Let’s do a notebook on this Thursday morning.
SHAMELESS PLUG
Your humble blogger was interviewed by BBC Sportshour which is aired Saturdays on the BBC World Service. Host Caroline Barker talked with yours truly about ESPN’s Stuart Scott and his legacy. The program will be heard at 10 a.m. in the UK which means 5 a.m. ET in the United States. That might too early for you if you want to listen live, but it will be archived on the show’s website for 30 days and I’ll provide a link which the show’s producer will provide when it becomes available.
Let’s move to the linkage.
LINKAGE
Jeanine Poggi from Advertising Age says at this late juncture, NBC is not yet sold out for the Super Bowl.
Also from Ad Age, E.J. Schultz gives us a preview of the Bud/Bud Light ads for the Super Bowl.
Emily Steel of the New York Times writes that Bud’s parent company, Anheuser-Busch is targeting millennials with its Super Bowl ads.
Michelle Castillo of Adweek looks at the Wix.com Super Bowl ad which features some former NFL players.
At the Sherman Report, Ed Sherman feels it’s time for the Baseball Hall of Fame voting to expand to broadcasters instead of restricting it to just writers.
Hayden Bird of BostInno feels an anti-Baltimore Ravens song performed by WEEI nighttime host Mikey Adams goes over the line.
R. Thomas Umstead of Multichannel News says ESPN has commissioned short films from actress Eva Longoria and Marvel Entertainment.
Sony chronicles its first 4K broadcast test during a recent Los Angeles Lakers game.
Austin Karp at Sports Business Daily notes that viewership for the 2014 NFL regular season was relatively flat compared to last season.
Noted soccer journalist Jonathan Tannenwald of Philly.com is on top of the 2015 MLS national TV schedule on the ESPN family of networks, Fox Sports and Univision’s channels.
At Sports Media Watch, Paulsen says the Outback Bowl has become the most-watched event in ESPN2’s history.
David Barron of the Houston Chronicle writes that local sports radio ratings were down in December for the third straight month.
And I’ll wrap up the linkage with a story I wrote for Awful Announcing asking if ESPN is about to throw its hat into the daily fantasy game ring.
Cutting the notebook short today. I’m out for most of the day and as we are now more than 24 hours past the senseless Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris where 12 people died, Je Suis Charlie. We are all Charlie today.
Have a good Thursday.
