Let’s see what’s making sports media news this premiere morning of October…

The big news of the morning came from Sharon Waxman at The Wrap reporting that there are talks ongoing where Comcast may purchase NBC.

Fred Grimm at the Miami Herald takes ESPN to task for their coverage of high school football…

Gary Milhoces at USA Today says ESPN is looking forward to more ratings gold when Brett Favre and the Vikings host the Packers on Monday Night Football..

Also at USA Today Michael Hiestand looks at TBS’ coverage of baseball’s post season…

From the AP comes the story on the NBA ‘s social media policy…

At a local golf event in Alabama, TNT’s Charles Barkley talks politics and Twitter…

Mike Brudenell at the Detroit Free Press reports that Fox Sports Detroit is ready to debut some new toys…

The NHL regular season starts today and Ken Schott at the Schenectady Gazette has the NHL Network schedule…

Michael Farber at SI talks with new Hockey Night in Canada analyst Kevin Weekes…

Alan Pergament at the Buffalo News says Sabres fans will be able to watch some of their teams games in HD this season…

Jim Williams at the Washington Examiner says Capitals fans with DirectTV will be out of luck for tonight’s season opener with the Bruins..

Richard Sandomir at the NY Times has a similar DirectTV/Versus dispute update…

Amanda Ernst at the Media Bistro talks about the Q&A featuring Sports Illustrated’s Joe Posnanski…

Scott Ostler at the San Francisco Chronicle talks of the media paranoia by the Oakland Raiders…

Andrew Neff at the Bangor Daily News reports on a local video journalist getting a promotion to Boston…

Bob Wolfley at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has the story from ESPN’s John Gruden of how close Brett Favre came to being a Tampa Bay Buccaneer last season.

Ed Sherman at Crain’s Chicago Business has two more posts concerning Chicago’s bid for the 2016 Olympics…

Todd Spangler at Multichannel News reports on why Dish Network is moving ESPNU…