0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/4/2012
CBS Sports tells us that its primetime presentation of Saturday’s Alabama-LSU game hit a 7.0 overnight rating with a 13 share, the highest college football overnight rating for the 2012 season. It tops a 5.9/11 for last Saturday’s Notre Dame-Oklahoma game. The game peaked at a 9.3 rating late. “SEC ON CBS” RATINGS ROLL WITH […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/1/2012
Just as it was last year, the game between SEC rivals Alabama and LSU will be in primetime on CBS. LSU won last year’s game in a battle of field goals in Tuscaloosa. This year’s game in Baton Rouge will be on a 8 p.m. ET on the Tiffany Network. It completes a doubleheader of […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/28/2012
We have the official selections for the SEC on CBS for this Saturday, November 3. Earlier, CBS chose Alabama-LSU in primetime to be called by Uncle Verne Lundquist and Gary Danielson with Tracy Wolfson on the sidelines. The game will air at 8 p.m. Earlier in the day, CBS has chosen Mississippi at Georgia for […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/8/2012
CBS Sports had a very good fall weekend. Airing the SEC on Saturday and a NFL doubleheader on Sunday, the Tiffany Network saw rating increases in all of its windows, 3:30 p.m. Saturday, 1 p.m. Sunday and 4:25 p.m. Sunday. For the SEC on CBS, the network had LSU-Florida in which the Gators pulled off […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/29/2012
Let’s look at the games that will be aired on the CBS family of networks. Another week of the SEC on CBS and it will be Uncle Verne Lundquist, Gary Danielson and Tracy “The Wolf” Wolfson at Athens, GA calling Tennessee at Georgia in between the hedges. For CBS Sports Network, it’s a tripleheader including […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/22/2012
This is the first time I have received quotage for CBS’ College Football Today. And I’m gladly posting it here. Today, CBS’ Spencer Tillman and Mr. College Football, Tony Barnhart debated whether injury reports should be released as they are in the National Football League and host Tim Brando led a discussion on player safety. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/17/2012
Doing some linkage for you on this return to the work week. USA Today’s Michael Hiestand notes the NHL Lockout will hurt any ratings momentum NBC Sports Network had from the summer. Ed Sherman of The Sherman Report talks with The Professor, new-found Slayer fan, John Clayton of ESPN. The Tampa Bay Times’ Eric Deggans, […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/9/2012
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 7/18/2012
Time for the links on this Wednesday. Let’s check out what we have. Marisa Guthrie of the Hollywood Reporter talks with NBC’s Bob Costas about the Olympics, Jerry Sandusky and being short. That’s right. Daniel Kaplan from the Sports Business Journal writes that the NFL will not sign a telecommunications partner this season and will […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/16/2012
Here’s the Monday linkage wrapped in a nice bow for you. From Sports Business Journal’s John Ourand and Michael Smith, they report that ESPN will pay an average of $80 million per year to air the Rose Bowl. That more than doubles the current contract which pays $30 million. Liz Mullen of SBJ says a […]
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This comes from the SEC’s website via CBSSports.com. This is the TV schedule for the SEC football season to date. We know the games through September 15 and a few other selections after that. But as we go further into the season, CBS and ESPN will make their selections and then the rest of the […]
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The SEC Football schedule is out and for the South, this is like Christmas Day when you get to finally open the presents. Fans of the 14 member schools have been looking forward to this since the end of the last college football season. ESPN has selected its games for the first three weeks of […]
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CBS’ announcement is so short, I’ll let the blurb speak for itself. No need for me to write a wraparound. THIS JUST IN… …from CBS Sports CBS Sports has announced that it will kick-off its 2012 SEC on CBS season with Alabama at Arkansas on Saturday, Sept. 15 (3:30-7:00 PM, ET). Verne Lundquist and Gary […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/26/2012
Let’s do some Tuesday links. We’ll start with Matt Hayes of AOL Sporting News and he writes that the BCS is looking for a $5 billion TV deal over a decade for its new college football playoff. In the Indiana University National Sports Journalism Center, Michael Bradley says the new college football playoff still can […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/15/2012
Over the last hour or so, it’s been all-Pac-12, all the time. Let’s break that up with this post on the complete Fox Sports college football schedule for 2012-13. It will be filled with national matchups featuring the Big 12, Conference USA and Pac-12 including regional games on the Fox Sports Net affiliates from the […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/12/2012
This came into the Fang’s Bites inbox last week, but due to my family commitments, I couldn’t post it until now. This is from ESPN regarding its 2012 college football schedule. This adds 68 games to an already extensive schedule. These include contests from the Big East, Big Ten, Mid-American, SEC, Sun Belt and WAC. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/6/2012
The Tiffany Network announced the dates and times of its SEC on CBS football schedule this fall. Already, six games have been unveiled including rivalry games Georgia vs. Florida in the annual World’s Largest Cocktail Party (which is no longer being billed as such), Alabama at LSU and LSU at Arkansas. Other games previously announced […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/4/2012
This in from ESPN, we have the 12 games that will entail the 2nd annual SEC/Big East Challenge. The conferences will split six home games each. The event will span three days, from Thursday, November 30 through Saturday December 1. The times and the network assignments will be determined at a later date. ESPN points […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/22/2012
Yes you do. It’s overdue. I thought being on unemployment would give me more time for doing the site. Instead, I have less. I don’t know how that’s happened. Anyway, here are some links for you. USA Today’s Michael Hiestand has soon-to-be NBC’s Michelle Beadle saying even she’s sick of the coverage on where she’s […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/11/2012
Thursday turned out to be quite the crazy day for those of us who follow the sports media beat. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. On any given day, you just don’t know when sports media news will break. We had two stories throw us for a loop. I’ll do the thoughts […]
