0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/22/2014
College Football Big 12 Live From Media Day — Fox Sports 2/Fox Sports Southwest, 10 a.m. 2014 College Football Media Days — ESPNU, 1 p.m. College Football Live — ESPN, 2:30 p.m. Top 25 College Football Games of 2013: No. 23: Alabama vs. Texas — ESPNU, 7 p.m. Top 25 College Football Games of 2013: […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/21/2014
Arena Football Tampa Bay Storm at Spokane Shock — ESPN2, 8:30 p.m. College Football Big 12 Live From Media Day — Fox Sports 2, 10 a.m. 2014 College Football Media Days — ESPNU, 1 p.m. College Football Live — ESPN, 2:30 p.m. Top 25 College Football Games of 2013: No. 25: Michigan State vs. Stanford […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/19/2014
Saturday, July 19 Arena Football San Antonio Talons at Los Angeles KISS — CBS Sports Network, 10 p.m. Australian Rules Football St. Kilda Saints vs. Fremantle Dockers — Fox Sports 2, 2:30 a.m. Greater Western Sydney Giants vs. Geelong Cats — Fox Soccer Plus, 5:30 a.m. Port Adelaide Power vs. Melbourne Demons — Fox Soccer […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/18/2014
As reported by Matt Yoder at Awful Announcing on Thursday, Comcast has picked up SEC Network and will make it available on its Xfinity platforms plus all TV Everywhere apps including Xfinity TV Go and the WatchESPN app. Up until now, pick ups for SEC Network had been going very slowly with only AT&T U-Verse […]
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Boxing Friday Night Fights, Huntington, NY Jr. Welterweights Karim Mayfield vs. Emmanuel Taylor — ESPN2, 8 p.m. Golden Boy Live, San Francisco, CA Lighweights Mercito Gesta vs. Luis Arceo — Fox Sports 1, 10 p.m. CFL Toronto Argonauts at Ottawa Redblacks — TSN/ESPN3, 7 p.m. Hamilton Tiger-Cats at Calgary Stampeders — TSN/ESPN2, 10 p.m. College […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/17/2014
Last week, word surfaced that Morning Drive co-host Holly Sonders was leaving Golf Channel and would join Fox Sports after contract talks with NBC broke down. Sonders joined Golf Channel back in 2011 to launch Morning Drive with her now-husband Erik Kuselias and Gary Williams. While everything was reported and Golf Channel confirmed her departure, […]
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CFL Edmonton Eskimos at Winnipeg at Blue Bombers — TSN/ESPN2, 8:30 p.m. College Baseball Cape Cod League Brewster Whitecaps at Hyannis Harbor Hawks — Fox College Sports Atlantic, 6 p.m. College Football SEC Media Days — ESPNU, 10 a.m. College Football Live — ESPN2, 2:30 p.m. Cycling Tour de France Stage 12: Bourg-en-Bresse to Saint-Étienne […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/16/2014
As much as we pick on the MLB All-Star Game for what’s wrong, we may finally be seeing something right about the exhibition game that counts for something (we can debate that until the cows come home). For the second straight year, the All-Star Game saw its viewership increase. In 2014, Fox garnered an average […]
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In a very long press release, NBC has issued the schedule for the first three months of the English Premier League. The new season begins on Saturday, August 16 at 7:45 a.m. ET when Manchester United takes on Swansea City. Then that will be followed by five matches in the 10 a.m. ET window. One […]
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College Baseball Cape Cod League Harwich Mariners at Yarmouth-Dennis Red Sox — Fox College Sports Atlantic, 5 p.m. College Football SEC Media Days — ESPNU, 10:30 a.m. College Football Live — ESPN, 2:30 p.m. Inside College Football — CBS Sports Network, 8 p.m. Cycling Tour de France Stage 11: Besançon to Oyonnax — NBCSN, 8 […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/15/2014
This coming from the Wall Street Journal today (behind the dreaded paywall). The NBA is looking to double its current rights fees from partners ESPN and Turner Sports. Combined, they pay $930 million annually. ESPN/ABC airs 75 regular season games and 25 postseason contests including the Finals. TNT airs 52 regular season games and another […]
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College Football SEC Media Days — ESPNU, 10 a.m. College Football Live — ESPN, 2:30 p.m. Inside College Football: Summer Special — CBS Sports Network, 9 p.m. Cycling Tour de France Rest Day — NBCSN, 8 p.m. Golf The Open Championship, Royal Liverpool, Hoylake, England Live From Royal Liverpool: Tiger Woods Press Conference — Golf […]
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As Univision ends its long association with the World Cup dating back to 1972, it goes out on top with its most-viewed Final in the network’s history. The Final between Germany and Argentina drew 9.2 million total viewers and an impressive five million in the key 18-49 age demographic. For Univision, the entire month of […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/14/2014
I never would have thought in a million years that the World Cup would see huge numbers, however, throw the baby out with the bath water this year. ESPN did a tremendous job in marketing the World Cup. The U.S. men’s national team became a huge story and for one month, the networks of ESPN […]
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Now that the World Cup is over, it appears the networks have decided to make moves in anticipation of the NFL and other sports. A flood of sports media news is coming into the Fang’s Bites inbox and this is one of the bigger stories to happen over the last couple of months. Sports Illustrated’s […]
