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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Let’s do some links today. Brian Steinberg of Variety reports that Fox Sports is bundling Fox Sports 1 to potential Super Bowl XLVIII advertisers. That’s one way to get ads on the new network. Brian Lowry of Variety says Tennis...
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NHL fans know that NESN’s Jack Edwards loves the Boston Bruins. bleeds Black and Goal on every play. Well this season, NESN installed a camera in the TD Garden broadcast booth to show fans how animated Jack gets when he...
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I don’t know when NESN installed a camera in its TD Garden broadcast booth, but this is genius. Tonight was a perfect opportunity for NESN to unveil the Jack Edwards Cam during a Boston Bruins battle against the New York...
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Nobody won. Really, nobody. The fans lost because they were left hanging and lost a half-season including the Winter Classic at the Big House in Michigan. NBC Sports Network whose ratings fell into abyss with no NHL games from October...
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Let’s do some Friday megalinks. Haven’t done any in a couple of weeks. The Weekend Viewing Picks have all of your sports and entertainment TV needs. Time for the linkage. National Michael Hiestand of USA Today notes the rising rights...
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We have press releases from three regional sports networks on their plans for the NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs so I’ll post them one at a time. Beginning with the New England Sports Network or NESN, it will carry as many...
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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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Was out of the office again earlier today so I’m getting to these rather late. Let’s look at what we have today. USA Today’s Michael Hiestand says the new CBS Sports/Showtime documentary on this year’s Army-Navy football game will have...
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In yet another bizarre rant, Jack Edwards went on WEEI’s Big Show with Glenn Ordway and Michael Holley to discuss the bite of the Boston Bruins’ Patrice Bergeron’s finger by Vancouver’s Alex Burrows. It happened just as the first period...
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When I found I had the opportunity to book Jack Edwards for the Sports Media Weekly podcast, I jumped at it. Before I tell you what we discussed, let me say that Southern New England media mogul Keith Thibault and...
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Just in from NESN, Bruins play-by-play Jack Edwards will remain at the regional sports network for the foreseeable future. He’s signed a multi-year extension of his current agreement. There’s no middle with Jack, either you like him or you don’t....
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It wasn’t as insane as his comments to close out this year’s Bruins-Canadiens series or as nutty as giving a lesson about the Revolutionary War, but Jack Edwards in his final game of the 2010-11 season decided to hearken back...
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Finally getting to some linkage. Had some work to do first and of course, that takes precedence. Lots of stuff to get to. First from John Ourand of the Sports Business Journal/Sports Business Daily, he reports that Monday Night Football...
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NESN gave Jack Edwards the opportunity to make a final comment after the Boston Bruins win in overtime over the Montreal Canadiens to take the NHL Eastern Conference Quarterfinal series in seven games. Yet, I’m still trying to figure out...
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In Game 7 of the Montreal Canadiens-Boston Bruins series at the TD Garden, NESN’s Jack Edwards was in rare form once again as he yelled at Roman Hamrlik as he was checked and fell down. You may remember during Game...
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Let’s provide the links on this very Spring-like Thursday. The sun is out in Southern New England after the April showers of this week. Nice to see the skies bright instead of being gray and drab as like the last...
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When I posted the video of NESN’s Jack Edwards yelling at Montreal’s Roman Hamrlik to “GET UP!” after what he felt was a dive, never in my wildest dreams would I expect the whole thing to become the single most...
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I need to get these up quickly as the NBC/NHL conference call will occur at 1 p.m. today. I won’t be able to monitor it, but I do hope to provide details as they become available. Lots of links to...
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Jack Edwards was in rare form tonight during Game 3 of the Boston Bruins-Montreal Canadiens series on NESN. Not only was he in his best homer announcing style, but he was yelling and screaming at Les Habitants at every opportunity....
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Just received this from the New England Sports Network, a.k.a. NESN. The entire Montreal Canadiens-Boston Bruins series will be aired locally on NESN while Versus’ coverage will be blacked out in the New England area. It means all of the...
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Time for the links. Lots of stuff to get to. From Sports Business Daily, we learn that the Sporting News has officially taken over Fanhouse. A sad day really as the Fanhouse site was very good and had many good...
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For soccer fans, this is a flashback to the 2002 World Cup in South Korea and Japan. It’s not necessarily a good flashback either, but we’ll get to that in a minute. First, the Red Sox announced in June that...
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Now that the NHL season is over, time for the 2nd version of the NHL TV Awards. We did our first last year and got attacked by readers when it was posted over at Puck Daddy on Yahoo, but you...
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Let’s do linkage today. Trying to get links done earlier so you may have noticed the Primetime and Late Night Viewing Picks up at around 8 a.m. I try to do them before I go to bed and schedule them...
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Let’s do linkage for today. I’m debating on whether to cover the UFL game between Florida and New York at Hartford, CT. I have a press credential, but I’m thinking I have so much to do right now. Not sure...
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I can’t believe that I have not done an NHL TV Awards since I started this blog. I’ve done this for the NFL and College Football. An NHL TV Awards is long overdue. I’ll do this in the same format...
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Time to give you your Friday megalinks. Again, we begin with the Weekend Viewing Picks. The Kentucky Derby is the prime event with tomorrow being the first Saturday in May. NBC has the actual race at 6:20 p.m. with coverage...
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Because work was busy in both the home and regular office, I could not do links today. Plus, I worked until 4 a.m. today and got a late start out of the house so I felt behind the 8 ball...
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Ok, I’m at the home office and I’ve been waiting to do a couple of things. I’ll try to sneak in a couple of links here. I’m also going to sneak in two more links from the Sports Business Journal....
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