0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/8/2010
Interesting news surfacing tonight. The Big Lead and SportsbyBrooks are reporting that ESPN Original Chris Berman is being highly courted by two companies. Jason McIntyre of The Big Lead says Berman is being sought by the NFL Network. SportsbyBrooks says DirecTV is also actively seeking Berman’s services to be part of a new sports channel […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/9/2010
Time to hand out the 3rd Annual Fang’s Bites NFL TV Awards. If you’re a new reader, you can take a look at how the inaugural and 2nd annual versions played out. Let’s get to them without further delay. Best Play-by-Play: There’s no one better when it comes to NBC’s Al Michaels when there’s a […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/2/2009
Either I’ve been totally involved with work, blogging and other stuff, but when this press release about NFL Network’s Thursday Night Football premiering next week arrived in the Fang’s Bites inbox, it totally shocked me. I didn’t realize it was coming up so soon. Damn. This season is flying by and yes, this Sunday is […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/6/2008
Due to me being all over the place today, Southern Rhode Island, Northern Rhode Island, Eastern Massachusetts, then Central Rhode Island, I was not able to do the megalinks during the day, so I’m doing them at night. One of these Fridays, I’ll be able to provide them to you at its regular time. And […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/5/2008
I think there’s someone over at the NFL Network who really likes me because I have just received quotage from the Raiders-Chargers game and the broadcast finished about 10 minutes from when I started this post. Not bad at all. This is the fastest I’ve received NFL broadcast quotage. Color me impressed. Because many of […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/29/2008
Time to give you some links this evening. We start out with some sad news. This link comes courtesy of the Boston Sports Media Watch, Bill Burt of the Lawrence (MA) Eagle-Tribune reports in his blog that the son of Boston Globe columnist Bob Ryan has died. The Boston Globe has the story which states […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/21/2007
Today, this blog received a nice mention from Sports Illustrated’s Richard Deitsch in his Media Awards for 2007. In the “Best Non-Corporate Sports Web Site”, Fang’s Bites received an Honorable Mention. Pro Football Talk was named the best in the category and deservedly so. I can’t complain being mentioned with Awful Announcing, Fire Joe Morgan, […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/7/2007
I’ll give you some links tonight. First, I’ll send you to Awful Announcing which has a clip of ESPN’s Mike Tirico ragging on NBC’s “Universal is Green” campaign that started on Football Night in America. Yes, the gimmick was silly. Yes, the Ravens-Steelers game was a blowout, but there’s no need to rag on another […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/20/2007
Good morning and I’m in a bit of a rush as I’m trying to do this before I have to head out. First, Chris Pursell of TV Week in his Pressbox blog gives us his NFL Week 7 broadcast preview. Barry Horn of the Dallas Morning News writes that the Cowboys are truly a ratings […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/3/2007
That’s the quote attributed to Suzy Shuster, wife of NFL Network host Rich Eisen. Suzy put out a statement in regards to the swimsuit controversy involving her husband and sexy Philadelphia news anchor Alycia Lane. Michael Klein of the Philadelphia Inquirer writes about how Suzy is pretty much unfazed about the whole incident. Klein cites […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/2/2007
It’s been talk of the internet over the last two days, the swimsuit pictures sent to NFL Network host Rich Eisen from KYW News Anchor Alycia Lane that got into the hands of Eisen’s wife, Suzy Shuster. Eisen and Shuster are a sportscasting power couple. Rich as mentioned is the main host for the NFL […]
