0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/3/2011
As a network, ESPN won five Sports Emmys, but as an organization combined with ESPN2 and ABC, it took home seven tying with NBC and HBO for most won. Anyway, its semantics. I’ve been meaning to post the Sports Emmy Award releases for a while, but work has been getting in the way. Here’s ESPN’s […]
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Again, I’ve been all over the place and can’t really blog like I want to, but I do what I can. Some links while I’m free and not committed to anything. The Pac 12 media deals with ESPN and Fox will be made official later this week, but we do know some details. First, it’s […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/2/2011
Ok, I’ve listed the winners in the Sports Emmy Awards. Now time to list the people who were part of the productions that won. First, the breakdown of the networks that won awards tonight. HBO and NBC won the most awards tied with 7 as 2010 was an Olympic year. Turner Sports was shut out. […]
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I’ll be posting the Sports Emmy Awards as they’re being handed out. I’m not there, but thanks to live tweets from ESPN public relations maven Josh Krulewitz and Sports Business Journal’s John Ourand, I’ll be posting the awards as I get them. As I begin this post, some awards have already been handed out including […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/26/2011
Unfortunately, I was not able to do the Friday megalinks as I was traveling in between two offices and had to hit a couple of places in between. And when I got home, I wasn’t in the mood to do links. But I may incorporate some Friday stories here in the links. Let’s take a […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/25/2011
I can’t believe Keith Thibault of Sports Media Journal and I have 49 podcasts, but we have. You can count them! On Thursday, Keith and I convened via Skype once again and recorded the latest edition of the Sports Media Weekly Podcast which needs a new name. If you have any suggestions, let me know […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/23/2011
Being surprised earlier today by a sudden trip to a jobsite threw me off today so I’m late getting to the linkage, but it’ll be here. Let’s go. First, Kelly McBride of the Poynter Institute pens the first column as the ESPN Ombudsman. She and two other Poynter Institute faculty will write monthly columns, sometimes […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/22/2011
This is our last Sports Emmy press release of the night. Big Ten Network received its second-ever Sports Emmy Award nomination this year. It received a nomination last year in the Outstanding Sports Documentary category. This year, Big Ten Network was tapped for Outstanding Edited Sports Series/Anthology. Here’s the press release. ‘The Journey’ Nominated for […]
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The NFL’s official outlets received their share of Sports Emmy nominations today. A first time nomination for NFL GameDay Morning in the Outstanding Weekly Studio Show category goes to NFL Network. NFL Films received nominations for the co-produced “Lombardi” documentary with HBO Sports. And NFL Films received two nominations for its work on the Showtime/CBS […]
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CBS Sports had its lion share of Sports Emmy nominations today including for Outstanding Studio Host (James Brown), Outstanding Play-by-Play (last year’s winner Jim Nantz and Verne Lundquist), Outstanding Game Analyst (Phil Simms) among others. We have the entire list of CBS nods below. JIM NANTZ, VERNE LUNDQUIST, JAMES BROWN AND PHIL SIMMS LEAD CBS […]
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Receiving the first of the Sports Emmy Awards nominations press releases. MLB Network celebrates eight nods including two for Bob Costas (Outstanding Studio Host and Outstanding Play-by-Play), two for MLB Tonight (including Outstanding Daily Studio Show), one for Harold Reynolds (Outstanding Studio Analyst) and another Studio 42 with Bob Costas. So the MLB Network has […]
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Let’s do some linkage while I still can on this Tuesday. Lots of stuff to get to provided I don’t get interrupted. Mike McCarthy of USA Today writes about Louisville coach Rick Pitino making the media rounds this week. I may have linked to this so if I have already, I apologize. Nate Davis of […]
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The National Academy Television Arts and Sciences released the Sports Emmy Award nominations today. Here’s the press release from the Academy on the announcement which also tells us this year’s recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award. Last year it went to John Madden. This year, it will go to his Monday Night Football and Sunday […]
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The Sports Emmy Nominations are out. Just released by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. The awards will be handed on May 2 at Lincoln Center in New York. Our list of nominees is below. Best Play-by-play has the usual suspects, last year’s winner Jim Nantz, Al Michaels, Joe Buck, even Bob Costas, […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/20/2011
Let’s provide you with links on this Sunday. As I’m watching Food Network’s Giada at Home and before that, CBS News Sunday Morning, I can’t think of a better way to spend a Sunday morning. While I try to avoid being distracted by Giada, I’ll do some links. Mike Reynolds of Multichannel News says MSG […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/19/2011
On Thursday, the nominations for the New York Emmy Awards were made public. What I’ll do is provide the nominations involving sports coverage, sports networks or sports features. If you want to see the entire list of nominations including the news categories, you can go here and download the entire list. Here are the sports […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/27/2010
It’s a rainy Monday in Southern New England. Certainly nothing compared to what’s going on in Minnesota and having gone through a 100 year flood earlier this year, my sympathies go out to those bailing out or having to leave their homes. I hope things get better real soon. Let’s do some linkage on this […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/28/2010
I’m home waiting for the boiler repairman so you’re getting linkage early today which is good for you. Starting with Michael Hiestand of USA Today who says HBO Sports continues to churn out documentaries despite increased competition from ESPN. CNBC’s Darren Rovell says the movie “Jerry McGuire” needs to be updated. Leneli Liggayu of Broadcasting […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/27/2010
Let’s do some Tuesday linkage today. Lots of stuff to get to. Breaking now, Tim Haudricourt of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that beloved Brewers voice Bob Uecker will undergo heart surgery and miss up to 12 weeks of broadcasting games. Adam McCalvy of MLB.com says the team will announce further details at a news […]
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Thanks to its multiple collaborations with HBO and CBS/Showtime, NFL Films and NFL Network combined for four Sports Emmy Awards including three for the prestigious NFL Films. The multimedia arm of the National Football League is one of the best in-house branches that documents every game of the league and archives them. One of these […]
