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Westwood One Radio's NFL Announcing Assignments for Week 1

Even though most of you watch sports on TV, many still have to monitor through radio and I find radio to be a much more personal medium than TV. Coming from a radio background, it’s only natural I feel this way and having called college football and basketball on radio, I always will feel closer […]

Westwood One Radio Unveils 2009-10 NFL Announcing Teams

After battling the ESPN College Football schedule press release for over an hour and a half as I edited it and tried to get it to format properly, this release from Westwood One Radio arrived in the Fang’s Bites inbox. This should be considerably easier to edit compared to ESPN’s mile long release. Take a […]

Westwood One Radio's 2009 NFL Sunday Afternoon Regular Season Schedule

Here’s the 2009 NFL Sunday afternoon regular season schedule for Westwood One Radio. In March, WWOne reupped for two more seasons with the NFL following the purchase of the company by the Gores Group. So here’s what you can expect listening to Westwood One on Sunday afternoons this season. WESTWOOD ONE ANNOUNCES 2009-2010 NFL SUNDAY […]

Westwood One Radio's 2009 NCAA Tournament Announcers

I thank Matthew Hesselson at Westwood One Radio for getting these to me quite quickly. I have some news to break to you, but I’m going to bury the lead for a second here. First, here are the announcers for Westwood One for the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. 1st/2nd Rounds—Thursday, March 19th and Saturday, March […]

BREAKING NEWS: Westwood One Renews Deal with the NFL

Westwood One and the National Football League have announced a new two year deal for the broadcast radio rights. Going into the latest negotiation, ESPN Radio, the Content Factory and Sporting News Radio were all interested, but as Neil Best of Newsday quotes a Sports Business Daily report from John Ourand, the recent sale of […]

Wednesday's Press Release Action

Now that I’ve come down from watching tonight’s great episode of “Lost” and tonight’s great episode of “Damages”, I can provide you with the press releases that hit my inbox. Regular readers should know that Mondays are reserved for “24, Wednesdays for “Lost” and “Damages”, Thursdays for “Hell’s Kitchen” and Sunday for “The Amazing Race” […]

Press Release Delight

I have some press releases for you once again. Depending how late it is, I hope to give you some linkage because there’s quite a bit of news since I last posted. This is going to be CBS Sports heavy since I received the most press releases from the Tiffany Network on Tuesday. I have […]

2009 NFL Conference Championship Schedule

NFC ChampionshipPhiladelphia at Arizona – Fox/Westwood One Radio, 3 p.m.Fox – Joe Buck/Troy Aikman/Pam Oliver/Chris Myers AFC ChampionshipBaltimore at Pittsburgh – CBS/Westwood One Radio, 6:30 p.m.CBS – Jim Nantz/Phil Simms

2008-09 NFL Divisional Playoffs Schedule

This is the schedule for the NFL Divisional Playoffs that will take place January 10 and 11. All are rematches from the regular season. Saturday, January 10Baltimore at Tennessee – CBS, Greg Gumbel/Dan Dierdorf; Westwood One Radio, Marv Albert/Warren Moon/Mark Malone, 4:30 p.m.Arizona at Carolina – Fox, Kenny Albert/Daryl Johnston/Tony Siragusa; Bill Rosinski/Dan Reeves/Kevin Kiley, […]

2009 Sports Media Predictions

I figure it’s time make some sports media predictions for 2009. The NHL Returns to ESPN – This has been speculated for so long that whenever a writer or blogger has discussed this topic, I have either turned the page or hit “back” on my browser. But I feel that NHL Czar Gary Bettman will […]

Westwood One Radio's 2008 NFL Regular Season Schedule

If you have a Westwood One Radio affiliate in your town, you should be able to listen to NFL Sunday afternoon doubleheaders and/or Sunday and Monday Night Football. This is Westwood One’s NFL schedule for this season. Sunday afternoon doubleheaders have been selected through Week 8. Week 109/04/08 – Washington Redskins @ N.Y. Giants, 6:30 […]

An Experimental Thursday

You may have been noticing different looks for the blog over the last 12 hours or so. I’m experimenting with various templates to see how they look. The current look now is what I have settled upon for now, but there may be one or two more different templates I may try out, so if […]

Your NFL Announcing Teams by Network

Ok, in lieu of an evening update, I figured I would give you the announcing teams for the NFL by network. I know many of you would like to know the teams and since Fox made its announcement earlier today, it completes the rosters for all of the NFL TV partners. So I’ll give you […]

Some Wednesday Night Links

I’ve got to get up really early on Thursday so I won’t have the links for you right off the bat so you’ll have to make due with my Wednesday night links for now. I’ll start with the NBA since the Association released its schedule today. I’m not a huge NBA fan so I was […]

Friday Megalinks

My apologies for not posting after my Thursday entry. I was called away to the home office which has only one dial-up internet connection and could not post to the blog. And then I was at the Reality Fan Forum last night helping to update the Big Brother Head of Household competition so blogging last […]

Back to the Grind Links

I was enjoying my weekend, but it’s back to the grind today as I was at a jobsite earlier today and it’s the reason why these links are coming late. But I’m here and time to give you the Monday linkage. Also wanted to mention the passing of George Carlin who was a great influence […]

Some Tuesday Evening Links

As I watch the Red Sox-O’s game in the cool basement of my house, I’ll give you some linkage. Justin Terranova of the New York Post writes in his TV Sports blog that Fox Sports is the early favorite to bring newly-retired Michael Strahan into their fold. And Justin has comments from Strahan’s former teammate, […]

Some Sunday Links

Well, I’m still having computer problems and I’ll be blogging less than usual over the next few days until they’re solved, but you’ll be getting posts from me when I’m at work. However, when I’m home, I’ll have to try to finagle something for you. Right now, I’m doing this from another location. I did […]

Westwood One Radio's Announcing Assignments for the NHL Stanley Cup Finals

WESTWOOD ONE AND NHL RADIO PRESENT THE 2008 STANLEY CUP FINAL — Exclusive Play-By-Play Coverage — New York, NY – May 21, 2008 — Westwood One (NYSE: WON), the exclusive home of NHL RadioÒ, presents the 2008 National Hockey League (NHL) Stanley Cup Final. Sam Rosen, Bill Clement and Billy Jaffe will call the action, […]

Westwood One Radio's Announcing Assignments for the NHL Conference Finals

WESTWOOD ONE PRESENTS THE CONFERENCE FINALS — Exclusive Play-By-Play Coverage — New York, NY – May 7, 2008 – Westwood One (NYSE: WON), the exclusive home of NHL RadioÒ, presents the National Hockey League (NHL) Conference Finals. Westwood One’s play-by-play coverage will continue each week throughout the post-season, concluding with live coverage of the Stanley […]

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