Ok, I have some free time to do some linkage now. I was hoping to get this posted in the morning, but recently, weekends have become busier than my workweek. I really don’t understand how this happened. However, with the...
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31Jul
Monthly Archives: July 2011
This week, NFL Network has been in Free Agent Frenzy mode, but starting on Monday, it’ll change gears as it will transition into the Pro Football Hall of Fame Inductions in Canton, OH next Saturday night. And NFL Network will...
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Both HBO Sports and NFL Films announced that due to the NFL lockout, there won’t be a Hard Knocks series for this season, but to help fans get their reality training camp fix, both companies have said that there will...
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On Sunday, “MLB on TBS” will be at the park formerly known as New Comiskey for the Battle of the Sox, Red vs. White, Boston vs. Chicago. Ernie Johnson Jr. will call this game and he’ll be paired with Hall...
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Today and tomorrow, CBS Sports continues its coverage of the PGA Tour with The Greenbrier Classic live from the Old White course in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. Jim Nantz is back on board after a week off and he’ll...
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I’ll post two press releases that pertain to The Group, one for NBC Sports and the other for Versus. One has to do with the U.S. Senior Open and the other to the second installment of Summer at Saratoga. You...
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I’m waiting to go to work and with my computer in my briefcase, I’ll blog from the iPad. Posting this press release from NFL Network about its ratings for the end of the lockout this week. Compared to the same...
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On Thursday, July 28, I had the opportunity to go to ESPN to take part in a mini-focus group involving several producers and executives from the network. Along with your humble blogger, also invited to take part were Rachel Cohen...
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Fox Saturday Baseball is back with three more games being aired across the country and split three ways. And as the network airs the Cubs at St. Louis, it’s a home game for Joe Buck so he returns after a...
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During a live look-in on The Dan Patrick Show, show blogger Andrew Perloff, a.k.a. McLovin was protesting how Dan gave credit to Director of Operations Seton O’Connor credit for breaking the Chad Ochocinco to the New England Patriots story on...
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I’m hoping to get this entire Megalink session finished in one sitting. It’s been a crazy day thus far. Of course, all of your weekend sport and entertainment programming are featured in the Weekend Viewing Picks. Let’s get to the...
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29Jul
Saturday, July 30 Golf PGA Tour: Greenbrier Classic, 3rd round — Golf Channel, 1 p.m./CBS, 3 p.m. U.S. Senior Open, 3rd round — NBC, 3 p.m. Women’s Open Championship, 3rd round — ESPN, 10 a.m. Horse Racing Summer at Saratoga...
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Golf PGA Tour: Greenbrier Classic, 2nd round — Golf Channel, 3 p.m. U.S. Senior Open, 2nd round — ESPN2, 3 p.m. Women’s Open Championship, 2nd round — ESPN, 9 a.m. Minor League Baseball Cape Cod League All-Star Game — Comcast...
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28Jul
Today, I’ll be at a secret location in CT. It has to do with sports. It’s at a company that has four letters and is located in the central part of the state. The company was the subject of a...
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This just in from the Big Ten Network, a.k.a. “BTN”, a new “TV Everywhere” service that selected cable and satellite subscribers that will offer the authenticated channel on the internet, iPad and iPhone. Thus far, three cable and satellite providers...
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College Football Big Ten Football Media Day — Big Ten Network, 11 a.m. College Football Media Days — ESPNU, 11 a.m. & 4:30 p.m. Golf PGA Tour: Greenbrier Classic, 1st round — Golf Channel, 3 p.m. U.S. Senior Open, 1st...
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Ah, another podcast where we get another heavy hitter in the world of sports media. Our guest this week is Fox NFL Sunday host Curt Menefee. Before we get to Curt, Keith Thibault of Sports Media Journal and I discussed...
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We have what’s on tap for NFL Network as Free Agent Frenzy continues from now until the first exhibition games are played next week. NFL NETWORK & NFL.COM PROGRAMMING NOTES (7/27 – 8/2) FREE AGENCY FRENZY FRIDAY ON NFL NETWORK...
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Once again, you must credit Pac-12 Conference Commissioner Larry Scott for thinking outside the box. Instead of signing one company to run a Pac-12 Network, Scott gets four companies on board to create six regional sports networks that will offered...
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We have this release which discusses ESPN’s extensive and comprehensive 2011-12 college football schedule. I still can’t believe there will be over 400 games across ESPN’s platforms, but that’s the day and age we live in. Let’s take a look...
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There was a time when ESPN had less than 100 college football games a season. But with ESPN programming itself, ABC, ESPN2, ESPNU, Big East Network, SEC Network, ESPN Plus MAC games and ESPN3.com, the total has risen to more...
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This just in from Fox Sports Media Group, the six announcing teams for college football this season. Of course, they’re led by Gus Johnson and Charles Davis on FX. Craig Bolerjack moves from CBS Sports to Fox Sports Net where...
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Very rarely do I ask you to do anything. I am now. Blogs with Balls has announced its inaugural Untitled Sports Media Awards Project or #USMAP for short. There are several categories and I would like your help in getting...
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On Tuesday, I did the links in the evening, but today, the linkage is coming out early. Let’s get to them. Michael Hiestand of USA Today writes that Fox plans to use its college football sideline reporter more as an...
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After being teased with a one month trial back in September of 2009 when Versus was pulled from DirecTV, Universal Sports is now on the satellite provider full-time as of today. The channel will be in the provider’s Sports Pack...
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If you’re looking to get a soccer fix after the Women’s World Cup earlier this month, there’s the MLS All-Star Game being played in Harrison, NJ tonight. ESPN2 will carry the game and it will have plenty of international stars...
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On this one year to the 2012 London Olympics, Canada’s Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium has released the hosts for CTV/TSN/RDS/Rogers Sportsnet/V and some of the announcers/analysts for selected sports. Of course, the main host for CTV will be Brian Williams,...
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At 8 p.m. Eastern time, all of NBCUniversal’s 20 networks will air this video as a way to inform viewers that one year from today, 366 days from now (2012 is a leap year, don’t forget), that NBC will launch...
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College Football Media Days — ESPNU, 1 p.m. MLB American League Anaheim Angels at Cleveland — Fox Sports West, noon Seattle at New York Yankees — Root Sports Northwest/YES, 1 p.m. Detroit at Chicago White Sox — Fox Sports Detroit/Comcast...
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Man, this has gone on much longer than I thought. When I started this whole series, I thought I could do it all in one sitting, but boy, was I wrong. It’s now spanned eight installments and will actually have...
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