0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/13/2012
This Sunday, MLB on TBS travels to Fenway Park to air the American East rivalry between the Tampa Bay Rays and the Boston Red Sox. Ernie Johnson, Jr. and John Smoltz will call the game on the former Superstation. Ernie has called two games for TBS this season and is slated to call at least […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/5/2012
On Wednesday, Turner Sports held a media conference call with its MLB Coordinating Producer and two of its analysts. The highlights are below. Notes from the Sunday MLB on TBS Conference Call April 4, 2012 TBS opens its 26-game Major League Baseball (MLB) regular season schedule on Sunday, April 8, with the Tampa Bay Rays […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/4/2012
This from the good people at Turner Sports. We have the announcers for the Sunday MLB on TBS package. After being away from MLB for the postseason due to the passing of his legendary father, Ernie Johnson, Jr. returns to the package as the lead play-by-play man. He’ll call the first three games of the […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/22/2012
This from CBS/Turner Sports, VCU coach Shaka Smart and Kansas State coach Frank Martin, he of the massive sideline death stare, will be guest analysts for the NCAA Tournament starting tonight. Smart will join the TBS crew in Atlanta fronted by Ernie Johnson, Jr., Seth Davis and Steve Smith. Martin will join the CBS studio […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/20/2012
We have the nominations, all 170 in 33 different categories, for the 33rd Annual Sports Emmy Awards. They just came out today. There are some surprises like massive hockey charlatan Pierre McGuire nominated in the Sports Reporter category and for some really strange reason, Skippy Bayless of ESPN2’s First Take was nominated for Best Studio […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/19/2012
We know that Jim Nantz and Clark Kellogg will be headed to Atlanta to call the overall number one seed of the NCAA Tournament, Kentucky and the compelling South Regional semifinal between UK and Indiana. While Clark won’t be able to call his son, Nick playing for Ohio in the Midwest Regional in St. Louis […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/18/2012
The news is good for CBS/Turner on two fronts. While there were no upsets on Saturday unlike Friday, ratings were up for the NCAA Tournament by 3% from last year. Yesterday’s rating registered a 6.1, up from a 5.9 last year. In addition, the Tournament averaged 9.3 million viewers which was even with last year. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/17/2012
The press release is in. We have the tip times, networks and announcing assignments for the NCAA Tournament for the third round action on Sunday. CBS will have the first three games starting at 12:15 p.m. ET with Georgetown vs. North Carolina State from Columbus, OH. That will be followed by Michigan State-Saint Louis at […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/16/2012
The four games on four networks in one window is working for CBS/Turner. Thursday’s action saw a 5.3 rating and 7.7 million viewers on CBS/TBS/TNT and truTV. That’s up from a 5.0 and 7.4 million viewers last year. Here’s the press release from CBS/Turner Sports. 2012 NCAA® Division I Men’s Basketball Championship on TBS, CBS, […]
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Saturday, March 17 Men’s National Invitational Tournament Second Round UMass at Seton Hall — ESPN,11 a.m. NCAA Tournament Third Round East Region Consol Energy Center, Pittsburgh, PA Announcers: CBS/Turner — Kevin Harlan/Len Elmore/Reggie Miller/Marty Snider (sidelines); Dial Global Radio — Scott Graham/Kevin Grevey #1 Syracuse vs. Kansas State — CBS, 12:15 p.m. #2 Ohio State […]
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Ok, it’s late, but we have the tip times and the announcing assignments for Saturday’s Third Round games in the NCAA Tournament. CBS has its traditional Saturday quadruple header. TBS and TNT will both have two games apiece. truTV won’t have a game on Saturday, but will have one on Sunday. CBS will begin the […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/14/2012
We have a couple of notes from CBS/Turner and CBS Sports Network on the guest analysts each entity will have on their sets. CBS will bring in St. John’s coach and former ESPN analyst to its New York set to join Greg Gumbel, Ernie Johnson, Jr., Charles Barkley, Kenny “The Jet” Smith and Greg Anthony. […]
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There has been plenty of confusion over the $3.99 fee to watch the NCAA Tournament online, whether it be through NCAA.com or the March Madness Live app for Android, iPhone and the iPad. First, the original press release promoted the fee and did not clearly explain how you could avoid paying it. Well after fiddling […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/11/2012
We’ve been waiting for the NCAA Tournament tip times and announcing assignments for the 2nd round and lo and behold, they’ve come. Of course, Jim Nantz and Clark Kellogg will be in Greensboro to call North Carolina and Duke. Uncle Verne Lundquist and Bill Raftery will be in Louisville. Kevin Harlan, Len Elmore and Reggie […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/7/2012
I tried posting this earlier yesterday and again last night, but thanks to web server problems, I could not. Plus stuff I had previously written on this exact subject was eaten by the server so I have no idea where it is. So let me retry this post and hopefully, the web gremlins that ate […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/2/2012
Lots of things to get to today. Couldn’t do the links yesterday. Going to do a big megalink edition for you. Let’s get cracking, but first, there’s the Weekend Viewing Picks complete with a link to the busy College Basketball Viewing Picks which will be updated throughout the weekend. National USA Today’s Michael Hiestand talks […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/21/2012
TBS has unveiled the first eight games of its Sunday afternoon MLB schedule and the first things that jump out are the three appearances each by the Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees and Tampa Bay Rays. In the Rays’ case, all of their games are against the Yankees and Red Sox. No other teams […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/17/2011
I haven’t done a thoughts column in quite some time. And to boot, I’m doing this on the iPad. Not that you should care, but this will cause me to pause and think which is dangerous. Anyway, I’ll do this in bullet form. Thanks for your indulgence. The Penn State media coverage has not been […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/2/2011
Let’s provide some mid-week linkage for you. Sports Business Daily recaps how ESPN’s SportsCenter handled NBA highlights on what should have been the Opening Night of the regular season. SBD also looks at Los Angeles Dodgers owner Frank McCourt’s agreement to sell the team at auction. Paul Thomasch with Reuters says MLB is looking to […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/30/2011
Another baseball season over and it’s time for another edition of the Fang’s Bites MLB TV Awards. You can see previous editions here and here. As usual, we’ll deal with the national TV partners, ESPN, Fox, MLB Network and TBS. This is a listing of the Best and Worst, it’s not a competition, so please, […]
