0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/1/2014
When ESPN released its college football announcing teams for the 2014 season, one name which was noticeably absent was Carter Blackburn. He had called Friday night games on ESPN and ESPN2 over the past couple of seasons. Awful Announcing has learned that Blackburn will move to CBS/CBS Sports Network where he will call college football […]
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Local newscasts make mistakes so often these days that it’s not surprising, but in this case, the error is so egregious that the video has gone viral. KMSP (Fox 9) in Minneapolis was doing a story about Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice apologizing to the media on Thursday. However, instead of airing the video […]
0 comments by Douglas Pucci
MLB Network Top 10 Programs RANK PROGRAM DAY TIME DUR HH VWRS (000) 1 HALL OF FAME INDUCTION Sun 1:30PM- 4:45PM 195 0.4 516 2 AFTERNOON BASEBALL GAME: Toronto/N.Y. Yankees Sat 1:00PM- 4:28PM 208 0.3 343 3 PRIME BASEBALL GAME: Miami/Atlanta Thu 7:00PM- 9:45PM 165 0.2 275 4 MLB TONIGHT PRIME Thu 9:45PM-10:07PM 22 0.2 […]
0 comments by Douglas Pucci
NBCSN Top 10 Programs RANK PROGRAM DAY TIME DUR HH VWRS (000) 1 TOUR DE FRANCE – EXTRA Sun 1:40PM- 2:00PM 20 0.3 425 2 TOUR DE FRANCE – LIVE Sun 9:00AM- 1:40PM 280 0.3 421 3 TOUR DE FRANCE – LIVE Wed 8:00AM-11:26AM 206 0.2 315 4 TOUR DE FRANCE – LIVE Sat 8:00AM-12:00PM […]
0 comments by Douglas Pucci
ESPN Top 10 Programs RANK PROGRAM DAY TIME DUR HH VWRS (000) 1 NASCAR SPRINT CUP: Brickyard 400 Sun 1:00PM- 4:15PM 195 3.4 5196 2 SPRINT CUP POST RACE (live) Sun 4:15PM- 4:30PM 15 2.5 3964 3 MLB SUNDAY NIGHT: L.A. Dodgers/San Francisco Sun 8:00PM-11:22PM 202 1.5 2347 4 NASCAR NATIONWIDE SERIES: Indianapolis (live) Sat […]
0 comments by Reva Friedel
Yesterday, FOX Sports announced that Brady Quinn would be joining the team to provide analysis for both college football and the NFL. Quinn, as you may remember, was a rock star QB at Notre Dame, but kind of fell off the radar after three seasons with the Cleveland Browns followed by bouncing around about 17 […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia
During Thursday night’s Reds-Marlins game, Miami manager Mike Redmond was ejected after a replay review reversed a call at home plate, claiming the new, flawed collision rule should have been applied. Redmond predictably went ballistic, and Marlins broadcasters Rich Waltz and Tommy Hutton also lost their minds. Hutton was fired up from the get go, […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia
Something interesting happened on Wednesday in Houston. The Athletics-Astros game drew a 0.0 rating on CSN Houston, the third time this has happened since the network’s launch nearly two years ago. While this in and of itself isn’t strange, the other side of the equation is – the game wasn’t available at all in Oakland […]
0 comments by Ken Fang
All Times Eastern Australian Rules Football Sydney Swans vs. Essendon Bombers — Fox Soccer Plus, 5:30 a.m. Adelaide Crows vs. West Coast Eagles — Fox Sports 2, 11:30 a.m. AFL Highlights — Fox Soccer Plus, 4:30 a.m. Boxing Friday Night Fights, Shelton, WA Light Heavyweights Thomas Williams, Jr. vs. Gabriel Campilio — ESPN2, 9 p.m. […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 7/31/2014
With the dawn of another month upon us, it’s time for one of our favorite pastimes here at Awful Announcing – looking at MLB Network’s schedule of live games and complaining endlessly about it. Just like last month, I can’t nitpick too much about the schedule. The network will feature five of their Showcase games […]
0 comments by Matt Yoder
The WWE Network is one of the most ambitious plays in the history of sports and entertainment. A multi-million dollar company completely changed their business model and revenue stream in the hopes that they could serve content directly to fans. We might look back several years down the road and see WWE Network as a […]
0 comments by Steve Lepore
Jon Champion’s life headed in a completely direction following one cricket match he played in as a teenager when, as he describes, “didn’t know what I wanted to do.” Following the game, a local radio station asked him to do a phone interview to discuss his part in the game. They were impressed, though he […]
0 comments by Ken Fang
We at Awful Announcing always enjoy stories of reporters who show a little spunk and attitude towards viewers who complain or in extreme cases, photobomb them from behind. Such is the case with Iowa TV reporter Addie Olson of WOI-TV. While she was reporting on the Des Moines Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa, […]
0 comments by Matt Yoder
Fox took a dramatic step in standing up for Erin Andrews in the wake of repeated meathead comments from Kirk Minihane of WEEI in Boston. The network removed all advertising not just from WEEI, but from parent station Entercom, which controls over 100 stations across the nation. It was a drastic measure and a powerful […]
0 comments by Steve Lepore
It looks like NBCSN’s original general sports studio programming will be limited to Sunday nights for the foreseeable future. Awful Announcing has learned that the network has ended the television version of SportsDash, their midday sports show, after a little more than 10 months on air. The network released a statement to AA Thursday morning: “Yahoo […]
