0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/18/2012
Time for some linkage again. Starting with Sports Business Daily which gauges media reaction to last night’s extravagant NFL regular season schedule release on both ESPN and NFL Network. Mike Reynolds from Multichannel News reviews both the Monday Night and expanded Thursday Night Football schedules. Ed Sherman at the Sherman Report has your potential hits […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/17/2012
NFL Network is giddy about a 13 game schedule this season. It will go consecutively from Week 2 through Week 11, taking a week off for Thanksgiving, then finishing the season from Weeks 13 to 15. The season opener will have Green Bay taking on Chicago at the venerable Lambeau Field. Week 13 will have […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/14/2012
This comes from the Sports Business Journal’s John Ourand who has been on top of this story since last year. He’s reporting (subscription required) in this week’s issue that with the announcement of five additional games to the Thursday Night Football schedule on NFL Network, it now appears unlikely that there will be a new […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/3/2012
Let’s do some linkage on this Super Bowl Weekend. The Weekend Viewing Picks have my sports and entertainment suggestions. Time for your links. As you can imagine, many of the stories will deal with Sunday’s Super Bowl. National Michael Hiestand of USA Today talks with NBC’s Bob Costas about his past experiences in hosing a […]
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We know of the expanded 13 game Thursday Night Football schedule for NFL Network as was announced today by Commish Roger Goodell. What wasn’t announced during his press conference today and tacked onto the official NFL press release was that a Spanish language version of NFL RedZone will launch next season. Goodell apparently made the […]
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This just announced by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell at his Super Bowl press conference in Indianapolis. Starting in 2012, Thursday Night Football on NFL Network will expand from 8 to 13 games. The schedule will span from Week 2 through Week 15. Goodell says this will allow every team to be in primetime. This is […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/5/2012
Time to hand out the 5th edition of the Fang’s Bites NFL TV Awards. On Christmas Day, I provided the list of nominees for this year’s edition. Now, with the regular season over, let’s hand out the hardware for the 2011-12 campaign. Best Play-by-Play: The Nominees are Marv Albert, CBS; Ian Eagle, CBS; Al Michaels, NBC; […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/1/2012
Let’s provide the one last thing I need to do for the end of 2011/beginning of 2012. I’ll provide my sports media predictions for 2012. But first, I’ll check my predictions from last year. Comcast takes over NBC and Starts to merge NBC Sports with Versus/Golf Channel and Comcast SportsNet affiliates Correct, but this was […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/26/2011
Thanks to an increased audience thanks to agreements with many major cable providers (except for Cablevision and Time Warner, I know), NFL Network saw its highest viewership ever for Thursday Night Football. The eight game package saw an average viewership of 6.2 million. That’s up 8% from the previous year which saw 5.4 million viewers. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/20/2011
Let’s do some links for today. Lots of stories and lots of stuff going on. From the NFL announcing the online streaming of Super Bowl XLVI to some mind blowing revelations about reporters, this has been an amazing day. It will call for some sports media thoughts later tonight. First the links. I’ll begin with […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/19/2011
I’ve been out for much of the day and my phone battery died while in transit so imagine feeling out of touch and lost like I did. But I’m back with you. I’ll do a few links here and add a few more in another post later. Sports Business Journal’s John Ourand has his sports […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/16/2011
The first of two consecutive Saturdays of pro football starts this weekend. This Saturday, we have just one game, but next Saturday, Christmas Eve, it’s a full day NFL action. For Week 15, we have the Dallas Cowboys traveling to Tampa Bay to take on the Buccaneers. As usual, we have Brad Nessler, Mike Mayock […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/14/2011
I was thinking at the beginning of Wednesday that this was going to be a boring day covering sports media and it certainly started that way. But then at 3:30 p.m. Eastern time, it all changed when the NFL owners approved the new TV contracts with the network partners. So let’s take a look at […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/13/2011
This week, NFL Network brings us a pair of games. On Thursday, Brad Nessler, Mike Mayock and Alex Flanagan call the Jacksonville-Atlanta game and then on Saturday, the crew will be on hand for the Dallas-Tampa Bay contest. But first, we offer NFL Network’s preview of Jags-Falcons. While the Jags haven’t been an offensive juggernaut […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/6/2011
On Thursday Night Football, the start of Week 14 will be in Pittsburgh as traditional rivals the Cleveland Browns try to make a game against the Steelers. My Browns started the season at 2-1. They’re now 4-8. It’s been a tough season watching this team. But I still root for them and I hope the […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/5/2011
As reported by Daniel Kaplan and John Ourand in this week’s issue of Sports Business Journal, the NFL’s broadcast TV partners, CBS, Fox and NBC are about to finalize a deal to renew their contracts with the league. The deals would begin with the 2014 seasons. Each network would pay over $1 billion per season […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/2/2011
Let’s give you some linkage on this Friday. Been a busy day. You deserve some links The Weekend Viewing Picks provide your sports and entertainment TV watching. And now to your links. National USA Today’s Michael Hiestand and Mike McCarthy debate whether networks should hire ex-coaches knowing full well they could make news and leave […]
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Just halfway through its eight game schedule, Thursday Night Football is averaging 7.1 million viewers and all of the games played have seen increased viewership from the year before. A lot of that has to do with the increased amount of cable providers picking up the NFL Network in the last year. Last night’s game […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/1/2011
This week has been a bad one for me. Haven’t been able to provide links since last Friday and that’s not good. Been busy and it’s cutting into bringing you the latest sports media news. I’ll try to do better over the next few days. We’ll begin with Sports Illustrated’s Richard Deitsch who speaks with […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/30/2011
To kick off Week 13 in the National Football League, Thursday Night Football heads to the upper Northwest corner of the United States and Seattle. There, NFL Network will air what could be the last gasp for the Philadelphia Eagles as they attempt to keep their extremely slim playoff hopes alive against the Seattle Seahawks. […]
