After a whirlwind in the sports media world, things have been slowing down and maybe that’s a good thing. So in lieu of constantly posting press releases, I provide some linkage on this Tuesday.
Sports Illustrated’s Richard Deitsch looks at NBC’s approach for the Sunday night game between Denver and New England.
In Sports Business Journal, John Ourand notes that Turner Sports will give fans three options to watch the NCAA Men’s Final Four™.
Todd Spangler of Variety writes that DirecTV will allow out-of-home streaming for HBO, Showtime, beIN Sport, Tennis Channel and other networks on mobile and tablet app later this week.
Rick Kissell of Variety says ESPN’s Monday Night Football broadcast of New England at Carolina which featured a controversial, but correct call, is the highest-rated NFL game of the season on cable.
John Eggerton of Broadcasting & Cable tells us that the NFL won’t flex NY Giants at the DC NFL Team out of primetime in Week 13.
Mike Reynolds from Multichannel News reports that NBCSN and CBC will air a documentary series that will promote the NHL Stadium Series.
Peter Kafka at All Things Digital has MLB and the NFL threatening to take all of their games to cable if the Supreme Court doesn’t do something about Aereo which allows subscribers to watch broadcast channels on their tablets.
From TV NewsCheck, Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia will produce sportscasts inside corporate sister WCAU’s news programs. Comcast SportsNet Bay Area does this for NBC’s owned-and-operated KNTV in San Francisco.
Karen Hogan from Sports Video Group has more on the Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia/WCAU partnership.
Matt Yoder at Awful Announcing has some suggestions on how to fix MLS’ sinking TV ratings.
I have an article at AA on increased flexible scheduling in the NFL beginning in 2014.
Paulsen of Sports Media Watch says the primetime games in NFL Week 11 finished strong in the ratings.
Over at the Sherman Report, Ed Sherman congratulates HBO’s Real Sports for reaching a milestone.
Richard Sandomir of the New York Times looks at the new NHL documentary series.
Pete Dougherty of the Albany Times Union has your Week 13 college football schedule.
Keith Groller in the Allentown (PA) Morning Call notes the live game schedule for the local ESPN Radio station.
Bob Fernandez of the Philadelphia Inquirer has more on the Comcast SportsNet/WCAU partnership which will begin in January.
Laura Nachman tells us what this partnership means for the WCAU sports department.
David Zurawik from the Baltimore Sun says Ravens fans had their issues with CBS’ broadcast of the very long Chicago-Baltimore game on Sunday.
In the Washington Post’s DC Sports Bog, Dan Steinberg says former WaPo columnist Michael Wilbon was stunned at local reaction to the DC NFL Team’s loss to Philadelphia.
David Barron in the Houston Chronicle has a look at the weekend’s sports television ratings.
Tom Hoffarth in the Los Angeles Daily News has the Week 12 NFL schedule for SoCal.
And that will do us for linkage for now.
