0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/4/2013
I haven’t done a Videos of the Week in a very long time. Having my weekends planned for me behind my back are a major factor. But let’s do one right now. With us being in the vacuum of the US, it’s easy to be unaware of international TV, but thanks to the internet and […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/22/2012
As the 2012 Summer Olympics in London or officially known as Games of the XXX Olympiad get underway on Friday, let’s look back at how the 2008 Games in Communist China were covered by the English language rightsholders in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia. I’ll provide videos of various opens, closes […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/22/2012
This is some amazing stuff. I don’t know who uploaded these to YouTube, but this is some pretty video showing entire editions of The NFL Today on CBS. This is from Week 13 in 1979. Brent Musburger is the host (why he has never won a Sports Emmy for Outstanding Studio Host is beyond me), […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/30/2011
I don’t know what got into the water in Melbourne over the last two weeks, but tennis players showed some spunk and personality during postmatch interviews and press conferences throughout the fortnight. That is a very good thing too as tennis tries to regain popularity in the United States. If players continue to show humor […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/28/2010
Since analyst Lee Corso began making his mascot head predictions on College Gameday in 1996, he has made his prognostications entertaining. Sometimes, the pick is just a football helmet or a mascot head, but a very funny addition has been Corso attempting to fire rifles, pistols or a variation of. Noticeably, this has happened in […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/5/2010
You’ve seen the video before each NFL game and it’s on every network whether it be CBS, ESPN, Fox, NBC or NFL Network. For a time, they were even shown before NFL Films presentations on ESPN. Ever since 1998, NFL TV partners are required to air the video, “XXX Sports welcomes you to this presentation […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/20/2010
After a two week hiatus, the Videos of the Week return continuing a theme I started last month, Best Sports TV Themes. You can check them out here, here, here, here and here. There are a good many sports themes, but there are also some bad ones. Not every sports theme is a home run […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/30/2010
This is the fourth and last part of Best Sports Themes. Today, we’re focusing on sports anthologies such as ABC’s Wide World of Sports, CBS Sports Spectacular, NBC SportsWorld and the like. We’ll start this with the original sports anthology program, Wide World of Sports. It’s cut off, but it’s pretty cool to see iconic […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/16/2010
Last week, I did a Videos of the Week on the Best Sports TV themes and it was so popular that it warranted a follow up that same day. And it’s now time to do a Part II and give you some more themes. I’ll do some college basketball, pregame shows and soccer. Let’s get […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/9/2010
The Videos of the Week have been popular today so I’m going to give you a few more from various sports. NFL Let’s do the NFL and this theme from NBC Sports used for its last three years as rightsholder for the AFC package from 1995 to 1997. Composed by Randy Edelman, it became quite […]
0 comments by Ken Fang
This week, I’m bringing back Videos of the Week and I’m doing sports TV themes. Some themes like TSN’s Hockey Song or NBC’s Roundball Rock are as identifiable with the sports they represent. Some such as ESPN’s old Sunday Night Football theme are forgettable. But today, I’m going work in my favorite sports themes of […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/11/2010
Ok, time to do a Videos of the Week feature and instead of doing sports, I’ll be doing a music video post. Haven’t done one in a while. This one will feature some of my favorite all-female or female-led bands over the years. There’s some good music here so get ready to enjoy. I’ll begin […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/28/2010
With the death of Chet Simmons on Thursday, I thought I would bring you some of the programs that he helped to bring into fruition as an executive at both ABC and NBC Sports, then as the first President of a fledgling cable sports network known as ESPN. Without his guidance, ESPN would have never […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/31/2010
Last week, I took a break from doing the Videos of the Week and the look back at previous Winter Olympics. Time to do it again, this week, we look back at NBC’s first Winter Olympics since Sapporo, Japan in 1972. Back then, Curt Gowdy was the overall host for NBC. In 2002, it was […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/10/2010
Time for another edition of the Videos of the Week as I get you ready for the Winter Olympics in Vancouver on February 12. I’ve already presented a look back at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary through the eyes of ABC Sports. And last week, there was the flashback to the 1992 Winter Games […]
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0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/26/2009
As the Tour de France ends today, I thought I would take a look back at how the Tour was covered on US TV some two decades ago. Thanks to Lance Armstrong, the popularity of the Tour has led to wall-to-wall coverage on Versus. When CBS had the exclusive rights, it would only show coverage […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/19/2009
Two years ago, on my birthday no less, I posted a RATM-themed Videos of the Week so I figured it was time to do so again. It’s time and why not? No real reason other than Rage Against the Machine is one of my all-time favorite bands. I’ll start with Freedom off RATM’s self-titles debut […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/28/2009
Thanks to Ian Bethune over at Sox & Dawgs for suggesting this edition of Videos of the Week. I was going to post Michael Jackson videos, but with everyone doing some type of tribute, I decided to go in another direction and I was stuck for a subject, then Ian tweeted me with the idea […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/21/2009
One event on my summer sports calendar that I look forward to every year is Wimbledon. It happens at the right time, right as we officially hit summer and the weather gets warmer. Or at least most years, the weather gets warmer. I don’t know about this year, but it usually does. Thanks to various […]
