I have a lot of work to get to this morning and this week may be a bad week for me link-wise as I may be out of the office quite a bit. I’m just preparing you if you don’t see linkage on the site in the mornings. I’ll try to provide them to you during the evenings. Keep it here for updates.
First off, Michael Hiestand of USA Today says CBS and the New England Patriots are getting in bed together for a theme restaurant. I linked to the story in the Boston Globe and Boston Herald yesterday. Joseph Adalian of Variety also writes a story on this subject.
The New York Post’s Phil Mushnick is on the warpath again today. He’s railing against WFAN’s Mike Francesca, lack of sportsmanship and Craig Bolerjack of CBS Sports.
Two things from the Sports Media Watch today. First, Paulsen says ratings for the SEC’s football games on CBS outpaced games on ABC this year. And it appears while ratings are up for NBA games on ESPN, TNT and local FSN outlets, it’s not translating to attendance.
Ray Frager writes in the Baltimore Sun’s Medium Well blog that NBC was clearly biased against Baltimore last night.
CNBC’s Darren Rovell wonders what happened to internet sensation Allison Stokke who burned up sports blogs earlier this year.
Chris Zelkovich of the Toronto Star was relieved not to see replay challenges in the Steelers-Patriots game yesterday.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s Bob Wolfley was glad to hear Kevin Harlan and Rich Gannon on the Oakland-Green Bay telecast on CBS yesterday.
John Consoli of Mediaweek writes that the ratings for CBS and Fox on NFL afternoon games are outpacing NBC’s Sunday night games marking the first time the afternoon rightsholders are beating primetime. Let’s see if this is a one year anomaly or if it becomes a trend.
John Ryan of the San Jose Mercury News writes that the 49ers will be in primetime this Saturday on the NFL Network.
Yesterday, I linked to a Financial Times article on ESPN being interested in the English Premier League soccer rights. This would be similar to ESPN getting the rights to the entire NFL, not just Monday Night Football. James Wilmore of the Publican in the UK writes that current rights holders Sky and Setanta Sports are going to face a strong challenge from ESPN. Steve Clarke of Variety also has a version of this story.
Steve Kroner of the San Francisco Chronicle reports that the Giants have purchased up to a 30% stake in FSN Bay Area. Comcast owns a majority stake in the channel and will rebrand it sometime before the baseball season.
Jeffrey Flanagan of the Kansas City Star goes over the Chiefs-Broncos game.
That’s it for now.
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