It’s Thursday already? Man, this week is flying by fast. Let’s do some linkage. We begin with Richard Deitsch of Sports Illustrated who says Keith Olbermann was contrite when his return to ESPN2 was announced. Jason McIntyre of The Big...
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It’s now time to hand out the hardware for the 6th Annual Fang’s Bites NFL TV Awards. On Christmas Day, I listed the nominees for this season’s awards. Now, we have the winners for the 2012 regular season. Best Play-by-Play:...
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Merry Christmas! Happy to provide you with the nominees for this year’s NFL TV Awards. Last year’s nominees ended up this way. And later, this was the result for the 2011 season. Let’s take a look at the nominees in...
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With Christmas Eve falling on a Monday, the NFL decided to schedule ESPN’s final game of the 2012 season on a Saturday night which is tonight. It’s like the old days when ESPN had the Sunday night package and used...
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All Times Eastern NFL Viewing Maps (the506.com) Saturday, December 22 Studio & Pregame Shows Monday Night Countdown — ESPN, 7 p.m. NFL Total Access — NFL Network, 7 p.m. NFL Total Access: Postgame — NFL Network, 11:30 p.m. 8:30 p.m....
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Let’s take a look at the announcers ESPN will utilize for college basketball this season. Dan Shulman and Dick Vitale remain the top team as they’ll major ACC and Saturday primetime games together. Dave O’Brien gets an upgrade as he’ll...
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I’m going to make a concerted effort to do linkage regularly again. It’s the reason why I started Fang’s Bites back in 2007 and I was able to do the links daily, even on weekends. But lately, my schedule has...
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This being the last Sunday of 2012 without the NFL, let’s go over a few tweaks to the television experience this season. SUNDAY LATE AFTERNOON GAMES START AT 4:25 P.M. ET After numerous complaints about breaking away from NFL cut-ins...
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I need to clear my brower of links I was hoping to get to sometime over the last few days. Since I couldn’t do the Friday megalinks or any Saturday morning linkage, I’ll do some Sunday evening leftover links. Consider...
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This was compiled by the fine people at ESPN. Here’s the list of Monday Night Football announcing teams dating back to when the series began on ABC in 1970. Since ESPN took over production in 1998, there has been a...
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Due to crazy personal schedules on Tuesday and Wednesday, I wasn’t able to update the site as much as I would like. I apologize to you as I’ve been trying to keep you apprised of the latest sports media news....
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Linkage has been scarce around the site this week, but I should be able to get a good set of megalinks in today as we head into NCAA Tournament Selection Sunday. You deserve the links and I thank you for...
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The ESPN Front Row blog put out an interesting slideshow narrated by Monday Night Football voice Mike Tirico on the machinations behind the production of each game. There are some very good pictures of meetings, the setup and the people...
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With this being Columbus Day, it’s a holiday for some of you. Not for me, but for some. I hope you’re able to enjoy the day. Let’s do some links. Sports Business Journal has a look at some of the...
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After a week off due to Hurricane Irene issues, the Sports Media Weekly podcast returns with a heavy hitter in tow. I’m not talking about myself or Keith Thibault of Sports Media Journal, I’m talking about our guest, the great...
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Didn’t have time to do megalinks during the day as I was trying to get some end of the month/beginning of the month stuff done at the office. Time to get linkage in while I can. The Weekend Viewing Picks...
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For the first time, Keith Thibault of Sports Media Journal and I had a guest for the entire podcast. We talked with James Andrew Miller, the co-author of “Those Guys Have All The Fun: Inside The World at ESPN.” We...
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Been working on a specification that’s taking way to long to finish, so I’m doing linkage while I can. We’ll begin with the ESPN Poynter Institute Review blog which takes ESPN.com to task for not vetting a post that was...
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With The Masters® about to begin in earnest tomorrow, ESPN’s golf analysts spoke with the media to talk about their picks to win and how this year’s field will do at Augusta. This is quite long. So as not to...
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Ok, let’s provide you with some linkage that’s been missing since early Friday. I was hoping to complete the megalinks, but was out for most of the day helping the family with some issues, then working all day on Saturday...
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Ok, I’ve writing posts for Thursday and Friday, days which I’ll be away and attending a wedding. So they’ll automatically publish so keep your feeds updated. I hope you will enjoy them. They’ll certainly have you debating. Now to the...
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ESPN is really happy over its Sports Emmy nominations including those for ABC, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPN.com and ESPN Deportes. Overall, the nods total over 50 which is quite impressive. Here’s the release. ESPN, Inc. – Industry-Leading 54 Sports Emmy Nominations...
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I have some releases to post and then I will shut down for the rest of the night. No particular theme. Starting with CBS College Sports and the programming it will carry tomorrow. CBS COLLEGE SPORTS NETWORK FEATURES ACTION PACKED...
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And I have some ESPN releases. Crazy day today. It all started around 9:25 this morning when Comcast and NFL Network announced an agreement and it hasn’t stopped since. I may have to work through lunch break. Insane. Three ESPN-centric...
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Well, it’s a drab day in Southern New England, lots of rain and plenty of overcast skies, plus people all go to the Post Office at the same time to send out packages. It’s never fun waiting at the Post...
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We’ve got a few more links for you on this mid-day Wednesday. The Sports Business Daily/Journal’s Olympics website reports that NBC’s ratings for the Olympics have held steady through Monday. Tripp Mickle and Jay Weiner discuss the possibilities of Olympic...
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Here we go with your links today. Let’s get started. With USA Today’s Michael Hiestand talks about CBS Sports taking back Dan Fouts after a stint at ESPN/ABC and bringing in Warren Sapp for Inside the NFL. Paul J. Gough...
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As I’m trying to wrap a few loose ends before calling it a day, let me give you a few links. Newsday’s Neil Best after not blogging on Monday returns to blogging on Tuesday. He has a couple of ESPN-related...
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I was trying to be creative but with my brain fried already this morning, that’s the best I could do. Sorry. Let’s just do the links. Bill Doyle of the Worcester Telegram & Gazette says CBS Sports’ Nick Faldo is...
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Time for me to give you the links. Sorry about the delays. Newsday’s Neil Best talks about ESPN crashing The Masters party. Neil has the winners in the sports category of the New York Emmy Awards. Neil has noticed that...
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