I’ll give you some quick late night links as we head into the weekend.
The Schenectady Gazette’s Ken Schott writes in his blog that Versus is beginning to reap the benefits of having the NHL Playoffs.
NBC Sports talks about covering Game 5 of the New York Rangers-Pittsburgh Penguins series this Sunday.
Newsday’s Neil Best says Buzz Bissinger acknowledges that Will Leitch is actually a nice guy.
The Sports Media Watch has some ratings odds and ends. And the SMW notes that the NASCAR Nationwide Series race last week finished quite well in the ratings last weekend.
Ray Frager of the Baltimore Sun says the airing of dirty laundry of some sports celebrities this week was done by traditional media outlets, not blogs.
CNBC’s Darren Rovell writes that Maria Sharapova may be serving up some potential problems for the WTA down the line.
Ben Grossman of Broadcasting & Cable writes that HBO is showing the Oscar De La Hoya-Steve Forbes fight free of charge to subscribers.
John Consoli of Mediaweek reports that Turner Sports is teaming up with Applebee’s restaurants to make customized spots to run during TBS’s coverage of MLB Sunday Afternoon games. Awful Announcing isn’t too happy about this.
Todd Spangler of Multichannel News writes in his blog that it appears Comcast paid the San Francisco Giants $100 million to keep the team on its SportsNet Bay Area channel for 25 years.
Chris Pursell of TV Week writes in his Pressbox blog that the NFL got praise for shortening the Draft, but lost viewers in the process.
Stuart Levine of Variety says NBC is hoping to recoup most, if not all, of the $894 million rights fee paid to broadcast the Summer Olympics from Communist China.
ESPN previews the stories E:60 will air next Tuesday.
And that will do it. A look back at the last 12 months since I re-launched Fang’s Bites comes your way later this morning.
