awfulannouncing.blogspot.com - 6/11/2008
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It's always interesting when ESPN and NBC switch coverage after the first two days of the U.S. Open because the styles are so different. For the Masters, ESPN uses many of CBS' production elements, but for the first two days of the Open the "Leader" is on its own. NBC is looking to analysts Peter Jacobson and Curtis Strange to team with Bob Costas this weekend and even wanted to use the ...
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The Primary Cut - U.S. Open Edition
sportsagentblog.com 6/7/2008 — Gear up for this week’s U.S. Open with some preview coverage.
sportsagentblog.com 6/7/2008 — Gear up for this week’s U.S. Open with some preview coverage.
US Open Live-Blog: Are We There Yet?
thebiglead.com 6/16/2008 — I’ll be doing the same old stupid Live-Blog Live-Blog thing for the first two hours. Nothing better than making fun of people you don’t know to pass the time. The first two hours the coverage will be on ESPN. At 2pm, I’ll be ...
thebiglead.com 6/16/2008 — I’ll be doing the same old stupid Live-Blog Live-Blog thing for the first two hours. Nothing better than making fun of people you don’t know to pass the time. The first two hours the coverage will be on ESPN. At 2pm, I’ll be ...
Tiger Survives To Win One Of The Greatest U.S. Opens Ever — AwfulAnnouncing
Ninety one holes....91! I questioned the 18-hole Playoff before the start today to myself, and more often than not this format probably end in a blowout, but today and the whole five-day period completed arguably the best rounds of Golf I've ever seen. The ride of Tiger Woods' Round yesterday and the drama of the Playoff today was simply amazing and Golf has never captivated me in this way ...
U.S. Open Playoff Live-Blog — AwfulAnnouncing
I hope you get a chance to watch this rare treat yourself but in case you're at work I'm going to try to give you as much video and play-by-play as I can. ESPN has the first nine holes from about 12pm until 2pm and then NBC will take it the rest of the way. Should be fun!
U.S. Open numbers game. — Sports Media Watch
Ratings for golf's U.S. Open on broadcast television since 1998. The two highest ratings in that span both occurred when Tiger Woods won the tournament.
2007
1.8/5: First round (Thu., 6/14, 3 PM NBC)
2.3/7: Second round (Fri., 6/15, 3 PM NBC)
4.1/11: Third round (Sat., 6/16, 1 PM NBC)
6.4/16: Final round (Sun., 6/17, 1 PM NBC)
2006
2.1/6: First round (Thu., 6/15, 3 PM NBC)
2.1/6: Second round (
U.S. Open helps NBC win Saturday night. — Sports Media Watch
The foray of U.S. Open golf coverage into prime time helped NBC win Saturday night in total viewers.
Third round coverage at the U.S. Open averaged 6.6 million viewers from 8:00 PM-10:30 PM ET, according to preliminary numbers. NBC's coverage began at 4:00 PM ET. Overall, NBC won the night in total viewers, averaging 6.1 million viewers.
Viewership peaked at 9:30 and 10:00 PM, with NBC
They come in threes: NBC’s Charlie Jones dies — The Meaningful Collateral
First Jim McKay, then Tim Russert, now former NBC play-by-play broadcaster Charlie Jones.
Like Russert, Jones died of a heart attack , though his was at his home in the La Jolla, Calif. district. And, like Russert, Jones was part of another great NBC legacy: Not only the NFL on NBC, but the young AFL on NBC.
Jones started broadcasting AFL games on ABC in 1960, then moved to NBC in ...
Long-time NBC sports announcer Charlie Jones is dead — Sports stories from Newsday
Tim Russert died today, a huge loss to NBC News in addition to his family and friends.
That news understandably will overshadow the death of another long-time NBC figure, sportscaster Charlie Jones, a stalwart of its AFL and NFL coverage for many years.
Jones wasn't a star of the magnitude of Jim McKay, who died last weekend, but he was a solid pro whom many of us grew up with.
Here ...
ESPN.com: Covering the hell out of the US Open — Hotdog & Friends
Fig Jam
If you go to ESPN.com right now you will be immersed in US Open coverage. I love it. My favorite headline right now is: “Double Bogeys Hurt Tiger.”
Now, once you click on the link, the actual article has a more respectable title, but nonetheless, the lead-in is to point out that double bogeys = not good in major championship golf. Well played sirs at ESPN.com. I ...
Definition of Sport Revisited — Women Like Sports
I recently wrote a post explaining why I believe that MMA should be considered a sport. Nearly everyone I spoke to about it agreed with very few exceptions. Just the other day someone else informed me that they believe that golf is not a sport. Interesting. I disagree completely. To this person, sport only exists if there is a defense. They asserted that golf, track and field events, ...
Everything You Wanted To Know About ESPN's 2-Round Coverage Of The U.S. Open — AwfulAnnouncing
Squeezing 40 hours of coverage into a two-day period has to be near impossible given the fact there's only 48 hours to fit it in. This is why ESPN is starting things up tomorrow and Wednesday with two hour long Sports Center Specials. The rest of the coverage will come fast and furious from Torrey Pines Golf Club starting at 11am on Thursday and finishing up on early Monday morning with a ...
NBC was short on lengths, long on tornado warnings — Sports stories from Newsday
Here is my Tuesday newspaper column.
I initially planned to include a variety of items in it, but as the drama unfolded Monday I ditched everything else and went all-Tiger, just like the TV networks do!
Two things I didn't have room to mention:
For all of the NBC announcers' meticulousness and knowledge, it's strange how often they fail to hazard a guess at the lengths of putts. ...
Go On, Be a Tiger — The700Level.com - Philly Sports & Minutiae
Talk about drama. Golf fan or not that was a most entertaining ending. You've got perhaps the most dominant athlete in the world and a guy named Rocco dueling back and forth for 4 straight hours. During the telecast on NBC, the announcers were even at a loss for superlatives to describe the amazing golf and spectacle down the stretch.
You just watched one of the greatest U.S. Open ...
Tiger Asks God For Help — Intentional Foul
It’s all US Open, all the time here and when the coverage switched from ESPN to NBC, we were greeted with Tiger teeing off on the 10th hole. Unfortunately for Tiger, his drive went into the rough and like he normally does when he hits a bad shot, he voiced his displeasure by asking God to damn something and the camera’s caught it.
Don’t worry though, NBC’s announcers ...
NBC Sunday Golf Ratings Astronomical — Sports Biz with Darren Rovell
Posted By: Darren Rovell When I first heard that NBC was going to broadcast the U.S. Open Championship in prime time, I thought that if Tiger Woods was anywhere close to the top of the leaderboard it would be a great bet. Well, it was such a great gamble that I wouldn't be shocked if we saw more of this in the future. Read More
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U.S. Open Final Round Open Thread — AwfulAnnouncing
Well NBC seems ready for Tiger's round as they break out the Rage Against The Machine... WOOOOOO! I'm ready for some f'ing Golf!!! I like Rage as much as the next person, but I don't know if a Golf Major is the place for it. Tiger is on the course though and I'm sure the rage is kicking in after this tee shot and a double bogey on the first... He has since followed with a bogey on ...
Long Time Sportscaster Charlie Jones Passes — SOX & Dawgs
Two more broadcasters left us today. Both you saw each and every Sunday for the longest time.
Tim Russert, host of “Meet the Press” died of a heart attack at age 58 today and long-time NBC Sport announcer Charlie Jones passed at the age of 77. Jones whose 45-year career as a sports broadcaster dates back to the beginning of the American Football League (AFL) in 1960.
NBC ...
ESPN's U.S. Open Coverage Starts Out Confusing But Settles In Nicely — AwfulAnnouncing
I have to admit that I was just as confused as some of you this morning with ESPN's coverage. For some reason the network didn't go into "total coverage" until 1pm, but I had no idea that's what they were planning. For two hours to start the day we got a few shots of the "Big Three" teeing off and putting but it was interrupted by 10 or so reports on players and the course itself. Karl ...
2008 U.S. Open: TV Schedule and Viewing Tips — ARMCHAIR GOLF BLOG
TWENTY-ONE HOURS of TV coverage are on tap for the U.S. Open. It’s ESPN, NBC and ESPN on Thursday and Friday. It’s all NBC on the weekend. Thursday & Friday 10 a.m. - Noon PDT (1 - 3 p.m. EDT) on ESPN Noon - 2 p.m. PDT (3 - 5 p.m. EDT) on NBC 2 p.m. - 7 p.m. PDT (5 - 10 p.m. EDT) on ESPN Saturday 1 - 7 p.m. PDT (4 - 10 p.m. EDT) on NBC Sunday NOON - 6 p.m. PDT (3 - 9 p.m. EDT) on NBC ...
U.S. Open Rewards Mediocrity, Not Greatness — The Sporting Blog
Occasionally, Mike DeCourcy graces TSB with his presence. This is one of those occasions.
NBC’s promos of its U.S. Open coverage have promised a Father’s Day gift to top them all – prime time coverage of the national golf championship. I suppose there are some people who dislike their fathers that much.
ESPN only covers the early rounds, so it sticks more to the game ...
And So It Begins... 2008 Coverage of the United States Berman Open — JoeSportsFan.com
The U.S. Open is under way and as part of its Thursday and Friday coverage, ESPN has employed the one and only Chris Berman to hold play-by-play duties. Thankfully, NBC will spare us this golfing disaster come Saturday and the final round.
With Berman's ridiculous presence - and he shouldn't even be there covering the event from a company standpoint given that Scott Van Pelt has accepted ...
US Open Live Interactive Coverage — The Deep Rough
If you were a DirecTV subscriber during the Masters no doubt you saw the awesome interactive coverage. Between all the live on course cameras, interactive scorecard and interviews…it was pretty awesome! Apparently it was successful enough for them to offer the same coverage during this week’s US Open at Torrey Pines. I believe network coverage begins at 11am, so those of us lucky ...
Live Coverage of the U.S. Open Playoff — SI.com - Golf
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THE TIGER VORTEX — NY Post: Sports
BY now, it's a shame on us. We should expect nothing more, nothing less and nothing better. ESPN/NBC's live coverage of the U.S. Open began Thursday at 11 a.m. with ESPN's two-hour on-course look-in show. But not really. Most of those first two...
BY now, it's a shame on us. We should expect nothing more, nothing less and nothing better. ESPN/NBC's live coverage of the U.S. Open began Thursday at 11 a.m. with ESPN's two-hour on-course look-in show. But not really. Most of those first two...
