0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/3/2015
All Times Eastern Saturday, April 4 Studio and Pregame Shows At the Final Four — TBS, 3 p.m. College GameDay live from Indianapolis, IN — ESPN, 3:30 p.m. The Final Four Show — TBS, 4 p.m. BTN Tip-Off Show 2015: Final Four Pregame — Big Ten Network, 5 p.m. Best of College Basketball — CBS […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/23/2015
Observers may have criticized the NCAA Tournament Selection Committee over seedings and various teams getting into the Big Dance, but the games and matchups that resulted from the First Four to the Round of 32 has generated record ratings for the CBS/Turner broadcast consortium. For the first week on CBS, TBS, TNT and the much-maligned […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/22/2015
O.k, CBS/Turner has released the tip times for the next round of the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship before all of the games are finished. Either the staffers there have become extremely efficient or they all want to go to bed at a decent hour. I have a feeling this is a combination of […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/21/2015
All Times Eastern Saturday, March 21 Men’s NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship 3rd Round Studio and Pregame Shows NCAA Tip-Off — TNT, 5 p.m. NCAA March Madness 360 — CBS Sports Network, 6 p.m. NCAA March Madness 360 — CBS Sports Network, 11 p.m. Inside March Madness — TBS, midnight College GameDay — ESPN2, […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/20/2015
Ok, we get the tip times for the Round of 32 action on Sunday, March 22 as CBS and Turner don’t want to wait until the Providence-Dayton game is over as the PR people want to sleep at a decent hour. CBS has a tripleheader on Sunday starting at 12:10 p.m. ET with the tasty […]
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Yes, there’s the First Four™, but that’s really the appetizer for the real action of the NCAA Tournament which began on Thursday with 16 games. By having 5 one-point games, two 14 seeds advancing and five Texas teams going 0-for-Thursday, CBS, TBS, TNT and truTV had a tremendous day of the 2015 Tournament. Fans had […]
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The tip times for Saturday, March 21 are in. CBS has a quadrupleheader beginning at 12:10 p.m. ET with UCLA taking on UAB, then Kentucky vs. Cincinnati, Arizona vs. Ohio State and Utah vs. Georgetown. TNT begins the Turner Sports coverage with Xavier vs. Georgia State at 6:10 p.m. and TBS follows an hour later […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/15/2015
CBS and Turner Sports have released the tip times and the announcing assignments for the 2015 NCAA Tournament. The “First Four” or play-in games from the four teams deemed as numbers 65 through 68 for the tournament will play in Dayton, OH. These games on Tuesday, March 17 and Wednesday, March 18 will air on […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/5/2015
This year brings a lot of upheaval for the CBS/Turner team for this year’s NCAA Tournament. With Greg Anthony suspended, Steve Kerr in the NBA, Bill Raftery and Grant Hill named to the “A” team with Jim Nantz, analysts and reporters have to be shuffled and that’s exactly what CBS/Turner has done. It also means […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/1/2015
Time for some predictions for 2015. Looking back through the archives, the last predictions post on this site was done in 2012 so it’s time to do one now. I’ll do it a little differently than in previous years. Here goes. January The first-ever College Football National Championship Game on ESPN draws a record cable […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/31/2014
It’s that time of year once again to look back at the stories that made the Big Dozen list. If you’re new here and wonder why it’s called the Big Dozen? It’s a tribute to where I used to work, WPRI-TV on the border of East Providence, RI and Seekonk, MA. My good friend, John […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/13/2014
Rain in Kansas City has washed out Monday’s Game 3 of the American League Championship Series. The game will be aired Tuesday at 8 p.m. on TBS which would have been Game 4’s timeslot anyway. With the rainout, it means that the off-day that was scheduled for Thursday, will be occupied by Game 5 of […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/9/2014
As the League Championship Series is about to start, Major League Baseball has set the times for all of the games in both the American and National League. The ALCS begins Friday at 8:07 p.m. ET on TBS. The NLCS starts Saturday at 8:07 p.m. on Fox and Fox Sports 1. We have all of […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/2/2014
The MLB Postseason has begun and it means Day 1 of the American League Division Series. TBS will air the Baltimore-Detroit series and the Anaheim-Kansas City series. Brian Anderson, Dennis Eckersley and Joe Simpson call O’s-Tigers from the start all the way through the conclusion. Jaime Maggio will be the on-field reporter. Ernie Johnson, Ron […]
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Now with the eight teams set for the MLB League Division Series, let’s post the date and start times for the LDS games. Unlike the period between 2007 and 2013 when TBS aired all of the games with the exception of a couple saved for MLB Network. Now, we have Fox Sports 1 joining TBS […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/29/2014
TBS is prepping for the MLB Postseason. In the past, it would air both Wild Card games, all four League Division Series and one League Championship Series. Under the new MLB contract which took effect this season, TBS will now air just one Wild Card game, two League Division Series and one LCS. Starting this […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/24/2014
This Derek Jeter farewell is getting out of hand. I’m not begrudging the Yankees fans who love the man, but to this Red Sox fan, the whole thing is getting boring. And with his final home game coming on Thursday and his career finale allegedly coming on Sunday in Boston, the networks are scrambling to […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/2/2014
After being off for the first half of the season, TBS returns to Major League Baseball this Sunday for a 13-game regular season schedule. In addition to the 13 Sunday afternoon games, TBS will carry one Wild Card Playoff game (ESPN has the other), two League Division Series (Fox Sports 1 will carry the other […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/6/2014
Here’s the listing of the 35th Annual Sports Emmy Awards. They were handed out in New York tonight to an appreciative audience at the Frederick P. Rose Hall at the Time Warner Center. Overall, NBC led all networks with six Emmy Awards, Fox/HBO Sports/MLB Network won 5 and ESPN received four. In an upset, Bob […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/6/2014
That’s the spin from CBS/Turner. What they won’t tell you is that ratings and viewership are down, but that’s because TBS, TNT and truTV don’t have the penetration that CBS does. First things first. Let’s go over Saturday’s numbers. With the Final Four airing across three Turner platforms, the two games of the Final Four […]
