blogs.usatoday.com - 11/23/2008
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Along with the rest of the sports TV business, CBS' Jim Nantz watched as ESPN blew Fox Sports away with a $500 million, four-year offer to land TV rights for the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) from 2011-2014. When a major...
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thebiglead.com - 11/21/2008
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thebiglead.com —
We’ve been fortunate enough to land a couple
of memorable interviews - Whitlock , Kornheiser , Wilbon...
and Gary Smith , to name a few - but we’ve probably never reeled in a bigger TV presence than one of ESPN’s longest-tenured and ...
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An Interview with ESPN’s Bob Ley
ncaafootball.fanhouse.com - 11/24/2008
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ncaafootball.fanhouse.com —
I dislike ESPN (the personalities anyway) as much
as the next guy/gal, but Nance is right on...
that second count -- it's their money, so they can spend it however they want. Although, as he later points out, it is in fact quite odd that Disney is deciding to air these games on ESPN instead of ABC.
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Jim Nantz Wishes ESPN Would 'Leave Something for the ...
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... Phil Mushnick from the New York Post goes after Warren Sapp and Mike Francesa. Alan Pergament of the Buffalo News has some random thoughts about announcers' misstatements. The Sports Media Watch has its weekend ratings predictions. Mike Reynolds of Multichannel News writes that ESPN continued its shopping spree with the BCS and looks over other properties it has purchased in recent months. USA Today's Game On! blog has CBS' Jim Nantz telling ESPN to leave something behind for the broadcast networks. The Baltimore ...
Jim Nantz Wants ESPN to Share
The Big Lead —
... an interview with USA Today via the Game On blog, Nantz offered his reaction to ESPN’s purchase of the BCS games, “The over-the-air networks have got to hope that at some point ESPN runs out of program hours. Leave us a little something. Leave us a few windows. You know, it’s hard to compete with them when they can double dip (into dual revenue streams)…It’s almost like if ESPN wants it, they’re going to get it.” Good quick interview. [Game On] ...
Jim Nantz Wishes ESPN Would 'Leave Something for the Rest of Us' Re: BCS Lease
FanHouse —
... FB Media WatchESPN made a pretty strong statement in recent weeks with their four year contract to run the BCS Championship games, particularly since they laid down a bid that Fox was unable/unwilling to match in an attempt to protect their college football telecasting investment. And it would make sense that "public" media types are a little thrown off by the WWL's decision to schmo-hog all off the good sports television. That includes Jim Nance, in a recent interview with the dudes from Game On! The over-the-air networks have ...
Who Let The Dogs Out At CBS Sports?
Eye On Sports Media —
... for 15 years. They were able to successfully bid for that extension. But they do not have the built in advantage of ESPN's double revenue stream, and that is life at this moment in time. But it is an unfair monopoly that people should be calling on Congress to look at. And that call cannot come from the broadcasters alone, it has to come from the general public. A public that might not even care as long as they can see their games someplace. Related Link(s) CBS' Nantz: Leave something for the rest of us (USA Today GameOn Blog)
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Zoner Sports —
... Sox and Dawgs has video from a local TV station on UConn’s Hasheem Thabeet’s trip to Tanzania. He had not been home in 5 years.
Hooped Up offers up the best MadTV basketball skits.
AOL Fanhouse has the first free kick field goal in almost 40 years. If you don’t know what it is I’m sure you’re not alone. But Arizona and Neil Rackers attempted a 68-yarder against the Giants yesterday.
Hello friend. USA Today has Jim Nantz chewing on some sourgrapes in regard to ESPN’s massive BCS ...
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SI.com - Extra Mustard —
... CBS' Jim Nantz seems to have taken issue with ESPN scooping up the rights to the BCS. The veteran broadcaster is concerned about how many big sporting events are now on cable. Whenever we hear this argument, we always wonder "what sport fan doesn't have ESPN?" We've read that ...
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sportsmediawatch.blogspot.com 11/13/2008 — The potential move of the Bowl Championship Series from broadcast to cable could be the biggest sports television move in years.
ESPN is bidding $125 million per year for the rights to the BCS, a 50% increase from the current 82.5 million FOX is ...
BCS discussing possible move from Fox to ESPN
usatoday.com 11/11/2008 — Conference commissioners and Barry Frank of IMG have been meeting in Chicago since Sunday. Most of the commissioners left on Monday, but the ACC's John Swofford, this year's BCS coordinator, stayed behind to iron out details, according to several ...
BCS on ESPN: More money for fewer viewers?
usatoday.com 11/19/2008 — They just have a hard time acknowledging what is hardly a crime. Take John Swofford, Atlantic Coast Conference commissioner and Bowl Championship Series coordinator, in announcing Tuesday that ESPN, starting in 2011, will carry four BCS games now on ...
College Bowl Game Players Get Benefits
totalprosports.com 12/11/2008 — Total Pro Sports - We were doing some research on the upcoming NCAA College Football Bowl Season , when we came across some information that we found to be very interesting. I definitely didn't know this, maybe you did. Did you know that the participants in the BCS Bowl Games (The Football ...
The Cablization of Television Sports Properties - Part II
sportsontheair.blogspot.com 11/20/2008 — Athens, GA (Nov 20, 2008) - "It's our ball an if you don't like our rules, too bad!" That seemed to be the underlying message on Tuesday's ESPN media call announcing the acquisition of the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) contract for 2011 through 2014. ...
ESPN and BCS Reach Four-Year Agreement
bizoffootball.com 11/19/2008 — ESPN has reached an extensive agreement with the Bowl Championship Series (BCS), granting exclusive TV, radio, digital, international and marketing rights for 15 BCS games from January 2011 through January 2014. It includes the Fiesta, Orange and Sugar Bowls each season and the BCS National ...
Could ESPN Team Up With CBS For March Madness?
awfulannouncing.blogspot.com 12/4/2008 — I linked to this article yesterday in the Daily Links, but I wanted to take a closer look the interview that College Hoops Journal conducted with ESPN/ABC President George Bodenheimer recently. More specifically, the following quote that alludes to ...
ESPN Could Force College Football Playoff In 2011
sportsbybrooks.com 12/10/2008 — I mourn the loss of another wonderful college football season, which was full of so many compelling games and storylines this year. But the season is now over for me, as the BCS bowl system has turned all postseason games save one into a meaningless, ...
