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Morning Journal- October 27, 2009

October 27, 2009 | by Keith | Categories Internet, Newspapers, Sports Radio, Television | Comments Off

Welcome to Tuesday.  Here are some stories making news across the sports media industry…

Barry Jackson at the Miami Herald has word that ESPN college football analyst Bob Greise was suspended for one week following his inappropriate content concerning NASCAR driver Juan Pablo Montoya…

James Jahnke at the Detroit Free Press has the story on the firing of the ESPN production assistant involved in an affair with Steve Phillips…

Here’s another view of that story from Neil Best at Newsday

Sean Gregory at Time Magazine has the latest on the Deadspin/ESPN rift…

The Sports Media Watch has this past weekend’s college football ratings for CBS and NBC…

The AP has the New York City area ratings numbers for Sunday, with the Yanks winning out over the Giants…

More on the NY numbers from Richard Sandomir at the NY Times…

Michael Hiestand at USA Today believes the appearance in the World Series by the Yankees will help with television ratings…

Bob Raissman at the NY Daily News reports that the weather may play a factor again in the World Series…

Mason Levinson at Bloomberg says the Phils/Yanks World Series has the potential to be  a ratings winner…

The AP, through the SF Examiner, says that the Northeast should provide big ratings for the World Series…

Tom Van Riper at Forbes has a similar prediction on the ratings potenatial for the Series..

Radio Online has word of a simulcast between the top two sports radio stations in New York and Philadelphia prior to the World Series…

MLB.Com has word of plans by the MLB Network to provide pre and post game coverage of the series…

Ed Sherman at Crains Chicago Business says local ratings for the Bears were strong despite a blowout to the Bengals…

Chad Cripe wt the Idaho Stateman speculates that the ESPN Gameday crew may be headed to Boise in the near future…

Heather Hintze at KEZI TV says the appearance of the Gameday crew in Oregon is a coup for the region…

Ken Fang at Fang’s Bites has the press release on the opening night action of the NBA on TNT tonight…

The AP, this time through NESN, has the story of TNT’s CHarles Barkley being critical of some NBA General Managers…

The Toronto Star has word of increased ratings for the NHL…

Bill Martin at LSU has the story of 15 Women’s Basketball games being televised locally...


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