0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/7/2014
CBC along with Sportsnet and TSN will have the complete coverage of the 2014 Winter Games for Canadians. CBC will air Team Canada vs. Switzerland in women’s hockey at 8 a.m. Sportsnet will take the Team USA game vs. Finland. Following hockey, CBC airs the Team Figure Skating event. During the overnight hours, CBC hits […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/9/2014
This comes from our friends at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Canada’s public broadcaster. Starting in February and spanning 17 days, CBC and partners TSN/TSN2 and Sportsnet/Sportsnet One will combine to carry over 1,500 hours in both English and French of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Sochi is a warm weather city that averages […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/9/2013
In the wake of Bell Media losing the NHL to Rogers, the company has signed a huge deal with the National Football League giving CTV and TSN rights to most of the regular season and all of the postseason inventory. Games will be seen on both CTV/CTV Two and TSN/TSN2 on Sunday afternoons. TSN will […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/27/2013
Welcome to the premiere episode of the Fang’s Bites podcast. This is not to replace what I do with Keith Thibault on the Sports Media Weekly podcast, this podcast will post when there is breaking sports media news. The new Rogers-NHL media rights deal certainly classifies as breaking news. In the initial episode, I talk […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/26/2013
This began developing around 11 p.m. ET on Monday. TSN NHL Insider Bob McKenzie tweeted that it appeared that two Canadian TV networks had made an agreement with the National Hockey League and reading between the lines, it appeared that TSN was out. Pains me to report this, but NHL closing in on landmark CDN […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/7/2013
Back with an overdue Week Ahead post. Lots of things happening in the Week Ahead so let’s not delay any further and get to what’s happening in the Sports Media over the next seven days. TELEVISION PBS Frontline The already controversial PBS Frontline documentary “League of Denial: The NFL’s Concussion Crisis” airs in two parts […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/15/2013
Ok, I wasn’t able to get to do linkage during the day so in lieu of a Friday post, I’ll make this a weekend post so you can go through these at your leisure. So while I watch some Australian Rules Football, I’ll do a nice links post for you. Let’s begin with John Ourand […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/30/2013
Canada’s TSN will air the first three games of the NHL Stanley Cup Western Conference Final beginning this Saturday. Gord Miller and Ray Ferraro will be the team calling the games for TSN. Coverage begins Saturday in Chicago as the Blackhawks host the Los Angeles Kings. After Game 3 in Los Angeles, TSN will yield […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/29/2013
Ok, we have the schedules for both the NHL Eastern Conference and Western Conference Finals. The Eastern Conference Final schedule is set as it will begin on Saturday night, June 1 as the Boston Bruins take on the Pittsburgh Penguins on NBC, CBC and RDS. The Western Conference Final is a bit dicey as the […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/14/2013
TSN has exclusive coverage of two series, one from each of the Eastern and Western Conference Semifinals. It will air the Boston Bruins-New York Rangers and San Jose Sharks-Los Angeles Kings series throughout this round. Canada’s #1 sports network will carry both series throughout this round. Gord Miller and Mike Johnson will call Boston-New York […]
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Ok, I’m still coming down from the Bruins comeback against Toronto. I thought it would a Round 1 exit for the B’s, but instead, they’ll take on the New York Rangers in the Eastern Conference Semifinals. NBC Sports Network, NBC and CNBC will be airing the series in the US. TSN will air it across […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/5/2013
Broken Friday by Toronto Sports Media, and then confirmed by TSN, we find that coming in August, US viewers will get acquainted with the enormously popular SportsCentre team of Jay Onrait and Dan O’Toole. According to TSN’s press release which is posted below, Onrait and O’Toole are headed “to Los Angeles for exciting new broadcast […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/29/2013
As the other Canadian NHL rightsholder, TSN has the availability to pick up the teams from the Great White North that CBC does not select. In this case, TSN will air the San Jose-Vancouver series after CBC chose Montreal-Ottawa and Boston-Toronto. In addition, TSN has Canadian homeboy Sidney Crosby in the Pittsburgh-New York Islanders series […]
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Now that the National Hockey League regular season is over, it’s time to post the schedules for each series. In the first round, local regional sports networks can air playoff games. Only NBC games are exclusive in the United States, while in Canada, the playoffs are split between CBC and TSN. Playoff games in the […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/23/2013
Let’s do a notebook tonight, shall we? If I can’t do linkage and it always seems something gets in the way these days, I might as well do a notebook. I’ll try to provide as many links and stories as possible here. Interesting story from The Big Lead. The daily 9 a.m.-3 p.m. ET SportsCenter […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/7/2013
During the 2012 Olympics, the International Olympics Committee awarded the rights to the 2014 and 2016 Olympics to CBC after the Canadian Olympic Broadcasting Consortium consisting of CTV, RDS, TSN and Sportsnet had aired the 2010 and 2012 Games, ending a long streak by CBC dating back to 1996. CBC had yet to officially announce […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/13/2013
Here’s the NHL on TSN schedule. Games will showcase 42 games including at least one Canadian team in each contest. We have the schedule for you below. 2013 NHL on TSN Schedule Tuesday, January 22 GAME TIME ET/PT NETWORK Winnipeg at Washington 7pm/4pm TSN San Jose at Edmonton 10pm/7pm TSN Wednesday, January 23 GAME TIME […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/6/2013
Nobody won. Really, nobody. The fans lost because they were left hanging and lost a half-season including the Winter Classic at the Big House in Michigan. NBC Sports Network whose ratings fell into abyss with no NHL games from October through now has been “The Biggest Loser” through all this. Regional sports networks across the […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/30/2012
NHL ON TSN BROADCAST SCHEDULE OCTOBER DATE EVENT ET/PT NETWORK Friday, October 12 New York Rangers at Los Angeles Kings 10:30pm/7:30pm TSN2 Monday, October 15 Florida Panthers at Washington Capitals 7:30pm/4:30pm TSN2 Tuesday, October 16 Boston Bruins at Montreal Canadiens 7:30pm/4:30pm TSN Tuesday, October 16 Detroit Red Wings at Buffalo Sabres 7:30pm/4:30pm TSN2 Tuesday, October […]
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This is like last year when the NBA released its national TV schedules in the midst of its lockout and nobody cared. Now, it’s the NHL’s turn to release this and until the lockout is settled between the league and its NHL Players Association, this means nothing. After all the momentum the NHL built at […]
