Sports Media Journal (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
We are at the end of another month, with the home stretch of 2009 ahead of us. Here is some sports media news items to start the new work week… Ed Sherman at Crains Chicago Business looks at what others are writing about the Tiger Woods accident… Michael Hiestand at USA Today looks at ESPN/ABC’s college bowl [...]
USA Today (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
By Michael Hiestand, USA TODAYESPN/ABC's college bowl buffet represents one big slab of TV tonnage. Rather than simply focusing on the game you're watching — and, maybe, include some color like the bowl's princesses or schools' bands — ESPN/ABC's 27 televised bowls become one really long show where, say, halftime of the Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl is a perfect time to look ahead to the...
Sports Media Journal (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Here are some sports media news items for the day before Thanksgiving… Michael Hiestand at USA Today says it’s time to break the Thanksgiving Day traditions… Newsday’s Neil Best, in the Detroit Free Press, talks with former Lions President and current ESPN and NFL Network analyst Matt Millen… Paulsen at Sports Media Watch has the declining NASCAR [...]...
USA Today (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
Share More By Michael Hiestand, USA TODAY's national TV ratings, compared to other sports, are especially key.Unlike team sports where venues and player uniforms aren't drenched in corporate logos, NASCAR's action provides hours of exposure for sponsors. And unlike MLB and the NBA, which pocket of TV viewers throughout the week with local and regional TV games, NASCAR's big national Sprint...
Sports Media Journal (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
It’s the beginning of a holiday week…let’s kick it off with some sports media news items making the rounds… In his Monday column, Michael Hiestand at USA Today has Marv Albert’s reaction to his alleged “altercation” with rapper 50 Cent’s entourage backstage at the Jimmy Kimmel Show… The Huffington Post has video of the comments...
Sports Media Journal (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
It’s another TGIF! Here are some sports media news items crossing our desk this morning… Michael Hiestand at USA Today looks at the announcing teams ABC and FOx will use for the upcoming BCS games… Bob Raissman at the NY Daily News writes how the media have over analyzed the motivations of the Jets and Patriots… Phil Mushnick [...]
USA Today (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Share More By Michael Hiestand, USA TODAYAs the convoluted selection of the teams playing in college football's Bowl Championship Series grinds on, at least this is settled. ESPN/ABC and Fox, in roster moves that will be formally announced today, have decided who will call the games. The lineup as BCS games make their curtain call on broadcast network TV before they all move to next year:•ABC...
Sports Media Journal (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
... Jay Posner at the San Diego Union Tribune talks with Tim Lemke at the Washington Times looks at Michael Hiestand at USA Today talks with C..Scott D. Pierce at the Salt Lake City Deseret News says Mel Bracht at the Oklahoman . Mel also looks at the …And here’s Mel’s Steve Kelly at the Seattle Times David Barron at the Houston Chronicle talks with a The Detroit Free Press looks at next...
Sports Media Journal (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Welcome to the beginning of another work week. Here are some sports media news items to get you off to a good start… Michael Hiestand at USA Today looks at what Fox Sports and ESPN have done or are doing to commemorate Veteran’s Day… Jason Fry, writing for the National Center for Sports Journalism at Indiana University [...]
USA Today (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
By Michael Hiestand, USA TODAYFootball is one of those TV genres, like with home shopping or cooking, where nobody talks about anything even vaguely political.Still, Veterans Day falls in football season and TV football each year usually includes some on-air nods to our troops. But with the holiday coming Wednesday, TV football now seems unusually full of salutes the U.S. military — led...
Sports Media Journal (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Here are some of the sports media news items that are on my radar this Wednesday morning… Phil Rosenthal at the Chicago Tribune reports on some of the potential regulatory hurdles facing a potential Comcast/NBC deal… Jim Williams at the Washington Examiner looks at the World Series numbers and the latest on the Comcast/NBC deal… Michael Hiestand at [...]
USA Today (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
By Michael Hiestand, USA TODAYThe widely reported possibility that will take over Universal raises lots of new TV sports scenarios, including the fun notion that it would be big enough to pick a fair fight with the omnivorous .Comcast, the USA's largest cable TV operator, made a surprise (and unsuccessful) takeover bid for ESPN parent Disney in 2004 in hopes of creating the world's biggest...
Sports Media Journal (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Happy Thursday! The Yankees are once again World Champions of baseball. Here are some sports media stories since our last update yesterday morning…Bob Raissman at the NY Daily News reports on how Phil Mushnick at the NY Post doesn’t think Michael Hiestand at USA Today of last weekend race at Talladega…Mike McCarthy at USA Today reports that ESPN may be interested in Lewis Lazare at the...
USA Today (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
By Michael Hiestand, USA TODAYAlmost everybody who watches TV sports is an instant critic. One exception: Sports leagues themselves, who almost never publicly criticize the networks that cover them.Almost everybody who watches TV sports is an instant critic. One exception: Sports leagues themselves, who almost never publicly criticize the networks that cover them.And when it comes to...
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
The national pastime dominated the national primetime last week as Fox's coverage of the World Series between the New York Yankees and the Philadelphia Phillies scored strongly with viewers. In USA Today, writer Michael Hiestand, sounding as if he was an escapee from Variety , observed that "this year's boffo TV box office might suggest baseball has picked up some big new momentum." Last...
