Time for your look ahead in the week in sports media. It’s going to be a busy seven days. GOLF The final Major of the year in the PGA Tour takes place at the Oak Hill Country Hill East Course...
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Category: ESPN2
This Sunday, ESPN’s daily soccer studio show will premiere and will take a regular weekday timeslot at 5:30 p.m. on ESPN2. On Sundays, the show will air at midnight on Sundays for an hour. Max Bretos who has been on...
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This from ESPN. As we approach college football season in August, we learn that the ESPN Family of Networks will air an amazing number of 69 weeknight and weekday games. The bulk of those games will be played on Thursday...
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I’ve been meaning to start a regular Monday feature and since Richard Deitsch has a weekly Monday column at SI.com and Tom Hoffarth has his Southern California Sports Calendar, I figured I would preview the upcoming week in the sports...
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Ok, time for some linkage on a Friday. Let’s get to this. Matt Yoder of Awful Announcing reports that NBC Sports Network, formerly Versus, also known as OLN, and once the Outdoor Life Network, will undergo yet another rebranding. Douglas...
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Well, here’s a shocker on a late Friday night. It appears “Olbermann” has made its first outside hire and it’s political/baseball statistician Nate Silver. The man who gained prominence using his statistical matrices to correctly call the 2008 and 2012...
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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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Let’s take a look where Keith Olbermann has worked over the years. It’s a very interesting timeline. 1976 — Reporter for United Press International. 1979 — Joins UPI Radio. 1980 — Joins the RKO Radio Network. 1981 — Joins CNN...
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Working on a story that will appear in Awful Announcing on the return of Keith Olbermann to ESPN2. In the interim, I’ll provide you with some Twitter reaction from some of Keithy’s former and upcoming ESPN colleagues. Interesting to see...
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Well, what was thought was truly impossible even as soon as last year has now become a reality, Keith Olbermann will officially return to ESPN2 on August 26 with the premiere of his new late night show titled “Olbermann” (besides,...
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Three different mainstream publications are reporting it and I received a “can’t comment” from an ESPN spokesman, which means this must be true. This is not a sign of the apocalypse nor does it mean that California is about to...
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ESPN has unveiled some new football shows that will premiere over the next couple of months. For starters, NFL Insiders which will be co-hosted by Chris Mortensen and Adam Schefter launches on Monday, August 5 at 3 p.m. ET on...
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Here’s a Fang’s Bites exclusive, at least until 2 p.m. ET today. ESPN has announced that it will carry 60 Canadian Football League games this season, 5 on ESPN2 and 55 online through ESPN3. Since 2008, ESPN has carried CFL...
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ESPN has decided to move the two Group A Confederation Cup matches for Saturday. Italy vs. Brazil which was originally scheduled to air on ESPNews will now air on ESPN at 2:30 p.m. ET. Japan-Mexico which is totally meaningless for...
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Wimbledon is one of the greatest events in the sporting calendar. And the organizers of the tournament try to keep things special. There’s the strawberries and cream served. Players have to wear white. There’s no play in the middle Sunday...
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Lots of stuff to get to and so little time. Here’s the linkage. Sports Illustrated’s Richard Deitsch has his regular Monday sports media column in which he discusses a new hire for NBC’s Football Night in America, ESPN’s World Cup...
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Thanks to an enterprising fan who looked at the WatchESPN schedule for June, he discovered that ESPN2 will be airing a handful of CFL games this summer. Beginning June 29 and going into July, ESPN2 will have a slate of...
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For the 34th consecutive year, the networks of ESPN will air the College World Series from Omaha, NE. The eight college baseball teams left in the NCAA Division I Baseball Championship will vie for the opportunity to play in the...
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Ok. I’ve owed you some Sports Media Thoughts for a long time and they’re way overdue. I’ll provide three today and hope to write another post before I head to a wedding this weekend. Needless to say, I won’t be...
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The NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament continues this weekend with the last step before the College World Series in Omaha, NE. All of the games will be on television. The eight Super Regional sites will be covered either through ESPN,...
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Trying to provide two consecutive days of linkage, something I haven’t done in quite some time. Here we go. Pete Iacobelli of the Associated Press writes that Fox is still investigating the incident that caused a rope supporting its overhead...
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This coming directly from the Pac-12 Conference. This is an aggregate TV schedule of the football games that will be carried on the CBS Sports Network, ESPN Family of Networks, Fox/Fox Sports 1, NBC and the Pac-12 Networks. NBC will...
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Being the secondary cable rightsholder, ESPN2′s coverage from Roland Garros in Paris will begin at 5 a.m. ET during the first week of the French Open. For the second week, ESPN2′s coverage resumes on the second Monday of the second...
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ESPN2 said its goodbyes today to the English Premier League. In its three years, ESPN2 has had a few good matches and most of them called by the great Ian Darke and Steve McNanaman. In the final moments of its...
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Unveiled at the ESPN Upfronts in New York City is a new daily soccer-centric show. Titled ESPN FC after the website of the same name, the show will air Sunday through Friday, mostly on ESPN2. It will premiere on August...
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Let’s go over the entire list of those who won hardware in the 34th Annual Sports Emmy Awards. The awards were handed out at Frederick P. Rose Hall at Lincoln Center in New York. Overall, NBC Sports Group has reason...
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ESPN took home five Sports Emmy Awards during Tuesday’s ceremonies. The Alleged Worldwide Leader won for E:60, Outside the Lines and one for ESPN 3D as well. We take a look at what ESPN is saying about its awards. ESPN...
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The 34th Annual Sports Emmy Awards were handed out tonight in New York at Frederick P. Rose Hall at the Time Warner Center. Thanks to Josh Krulewitz, ESPN public relations maven, I can list the individual winners. I’ll have a...
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Thanks to six series in the NBA Playoffs extending to six games, there’s the potential for some of them heading to the full seven games. But before that happens, ESPN and ESPN2 have a rare harmonic convergence of airing four...
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The ESPN family of networks will be back with seven NBA Playoff games starting this Friday through Sunday. In addition, several commentators will work multiple games during that three day stretch. ESPN and ESPN2 will combine for three games on...
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