Reported by Awful Announcing last week and arguably the biggest hire in its history, the Bleacher Report and Turner Sports have announced that they have lured Mike Freeman away from CBSSports.com. He’ll officially join Bleacher Report next Monday as the...
Read more »
The Masters’ online presentation has been expanding over the years and for 2013, the tradition of presenting Amen Corner, Holes 15 & 16, and the featured group continues this year. In addition, the CBS Sports Network show, “Masters on the...
Read more »
In just its second year of online streaming, the Super Bowl was able to increase the number of online steams from 2012. The National Football League says the stream of the Baltimore Ravens vs. the San Francisco 49ers attracted three...
Read more »
One of the most exciting events in the sports calendar is the NCAA Tournament. And this season will mark the 75th year that the tournament will be played. This year’s Final Four will take place at the Georgia Dome in...
Read more »
CBS has officially announced the signing of Doug Gottlieb into the company. He’ll join the upstart CBS Sports Radio which will begin in January. He’ll host the 3-6 p.m. ET slot. In addition, he’ll join CBS Sports as a college...
Read more »
Thursday turned out to be quite the crazy day for those of us who follow the sports media beat. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. On any given day, you just don’t know when sports media news...
Read more »
Received this from CBS Sports, NFL Network insider Jason La Canfora is leaving to take a similar position at the Tiffany Network. Since 2009, La Canfora has been the main insider on NFL Network taking the role that Adam Schefter...
Read more »
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...
Read more »
The streaming webcast, Masters Live returns next week as The Masters® comes back onto the sports scene. For the first time, “Masters on the Range” will be seen both online and on CBS Sports Network. This will be seen on...
Read more »
CBS Sports is that organization that just keeps chugging along. It was in a very bleak period from 1994-1998 when it lost the NFL, no NBA, was outbid for the NHL and seemed to heading in downward spiral. But since...
Read more »
We have the nominations, all 170 in 33 different categories, for the 33rd Annual Sports Emmy Awards. They just came out today. There are some surprises like massive hockey charlatan Pierre McGuire nominated in the Sports Reporter category and for...
Read more »
There has been plenty of confusion over the $3.99 fee to watch the NCAA Tournament online, whether it be through NCAA.com or the March Madness Live app for Android, iPhone and the iPad. First, the original press release promoted the...
Read more »
Since late last night, I’ve been culling linkage for today. Let’s get to them. Terry Lefton and Daniel Kaplan at Sports Business Journal discuss how Indianapolis hotels are gouging customers for Super Bowl Week. Anick Jesdanun of the Associated Press...
Read more »
With a rainy day in Southern New England, it’s time to provide you with some media links. Lots of them on a Friday. You can check out the Weekend Viewing Picks for the sports and entertainment programming suggestions. Now to...
Read more »
This was reported first by The Big Lead on Friday. It was made official today. Baseball insider Jon Heyman who’s been with Sports Illustrated for the past five years will join the staff of CBSSports.com next week. It’s a big...
Read more »
I’ll be away for most of the day as my Sunday has been planned behind my back once again. I’ll have the Sunday NFL pregame quotage later in the afternoon. Let’s provide some sports media thoughts. As always, they’ll go...
Read more »
Yes, according to CBS, Gary Danielson will interacting with fans on a new mobile media bus that will be equipped with WiFi, Satellite TV and plenty of gadgets where he can engage people. Now I don’t know if this will...
Read more »
Now that I’ve learned that I don’t have to travel in between two offices today, I’ll do some megalinks for you. You can check out the Weekend Sports and Primetime Viewing Picks here. Now to your links. National Michael Hiestand...
Read more »
Again, I’ve been all over the place and can’t really blog like I want to, but I do what I can. Some links while I’m free and not committed to anything. The Pac 12 media deals with ESPN and Fox...
Read more »
No thanks to CBS Sports which has been slacking in sending me certain press releases, I’ve found this release and it’s quite important. CBS has announced that it will stream selected regular season college basketball games on CBSSports.com. These include...
Read more »
Already, I’ve been all over Kent County in Rhode Island for no good particular reason so I’m hoping I can stay in one place for a bit to give you linkage. Let’s begin with Michael Hiestand of USA Today who...
Read more »
Because I have to go to bed early and be at a jobsite in Boston at 7 a.m. tomorrow (the same one as last week), I’m doing this now. Here are several press releases for you to read. Starting with...
Read more »
I’ll post some press release action for you now. Quite a few releases have flown into my inbox. Let’s start with CBS Sports. The main network and CBS College Sports will combine for coverage of the announcement of the 65...
Read more »
College Gameday, live from the SEC Championship, 10 a.m. noonArmy vs. Navy at Philadelphia – CBS Pittsburgh at UConn – ESPNConference USA Championship/East Carolina at Tulsa – ESPN2NCAA Division II Semifinal/Minnesota-Duluth at California (PA) – ESPN Classic 1 p.m.ACC Championship/Virginia...
Read more »
College Gameday, live from Los Angeles – ESPN, 10 a.m. 12 noonBig Ten Network coverage mapLouisiana-Lafayette at Illinois – Big Ten NetworkIowa State at Iowa – Big Ten NetworkMontana State at Minnesota – Big Ten NetworkSouthern Illinois at Northwestern –...
Read more »
Thanks to the incompetence of Broadview Networks, I’m still without internet access at work. Not only did they screw up my phone lines, they also rewired the lines so it knocked out my DSL lines. This is all fucked up....
Read more »
Time for the Friday media links once again. Glad to be here. The NCAA Tournament will be the subject of discussion in many of the media columns today. First round action will conclude Friday, then 2nd round action will start...
Read more »
As I logged into March Madness on Demand at NCAA.com, there were a few technical problems. First, there was audio for the Georgia-Xavier game, but no announcers. A note did appear underneath the video player saying the techies were aware...
Read more »
Because I was working late, I found a few more links for you. First, Christopher Byrne of the Eye on Sports Media blog has a really good entry on how the Southeastern Conference stepped up during the Atlanta tornado to...
Read more »
Let’s give you some more links today. Did you know tennis’ first Grand Slam tournament, the Australian Open gets underway on Sunday? Well, Monday if you’re in the Australasia region, but Sunday here in the States. Bob Larson’s Tennis News...
Read more »
