0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/1/2012
Yes, we have two guests on the Sports Media Weekly podcast this week. No news segment just guests and that is good for you. Keith Thibault of Sports Media Journal and yours truly begin with Neil Best of Newsday. Neil is in Indianapolis covering the Super Bowl for Newsday. Unlike the last time he covered […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/18/2012
Keith Thibault of Sports Media Journal and I are back with another edition of our podcast. In our News of the Week segment, Keith and I looked at yet another record rating for the NFL, this time for Divisional Playoff Weekend as the New York Giants-Green Bay Packers viewership helped to pace the numbers. From […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/28/2011
This is a special Year-in-Review podcast. Keith Thibault and I look back at some of our best interviews from 2011. Over the past year, we interviewed quite a few guests and some heavy hitters in the Sports Media world. Keith and I chose four of the best podcasts and some are run again in their […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/22/2011
This particular podcast with yours truly and Keith Thibault of Sports Media Journal was a two man discussion on the Year in Review in Sports Media. The issues discussed are culled from my Big Dozen Sports Media Stories of 2012 which will be published at the end of December. It’s a good talk. Among the […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/15/2011
In a very busy podcast, Keith Thibault of Sports Media Journal and I brush on two major topics in the NFL, the new TV contracts and Tim Tebow. In our news segment, Keith and I talk mostly about the new NFL contracts with CBS, NBC and Fox. We summarize what each network will receive over […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/1/2011
This week, Keith Thibault of Sports Media Journal and I spent half an hour interviewing writer James Andrew Miller, the co-author with Tom Shales of “Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside The World of ESPN”. It was our second interview with Jim as the book comes out in a paperback version today. Our first […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/23/2011
Can’t believe we’ve hit podcast number 80! And we’ve had plenty of good guests throughout the time. This week, we have John Daly of the Daly Planet NASCAR TV blog. As usual, Keith Thibault of Sports Media Journal talked about the news of the week. We led with the move by ESPN to boot President […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/17/2011
This week’s podcast once again focused on the Penn State story and the media coverage surrounding the Jerry Sandusky scandal. Our guest is the media critic of the St. Petersburg Times, Eric Deggans. Eric also contributes to the Indiana University National Sports Journalism Center with a weekly column. In the first segment, Keith Thibault of […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/10/2011
On this week’s podcast, Southern New England Media Mogul Keith Thibault of Sports Media Journal speak with Gail Sideman, owner and publicist of PUBLISIDE, a public relations and media consulting firm on the Penn State story, but before I describe what was discussed in the guest segment, Keith and I talked about the news of […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/3/2011
Back with the Sports Media Weekly podcast and after I failed to show up for last week’s podcast, I’m back on the wagon this week. And our very special guest is the great Rich Eisen of Hanging at the Courtyard and NFL Network, host of NFL GameDay Morning and Thursday Night Football. Before we go […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/19/2011
The Sports Media Weekly Podcast is back and we have one if our rare return guests, Ian Eagle of CBS Sports, Tennis Channel, YES Network and Westwood One Radio. Before Ian’s segment, Keith Thibault of Sports Media Journal discussed some of the sports media news of the week. We led with the start of the […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/5/2011
Our guest this week is the lovely Jen Royle of sports radio station The Fan, 105.7 in Baltimore. Before that, Southern New England media mogul Keith Thibault and I discussed the news of the week in sports media. Our top story was of course, the Hank Williams, Jr. mess and how ESPN dealt with it […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/28/2011
Today, Keith Thibault of Sports Media Journal took the opportunity to have Steven Bennett, one of the hosts of the SportsCasters podcast on the Sports Media Weekly podcast. But before we get to that, I’ll go over what Keith and I discussed during our News of the Week segment. We first exchanged our thoughts on […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/7/2011
After a week off due to Hurricane Irene issues, the Sports Media Weekly podcast returns with a heavy hitter in tow. I’m not talking about myself or Keith Thibault of Sports Media Journal, I’m talking about our guest, the great Mike Tirico of ESPN’s Monday Night Football. And let me say in advance, this was […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/25/2011
I’m happy that Keith Thibault of Sports Media Journal and I were able to get Dan Levy from the Bleacher Report this week. On Monday, it was announced that Dan is part of a new Lead Writer program to improve its content and the site’s reputation. Keith and I asked Dan about his decision to […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/10/2011
The latest edition of the Sports Media Weekly podcast is now here. Sports Media Journal’s Keith Thibault and I discussed the news of the week and it was more like the news of the day as plenty of news broke today. We first talked about the sudden development of the NBC Sports Group luring Major […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/3/2011
Tonight is another edition of the Sports Media Weekly podcast with Keith Thibault of Sports Media Journal and your humble blogger. Our guest is Andrew Catalon, sports anchor for WNYT-TV, Newschannel 13 in Albany, NY as well as freelancer for NBC Sports and CBS Sports. I’ll go into our segment with Andrew later, but as […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/1/2011
This is a special edition of the Sports Media Weekly podcast. No news segment here. However, Keith Thibault of Sports Media Journal and I talked about my visit to ESPN last week which I chronicled on Friday. We briefly touched upon how I was invited to Bristol, CT and the off-the-record mini-focus group that ESPN […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/27/2011
Ah, another podcast where we get another heavy hitter in the world of sports media. Our guest this week is Fox NFL Sunday host
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/20/2011
One of the most fun podcasts I’ve had comes tonight when Keith Thibault of Sports Media Journal and I had the opportunity to talk to ESPN’s Michelle Beadle just after she purchased an iPhone. It was so funny. I could not stop laughing as you’ll hear. Before we talked with Michelle, Keith and I had […]
