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Baseball On National TV This Weekend

Time to put up the schedule for MLB games on the sport’s TV partners. Plenty of games. Dodgers-Red Sox will be featured on both Fox and ESPN. In a rare case of scheduling, neither Fox or ESPN are picking up any of the Mets-Yankees series, but TBS is. And MLB Network has its usual Saturday […]

Baseball This Weekend

I owe you some blog posts this weekend and let’s give you what’s on tap this weekend as far as baseball is concerned. First, Fox has two Interleague games today. Joe Buck is taking the weekend off which means he’ll have worked 7 out of 10 possible games this season. FOX SPORTS NOTES, QUOTES & […]

TBS Switches Games on Sunday To Show Stephen Strasburg

Just received this press release from the good people at Turner Sports. And this shows that TBS is willing to switch gears when necessary. Originally scheduled to air the Red Sox-Phillies game, TBS realized that people want to see the 2nd start of Stephen Strasburg when the Washington Nationals take on the Cleveland Indians at […]

Baseball on Tap This Weekend

I’m going to post a couple of press releases before heading to the Red Sox-Orioles game tonight. Let’s do the baseball this weekend post. I have what’s on Fox today. And with Joe Buck’s calling of the Milwaukee-St. Louis game, it makes seven out of nine games for him so far this season. In addition, […]

Baseball on TV For Memorial Day Weekend

Let’s go over the baseball fare on TV this Memorial Day weekend. Plenty of games to see as well. Starting with Fox and again, Joe Buck is back on the case as he’ll call the Cardinals-Cubs game from Wrigley Field. This makes six games out of possible eight that Buck will have worked. We’re keeping […]

MLB Games On TV This Weekend

This is the weekend where Fox is experimenting with primetime baseball on Saturday night. Usually on Saturday afternoons, Fox will regionalize as many as three games. This Saturday, Joe Buck returns after a week off. He’ll have done five games out a possible seven for the season. Here’s the Fox Sports schedule and previews for […]

MLB On TV This Weekend

We have your group of games on national TV this weekend so let’s get to them. Fox has regional coverage of three games. This weekend, Joe Buck has the weekend off, so this makes four of the first six games that he has worked. Buck took April 17 off and he’s also taking this weekend […]

Videos of The Week Follow Up – Best Sports Themes

The Videos of the Week have been popular today so I’m going to give you a few more from various sports. NFL Let’s do the NFL and this theme from NBC Sports used for its last three years as rightsholder for the AFC package from 1995 to 1997. Composed by Randy Edelman, it became quite […]

Baseball This Weekend And More

Let’s give you what baseball games are on TV this weekend. For now, I have Fox’s regional coverage on Saturday and ESPN’s group of games. When I get TBS’ game for Sunday, I’ll post it here. For now, I’ll give you what I have. First, we have Fox’s preview for its gaggle of games. Joe […]

Baseball On Your TV This Weekend

We have plenty of baseball for you this weekend. And quite a few press releases regarding the games you’ll see on the various MLB TV partners. As usual, we begin with Fox Sports and the games it’ll cover. Joe Buck returns to work with Tim McCarver this weekend and it’s the third game for the […]

Baseball On TV This Weekend

We have your viewing fare for MLB this weekend. Lots of stuff to look over and it’s not necessarily live action that I’m listing in this post. Let’s take a look. First, Fox Sports has regional action of two American League games on Saturday, plus it takes a look back at least week’s 20 inning […]

Baseball For This Weekend And More

Ok, I’m late with this press release, but this is what you’ll see on the national networks this weekend and beyond that for baseball. Starting with Fox Sports, we have three games on Saturday, only one of which you’ll see in your area. Note that in just the second game for Fox, Joe Buck is […]

Baseball This Weekend and Beyond

I have some baseball-centric releases for you and throughout the baseball season, I’ll try to group the network TV announcements together so they’re not all over the place. Fox’s baseball schedule for this Saturday is here. Next week, I’ll group it here so you won’t have to dig around, it’ll all be in one place. […]

TBS Announces Replacements For Chip Caray

You see the title correctly. Not singular, but plural. TBS will use three men to replace Chip Caray who took a lot of criticism for his work during last year’s MLB Postseason. This season, TBS will utilize Ernie Johnson, Jr., who hosted the TBS studio last season, Brian Anderson of the Milwaukee Brewers and Dick […]

A Thursday Link Thing

Let’s give you some links while I can. I have a busy day at work so I’ll get these up. Writing for the Indiana University National Sports Journalism Center, Dave Kindred gives you some more sportswriting do’s and don’ts. The Nielsen Wire blog says loyal markets will be viewing the BCS National Championship Game tonight. […]

Some Really Late Night/Early Morning Links

We have some late news for you. Let’s provide a few links. First, it appears that a Comcast purchase of NBC is getting closer. Tim Arango and Bill Carter of the New York Times report that General Electric has come to an agreement on a purchase price of the 20% of NBC Universal that is […]

1st Ever Fang's Bites MLB TV Awards

With baseball ending its season with the World Series, it’s time to do the 1st Ever Fang’s Bites MLB TV Awards. This follows the 1st Ever Fang’s Bites Tennis TV Awards, the 1st Annual NHL TV Awards, the College Football TV Awards and the NFL TV Awards. I hope to do a College Basketball TV […]

MLB Postseason Release Action

We have some MLB-related press releases tonight. As I’m reinstalling software on a computer that got hit by a virus today, I’ll give you some press release action and yes, I’m at the home office while doing this. Starting with MLB itself, the organization tells us that ratings for both LCS have been very good. […]

A Tuesday Linkfest

Doing some links today. Got a late start as I had to deal with computer problems at the home office early this morning. But I think I have a handle on them and I’ll do the links and hope to have a review of the 30 for 30 documentary on the USFL that will air […]

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