Time for some quickie links tonight.
Andrew Krukowski of TV Week gives us the National Sports Ratings for the week ending November 4. Also from TV Week, Jon Lafayette writes that NBC Sports is going to air a half hour commercial free special on the late Grambling coach Eddie Robinson. Chris Pursell is in his TV Week Pressbox blog writes about Week 10 in the NFL for Fox and CBS.
Bob Molinaro of the Virginian-Pilot contrasts Phil Simms and Pat Haden on the wrong way and right way to analyze a football game on TV.
Multichannel News reports that MSG Network and FSN NY are seeing higher ratings for the New York Rangers and the New Jersey Devils respectively, over the first eleven games of the season.
Michael Ozanian and Kurt Badenhausen of Forbes magazine have written a special report on the Business of Hockey which includes a look at the NHL’s TV contract and subsequent ratings.
Mike Shields of Mediaweek says the Weather Channel has launched a new web series for its site, called “Forecast Football”. You can find that microsite here.
Disney saw profits rise 12% in the fourth quarter thanks largely to ESPN according to Andy Fixmer of Bloomberg.
Tom Wharton of the Salt Lake Tribune says a local sports radio station is in hot water with the NBA for promoting its Utah Jazz pre and postgame shows even though it doesn’t have broadcast rights with the team.
Mike Thomas of the Orlando Sentinel blogs about the Bright House-FSN dispute which is keeping 35 Magic games from its subscribers.
Sports radio station WDFN in Detroit is bringing back its morning show after firing it last week.
Former jockey Gary Stevens has been signed by HRTV, away from rival TVG, to be analyst for the horse racing channel as Multichannel News tells us.
Antoine Pitts of the Ann Arbor News writes about the HBO documentary, “The Rivalry” (to premiere next Tuesday), on Michigan-Ohio State, which had a screening this week. Mark Snyder of the Detroit Free Press saw it and feels the documentary is slanted towards Ohio State.
John Tucker of the New Hampshire Union Leader writes about Notre Dame’s woes, especially in the TV department.
Jeffrey Flanagan of the Kansas City Star has a story on Jim Rose who had to give up the play-by-play job for the Nebraska Cornhuskers due to health reasons.
The Arizona Daily Star reports that lovely Olympic swimmer Amanda Beard will begin appearing in Go Daddy ads this weekend on ESPN.
CBC Sports has picked up another sporting event, the Queen’s Plate, the first leg in the Canadian Triple Crown.
William Houston of the Toronto Globe and Mail says TSN made a good move bringing in former Philadelphia Flyers GM Bobby Clarke as a guest analyst this week.
I found quite a few links tonight. Friday is our usual megalink day. Unless something major happens, look for that around 11 a.m. ET tomorrow.
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