Monthly Archives: December 2009
Sports Media Weekly Podcast #15
Welcome to our pre-Christmas edition of the Sports Media Weekly Podcast.
Ken Fang at Fang’s Bites and I discuss the upcoming Christmas sports television schedule and how the NBA has taken over the day. We also discuss the entrance of TMZ into the sports media world and the projected revenue loss for NBC as it preps for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
Join Ken and I next week as we look back at the world of sports media 2009…
Happy Holidays!
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Morning Journal- December 23, 2009
We edge closer to the big Christmas holiday… Here are some sports media news items to get you going this Wednesday…
ESPN Ombudsman Don Ohlmeyer addresses the WWL’s coverage of the Tiger Woods story in his latest column…
Richard Sandomir at the NY Times reports on word that gossip site TMZ will soon have a sports-only version…
Michael Hiestand at USA Today gives us his look back at the year in sports television…
Ed Sherman at Crain’s Chicago Business looks at the winners from the past year…
Jim Williams at the Washington Examiner has the ESPN ratings numbers for Monday’s Giants/Redskins game…
Tim Joyce at Real Clear Sports says the NFL Network should work toward carriage on Time Warner cable systems…
The NHL Network has announced its schedule leading up to the NHL Winter Classic in Boston January 1st..
Steve Lapore at Puck the Media looks at the NBC conference call previewing the Winter Classic..
CTV has announced its plans to cover the announcement of the Canadian Olympic hockey squad…
Bruce Allen at Boston Sports Media Watch has his #7 and #6 top Boston sports media stories of the past decade…
Tom Delamater at the Bleacher Report looks at increased local ratings for the Cleveland Cavaliers…
Alligator Army reports on the possibility that the Sugar Bowl will be blacked out for some Florida residents…
Liz Shannon Miller at New TeeVee Station looks at the CBS Sports Bowl Bound series…
The Sussex Countian reports on a new radio job for Stephen A. Smith…
Morning Journal- December 22, 2009
Let’s get right to some sports media news items since our Monday post…
Eric Deggans, writing at the National Sports Journalism Center at Indiana University gives us his top 10 sports media stories of 2009…
Sean Leahey at The Huddle Blog at USA Today reports that ESPN’s John Gruden is not looking to coach next year…
Bob Raissman at the NY Daily News looks at the sub par job turned in by Fox’ Dick Stockton this past Sunday…
Mike Reynolds at Multichannel News has word of the official launch of ESPN Los Angeles.com…
Richard Sandomir at the NY Times looks at what is now a holiday tradition. NBA games to fill your Christmas day…
Brian Powell at Awful Announcing has the holiday NBA announcing schedule…
Ira Winderman at the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel has remarks from ESPN’s Jeff Van Gundy on the play of the Heat’s Dwayne Wade…
Richard Deitsch at Sports Illustrated talks with Peter Gammons…
Chris Byrne at Eye on Sports Media has the press release on the new job for Chip Carey…
Mark Bowman at MLB.com also has the Carey move to the Braves…
Ed Sherman at Crain’s Chicago Business looks at the merchandising success of the Blackhawks…
The Daly Planet thinks NASCAR’s broadcast partners should produce programming during this off- season…
Keith Groller at the Allentown Morning Call has his top 10 look at how sports television has changed this decade…
Chris Zelkovich at the Toronto Star looks at Mike Milbury’s defense of hard-nosed hockey…
Monday Journal- December 21, 2009
We have dug out from the Blizzard of 2009 and it’s time to resume to give you some sports media items making news…
David Zurawick at the Baltimore Sun looks at the miscues of former Ravens coach and current Fox football analyst Brian Billick…
Bob Wolfley at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel recounts the Fox broadcasters’ reaction to the late onside kick by the Steelers in their game with the Packers…
John Ourand at Sports Business Journal reports on an experiment where Penn State students watched NBC’s Sunday Night Football exclusively online…
Ken Fang at Fang’s Bites has word of the record ratings for Saturday’s Cowboys/Saints tilt in NFL Network…
Dusty Saunders at the Denver Post talks with new Padres announcer Dick Enberg
Michael Hiestand at USA Today looks at how CBS college basketball analyst Seth Davis reacted to ESPN’s Bobby Knight’s comments about Kentucky coach John Claipari…
Tom Jones at the St. Petersburg Times talks Knight in his Shooting from the Lip column…
Chris Zelkovich at the Toronto Star has the reaction of CBC’s Don Cherry after being accused by a doctor’s claim that Cherry’s tough talk is leading to many hockey injuries… Chris also has reaction of Cherry’s comments from HNIC’s Mike Milbury
Bill Houston at Truth and Rumors comments on Cherry’s tough talk…
Phil Mushnick at the NY Post writes that the networks are tip-toeing using Tiger Woods in their 2010 golf promos…
Jason Fry writing at the National Sports Journalism Center at Indiana University looks at how Sports Illustrated may change the face of journalism with it’s format for the tablet computer…
Broadcaster.com has word of a new sports program for Sirius XM beginning next month…
Bruce Allen at Boston Sports Media Watch has #8 in his top 10 sports media stories of the decade in Boston….
