Time to give you some press releases that were in the Fang’s Bites’ e-mail inbox.
First, from Comcast SportsNet New England, the Congressional Steroid Hearings featuring Roger Clemens and Brian McNamee will be shown live on Wednesday:
COMCAST SPORTSNET TO PROVIDE LIVE COVERAGE OF STEROID HEARINGS
BURLINGTON, MA – Comcast SportsNet will provide live coverage of the Congressional Steroid Hearings beginning at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 13. Comcast SportsNet will pickup CSN Mid-Atlantic’s coverage live from Capitol Hill and Bethesda, Md. and the coverage will include Roger Clemens and Brian McNamee testifying before Congress regarding their involvement in steroid usage within Major League Baseball.
Comcast SportsNet’s Kelli Johnson and Chris Miller will provide live on-site coverage and interviews from Capitol Hill. Acclaimed Major League Baseball reporter Ken Rosenthal and legal analyst Jack Burkmann will join Russ Thaler and Brent Harris in studio.
Highlights from Comcast SportsNet’s coverage from Capitol Hill on Wednesday include:
* Live coverage of testimony from Roger Clemens and Brian McNamee
* Analysis from FOXSports.com Senior Baseball Reporter Ken Rosenthal
* Kelli Johnson and Chris Miller live from Capitol Hill
* Timeline, statistics and graphical information throughout the live testimonies
Second, Comcast SportsNet says it’ll be live from Spring Training covering the Red Sox all next week:
COMCAST SPORTSNET PROVIDES SCENIC COVERAGE OF OPENING WEEK OF RED SOX SPRING TRAINING FROM FORT MYERS BEACH
RED SOX SPRING TRAINING FROM FORT MYERS BEACH
Gary Tanguay & Michael Felger to Host Unique Live Coverage All Week Featuring
Player and Coach Interviews from the Pink Shell Resort
BURLINGTON, MA – New Englanders are ready to move past the heartbreak of the Super Bowl and Comcast SportsNet has the perfect elixir, the region’s most distinctive coverage of the opening week of Red Sox Spring Training. While the network affiliates and other sports nets will provide the obligatory live or taped coverage from the ballpark, Mohegan Sun Sports Tonight will go live for the fifth consecutive year from the beauties of Fort Myers Beach.
Twice-a-night, Comcast SportsNet will take the players away from the ballpark and sit them down in front a live studio audience at the beautiful Pink Shell Resort. The end result is a week of shows that has the look and feel of no other network and generates some memorable moments, including Bronson Arroyo’s Boston music debut and the emergence of Cinco Ocho, Jonathan Papelbon.
Comcast SportsNet’s week-long coverage begins on Monday, February 18, and continues through Friday, February 22. In addition to player and coach interviews, Comcast SportsNet baseball contributors Sean McAdam, Rob Bradford and Joe Haggerty will weigh-in on the hot topics of the day. In addition, Dave Briggs will serve as Comcast SportsNet’s roving reporter covering a
ll the sites and sounds of Spring Training.
Monday, February 18
6:30 p.m. Mohegan Sun Sports Tonight – Live from the Pink Shell
10 p.m. Mohegan Sun Sports Tonight – Live from the Pink Shell
Tuesday, February 19
6:30 p.m. Mohegan Sun Sports Tonight – 1 hour live from Pink Shell
Wednesday, February 20
6:30 p.m. Mohegan Sun Sports Tonight – 1 hour live from Prink Shell
9:30 p.m. Mohegan Sun Sports Tonight – Live from Pink Shell
Thursday, February 21
6:30 p.m. Mohegan Sun Sports Tonight – 1 hour live from Pink Shell
10:00 p.m. Mohegan Sun Sports Tonight – Live from Pink Shell
Friday, February 22
6:30 p.m. Mohegan Sun Sports Tonight – 1 hour live from Pink Shell
9:30 p.m. Mohegan Sun Sports Tonight – Live from Pink Shell
Then, Fox Sports tells us that the NFL Pro Bowl on Sunday was the highest rated and viewed in 8 years:
2008 PRO BOWL ON FOX SCORES BIGGEST AUDIENCE
& HIGHEST RATING IN EIGHT YEARS
10 Million Viewers Witness NFC’s Come-From-Behind Victory
FOX Sports concluded its extraordinary 2007-08 NFL Super Bowl season on Sunday with strong viewership and ratings for the AFC/NFC Pro Bowl. The NFL All-Star Game posted an average audience of 10 million viewers, up an impressive +43% over last year’s game in prime time on CBS (6.9 million), making it the most-watched Pro Bowl since 2000 (13.2 million on ABC), according to national ratings released today by Nielsen Media Research.
Sunday’s game also earned a 6.3 household rating and 12 share, up a significant +37% (4.6/9) from 2007, and ranks as the highest-rated Pro Bowl since 2000 (8.6/15 on ABC).
The 2008 AFC/NFC Pro Bowl also posted notable year-to-year gains in key demographics including M18-34 (+59%, 4.3 vs. 2.7), M18-49 (+58%, 4.9 vs. 3.1), M25-54 (+58%, 5.2 vs. 3.3) and A18-49 (+57%, 3.6 vs. 2.3).
This year’s Pro Bowl on FOX out-rated some of the premier events in sports including the NBA Finals (6.2), the NCAA Tournament (6.1) and the final round of the PGA Championship (6.2).
There you have it.
