Some Wednesday Night Links

I’ve got to get up really early on Thursday so I won’t have the links for you right off the bat so you’ll have to make due with my Wednesday night links for now.

I’ll start with the NBA since the Association released its schedule today. I’m not a huge NBA fan so I was not into posting schedule-related links this afternoon. But I’ll give you some stuff now so you can peruse the games and plan your viewing accordingly.

I’ll go West Coast first as Tom Hoffarth of the Los Angeles Daily News notes that the Lakers and Celtics have the maximum amount of national appearances on ESPN, ABC and TNT.

Awful Announcing has the ESPN/ABC schedule for 2008-09.

Ken McMillan of the Hudson Valley Times Herald-Record notices that the Knicks and Nets have been omitted from TNT’s schedule. And Ken tells us the Knicks aren’t on ESPN/ABC’s schedule either.

The Sports Media Watch says there are five, count ’em, five NBA games on Christmas Day, all to be shown nationally. And the SMW breaks down the national appearances for each team.

And the Crowe’s Nest has a link to the defending champions Celtics schedule.

Moving from the NBA to the Olympics, where we go back to Ken McMillan who writes that WFAN will have hourly updates from Westwood One Radio. And Ken says 1050 ESPN Radio will air Westwood One’s nightly Olympics show.

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has a guide of NBC’s hosts and announcers for the Olympics.

Tim Lemke of the Washington Times says despite what you heard about live coverage, a lot of NBC’s primetime Olympics programming will be delayed.

The following link comes courtesy of Awful Announcing. Ina Fried of CNET goes into the huge effort NBC is undertaking to bring you the Olympics from its New York headquarters to your computer.

Pip Bulbeck of the Hollywood Reporter writes that Australia’s 9 Network is being banned from filming in and around Olympic venues at Beijing after rightsholder 7 Network caught a 9 Network photographer at the Water Cube and complained to the International Olympic Committee.

Stephanie Levitz of the Canadian Press says CBC is going all out for its last Olympics games for at least six years.

Scott Greczkowski of Multichannel blogs that both DirecTV and Dish Network have signed up to provide NBC Universal’s HD Olympic Networks as well as having foreign language coverage.

Lisa Snedeker of Media Life Magazine reports that ad buyers are nervous about protests at the Olympics.

Variety’s Brian Lowry and Clifford Coonan write that the Olympics are shrouded in secrecy over the Opening Ceremonies.

Broadcasting & Cable reports that the Daily Show will be sending Rob Riggle to Communist China to file reports from the Olympics.

William Houston of the Toronto Globe and Mail feels the start of the English Premier League on Setanta Sports later this month will hold its own against the Olympics on CBC.

John Eggerton of Broadcasting & Cable says an FCC test of white spaces using unlicensed mobile devices will take place at the August 9th Bills-Redskins game.

Bruce Allen of Boston Sports Media Watch remembers the time when the Boston Globe’s Will McDonough punched out Raymond Clayborne of the New England Patriots. True story.

And speaking of the Patriots, WBCN, the flagship of the Patriots Rock Radio Network has listed the four games it will stream for free at its website.

John Consoli of Mediaweek reports that Gillette will sponsor ESPN’s college football Kickoff Week which begins on August 28.

Back to Awful Announcing which shows that ESPN’s Erin Andrews is undaunted after being criticized for wearing a quote-unquote revealing dress last week.

Here’s a transcript of a chat Hannah Storm conducted on ESPN.com in advance of the premiere of the live morning SportsCenter block next week.

Barstool Sports was happy to see the lovely Tina Cervasio back on NESN covering the Little League World Series Regionals.

The 38Cliches blog finds a video of former Red Sox announcer Jerry Trupiano being interviewed on local access cable.

Joe Favorito says it’s important for an athlete to be involved in their own branding and marketing campaign.

Britt Braudo of the Detroit News talks with CBS’ Ian Baker-Finch who’s part of the crew calling the PGA Championship at Oakland Hills this week.

Barry Silverman of the Maryland Press Box site looks at the week in sports media from the Baltimore perspective.

That’s it until Thursday links later in the day. See you then.