I’m not going to go too wild on this. Other sites are doing similar posts as well. I’ll provide what I feel are the best calls in Sports Broadcasting this year. The only way to do this is to post...
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Monthly Archives: December 2011
New York regional sports network, MSG Network and its overflow channels, MSG Plus are expected to be pulled at midnight from Time Warner Cable systems. This coming directly from MSG which is encouraging viewers to find other providers to continue...
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Last night at the Insight Bowl between Iowa and Oklahoma, the overhead camera known as “SkyCam” or “CableCam” fell to the ground, narrowly missing a Hawkeye player. It also caused a delay. SkyCam has become standard on many football games...
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Time to provide you some links to close out 2011. Thanks for visiting the blog this year. I moved from my old Blogger site to a new server, only to get kicked off the new place because it couldn’t handle...
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Time for the Fang’s Bites Sports Media Year in Review. The year isn’t big enough for a Top Ten, but it is big enough for a Big Dozen. Let’s get to the list and we’ll count down from 12 and...
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Announced today by the National Hockey League, the Winter Classic Alumni Game featuring former New York Rangers and Philadelphia Flyers will be moved from its original 1 p.m. ET start time to 3 p.m. Saturday. Weather concerns were the main...
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30Dec
Saturday, December 31, 2011 College Basketball Viewing Picks College Football Texas Bowl, Houston, TX Texas A&M vs. Northwestern — ESPN, noon Sun Bowl, El Paso, TX Georgia Tech vs. Utah — CBS, 2 p.m. Liberty Bowl, Memphis, TN Cincinnati vs....
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NFL TV Coverage Maps (the506.com) Blackouts: None NFL GameDay Morning — NFL Network, 9 a.m. Fox NFL Sunday — Fox, noon 1 p.m. CBS Buffalo at New England — Don Criqui/Randy Cross Indianapolis at Jacksonville — Spero Dedes/Steve Beuerlein New...
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Schedule courtesy of Matt’s College Sports on TV Saturday, December 31, 2011 noon St. John’s at UConn — Big East Network (SNY/MASN) Louisville at Kentucky — CBS Virginia Tech at Oklahoma State — ESPN2 Austin Peay at Morehead State —...
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College Basketball Men’s Western Michigan at Duke — ESPN2, 7 p.m. Missouri at Old Dominion — ESPNU, 7 p.m. West Virginia at Seton Hall — ESPN2, 9 p.m. Southeastern Louisiana at Texas Tech — ESPNU, 9 p.m. Women’s Michigan State...
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As we approach the beginning of the Bowl Championship Series on Monday, ESPN will have three of its signature studio programs covering the five games. College GameDay, College Football Live and SportsCenter will all have a presence leading up to...
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A nice touch by ESPN to send this BCS Bowl Survival Guide to me. It provides you with ways to get caught up on the BCS, to learn the schools involved, how to get your BCS gear, etc., etc., etc....
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We know the NFL is the ratings king. We know that the NFL will top most of the 30 local markets if not all every week. For Christmas weekend, the NFL was #1 in all but one local market. That...
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Let’s give you some linkage on this Thursday. We begin with Fox NFL rules analyst Mike Pereira who doesn’t mince words on ESPN’s Jon Gruden. Bob’s Blitz reacts to Pereira’s strong post. Jill Goldsmith of Variety says the clock is...
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Boxing Best of 2011: Cotto vs. Margarito II — HBO, 11 p.m. College Basketball Men’s Florida at Rutgers — ESPN2, 7 p.m. Elon at North Carolina — ESPNU, 7 p.m. The Citadel at Tennessee — Fox College Sports Pacific/Fox Sports...
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We haven’t done Inside the NFL quotage in quite some time. Let’s rectify that right now. Jacksonville Jaguars running back Maurice Jones-Drew was the featured guest for this week. In addition, the crew of James Brown, Phil Simms, Cris Collinsworth...
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We have the NFL Network’s slate of programs from tonight through next Tuesday. Let’s see what’s in store. NFL NETWORK & NFL.COM PROGRAMMING NOTES (12/28 – 1/3) NFL GAMEDAY MORNING PREVIEWS COWBOYS-GIANTS FOR NFC EAST TITLE & PRESENTS SOUNDS OF...
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Once again, since Monday Night Football became a cable series in 2006, ESPN has seen it garner the highest ratings in primetime for the sixth straight year. The 17 games averaged an 8.4 rating throughout the season. Viewership averaged 13.25...
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This is a special Year-in-Review podcast. Keith Thibault and I look back at some of our best interviews from 2011. Over the past year, we interviewed quite a few guests and some heavy hitters in the Sports Media world. Keith...
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Ok, going to try to give you a full set of links today. Let’s get started. Sports Illustrated’s Richard Deitsch has his 2011 Media Awards. Very good list of people getting awards this year. Michael Hiestand from USA Today writes...
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The Chicago Bears-Green Bay Packers game on Christmas Night got a big viewership. NBC says the game received an average of 24 million viewers. Against weak competition on the other broadcast networks and the NBA on ESPN, Sunday Night Football...
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Our third straight NHL-centric post will deal with tonight’s episode of the critically-acclaimed HBO Sports 24/7 series on the Philadelphia Flyers and New York Rangers meeting at the Winter Classic. Tonight’s installment will entail with another week of preparation between...
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On New Year’s Eve, one of the fun features of the NHL Winter Classic is the alumni game featuring former players from the teams participating in the annual outdoor game. This year, with the New York Rangers taking on the...
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Back in 1972, a group of NHL All-Stars took on the powerful national team from the Soviet Union in an eight game series that was known as the Summit Series. Western media thought the Canadian team would walk over the...
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Universal Sports has already started to air the FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup season and it will continue all the way to the end at the World Cup Finals in Schladming, Austria in March. The World Cup season took a...
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College Basketball Men’s Northwestern at Ohio State — Big Ten Network, 5:30 p.m. Oklahoma vs. SMU at Dallas — ESPNU, 6:30 p.m. Seton Hall at Syracuse — Big East Network, 7 p.m. Villanova at West Virginia — Big East Network,...
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27Dec
Let’s do some linkage while I can. Again, I’ve been away from the computer for most of the morning. Too busy. Right after the end of the final Monday Night Football game of 2012 featuring Jon Gruden at the mic,...
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With New Orleans’ win over Atlanta on Monday Night Football, we now have the final Week 17 schedule in the League Where They Play For Pay. The last game’s starting time that was to be decided was Carolina at New...
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Last week, NBC Sports and the NHL held a joint media event at the famed 8H studios where Saturday Night Live is performed, to promote next week’s Winter Classic and the rebrand of Versus into NBC Sports Network right after...
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In what has become a signature event for NBC Sports, the network is getting ready for the 2012 NHL Winter Classic at Citizens Bank Park between the New York Rangers and Philadelphia Flyers. NBC will air the game live from...
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