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Schedule courtesy of Matt’s College Sports Announcing Assignments courtesy of Your Eye on the Sports Sky and Air Thursday, October 3 Studio & Pregame Shows CFB Daily — ESPNU, 1 p.m. College Football Live — ESPN2, 4 p.m. College Football...
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Schedule courtesy of Matt’s College Sports Announcing Assignments courtesy of Your Eye on the Sports Sky and Air Thursday, September 26 Studio & Pregame Shows CFB Daily — ESPNU, 1 p.m. College Football Live — ESPN2, 5 p.m. College Football...
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After a week’s absence, it’s time for The Week Ahead to return. With the season turning to fall, baseball points towards the postseason, college football has some decent games in Week 5 after some horrible games this past weekend, the...
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Schedule Courtesy of Matt’s College Sports Announcing Assignments Courtesy of Your Eye on the Sports Sky and Air Thursday, September 19 Studio & Pregame Shows CFB Daily — ESPNU, 1 p.m. ESPNU Film Room — ESPNU, 4 p.m. College Football...
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Schedule courtesy Matt’s College Sports Announcing assignments courtesy Your Eye on The Sports Sky and Air Thursday, September 12 Studio & Pregame Shows CFB Daily — ESPNU, 1 p.m. College Football Live — ESPN2, 5 p.m. College Football Live —...
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Well, let’s take a look at what’s ahead in the sports media for the upcoming week. It’s another busy week and we’ll preview it for you right now. TELEVISION NFL Premieres The NFL continues to dominate the week. Monday has...
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Schedule courtesy of Matt’s College Sports Announcing assignments courtesy of Your Eye on the Sports Sky and Air Friday, September 6 Studio and Pregame Shows CFB Daily — ESPNU, 1 p.m. College Football Live — ESPNU, 5 p.m. This Week...
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Lots of things happening in sports media this week. The NFL returns in the next seven days. College Football goes into its second week. Baseball heads into its final month of the regular season. Soccer goes into World Cup qualifying....
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This from ESPN on its Saturday college football programming across the family of networks. According to ESPN, the network averaged a 2.3 rating from 9 a.m. for the beginning of College GameDay until 12:43 a.m. on Sunday which marked the...
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Schedule courtesy Matt’s College Sports Announcing Assignments courtesy Eye on Sky and Air Sports Thursday, August 29 Studio and Pregame Shows CFB Daily — ESPNU, 1 p.m. College Football Live — ESPN, 3 p.m. College Football Live — ESPN, 5...
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We’ve survived the first full week of Fox Sports One and the premiere of new shows. We have another premiere this week, but this one on ESPN2. In addition, we get the first full week of college football as the...
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Once again, it’s another busy week. Lots of premieres of various studio programs begin this week as Fox Sports 1′s launch continues. In addition, there are plenty of live games as we speed towards the beginning of college football next...
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Here’s what many of you have been waiting for, the announcing teams for ESPN/ABC’s college football. As usual, Brent Musburger and Kirk Herbstreit will be the “A”  team on Saturday Night Football on ABC and they’ll go all the way...
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Whomever thought July and August 2013 would be boring for sports media news certainly underestimated what the Big Three in Sports Television would do. We’ve seen the return of Keith Olbermann to ESPN, NASCAR ousting ESPN and Turner in favor...
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The ESPN/ABC NBA consortium team for 90 games this upcoming season, 75 on ESPN and another 15 on ABC. The two networks combine for five Christmas Day games. ESPN will have an Opening Week doubleheader starting on November 1 with...
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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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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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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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This from ESPN. We learn that college football analyst Kirk Herbstreit has signed a nine year contract extension with ESPN to continue calling games and remain on the show that brought him fame and fortune, College GameDay. Herbstreit joined ESPN’s...
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So much for the San Antonio Spurs being ratings killers. Game 7 of the NBA Finals between the Spurs and the Miami Heat led ABC to a huge primetime win, garnering a 15.3 rating and 26.3 million viewers. The viewership...
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17.7. That’s the overnight rating for the last game of the 2012-13 NBA season. Last night’s game that clinched the second straight championship for the Miami Heat brought an overnight number of 17.7 which peaked at a 22.6 in the...
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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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Ok, I wasn’t able to get to do linkage during the day so in lieu of a Friday post, I’ll make this a weekend post so you can go through these at your leisure. So while I watch some Australian...
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At the time that this post published, it was way past my bedtime. I promised some more sports media thoughts and I’ll do as I said in Friday’s post, but I’ll do them in quick hit style. Bullets, of course....
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The NBA Finals between the Miami Heat and the San Antonio Spurs begin on Thursday, June 6 on ABC. ESPN will produce the games. Mike Breen and Jeff Van Gundy will call the games from courtside. Doris Burke will handle...
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Let’s do some linkage on this rainy Monday in Southern New England. It may not be raining where you are, but where I am, it’s Ark Building Time. Starting with Sports Illustrated’s Richard Deitsch, we learn that ESPN’s NBA Countdown...
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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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Sunday is going to be a big motorsports day and three broadcast networks will air three of the biggest races of the year. NBC will start it all off with the Grand Prix of Monaco to be aired live for...
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With four NBA Conference Quarterfinal Games 6 resulting in four series clinchers on Friday night, it ends up that there will be only one Game 7 to decide which team will take on Miami in one Eastern Conference Semifinal. However,...
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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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