0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/24/2008
Westwood One Radio will begin its NHL Postseason coverage this weekend: WESTWOOD ONE PRESENTS THE CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS — Exclusive Play-By-Play Coverage — New York, NY – April 24, 2008 – Westwood One (NYSE: WON), the exclusive home of NHL RadioÒ, presents the National Hockey League (NHL) Conference Semifinals. Westwood One’s play-by-play coverage will continue each […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/31/2008
Saturday, April 5 The Final Four Show – CBS, 4 p.m. (hosted by Greg Gumbel, Clark Kellogg and Seth Davis)The NCAA Tournament Today – Westwood One Radio, 5 p.m. (hosted by Tommy Tighe and Jim Gray)UCLA vs. Memphis – CBS/Westwood One Radio, 6:07 p.m, Jim Nantz/Billy Packer (CBS), Kevin Kugler, John Thompson and Bill Raftery […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/29/2008
Now that the matchups for the Regional Finals are set, it’s time to give you the tip times and announcing assignments for both radio and TV for the Elite Eight in the NCAA Men’s Tournament. Sirius Satellite Radio will pick up all of Westwood One’s broadcasts. All times are Eastern. Saturday, March 29 Road to […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/24/2008
Again, thanks to Westwood One for providing the announcing assignments for the Division II Men’s Tournament Finals and the NCAA Women’s Tournament. Division II Championship (March 29, 2:30 p.m. ET) – Jerry Trupiano/Daymeon Fishback NCAA Women’s Tournament March 31 New Orleans Region – Jon Castleberry/Mary MurphySpokane Region – Jim Kozimor/Krista Blunk April 1Greensboro Region – […]
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According to CBS Sports, Pete Dougherty of the Albany Times Union and Ray Frager of the Baltimore Sun, here are the tip times plus the TV and radio announcer assignments for Thursday and Friday in the NCAA Men’s Tournament. Thanks to the people at Westwood One for providing the radio announcing assignments. Note that one […]
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Now that the first weekend of play in the NCAA Tournament is over, I want to give a quickie review of the announcing crews from both TV and radio. Having March Madness on Demand, Mega March Madness and Sirius Satellite Radio, I was able to watch and listen to much of the coverage. Before I […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/22/2008
With the 1st Round of the NCAA Tournament now over, it’s time to look forward to the 2nd Round. By the end of Easter Sunday, we’ll know who’s in the Sweet 16. But let’s get to Sunday’s tip times and TV and radio announcing assignments. CBS has a triple header starting at noon ET. As […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/21/2008
Here are the games with tip times and announcing assignments for both radio and TV on Saturday, March 22. As always, all times are Eastern. 1:00 p.m. — The Road to the Final Four (Greg Gumbel, Clark Kellogg, Seth Davis) 2:10 p.m. — Washington D.C. I — West Virginia vs. Duke — Craig Bolerjack/Bob Wenzel […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/18/2008
Some of you may not be able to watch the NCAA Tournament whether it be online or on TV. Depending if you have Sirius Satellite Radio or a local station carrying the tournament, I have the announcer assignments for Westwood One and the NCAA Radio Network. HostTommy Tighe Play-in GameBill Rosinski and Steve Lappas First […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/18/2008
Last night I took a break from the blog and my computer and watched my URI Rams inexplicably lose to St. Louis, the same team that scored just 20 points against George Washington a week ago, then watched some Australian Open coverage. I am happy to see Tennis Channel pick up early evening coverage at […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/17/2008
Let’s give you a few more links on this Thursday. It appears the Kelly Tilghman controversy isn’t going away. Newsday’s Neil Best who broke the story isn’t too pleased that Golfweek magazine is fanning the flames with an incendiary cover showing a hangman’s noose. Jerry Potter of USA Today talks with the magazine’s publisher who […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/12/2007
Some more links to give you on this Veterans’ Day afternoon. Thanks to being off today, I can check out some daytime programming on the various sports networks. I already gave you my quickie opinion on ESPN’s First Take. Some Regional Sports Networks will just air programming from FSN, but in the case of YES […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/17/2007
Day 5 of the WEEI/Dennis & Callahan lockout. It appears that there’s no end in sight to this. Over at Boston Sports Media Watch, David Scott says WEEI’s parent company, Entercom has trumped John Dennis & Gerry Callahan and their options are for the most part, limited except for a return to WEEI. Jessica Heslam […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/14/2007
Lost in the shuffle in the Dennis & Callahan lockout and the death of Phil Rizzuto is the news that WFAN has officially announced that Boomer Esiason will be the new host of its morning show. To help out, Craig Carlton, one of “The Jersey Guys” on New Jersey 101.5 will be co-host. The show […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/28/2007
Let’s give you a few more links before bowing out for the day. Earlier this week, I had a link to a very good article by Thomas Hauser on the fractured relationship between HBO and Larry Merchant. Now we have a second article on HBO Boxing, this time by Michael Swann for the site, 15Rounds.com. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/27/2007
Hello to you all. Sounds like the NBA is going to be announcing an eight year extension of its current agreement with Disney/TNT today. If you click on the link in the last sentence, Neil Best of Newsday says a conference call will be held later today. I’ll try to give a listen to it […]
