Doing some links for you now as I had work issues late this afternoon. Let me first thank the people from Sports Business Journal and Sports Business Daily for their visits to this blog. Also I thank them for linking to my video at YouTube of the first 4:40 of the Big Ten Network in today’s edition. You’re welcome to visit here any time.
Ok, let’s get to the links.
Week 1 of the College Football season was a disaster in the ratings for ABC and NBC this past holiday weekend. First, the good weather in the northeast was a factor, plus scheduling games on a holiday weekend was a major influence on the ratings. This is why the NFL no longer opens the season during the Labor Day Weekend. Paulsen at the Sports Media Watch blog says games on both ABC and the peacock network were beaten by the PGA’s Deutsche Bank Championship on NBC.
Don Walker of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in his Business of Sport blog says the Appalachian State-Michigan game came at the right time for the Big Ten Network. Ty Hilenbrandt of SI on Campus says BTN could make the Big Ten irrelevant. I don’t agree with that. Michael Carr blogs on Multichannel News that the upset of Michigan serves to help BTN. The Bloomington (IN) Pentagraph says the Indiana season opener vs. Western Illinois will not be seen in most of the Hoosier State as it will be carried on BTN. Antoine Pitts of the Ann Arbor News says the announcing team of Thom Brennaman and Charles Davis got to call their second big upset of 2007 (they called Boise State-Oklahoma on Fox with Barry Alvarez on New Year’s Day in the Fiesta Bowl).
Neil Ostrout of the Connecticut Post says the UConn men’s basketball team will have at least 13 national appearances this upcoming season.
That’s it for now. I may have a follow up on Bethanie Mattek’s wardrobe coming up.
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