Jets-Bills To Play Monday Night In Detriot (TV Coverage Plans)

By Josh Albarran

(CBS Broadcasting, Inc.)

The NFL announced on Thursday that the New York Jets vs. Buffalo Bills game that was scheduled to play on Sunday afternoon at Ralph Wilson Stadium in Buffalo (original start time would had been at 1:05pm ET on CBS part of their Week 12 doubleheader) has been relocated to Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan due to an massive snow-flooding over in the upper New York area, rescheduled to Monday night at 7:05pm ET and will be televised locally by CBS in New York City and Buffalo markets. The game will also air nationally on DirecTV as part of their NFL Sunday Ticket package. Network programming will air on CBS's sister station WLNY in New York.

Results that Jets-Bills will complete against another Monday night game (which is regularly nationally on ESPN) of the Baltimore Ravens-New Orleans Saints game, which but game will not kick-off until 8:30pm ET although game coverage will begin at 8:15pm ET. 

This is not the first that an postponed-Sunday NFL game was played on Monday night outside of the ESPN telecast (and on the same location), back in 2010 FOX moved the New York Giants-Minnesota Vikings to Monday (the same practice aired in team markets) in Detroit after an roof collapsed at Minneapolis Metrodome and which saw the end of (then-Viking) Brett Favre's 297 consecutive regular season games as starting quarterback while completing against the Ravens-Houston Texans game over on ESPN.

On the other hand, FOX in the New York market originally scheduled to air the Arizona Cardinals-Seattle Seahawks at 4:00pm ET, but due to the Jets not playing on that day and the Giants will play later tonight over on NBC against the Dallas Cowboys, will now air the early game of the Detroit Lions-New England Patriots game at 1:00pm ET instead.

The NFL Network will replay Jets-Bills on Tues, Nov 25 at 12am ET following Total Access.

Monday Night Football on ABC This Week

By Josh Albarran

The New York Giants and the Detroit Lions will open the 2014 ESPN Monday Night Football season on September 8th which will also be seen locally in New York on ABC.
(WABC-TV)

WABC-TV, the ABC Television Network's owned-and-operated and flagship station will carry the New York Giants vs. Detroit Lions Monday Night Football opener game at 7:00pm ET this Monday, it is the first time the station would air an NFL game since ABC's last National Football League telecast in Super Bowl XL back in 2006 and the first Monday Night Football game on WABC-TV since the network's last MNF telecast in 2005. ESPN announcers Mike Tirico, Jon Gruden and Lisa Salters will have the call from Detroit  This game will also be seen in Detroit on ABC affiliate and former ABC O&O WXYZ.

However it will a be simulcast of its sister network ESPN (both ABC and ESPN are owned by The Walt Disney Company). Its unknown yet WABC-TV will carry three more Monday Night Football games later this season, another Giants game on Monday night is schedule on November 3rd and plus two New York Jets games on both September 22nd and December 1st (all that is if Dancing with the Stars, which returns September 15th on ABC is concern, Monday night games could be seen on either Fox-owned WWOR-TV or The CW affiliate WPIX).

The broadcast on ESPN will be followed by Arizona Cardinals vs. San Diego Chargers from the site of Super Bowl XLIX in Glendale, Arizona at approx 10:15pm ET on ESPN2 if the first game of the Monday Night Football doubleheader on ESPN does not end on time with Chris Berman, Trent Dilfer and Lindsay Czarniak on the call. The simulcast on WABC-TV will followed ABC's World News Tonight with David Muir and Eyewitness News will air locally following Giants-Lions.

ABC To Restart Its Radio Division

August 16, 2014

By Josh Albarran

New York - We now found out that earlier this month, ABC announced that the Disney-owned television network will restart its radio division as they will partnered with Skyview Networks to distribute ABC's brand of radio properties (including ABC Sports Radio) beginning on January 1, 2015 once its current deal with Cumulus Media Networks comes to a end.

ABC as far as most of us know that they had been out of the radio business since 2007 when The Walt Disney Company sold the original ABC Radio Networks to Citadel Broadcasting (which has since been merged to Cumulus Media Networks), but the American Broadcasting Company kept the ownership of ABC News Radio as well as ABC Sports Radio and its entertainment and digital assets for distribution from Citadel/Cumulus.

ABC Sports Radio doesn't had rights to broadcast sporting events as with the major radio networks are, but only broadcasts reports and updates produced by ABC News.

Disney also owns the ESPN Radio Network, Radio Disney and their 30 owned-and-operated stations (6 from ESPN Radio and 24 from Radio Disney), although both ESPN Radio and Radio Disney may not be part of the ABC Radio division and remain separated, but both ABC Radio and Radio Disney will be a part of the Disney-ABC Television Group as ESPN Radio is part of the sports empire which Disney controls ESPN with 80% owned.

To learn more about ABC Sports Radio and the rest of the ABC Radio property, log on to ABCRadio.com and click to affiliate or renew affiliation:
http://abcradio.go.com/

FOX Network's College Football 2014 schedule

July 30, 2014

By Josh Albarran

FOX Sports will feature 18 games on the FOX Broadcast Network on Saturdays this fall beginning on Saturday, August 30th at 6:30pm ET/3:30pm PT, including premier Big 12 and Pac-12 as well as the Pac-12 and Big 12 conference championship games.

Play-by-play Gus Johnson, color commentator Charles Davis and sideline reporter Molly McGrath will do most games on the FOX Broadcast Network this season while studio host Rob Stone, analysts Joel Klatt and Dave Wannstedt will provide pre, halftime and post-game reports and updates from the FOX Network College Football studios in Los Angeles.

Below is a guide to FOX's college football games tis, including information for where to watch.

**All times ET or check your local FOX station for the time in your area.

WEEK 1

Saturday, Aug. 30

Fresno State at USC (7:30 p.m., FOX/FOX Deportes)

WEEK 2

Saturday, Sept. 6

Michigan State at Oregon (6:30 p.m., FOX/FOX Deportes)

WEEK 3

Saturday, Sept. 13

Illinois at Washington (4 p.m., FOX)

UCLA vs. Texas (8 p.m., FOX/FOX Deportes)

WEEK 4

Saturday, Sept. 20

TBA at TBA (7:30 p.m., FOX)

WEEK 5

Saturday, Sept. 27

TBA at TBA (7:30 p.m., FOX)

WEEK 6

Saturday, Oct. 4

TBA at TBA (7:30 p.m., FOX)

WEEK 7

Saturday, Oct. 11

TBA at TBA (7:30 p.m., FOX)

WEEK 8

Saturday, Oct. 18

TBA at TBA (7:30 p.m., FOX)

WEEK 9

Saturday, Oct. 25

TBA at TBA (3:30 p.m., FOX)

WEEK 10

Saturday, Nov. 1

TBA at TBA (7:30 p.m., FOX)

WEEK 11

Saturday, Nov. 8

TBA at TBA (7:30 p.m., FOX)

WEEK 12

Saturday, Nov. 15

TBA at TBA (7:30 p.m., FOX)

WEEK 13

Saturday, Nov. 22

TBA at TBA (7:30 p.m., FOX)

WEEK 14

Friday, Nov. 28  

Arizona State at Arizona (3:30 p.m., FOX)

Saturday, Nov. 29

TBA at TBA (3:30 p.m., FOX)

WEEK 15

Friday, Dec. 5

Pac-12 Championship Game (9 p.m., FOX)

Saturday, Dec. 6

Big Ten Championship Game (8 p.m., FOX)

 

TNA, Spike TV Part Ways Following Impact's Cancellation

By Josh Albarran - July 28, 2014

Former TNA star Hulk Hogan promoting TNA's Impact Wrestling program on Spike TV in 2009.
(TNA Entertainment, LLC.)

As reported earlier this week, Spike TV's parent company Viacom and Nashville-based professional wrestling company Total Nonstop Action (TNA) had been parting ways after the New York-based media company announced that Spike had cancelled TNA's flagship show. This come months after World Wrestling Entertainment reached an mulit-year deal with NBCUniversal, which will continue to air programming such as Monday Night Raw, Friday Night SmackDown, A.M. Raw and other content such as rebroadcasts and originals on their networks.

Spike will stop airing wrestling after 15 years, dated back when they (back then know as TNN) began airing the still-struggling Extreme Championship Wrestling in 1999 before the network cancelled ECW in favor for WWE from its original broadcaster USA Network in the fall of 2000 and continue that relationship until 2005 when WWE moved back to USA and brought in TNA around that time after began airing Impact Wrestling from Fox's regional sports networks.

Today, I react to Twitter like a shoot to TNA Wrestling on why Viacom deciding to drop professional wrestling from its family of networks:

"Viacom want to get wrestling out of their networks, just like Turner did when they cancelled WCW shows in 2001 before selling it to WWE."

"TNA is losing money and cannot seek an major TV deal with media companies like Viacom to provide good wrestling to their audiences."

"If TNA puts its shows airing on syndicated TV stations as w/ the big 3 companies did in 90s, it would (be) hard to find them in a city market."

Stay with TVSportsNews for this and other sports media news.

ESPN's Linda Cohn Has A Injured Arm

By Josh Albarran

Linda Cohn at the ESPN Radio studios, September 9, 2013.
(ESPN Images)

ESPN's SportsCenter anchor Linda Cohn on Friday suffered an injury to repair 25 stitches on her right arm while working on the ice for the New York Rangers-affiliate team Hartford Wolf Pack. She was scheduled to face shots from Wolf Pack hockey players during the morning and also attending the team's night game the following night.

Cohn tweeted on Twitter with a picture of her arm at a local Connecticut hospital "This is what kept me from taking ice w @WolfpackAHL today. Some kids playing in arcade knocked over metal machine onto my arm. 25 stitches!" http://www.whosay.com/status/lindacohn/868577?wsref=tw&code=Tjk8519

Cohn is currently resting at her Southbury, Connecticut home with her arm expected to be heel quickly and will return to SportsCenter beginning mid-next week, she will tell the hole story from Friday's accident on her next Listen Closely podcast, also expected to be released via download next week.

UPDATE (4/02/2014): Linda Cohn returned to ESPN on Wednesday doing SportsCenter on her normal basis, but according to her Twitter page, Cohn won't be playing hockey for a month due to doctor's orders. As promise, her story from last week's incident on this week's Listen Closely podcast with guest former Ranger player and Stanley Cup champion Mark Messier.

To listen click on http://espn.go.com/espnradio/play?id=10715094 or to download http://c.espnradio.com/audio/2142792/lindacohn_2014-04-02-120032.48b.mp3?ad_params=zones%3DPreroll%2CMidroll%2CPostroll%7Cstation_id%3D1767

UPDATE (8/22/2014): On Thursday, the New York Post reported that Cohn had filed a lawsuit against the Brewster Ice Arena in July over the use of its coin machine that fell on her arm, costing Cohn not to play hockey with the Wolfpack hockey team. A ESPN official said Linda was off-duty from the network at the time and ESPN is not involved in this lawsuit, that's good news for her to keep her television job. Cohn took the last two weekdays off and will return to the network on-air next week.

The President On Sports TV

By Joshua Albarran

Fox News' Bill O'Reilly (right) sat down with President Barack Obama during the Super Bowl XLVIII pregame show.
(Fox Sports)

It has been a month for the President of the United States as Barack Obama had been interview for by broadcast sports division for events such as the Super Bowl, the NBA All-Star Game and the Winter Olympics. Three presidential interviews by the three networks for three respecting sporting events.

FOX

The Super Bowl XLVIII interview on the FOX broadcast network took place five days after the President's State of the Union address. Bill O'Reilly of FOX News Channel asked him tough questions on the Obamacare website, the IRS scandal and the Benghazi investigation , in my book this was the best sports interview of the year just because it airs on a NFL pregame show especially on Super Bowl Sunday, which Seattle defeated Denver at MetLife Stadium in New York/New Jersey for their first Super Bowl title.

TNT

Two Sundays later, Turner Sports' Charles Barkley interview Obama on the NBA on TNT pregame show for the All-Star Game in New Orleans. The basketball talk went very well, but my disappointment's from that segment was that they didn't talk about the situation of NBA Hall of Famer Dennis Rodman's recent trips to Korea, despite that sister network CNN had been covering the imprisoned America held over there.

NBC

Five days after the Super Bowl, Bob Costas (wearing glasses to protect from a pink eye) talks with the President on NBC Sports during the opening night of the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Obama answered  a number of topics conducted by Costas including the United States Olympic team, not entering the Olympics since becoming president and event host Russia's accomplishments like deals with Iran and Syria, same-sex and former NSA leaker Edward Snowman.