Let’s provide some links now.
John Ourand and John Lombardo of Sports Business Journal write that local NBA TV ratings are up thus far.
Eric Fisher of SBJ writes that sports arenas have an issue with providing more bandwidth as fans demand wifi access.
Paul White at USA Today says the newly-renamed Miami Marlins are ready for their reality TV closeup.
Mike McCarthy at USA Today says Los Angeles Lakers radio voice John Ireland was busted by Jay Leno’s Show of Hacks for putting on makeup during a game.
Michael O’Connell at the Hollywood Reporter says thanks to the Daytona 500, Fox won Monday night’s ratings over strong network competition.
John Eggerton from Broadcasting & Cable reports on a sports fan lobbying group that’s asking the FCC to end the NFL’s archaic blackout policy.
Toni Fitzgerald from Media Life Magazine says despite lower ratings from last year, the NBA is pleased with the numbers for the All-Star Game.
Mihir Bose of the London (UK) Evening Standard looks at the upcoming bidding for the English Premier League TV rights by talking with an ESPN Europe executive. It’s expected that incumbents Sky Sports and ESPN will have to fend off a heated bid by Al-Jazeera.
Dan Fogarty of SportsGrid says Dan Patrick almost got into a heated exchange with David Letterman last night.
Sports Video Group says ESPNsoccernet has launched a new mobile app.
At Her Campus, Annie Wang talks with a close friend of Jeremy Lin’s on he views Linsanity in Communist China.
Richard Sandomir of the New York Times says reviews the upcoming ESPN documentary on the 20th anniversary of Magic Johnson’s announcement that he was HIV positive.
Newsday’s Neil Best notes that today ends a long streak for Jeremy Lin.
Pete Dougherty at the Albany Times Union says a local radio station will air a handful of Red Sox exhibition games.
Pete says this year’s MAAC Tournament will be online except for the finals.
Ken McMillan at the Middletown (NY) Times Herald-Record says the NBA’s pay per view League Pass package is free for this week.
Mel Bracht of the Daily Oklahoman notes that Oklahoma City was the 2nd highest rated local market for the NBA All-Star Game.
Bob Wolfley of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel says rain delay coverage of the Daytona 500 on Sunday scored well in Suds City.
And Bob says Green Bay Packers wide receiver Donald Driver is given good odds to win this season’s Dancing with the Stars competition.
Jay Posner of the San Diego Union-Tribune says Fox Sports San Diego has tapped a news anchor to become its first-ever Padres studio host.
Sam Farmer of the Los Angeles Times talks with ESPN college football analyst Ed Cunningham about winning the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature.
Bruce Dowbiggin at the Toronto Globe and Mail says Twitter scooped TV in breaking NHL trades yesterday.
The Canadian Sports Media Blog kept track of which Canadian networks RDS, Rogers Sportsnet or TSN broke the trades yesterday.
Ben Koo at Awful Announcing says ESPN ignored the NHL Trade Deadline yesterday.
Ty Duffy at The Big Lead explains why ESPN chose to ignore the deadline.
Steve Lepore at Puck The Media declares Rogers Sportsnet the winner in NHL Trade Deadline Day coverage.
In Tennis Space, former player Mark Petchey tells how he became a TV analyst.
Barry Petchesky of Deadspin gets an internal ESPN e-mail about Twitter.
Sports Media Watch looks at the Daytona 500’s ratings.
And that’s going to do it for now.
