0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/20/2011
We have the final numbers on Game 1 of the World Series. Fox received an 8.7 rating with a 14 share for the opening game of the Fall Classic between Texas and St. Louis. That’s down 2% from last year’s Game 1 between Texas and San Francisco. Overall, 14.2 million people watched Game 1. Fox […]
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I’ll give you some linkage. Won’t be able to give you a whole set, but I’ll give you what I can as I have to do the Friday features, Primetime & Late Night Viewing Picks, College Football Viewing Picks, NFL Viewing Picks and Weekend Viewing Picks tonight. I won’t be able to blog extensively on […]
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The overnight primetime ratings are in for the networks. As expected, Game 1 of the World Series saw lower ratings than last year, a 9.6 rating, however, Fox did win the night which is more important for the network. Ratings for the games may go down year-to-year, but the network wants the win in the […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/19/2011
I appreciate you still visiting Fang’s Bites as I’ve been trying to keep the site updated for you. Linkage has been scarce since Sunday. Been busy helping my sister with her son and then I was out for most of the morning. Time to provide you with some linkage. Michael Hiestand of USA Today says […]
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Chris “Mad Dog” Russo of Sirius XM’s Mad Dog Radio will do his show, “Mad Dog Unleashed” live from Busch Stadium in St. Louis before Games 1 and 2 of the World Series, today and tomorrow. Mad Dog will talk with players and writers during his show which airs from 2-7 p.m. ET. WHO: Sirius […]
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The Fox Sports crew for the World Series held its own media conference call on Tuesday with the men who will call the Fall Classic including Joe Buck, Tim McCarver, Eric Karros and Chicago White Sox catcher A.J. Pierzynski. Also on hand to discuss Fox’s coverage was Fox Sports Media Group’s Vice Chairman Ed Goren […]
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On Tuesday, the Baseball Tonight crew talked with reporters via a media conference call about the World Series that begins tonight. Analysts John Kruk and Curt Schilling held court along with guest analyst Ozzie Guillen, the manager of the Florida Marlins. They talked about a whole host of subjects that will face both the Texas […]
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In this next sequence, I’ll be posting a few World Series-related press releases before moving to the links this morning. As the World Series begins tonight, ESPN brings in Florida Marlins manager Ozzie Guillen as a guest analyst for Baseball Tonight. Guillen had been a guest analyst for Fox during its World Series coverage in […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/18/2011
The Fall Classic begins Wednesday on Fox and it means that Joe Buck and Tim McCarver will team up for their 14th World Series together (the last 12 consecutively) bringing out the worst in each other. The Texas Rangers will hope the 2nd straight year in the World Series as American League champions will be […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/9/2011
Today, I was all over the place going in between two offices, heading to see a client and running through Northern Rhode Island for no good reason. But I’m trying to do some megalinkage after not being able to do them last week so let’s not delay any further. Check out the Weekend Viewing Picks […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/23/2011
Let’s provide a few links on this Thursday. Another rainy day in Southern New England. What joy. R. Thomas Umstead of Multichannel News reports that HBO Pay Per View has signed Floyd Mayweather to his next fight in September. Anthony Crupi at Adweek writes that the NBC Sports Group will make GolfChannnel.com into a more […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/22/2011
The last couple of days have killed me going to New York on Friday for business then having to go to work on Saturday preventing me from really reacting to the Dick Ebersol resignation. I will do a Sunday thoughts column today and also start answering the mailbag. Good questions from all of you. If […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/14/2010
In the infancy of television, networks and stations never thought to keep their programming for historical records. Back then, programs were aired and forgotten, or if they were recorded either via Kinescope or the first videotapes, they were erased or stored and quickly forgotten. That is the case with many early televised sporting events like […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/9/2010
It’s been crazy at work dealing with clients and crazy architects. Now let me see if I can squeeze in some linkage for you. We’re dealing with the aftermath of ESPN letting go its Sunday Night Baseball team of Jon Miller and Joe Morgan. No matter what you think of Joe Morgan and most of […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/3/2010
Let’s do some linkage. By the way, do you hear that? That’s the sound of your TV and radios being political ad-free today! Nice, isn’t it? Goodness, they’ve been running all summer long through the fall and they’ve been absolutely maddening. Glad to see that we get relief from the negative ads. Now we can […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/2/2010
We have the final Fox Sports World Series ratings. And while it may not have defeated Sunday Night Football and Dancing With the Stars, the World Series can still pull in viewers, an estimated 15 million watched Monday night as the Giants won their first Championship since moving to San Francisco in 1958. According to […]
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Got the overnight ratings for the World Series from MLB. Fox garnered at 10.6 rating with a 16 share, but it was not enough to beat ABC’s ratings juggernaut Dancing With the Stars with a 10.8/17. Baseball did beat Monday Night Football on ESPN which received an 8.6. The entire five game series will finish […]
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Now that baseball is done, and doesn’t it seem right that it’s over by Election Day (Go vote!), it’s time to shift focus totally to the NFL, college football, NHL and college basketball, not necessarily in that order. Of course, there’s the baseball Hot Stove which now begins in earnest today with free agency, but […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 11/1/2010
We’ll get the Game 5 numbers tomorrow, but MLB and Fox are talking about the Game 4 ratings from Sunday. MLB says despite the “competition” from the NFL, the ratings for the Fall Classic were continually going up through four games. Let’s check this out. WORLD SERIES RATINGS GROWING The 2010 World Series ratings are […]
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Plenty of things going on as we have hit November. In addition, we’re getting
