Monthly Archives: December 2009
Get Ready for the College Bowl Games
The holiday season schedule is limiting my blog activity but I wanted to let you know that our friend Chris Byrne at Eye on Sports Media has done yeoman’s work in developing broadcast information for all the college football bowl games.
Show Chris some support by checking out his hard work here (scroll down the home page to get to the first set of bowls)…Happy Bowling!
Morning Journal- December 18, 2009
We’ve reached another Friday. Here are some sports media news items to get your day off right…
Guess who’s back in the media spotlight? Barry Jackson at the Miami Herald talks to former Dolphins great Mercury Morris…
Adam Tiecher at the Kansas City Star reports on the blackout of this weekend’s Chiefs game with the Browns…
Jay Posner at the San Diego Union Tribune talks with CBS’ Boomer Esiason on the prospects for the Chargers’ success…
Sean Leahey at the Huddle Blog at USA Today has ESPN John Gruden’s reaction to the new GM for the Redskins…
Richard Sandomir at the NY Times has the latest “how bad it is for those who do not have the NFL Network” story…
As does Jim Carlisle at the Ventura County Star…
Dan Levy at the Sporting Blog has the view of the battle with the NFL Network from Time Warner Cable…
Bob Raissnman at the NY Daily News has the story of tickets and media sponsorship woes for the Mets…
Phil Mushnick at the NY Post looks at potential changes to the on-air line-up at the YES Network…
Tim Lemke at the Washington Times looks at what the Nationals are doing to get fans to the stadium…
Bruce Allen at Boston Sports Media Watch has been looking at the top 10 Boston sports media stories of the decade. He starts with media free agency at #10 and Curt Schilling’s arrival in Boston and the establishment of his blog at #9…
Tom Hoffarth at the LA Daily News looks at the fill-in broadcast role for former Laker Hot Rod Hundley… Tom has more on Hot Rod from his Farther off the Wall blog..
Bob Wolfley at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel looks at the extensive NBA television schedule on Christmas Day…
Chad Finn at the Boston Globe looks at the one year growth of the MLB Network…
Jim Williams at the Washington Examiner looks at the CNBC interview of PGA Commissioner Tim Finchem. Guess what was discussed? Jim also looks at the first set of college bowl games that get underway this weekend…
Chris Byrne at Eye on Sports Media looks at Finchem’s meeting with the media. Chris also has the NFL Network assignments for the weekend…
Bill Houston at Truth and Rumors has word of reports that CTV-Rogers is forcasting it will lose money on coverage of the Vancouver Olympics…
Chris Zelkovich at the Toronto Star looks at the latest controversy surrounding Hockey Night in Canada analyst Don Cherry…
Ian Busby at the Toronto Star looks at the upcoming coverage of the NHL Winter Classic…
Dan Caesar at the St. Louis Post Dispatch looks at the return on the Cardinals TV crew for 2010…Dan also looks at the numbers for the pre-game Blues ceremony honoring Brett Hull…
Diane Pucin at the LA Times looks at an upcoming HLN program featuring a number of sports television analysts…
David Barron at the Houston Chronicle looks at the upcoming coverage of state high school football championships…
John Maffei at the North County Times also talks local high school football championship coverage…
Mel Bracht at the Oklahoman talks with ESPN college basketball analyst Fran Fraschilla…
Scott D. Pierce at the Salt Lake City Deseret News looks at the quirks around the BYU mens basketball television coverage…
Ray Buck at the Fort Worth Star Telegram talks Mavs with NBA TV’s Kevin McHale…
Benzinga has the press release of some new additions to Comcast Sports Net Bay Area..
The Daly Planet looks at the continuing NASCAR media frenzy over the arrival of Danica Patrick…
Ed Sherman at Crain’s Chicago Business has his weekly winners and losers column…
The Gaffer at EPL Talk looks at the re-designed Fox Soccer.com…
Morning Journal- December 17, 2009
Welcome to Thursday. Here are some sports media news stories making the rounds…
Sheldon Mickles of the Advocate (LA) writes that the Saints are looking for cooperation from the NFL to provide Saturday’s Saints/Cowboys match-up to more residents who do not get the NFL Network…
Jeff Elliott at the Florida Times Union reports how a local Jacksonville station got the rights to simulcast tonight’s Colts/Jaguars contest on NFL Network..
Will Leitch at NY Magazine looks at the great match-ups on NFL Network that many in the country will not see…
Richard Sandomir at the NY Times catches up with former NFL analyst John Madden…
Chris Botta at Fanhouse says the NBC NHL announcing crew is excited about the upcoming Winter Classic at Fenway Park…
Jessica Isner at NESN has more form the NBC NHL crew…
Ken Schott at the Schenectady Daily Gazette looks at the NHL Network slate of college hockey games…
Bill Houston at Truth and Rumors looks at the issue if hitting in the NHL…
Mike Lopresti at Gannett looks at the seven people worth watching this college bowl season…
Tom Lowry at Businessweek looks at how Comcast is challenging ESPN with its live online streaming of sports…
Bob Wolfley at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel looks at the local teams’ Twitter stats…
The Daly Planet looks at the broadcast changes ESPN will make for its NASCAR coverage in 2010…
Ken Kerschbaumer at the Sports Video Group recaps that organization’s Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame Ceremony Tuesday night…
Chris Zelkovich at the Toronto Star looks at the possibility of a another Canadian general interest sports channel coming to fruition
And fianlly,
Another “how the media covered Tiger” story…from the Washington Post‘s Howard Kurtz…
As does Dave Kindred at the National Sports Journalism Center at Indiana University…..
Morning Journal- December 16, 2009
Here are some sports media news items to get your Wednesday started…
Anthony McCartney at the Associated Press has the story of the guilty plea admitted by the man who stalked ESPN’s Erin Andrews. Andrews was in court yesterday to address the matter…
Michael Hiestand at USA Today writes that TNT’s Charles Barley thinks Tiger Woods should not shut himself out from his friends…
Anthony Crupi at Mediaweek has the latest ratings news coming out of ESPN…
Ken Fang at Fang’s Bites has his 3rd Annual College Football TV Awards…
Tony Ginetti at the Chicago Sun-Times has word of Ron Santo’s return to the Cubs radio booth…
Milton Kent writing at Fanhouse does not like the prospects of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament potentially changing broadcast partners…
Bob Wolfley at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel looks at Sports Business Journal’s top 50 most influential in sports business…
Roch Kubatko at MASN looks at possibilities in taking over for Buck Martinez as baseball analyst for the Orioles…
Brian McNally at the Washington Examiner writes that the NHL Network will provide coverage of Team USA at the World Juniors…
Sports Media Weekly Podcast #14- Maury Brown, Business of Sports Network
Schedules dictate that we bring you the latest Sports Media Weekly Podcast one day early.
This week Ken Fang at Fang’s Bites and I are joined by Maury Brown, owner of the Business of Sports Network which is comprised of the Biz of Baseball, Biz of Football, Biz of Basketball, and Biz of Hockey.
We talk to Maury about his websites, his recent attendance at the Baseball Winter Meetings, the impact being made by the MLB Network and other league-owned networks, the MLB blackout rules, and the sports business impact of the Tiger Woods saga…
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