Category: TV Programs
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SoccerTV.com Published Complete World Cup Schedule for U.S. Television
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe 2006 FIFA World Cup started in Germany yesterday. I watched my first game of the tournament this morning– a surprisingly forgettable 1-0 victory by England over Paraguay. There are a lot of World Cup-oriented websites to look at. One site I found useful already is the composite World Cup TV…
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OLN Strikes Deal with Yahoo! to Bring Selected Sports Programming to the Web
Reading Time: < 1 minuteEarlier this week I asked why the National Hockey League has not followed the NBA into Internet distribution of game-related video content? That same day OLN announced a deal with Yahoo! to distribute a fairly large selection of its major sporting events via the Yahoo! Sports website. I heard about this…
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OLN Changing Its Name to “Versus” in September 2006
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOLN the network that brings you The National Hockey League, professional cycling, The Arena Football League, and The Davis Cup, announced today that it will be renamed Versus in September 2006. The network will officially change its name just in time for the beginning of the 2006-07 NHL season, but will…
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ESPN2 Isn’t To Blame for the Amgen Tour of California TV Production
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI read the complaints about TV coverage of the Tour of California that were published by VeloNews. The source of these complaints is VeloNews reader mailbag. It seems like a lot of VeloNews’ readers don’t realize that the Amgen Tour of California purchased the time on ESPN2 and contracted the coverage…
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Amgen Tour of California Debuts on Sunday with Prologue
Reading Time: < 1 minuteVeloNews reports that the Amgen Tour of California Pro Cycling Race will begin on Sunday, February 17, with a prologue in San Francisco. The Tour of California is the best funded pro cycling stage race in U.S. history, and I’m sorry that I won’t be there. ESPN2 will carry same-day highlights…
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If You Didn’t Get Your Fill of Super Bowl Commericals…
Reading Time: < 1 minute… you can turn to the following resources for replays and critical analysis: AdFreak from AdWeek.com: They live blogged the ads and had some interesting stats and asides thrown in. AdJab the advertising blog from Weblogs, Inc. Google Video has the ads available for playback USA Today has posted the results…
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“Chasing Lance: The Fan’s Story” to Debut on Travel Channel on December 22 at 8pm Eastern
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI just received an email from Paul Terry Walhus pointing out that “Chasing Lance: The Fan’s Story” will debut on the Travel Channel on Thursday, December 22 at 8pm Eastern Time. This is a film that documented the trip that five Lance Armstrong fans took to the 2005 Tour de France.…
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“A Charlie Brown Christmas” 40th Anniversary Broadcast Tonight on ABC
Reading Time: < 1 minuteUSA Today ran a great story on the production of “A Charlie Brown Christmas” which will air tonight on ABC at 8:00pm Eastern Time. According to the article: When CBS bigwigs saw a rough cut of “A Charlie Brown Christmas” in November 1965, they hated it…. There were concerns that the…