Ballbug (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
Richard Sandomir / Bats : Chip Caray and TBS Part Ways — Chip Caray's tenure as TBS's lead major league baseball announcer ended Monday when he and the cable network agreed to part ways. — Caray's high-volume style was mixed with a penchant for bad play calls, embellishments and factual errors.
AaronGleeman.com (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
... forced millions of baseball fans to wear out their remote's mute button during the playoffs. Richard Sandomir of the New York Times rightfully described his postseason performance as a "high-volume style ... mixed with a penchant for bad play calls, embellishments, and factual errors," but my question is why the person who hired Caray as the channel's lead announcer isn't...
Dan Shanoff (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
I had been sitting on an analysis of the sports-media potential of a Comcast merger with NBC-Universal for a month, until the deal looked sealed. The NYT's Richard Sandomir beat me to it, but I want to drill into it just a little bit. Here's the top-line: The sports-media monster that comes from Comcast-NBCU has the potential to be the biggest alternative to ESPN in the history of sports...
Bloody Elbow (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
Dick Ebersol, the legendary head of NBC Sports, will inherit MMA via Comcast's ownership of Versus. View full size photo » The New York Times say the target is ESPN: Comcast 's impending acquisition of NBC Universal will certainly set off an effort to turn Versus into a viable alternative, if not a full-fledged competitor, to ESPN, The New York Times's Richard Sandomir writes. Under...
Sports Media Journal (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Good Wednesday! Make sure you check in later today as Ken Fang of Fang’s Bites and I host the latest edition of the Sports Media Weekly Podcast. Until then here are some sports media news stories crossing our desk… Richard Sandomir at the NY Times looks at how the Comcast/NBC deal may mean Versus could become a [...]
Can't Stop the Bleeding (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
“Chip Caray’s high-volume style was mixed with a penchant for bad play calls, embellishments and factual errors,” writes the New York TImes’ Richard Sandomir. On the bright side, however, he never uttered an obscenity or openly fantasized about fellating Ron Gardenhire, but he’s jobless just the same, removed from his role as TBS’ lead baseball [...]...
Sliding Into Home (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
I'm sure many of you will be happy about this news.... According to Richard Sandomir TBS has decided to part ways with announcer Chip Caray. Caray had been the lead announcer for the MLB playoffs, and called Braves games. In a memo sent to company employees, David Levy, the president of Turner Sports, wrote on Monday: “Since the end of this year’s M.L.B. playoffs, we’ve...
