the extremely surprising news that Tampa Bay Rays designated hitter Manny Ramirez was retiring. Then Joel Sherman of the New York Post broke the story that Manny had failed a drug test and would have to sit out a 100 game suspension. Rather than pay the […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/7/2011
Let’s do the linkage on this Thursday morning. Some good stuff is already out. The Financial Times has a look at how European TV money is now either catching up or surpassing US TV dollars for the bidding for certain global sports events. Todd Spangler from Multichannel News reports that ESPN has released a new […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/28/2011
This from NESN, a.k.a. The New England Sports Network, we have their coverage plans for the Boston Red Sox. Overall, NESN will carry 150 regular season games plus plenty of pregame and postgame programming. In addition, there will be weekly programming involved. Don Orsillo and Jerry Remy return to call the games in their 11th […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/12/2011
Let’s provide some linkage for you on this Saturday. Haven’t done links on a Saturday in a while. Marisa Guthrie of the Hollywood Reporter notes that the NFL lockout could cause the networks to lose billions of dollars in ad revenue should games be canceled. Richard Deitsch of Sports Ilustrated has your NCAA Tournament Viewing […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/8/2011
On Saturday, MLB Network will air an independently-produced documentary on the venerable Fenway Park. This may be blasphemous to many Red Sox fans, but I would love nothing more to see that old bandbox come down and a new park built, but that’s me. Anyway, the documentary won’t go into the history of the park, […]
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Let’s bring you some linkage before my plate gets too full today. Lots of things to go over. First, this story broke last night and we’re all hoping for the best for NFL Films President Steve Sabol who suffered a seizure Saturday night while in Kansas City. Greg Rosenthal of Pro Football Talk says Sabol […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/7/2011
A couple of ratings notes from the New England Sports Network, also known as NESN. Both ratings notes involve the two major sports properties the regional sports network airs, the Boston Bruins and the Boston Red Sox. On Saturday, NESN saw a 4.5 rating in Boston for the Pittsburgh Penguins-Bruins game that ended in overtime. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/1/2011
On Friday, NESN will start its Red Sox coverage and kick into high gear into coverage of the final two weeks of Hockey East. As you can imagine, this will require an extra channel so NESN will utilize “NESNplus” for the first time this year on Friday. So the Red Sox will go on the […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/31/2011
Ok, let’s do some linkage while I can squeeze some in. I had to meet a deadline earlier. I think I’m safe for now. Starting with Michael Hiestand of USA Today, he wonders if the PGA Tour can generate ratings if Tiger Woods isn’t winning tournaments. Michael also has some of the upcoming sports viewing […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/27/2011
The New England Sports Network, better known as NESN, has announced it will carry 13 Red Sox Spring Training games. In addition, it will have live programming from the Red Sox Spring Training site of Fort Myers, FL. Red Sox NESN studio host Tom Caron and Heidi Watney will be on hand for much of […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/10/2010
At 10 a.m. Eastern time on Saturday, NESN will break its infomercial programming to air the press conference introducing outfielder Carl Crawford to the media and Boston Red Sox fans. Crawford was signed by the Red Sox earlier this week as a free agent. On Saturday just before the annual Christmas at Fenway allowing fans […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/9/2010
For Red Sox fans still excited over last night’s surprise signing of free agent outfielder Carl Crawford, they will want to know that NESN will air its Hot Stove Live program live at 6 tonight. Tom Caron hosts while game analyst Jerry Remy will join him in studio with Peter Gammons live from the Baseball […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/4/2010
This is a review of another documentary in the ESPN 30 for 30 series, “Four Days in October”. This is the story of the comeback by the Boston Red Sox in the 2004 American League Championship Series against the New York Yankees. The story is familiar, the Yankees up three games to none and having […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/27/2010
Next month, the critically acclaimed ESPN 30 for 30 documentary series will look at “Four Days of October” where the Boston Red Sox down 0-3 to the New York Yankees in the 2004 American League Championship Series stage the greatest comeback known to mankind. The Red Sox pull off the impossible and defeat an aging […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/31/2010
After being away from the office for most of the morning, it’s time to give you linkage while I can. We start off with Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk who notes that Washington Post writer Mike Wise has been suspended by the paper for one month following his fake tweeting on Tuesday. Dan Levy […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/1/2010
Well, my day has been planned for me, but I don’t want to leave you without links so I got up early to provide some until I return home sometime after 6 tonight. Without further ado, here are the links. Tom Van Riper at Forbes cautions fans who are caught up in the Pac 10/12 […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/28/2010
Ok, let me provide you with some additional linkage here. I got interrupted and posted my original links rather hastily. Then I had to tape this week’s Sports Media Weekly Podcast with Keith Thibault and our guest, Susan Shan so let’s bring you the rest of the linkage now. We’re getting word that ESPN spiked […]
