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Hiestand on TV
Inside the industry One hotspot this season in the Cold War between TV networks carrying the NFL: The highlights immediately following late Sunday afternoon games. ESPN announced Tuesday that Tom Jackson and John Saunders will join Chris Berman on the 7p.m. ET SportsCenter that will become...
Hiestand on TV
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...
An on-air dream team
This weekend, the NFL's top TV teams put on their postseason pancake makeup. So, the big deal: Who should you play on your TV sports fantasy league rosters? Sit everybody from ESPN. Despite paying $388million to $500million more in annual TV rights...
Networks take bold steps to offer new vantage points
Over the last two nights, we've seen Fox contributor Eric Byrnes and ESPN's Kenny Mayne paddle around McCovey Cove in kayaks in search of home run balls at Major League Baseball's Home Run Derby and 78th All-Star Game from San Francisco. In the future, ESPN would...
ESPN should consider Jaworski, Parcells or Smith for 'MNF'
Joe Theismann, despite a storied NFL and college quarterbacking career, seems to have been cast aside to a programmer's priority that when most viewers have a choice of lots of TV games, the paramount concern is to be entertaining -- including getting along well with fellow cast members. ...
Barber's new gigs include NBC's 'Today,' NFL show
Tiki Barber officially became the 21st-century Frank Gifford: A smooth New York Giants running back moonlights on-air in the nation's media capital, then segues into a promising on-air career before he's become completely chewed up by the NFL meat-grinder. But he's also like Bryant Gumbel, who...
Sadistic ESPN says it has time slots for a few more college bowl games
The long march begins Dec.19 with the provocatively titled San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl on ESPN2. What's new about the buffet of college football's record 32 bowl games: *ESPN/ESPN2, which airs 21 bowls, now owns five bowls, having added the new Papajohns.com Bowl and New Mexico Bowl, sponsored...
Dueling nights: Sunday vs. Monday
Mikey, is somebody pouty because NBC's Sunday games go way past their bedtime? The point is the NFL's TV changes so far are doing what they're supposed to do -- increase total consumption of the league's made-for-TV mauling. ESPN's Monday games are up 39% from its Sunday games last year....
NBC benefits from flexible scheduling
The NFL's new flexible scheduling is now closer to showing its true colors. Sunday's Week 10 Chicago-New York Giants prime-time game on NBC was the debut of flex-scheduling. It was created to at least keep the league's broadcast network prime-time showcase -- now NBC on Sundays -- from getting stuck...
NBC's new Sunday NFL package has quality edge over ESPN's 'MNF'.(Sports)(TV & Radio)
Byline: Ted Cox All right, four weeks is long enough to give anyone to get an act together. The time has come to compare "NBC Sunday Night Football" to ESPN's "Monday Night Football," starting with the most basic differences. Sunday vs....
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