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• Hiestand on TV

  - 2008-08-20

  Inside the industry CBS re-signed a veteran quarterback Tuesday and picked up some help on defense. Dan Fouts, a CBS analyst from 1988 to 1993 after a Hall of Fame NFL quarterbacking career, will be an analyst on some CBS NFL games...

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• Knicks could give analyst carousel a spin

  - 2008-04-30

  The revolving door between pro teams and TV analysts might be about to get a big spin -- opening up two of the top NBA jobs on television. TNT's Kenny Smith, Charles Barkley's sidekick on the most lively studio show in TV sports, is interested in...

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• ABC analysts talking up Knicks job

  - 2008-04-21

  ABC's lead NBA announcing team could end up offering viewers a fun subplot: a sort of rolling on-air job interview for an off-air job with a storied franchise. Jeff Van Gundy has already had a meteoric rise up the TV ranks. He joined ABC's lead NBA...

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• Carter replacing Salisbury as ESPN football analyst

  - 2008-02-27

  ESPN said late Tuesday that it was parting ways with longtime football analyst Sean Salisbury. The surprise announcement came hours after the network announced its hiring of Cris Carter from HBO's Inside the NFL. "Sean Salisbury has made many contributions to our efforts for the past...

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• Wild cards, BCS open audition season for jocks

  - 2008-01-07

  This is tryout week in TV sports. The NFL's wild-card weekend and college football's Bowl Championship Series give networks a chance to test new on-air talent. For players nearing the ends of their careers, it's an opportunity to audition for coveted analyst jobs. For coaches, it's a chance to get...

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• TBS juggles broadcast teams after Mets disappear

  - 2007-10-01

  The New York Mets' late-season collapse changed the on-air lineup for TBS, whose first-ever MLB playoff coverage includes all four first-round matchups. It made Mets local analyst Ron Darling available. He'll work the Chicago Cubs-Arizona series, with Dick Stockton, and frees analyst Bob Brenly, who had...

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• Golf viewers not yet in swing of playoffs

  - 2007-08-29

  The phrase "playoff golf" might end up as mainstream as basketball's "three-point shot" or baseball's "wild-card" playoff teams. But entering its second week, the PGA Tour's made-for-TV scheme is a long way from causing any full-blown playoff fever. NBC this weekend airs the Deutsche Bank Championship,...

  Tags: analyst, Barclays Plc., ESPN, Games, Miller, NBC Universal Inc., TVs

• Big Ten Network gets off to good start in broadcast booth

  - 2007-07-18

  The Big Ten Network, a cable channel launching Aug. 30, formally will announce today its first on-air football lineup. On its studio show, the Chicago-based BTN might seem like ESPN West: Former ESPN analysts Dave Revsine and Gerry DiNardo will join ex-Denver Bronco Howard Griffith. ...

  Tags: ABC Inc., analyst, ESPN, Games, MLS, network, team

• Announcers' gripe: Loud music, fire steal focus from basketball

  - 2007-05-30

  Remember when the competition and drama of the NBA playoffs were entertainment enough? Well, the league office should straighten out franchises that are annoying TV viewers, and fans inside the arena, with too much loud music, forced chants and elaborate pyrotechnics. Cheering...

  Tags: analyst, entertainment, ESPN, Games, MARKETING, music, NBA

• Rockets' Van Gundy adds his two cents as analyst

  - 2007-05-18

  ABC/ESPN's coverage of the NBA playoffs is getting reinforcements. Jeff Van Gundy, coach of the Houston Rockets, although he and the team might soon part ways, will join ABC/ESPN's lead announcing team on Game 6 of the Phoenix Suns-San Antonio Spurs series Friday. He's hoping that,...

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