Monthly Archives: June 2011
CBS to Air Air Force/Navy Football
CBS Sports has announced that the October 1st college football contest between Air Force and Navy will air on CBS at 12:00pm ET. The game had originally been scheduled to air on CBS Sports Network at 3:30p.m. ET.
The move will not give CBS a triple header of games that day. Following the Air Force/Navy contest CBS will have a SEC double header, with game one at 4:00pm ET and game two at 8:00pm ET. Here’s the schedule for the day:
Air Force at Navy 12:00 NOON, ET
College Football Today 3:00-3:30 PM, ET
SEC Game of the Week #1 3:30 PM, ET
SEC Game of the Week #2 8:00 PM, ET
Fox Sets-Up Weekend MLB Slate
Fox will be showcasing Interleague rivalry match-ups in this weekend’s MLB Fox Saturday Baseball. All games will air beginning at 4:00pm ET.
79% of the country will hear Joe Buck, Tim McCarver, and Ken Rosenthal call the Yankees and Mets from Citi Field. 10% of the country will be fed a Windy City showdown between the White Sox and Cubs from Wrigley Field with Kenny Albert and Eric Karros behind the mic. The remaining 10% of the country will be fed Cleveland at Cincinnati with Thom Brennaman and Mark Grace on the call.
Sports Media Weekly Podcast No. 61
After a week off Ken Fang of Fang’s Bites and I are back with another edition of the Sports Media Weekly Podcast.
This week Ken and I discuss a possible plan by the NFL to compromise with the Players’ Association on the 18-game schedule by instead implementing a Thursday Night game every week of the season beginning in 2012. We discuss which network might be interested in the telecasting of 8 games each season. The NFL Network already telecasts 8 Thursday night games each season.
We look at respectable ratings for Game 7 of the NHL Stanley Cup Finals, especially in Boston.
We also touch upon the news that Al Michaels and Bob Costas will be sharing the duties calling next Friday’s Mets/Giants telecast on the MLB Network.
We talk about the coverage of the Women’s World Cup and Wimbledon and Ken provides an overview of the recently completed Boston Sports Blogapalooza event last weekend in Boston.
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Costas and Michaels to Share Mic on MLB Network
The MLB Network has announced that Al Michaels and Bob Costas will share announcing duties on an upcoming game in July.
The pair will call the New York Mets at San Francisco Giants contest on July 8th. This is the first time the pair will call a game together. It will also mark the first MLB broadcast by Michaels since 1995.
Costas and Michaels will also make an appearance on the SNY telecast (Mets) and Comcast SportsNet Bay Area (Giants) local telecast that evening.
MLB Network also announced its slate of live games for July. Here is the schedule:
| Fri., July 1 | 7:00 p.m. | Or: | New York Yankees San Francisco Giants |
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New York Mets Detroit Tigers |
| Sat., July 2 | 8:00 p.m. | Or: | San Francisco Giants Boston Red Sox |
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Detroit Tigers Houston Astros |
| Mon., July 4 | 1:30 p.m. | Or: | Toronto Blue Jays Houston Astros |
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Boston Red Sox Pittsburgh Pirates |
| 6:30 p.m. | Or: | New York Yankees Philadelphia Phillies |
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Cleveland Indians Florida Marlins (6:00 p.m.) |
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| Tues., July 5 | 10:00 p.m. | Or: | San Diego Padres Detroit Tigers |
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San Francisco Giants L.A. Angels of Anaheim |
| Thurs., July 7 | 1:00 p.m. | Colorado Rockies*** | @ | Atlanta Braves | |
| 7:00 p.m. | Or: | Tampa Bay Rays Baltimore Orioles |
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New York Yankees Boston Red Sox |
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| Fri., July 8 | 10:00 p.m. | Or: | New York Mets Seattle Mariners |
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San Francisco Giants* L.A. Angels of Anaheim |
| Sat., July 9 | 7:00 p.m. | Or: | Cincinnati Reds Baltimore Orioles |
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Milwaukee Brewers Boston Red Sox |
| Thurs., July 14 | 7:00 p.m. | Or: | New York Yankees Cleveland Indians |
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Toronto Blue Jays Baltimore Orioles |
| Fri., July 15 | 7:00 p.m. | Or: | Boston Red Sox New York Yankees |
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Tampa Bay Rays Toronto Blue Jays |
| Sat., July 16 | 7:00 p.m. | Or: | St. Louis Cardinals Washington Nationals |
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Cincinnati Reds Atlanta Braves |
| Tues., July 19 | 8:00 p.m. | Or: | Philadelphia Phillies Atlanta Braves |
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Chicago Cubs Colorado Rockies (8:30 p.m.) |
| Thurs., July 21 | 12:00 p.m. | Or: | St. Louis Cardinals San Diego Padres*** |
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New York Mets Florida Marlins |
| 7:00 p.m. | Or: | New York Yankees Detroit Tigers |
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Tampa Bay Rays* Minnesota Twins (8:00 p.m.) |
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| Fri., July 22 | 7:00 p.m. | Or: | Atlanta Braves San Diego Padres |
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Cincinnati Reds Philadelphia Phillies |
| Sat., July 23 | 9:00 p.m. | Or: | Milwaukee Brewers Colorado Rockies |
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San Francisco Giants Arizona D-backs (8:00 p.m.) |
| Tues., July 26 | 7:00 p.m. | Or: | San Francisco Giants Seattle Mariners |
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Philadelphia Phillies New York Yankees |
| Thurs., July 28 | 12:30 p.m. | Or: | New York Mets Florida Marlins |
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Cincinnati Reds Washington Nationals |
| 7:00 p.m. | Or: | San Francisco Giants Pittsburgh Pirates |
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Philadelphia Phillies* Atlanta Braves |
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| Fri., July 29 | 8:00 p.m. | Or: | Boston Red Sox San Francisco Giants |
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Chicago White Sox Cincinnati Reds (7:00 p.m.) |
| Thurs., July 23 | 8:00 p.m. | Or: | San Francisco Giants Baltimore Orioles |
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Cincinnati Reds New York Yankees (Gm 2, 7 p.m.) |
