0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/9/2008
Time to give you some midweek linkage. Starting with USA Today, Michael Hiestand writes that The Masters has reached the digital age with live streaming video on cell phones. Judd Zulgad of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune says ESPN promises not to go overboard when it airs The Masters starting today. Stan Awtrey in a story picked […]
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I’ll give you a few links this evening as I back up my computer. Sports Illustrated’s Richard Deitsch has his Media Power Rankings for March. Christopher Byrne of Eye on Sports Media is advising fans to ease up on CBS Sports’ Billy Packer for his declaring that the Kansas-North Carolina NCAA Men’s Tournament National Semifinal […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/8/2008
Time for me to give you the links. Sorry about the delays. Newsday’s Neil Best talks about ESPN crashing The Masters party. Neil has the winners in the sports category of the New York Emmy Awards. Neil has noticed that YES is trying to add some revenue streams during the Mike & the Mad Dog […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/7/2008
Ok, the internet access at my work is back. Verizon told me it would be down for the rest of the day, but viola! It’s back! So here we go with the links today. Michael Hiestand of USA Today says Billy Packer’s declaration that the Kansas-North Carolina game was over early in the first half […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/4/2008
Here we are with the Friday megalinks once again. For your weekend viewing, the NCAA Men’s and Women’s Final Fours will be on CBS and ESPN respectively. CBS Sports has the glamor matchups with all four men’s number one seeds intact. UCLA and Memphis will tip off at 6:07 p.m. with North Carolina taking on […]
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I’ll give you some more links this evening. It appears that NBC is close to renewing its deal with the NHL for next season. More on that in the Friday megalinks. Bruce Allen from Boston Sports Media Watch gives his impressions from an evening with WBZ-TV sports anchor Bob Lobel who is being bought out […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/3/2008
Let’s give you some links for Thursday. Newsday’s Neil Best says new New York Knicks Donnie Walsh did his best to schmooze the media during his introductory press conference on Wednesday. And in his blog, Neil says a new era between the Knicks and the media began with free sandwiches and cookies. Richard Sandomir and […]
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I’ll give you some linkage this evening. Earlier today, I was listening to the Red Sox-A’s game through MLB Gameday Audio and noticed that Joe Castiglione was broadcasting solo for the first two innings. Because partner Dave O’Brien was working the Blue Jays-Yankees game for ESPN2, this was one of the games where the Shaw’s […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/2/2008
It’s been a big week for media layoffs and buyouts. As someone who follows the sports media, it seems like every week, a local news or reporter is bought out or has had his/her contract terminated as part of cost cutting. It’s happening in newspapers, TV and radio. But this week, the bloodletting has cut […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/26/2008
Having gotten some important work done, it’s time to give you some linkage on this Wednesday afternoon on the East Coast. Three things from the Sports Media Watch. First, Paul Sen says the joint decision by the NFL and NBC to move the league’s season opener on September 4 from 8:30 p.m. ET to 7 […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/6/2008
The links are here, let’s get to them. Michael Hiestand of USA Today recaps the testimony of NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and cable providers on Capitol Hill yesterday. Gerry Shih of the Austin American-Statesman reports on the all-out attack by Goodell on the cable providers. Robin Brown of CBC News wonders if sports on over […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/5/2008
I’ll give you a few more links today. We have some good news from Neil Best of Newsday. He tells us that a biopsy on Bobby Mercer was negative, that his MRI last week showed only scar tissue and not a recurrence of a brain tumor. Mercer will rest at home for a few more […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/27/2008
It’s been a busy Tuesday. People have been hired, fired and re-hired. I already talked about Sean Salisbury leaving ESPN. The blogosphere is abuzz about Salisbury. However, there were other personnel moves today. Before Sean Salisbury became the personnel move of the day, ESPN announced it had hired Cris Carter, formerly of HBO, as a […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/20/2008
Still dealing with work issues, but I can break away to give you some links today. First, John Ourand of the Sports Business Daily breaks the news that Dish Network is moving the NFL Network to a less popular tier, cutting its subscriber base by 4 million. Tom Hoffarth of the Los Angeles Daily News […]
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I’ve got a lot of work issues to deal with so I’m going to do a quick update, then come back later when everything is done. USA Today’s Michael Hiestand tells us that DirecTV subscribers will get some extra in-depth coverage of The Masters that cable or over the air viewers will not. The Sports […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/6/2007
I’ll do a few links here. This is going to be Newsday-heavy. I’ll explain. Last night, I linked to Bob Glauber’s NFL blog at Newsday.com after he posted not one, but two pictures of Scarlett Johansson, after I had been needling Neil Best for quite some time. Well, Bob decided to give Fang’s Bites a […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/16/2007
Let’s give you an update this afternoon. First, as pointed out by Neil Best of Newsday in his blog, MLB and Fox co-authored a study which shows kids are staying up late to watch Major League Baseball postseason games and ratings actually increase as the hour gets closer to midnight. John Ourand and Eric Fisher […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/13/2007
Late for links, but let’s get to them without any further delay. Starting on Friday with USA Today, Michael Hiestand and Michael McCarthy debate what ESPN Ombudsman Le Anne Schreiber discussed in her column this week. Susan Bickelhaupt of the Boston Globe talks with Fox’ Joe Buck. Neil Best of Newsday in his Friday column […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/11/2007
Time to give you some updated links. Richard Sandomir of the New York Times reports that the New York Yankees trust had to threaten the media on Wednesday after they requested reporters stay away from Joe Torre’s home. Jeff McAllister of The Other Paper in Columbus, OH says Time Warner Cable and the Big Ten […]
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Let’s give you your links for this morning. We start off with Neil Best of Newsday who writes in his blog that Suzyn Waldman is angry at WFAN’s Craig Carton who apparently has been quite critical of her. To some weekly Thursday columns starting with the Worcester Telegram & Gazette’s Bill Doyle. He talks with […]
