Here are the tip times for the Final Four®. Wichita State-Louisville tips off first and that will be followed by Michigan-Syracuse. 2013 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Final Four Tips Off Saturday, April 6, on CBS Turner Sports and CBS...
Read more »
I hope you’re having a good Easter. The CBS/Turner combo tells us that Saturday’s Elite Eight Regional Finals were up slightly from last year. This despite some ugly basketball especially in the first game between Syracuse and Marquette. Saturday’s two...
Read more »
Opening Week in Major League Baseball is coming up. MLB Network will air 26 games in the opening month of the 2013 season. On Tuesday, April 2, Bob Costas, Jim Kaat and Sam Ryan will be in Los Angeles for...
Read more »
Another press release from CBS/Turner Sports must mean good news for the NCAA Tournament and it does. Friday’s Sweet 16 action which included an exciting overtime Kansas-Michigan game which ended in a Wolverines win, scored in the ratings and in...
Read more »
This from Major League Baseball, we learn that combined through the ESPN family of networks, Fox Sports, MLB Network and TBS, a total of 22 teams will get their fun in the sun so to speak on national television. This...
Read more »
Before the NCAA Tournament Regional Final action today and tomorrow, CBS will offer the women’s and men’s final of the Sony Open. Today at noon ET, it’s the women as #1 seed Serena Williams takes on the #3 seed Maria...
Read more »
From the CBS Sports/Turner Sports consortium, we have Friday’s overnight ratings for the Regional Semifinal action and thanks to a Kansas-Michigan game that went to overtime on TBS, the NCAA Tournament posted the highest overnight ratings for that night since...
Read more »
Tip times are set for Sunday’s Elite Eight. The South Regional Final will tip on CBS at 2:20 p.m. ET. That will be followed by the Midwest Regional Final, also on CBS, at 5:05 p.m. Details are below. TURNER SPORTS...
Read more »
Saturday, March 30 Arena Football Iowa Barnstormers at New Orleans VooDoo — CBS Sports Network, 7 p.m. Boxing Boxing After Dark, Las Vegas, NV Junior Welterweights: Brandon Rios vs. Mike Alvarado — HBO, 10:15 p.m. Road to Donaire-Rigondeaux — HBO,...
Read more »
Saturday, March 30 Men’s Pregame & Studio Shows Road to the Final Four — CBS, 2:30 p.m. NCAA Basketball Tournament Press Conference — Big Ten Network, 4 p.m. NCAA March Madness 360 — CBS Sports Network, 4:30 p.m. Big Ten...
Read more »
Thanks to the fine people at the CBS Sports and Turner Sports PR departments, we learn that viewership for the 2013 NCAA Tournament is up 8% from 2012. Even with the amount of blowouts we’ve seen, interest in the tournament...
Read more »
This from CBS/Turner, overnight ratings for Thursday’s NCAA Tournament Regional Semifinal games are up 4% from 2012. The games on CBS and TBS averaged a 7.3 and a 14 share, up from last year’s 7.0/12. Ratings were up despite the...
Read more »
College Baseball Northwestern at Nebraska — Big Ten Network, 7:30 p.m. TCU at Texas Tech — Fox College Sports Central, 7:30 p.m. Kansas at Oklahoma — Fox College Sports Pacific, 7:30 p.m. College Basketball Men’s NCAA Tournament Regional Semifinals Midwest...
Read more »
It occurred early in CBS’ coverage of the NCAA Tournament Sweet 16. As host Greg Gumbel introduced Doug Gottlieb to the studio joining Greg Anthony, Charles Barkley and Kenny “The Jet” Smith, Gottlieb tried to make a diversity joke and...
Read more »
This in from CBS and Turner Sports. The tip times for the first half East and West Regional Finals have been set. Both games will be on CBS Sports. The East Regional in Washington, DC will take place at 4:30...
Read more »
Wednesday’s blood rivalry game between the Montreal Canadiens and Boston Bruins that ended in a 6-5 shootout win for the Habs, drew pretty good numbers for the NBC Sports Network. The cable home of the National Hockey League saw a...
Read more »
Next week is Opening Week for Major League Baseball. ESPN and ESPN2 will combine to air seven games over a four day span. ESPN will have the Opening Night Game this Sunday night between new American League West Division rivals...
Read more »
Back with another edition of the Sports Media Weekly podcast. Keith Thibault of Sports Media Journal and I discussed the news of the week in our first segment. The news included the following items: Fox’s announcement that Tim McCarver will...
Read more »
College Baseball Texas A&M at South Carolina — ESPNU, 7:30 p.m. Texas at Oklahoma State — Fox College Sports Central, 7:30 p.m. Tulane at Rice — Fox Sports Net, 7:30 p.m. Kansas at Oklahoma — Fox Sports Oklahoma, 7:30 p.m....
Read more »
I posted this last year and since Tim McCarver is leaving Fox at the end of this upcoming MLB season, I figured I would bring this promo back. It has him and partner Joe Buck trying to appeal to a...
Read more »
No matter what you think of Tim McCarver and judging from the reaction on social media, a lot of people are happy he’s leaving the Fox broadcast booth after this season. I was not a fan and felt he was...
Read more »
Just announced by Fox, Tim McCarver will leave the network when his contract expires after the World Series in October. McCarver has been the number one analyst on MLB dating back to his days with CBS starting in 1990. He...
Read more »
It’s only 12 minutes, but the subject really requires two hours at minimum. A very good 30 for 30 short on the 1972 US Olympic basketball team’s refusal to accept the silver medal has debuted today at Grantland. Director Rory...
Read more »
The NHL which is back with a vengeance in the ratings both nationally and regionally. It’s as if people have totally forgotten about the lockout. Tonight, NBC Sports Network airs one of the biggest rivalries not only in the NHL,...
Read more »
This from ESPN PR maven Mike Soltys: USA/Mexico big overnight (1.6).When final rating comes in, expected to be our highest rated World Cup qualifier. — Mike Soltys (@espnmikes) March 27, 2013 Thanks to a wintry night on Friday for the...
Read more »
College Basketball Men’s NCAA Tournament NCAA Basketball Tournament Press Conference: Syracuse vs. Indiana Sweet 16 Pregame — Big Ten Network, 2 p.m. NCAA Basketball Tournament Press Conference: Arizona vs. Ohio State Sweet 16 Pregame — Big Ten Network, 4 p.m....
Read more »
Ten years after HBO’s Legendary Nights series signed off, the pay cable channel is resurrecting the anthology with a look back at one of boxing’s greatest rivalries, Arturo Gatti and Irish Micky Ward. Gatti and Ward had three of the...
Read more »
This coming in from CBS Sports, the Tiffany Network has signed a new contract with the Old Big East. Under the terms of the new contract, CBS will air Old Big East men’s basketball games for six years through the...
Read more »
If you’ve watched ESPN’s international soccer coverage over the past few years, then you’ve probably seen Rebecca Lowe on its Women’s World Cup and UEFA Euro Cup studio programming. If you’ve lived in the UK over the past several years,...
Read more »
College Baseball Louisville at Indiana — Big Ten Network, 7 p.m. Nebraska at Kansas State — Fox College Sports Central, 7:30 p.m.. Texas-Arlington at Texas A&M — Fox Sports Southwest, 7:30 p.m. College Basketball Men’s National Invitation Tournament Quarterfinals Maryland...
Read more »
