We will wrap up the Sunday NFL pregame show quotage with NBC’s Football Night in America. As usual, Bob Costas tries to be snarky and it fails. You’ll see what I mean below. Take a look. “FOOTBALL NIGHT IN AMERICA”...
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Monthly Archives: September 2012
Tonight in advance of the Sunday Night Football game between the New York Football Giants and the Philadelphia Eagles, NBC’s Bob Costas talks with the Giants’ Justin Tuck and Osi Umenyiora, then with Philadelphia’s Michael Vick. Here’s a preview through...
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Now to ESPN’s quotage and that will conclude the early Sunday NFL pregame stuff. Here we go. ESPN’s Sunday NFL Countdown Notes and Quotes: Week 4 ESPN’s Sunday NFL Countdown host Chris Berman and analysts Cris Carter, Mike Ditka, Tom...
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Now we move on the NFL Today on CBS as we continue the Sunday NFL pregame quotage. Some news made as CBS NFL insider Jason La Canfora reported that the NFL still wants to push an 18 game schedule knowing...
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Now to Fox NFL Sunday and I’ll provide a couple of videos from today’s show as well. FOX NFL SUNDAY NOTES – 9/30/12 Johnson: Goodell Stuck a Fork in the Saints Before the Season Even Started Pereira’s Advice to Returning...
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The Sunday NFL pregame quotage press releases are starting to trickle in. We have this from NFL Network in regards to NFL GameDay Morning as hosted by Rich Eisen and joined by a cast of 20,000 analysts. This is long....
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Here’s what Fox Sports is saying about Week 4. Plus we have announcing assignments and regional splits. It’s all below. FOX SPORTS NOTES, QUOTES & ANECDOTES NFL on FOX Doubleheader Sunday Undefeated Falcons Face Panthers at 1:00 PM ET Packers...
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Here are the NFL on CBS announcing assignments from Week 5 through Week 7. THE NFL ON CBS WEEK 5 – Oct. 7 – CBS DOUBLEHEADER 1:00 PM, ET starts: Cleveland @ N.Y. Giants — Greg Gumbel/Dan Dierdorf Miami @...
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Let’s provide you with the previews of the Sunday NFL pregame shows and of Week 4 of the NFL season. I’m too late for ESPN and NFL Network. I’ll provide you with CBS and Fox. First, NFL on CBS analysts...
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The next installment of NFL Network’s and NFL Films’ critically acclaimed documentary series will focus on the demise of the Cleveland Browns when owner Art Modell announced he was moving the team to Baltimore. It’s a painful memory for Browns...
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The final Saturday in Major League Baseball has Fox providing regional coverage of three games today, all in the American League. Joe Buck will not call a game today. Overall, he’s called 15 out of a possible 26 games, which...
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Today, NBC Sports Network has a college football doubleheader for Week 5. It’ll begin at noon ET with an Ivy League matchup between Penn and Dartmouth. Then at 3:30 p.m., NBCSN has the annual Atlanta Football Classic between Florida A&M...
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Let’s look at the games that will be aired on the CBS family of networks. Another week of the SEC on CBS and it will be Uncle Verne Lundquist, Gary Danielson and Tracy “The Wolf” Wolfson at Athens, GA calling...
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Thanks to having all of the major cable and satellite providers on board for the first time, NFL Network had access to all of the subscribers for Thursday night’s game between the Cleveland Browns and the Baltimore Ravens. It paid...
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Saturday, September 29 Boxing Boxing After Dark: Edwin Rodriguez vs. Jason Escalara and two other bouts — HBO, 9:30 p.m. CFL Toronto at Winnipeg — TSN/ESPN3, 7 p.m. BC at Saskatchewan — TSN/ESPN3, 10 p.m. College Football Viewing Picks English...
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All Times Eastern NFL Viewing Maps (the 506.com) Byes: Indianapolis, Pittsburgh Pregame & Studio Shows First on the Field — NFL Network, 7 a.m. NFL Matchup — ESPN2, 8:30 a.m. NFL GameDay Morning — NFL Network, 9 a.m. Fantasy Football...
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Schedule Courtesy of Matt’s College Sports Pregame & Studio Shows College GameDay live from East Lansing, MI — ESPNU, 9 a.m./ESPN, 10 a.m. BTN Football Pregame — Big Ten Network, 11 a.m. ACC Blitz — ACC Network, noon College Football...
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Australian Rules Football Grand Final Hawthorn Hawks vs. Sydney Swans — Fox Soccer Plus, 11:30 p.m. AFL Football Pregame — Fox Soccer Plus, 9 p.m. CFL Montreal at Hamilton — TSN/ESPN3, 7 p.m. Edmonton at Calgary — TSN/ESPN3, 10 p.m....
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We knew this was coming, but today, we get the official announcement. Jim Rome will become part of CBS Sports Radio when it launches full-time on January 2, 2012. He’ll be in his traditional noon to 3 p.m. ET slot...
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With the rights to the two Wild Card Playoff games, along with rights to the entire League Division Series (albeit for two games that go to MLB Network) and the American League Championship Series, Turner Sports has made public the...
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Let’s take a look at the college football game with announcing assignments on the Fox Sports Media Group. Overall, 15 games aired either on Big Ten Network, Fox, FX, Fox College Sports and Fox Sports Net. Take a look at...
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Let’s look at the college football games ESPN will air this week. It all begins tonight with two games on the ESPN family, one on ESPNU and a Pac-12 game on ESPN. Interesting week, ABC has just two games, one...
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In November, ESPN will air live coverage of the annual New York City Marathon that goes through all five boroughs of the Big Apple. It marks the first time the marathon will be aired live across the country. NBC had...
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After marathon bargaining sessions that started Saturday and culminated late on Wednesday night, the National Football League and its Referee Association finally came together on a new eight year agreement. After the disaster on Monday night that gave Seattle a...
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College Football Morgan State at North Carolina A&T — ESPNU, 7:30 p.m. Wingate at Carson Newman — CBS Sports Network, 8 p.m. Stanford at Washington — ESPN, 9 p.m. CFB Daily — ESPNU, 1 p.m. College Football Live — ESPN,...
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Another edition of Sports Media Weekly. Keith Thibault of Sports Media Journal and I are back talking about the news of the week and we focus on what else? The replacement refs and the impact on the NFL’s ratings which...
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The NFL could have grown naked men as replacement refs and the league would still garner the ratings it generated this past week. Once again, CBS’ 4:25 p.m. ET national window and NBC’s Sunday Night Football were 1-2 respectively in...
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After First Take did a reboot from being the Today Show of sports television to All Debates, All the Time, the show has been in need of a host after anchors Dana Jacobsen and Jay Crawford either left or were...
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College Football CFB Daily — ESPNU, 1 p.m. College Football Live — ESPN, 3:30 p.m. Lemming Report — CBS Sports Network, 7:30 p.m. Tackling the Trends — CBS Sports Network, 8 p.m. College Volleyball Clemson at North Carolina — ESPNU,...
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I thought I was tired of the “Call Me Maybe” parodies and covers, but this one from sports radio station KFAN in the Twin Cities in Minnesota may be the best to finally put a rest to all of them....
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