Category: STO

Let’s do some linkage for you today. Austin Karp at Sports Business Daily notes that ESPN’s ratings in July dropped double digits in primetime. ESPN Ombudsman Robert Lipsyte talks about the poor timeslot for the Nine for IX documentary series,...
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Men’s Schedule Courtesy of Matt’s College Sports Announcing Assignments Courtesy of Eye on Sky and Air Sports Saturday, March 2 Pregame & Studio Shows College Gameday live from Los Angeles, CA — ESPNU, 10 a.m./ESPN, 11 a.m. Inside College Basketball...
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Men’s Schedule courtesy of Matt’s College Sports Announcing Assignments courtesy of Eye on Sky and Air Sports Saturday, February 22 Pregame & Studio Shows College GameDay live from Lexington, KY — ESPNU, 10 a.m./ESPN, 11 a.m. 75 Years of NCAA...
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Men’s Schedule Courtesy of Matt’s College Sports Announcing Assignments Courtesy of Eye on Sky and Air Sports Saturday, February 16 Pregame & Studio Shows College GameDay live from Lawrence, KS — ESPNU, 10 a.m./ESPN, 11 a.m. 75 Years of NCAA...
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I’m on the train heading from Kingston, RI to New York City. I’ll be at a sports media event at the world-famous CBS Broadcast Center. If you follow me on Twitter or on my Facebook page, I’ll be live tweeting...
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Time for the look back at the Year in Sports Media in 2012. Lots of great stuff. The year has been very interesting and we have seen a lot of things. Just doing a Top Ten is never enough for...
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It’s official. News Corp. has completed its purchase of regional sports network, Sports Time Ohio and it includes a long-term agreement for the rights to the Cleveland MLB Team. STO had held the rights since 2006. Previously, the rights had...
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With the proverbial Fiscal Cliff approaching in just a few days, Fox Sports and its owner, News Corp., was in a rush to get this deal done. It appears that Fox Sports will purchase Sports Time Ohio, owned by the...
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I’ll do a few links for you this evening. I’ll start with a strange story that surfaced today from a University of Maryland journalism class during which ESPN Vice President and Executive Editor John Walsh made some rather strange statements...
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Reuters reports that Fox Sports is going to announce possibly this week that it has purchased Sports Time Ohio and with it, the rights to the Cleveland MLB team. It would mark the second buy-in into a sports regional network...
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Let’s do some Tuesday links. Lots of stuff to get to. Michael Hiestand of USA Today writes that Bob Costas is receiving his share of criticism for his anti-gun commentary during halftime of Sunday Night Football. Busted Coverage has video...
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As I’m helping to watch my nephew today, I have a very short window to get links in before he wakes up so let’s get this done before I get delayed. The big story is the Jevon Belcher-Kasandra Perkins tragedy...
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Tuesday was an early Christmas for your humble blogger. Thanks to some Black Friday sales, I’ve been setting up a new iPad and a new laptop computer, so the posts were rather slim on Tuesday. To make up for that...
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Ok, let’s provide the college basketball tournament conference tournament schedules plus TV networks that will air the games. You’ll see each of the games included in the Primetime & Late Night Viewing Picks, but this is also a one stop...
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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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I couldn’t get to the Tuesday links as it got quite busy at work and at night, my boss gave me so many things to do that I didn’t finish until late. I’m trying to squeeze in some linkage here...
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I’m going to try to post some of the Friday megalinks. This won’t be an entire post. Unless something happens, I should be able to get most of them in. Of course, you can find the Weekend Viewing Picks for...
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Here are the Spring Training TV schedules for the American League Central Division. Again, all times are Eastern. Chicago White Sox (Comcast SportsNet Chicago unless indicated)Saturday, March 13 – Chicago Cubs vs. White Sox at Las Vegas, NV, 4 p.m.Monday,...
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As I’m in the home office today and also keeping track of Wimbledon thanks to the BBC, I’ll do some links for you. Newsday’s Neil Best says his newspaper’s website was all over the U.S. Open as well as the...
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After a week’s absence and the start of my massive computer problems, I give you the Friday megalinks. I appreciate your patience during this tough stretch for me. About another week and I should be back on track. Let’s go...
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Yes, it’s Friday, I have a dentist appointment and it’s time for me to do some links. Let’s get started. This weekend, the NCAA Tournament continues as the Sweet Sixteen will be reduced to the Elite Eight tonight. And after...
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Some links for you on this late Wednesday night heading into early Thursday morning. Larry Barrett of Multichannel News says NESN pulled primetime numbers in the early morning for the Red Sox opener on Tuesday against the A’s. Also from...
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Back to work for some of you. For those of us who have worked yesterday, it’s just another day of the grind. Some FYI. I’m working on a feature story that I’ll be bringing to you in the next day...
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The links are up late as I had to be in another location this morning and someone came to my office. I hate when routines are thrown off, but I give you the links now. Neil Best of Newsday chronicles...
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Listening to Scott Baio on the Howard Stern Show on Sirius Satellite Radio. The women he’s banged. If I only had half of his number, I’d be a very happy man. I started watching “Scott Baio is 45 … and...
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