View Post TV Biz The Ticker: Rubin, ‘Today,’ BBC By Alex Weprin on Apr. 12, 2013 - 11:26 AM MSNBC’s VP of longform programming, Michael Rubin, will be adding oversight of longform programming at The Weather Channel to his duties (NBCU is an owner of TWC). He will manage Weather’s longform development and sche ...
SportsNewser Giants-Jets Third Highest Preseason Game On NFL Network By Marcus Vanderberg on Aug. 30, 2011 - 5:40 PM Monday’s rescheduled preseason game between the New York Giants and Jets scored an average of 1.78 million viewers on NFL Network, the third highest viewership for a preseason game in the network’s history. The 2011 NF ...
SportsNewser Video: Doug Glanville Has Lost His Baseball Touch By Marcus Vanderberg on Jul. 22, 2011 - 1:05 AM It’s been seven years since Baseball Tonight analyst Doug Glanville retired from the Philadelphia Phillies. The former outfielder threw out the first pitch at the Cubs-Phillies game Wednesday. Let’s just say Glanville ...
SportsNewser ESPN To Reair Rodriguez-Wolak Battle From Friday Night Fights By Marcus Vanderberg on Jul. 20, 2011 - 2:06 AM ESPN’s Friday Night Fights is re-airing their July 15 main event between Delvin Rodriguez and Pawel “Raging Bull” Wolak on ESPN2, ESPN Deportes and ESPN Classic. It will be the first non-regularly scheduled reair ...
SportsNewser New York Post Basically Ignores World Cup News By Noah Davis on Dec. 1, 2010 - 1:34 PM (Oh boy, that’s Morgan Freeman’s music.) On Thursday, FIFA will award the 2018 and 2022 World Cups to two separate nations. This is massive news. The New York Times has George Vecsey and Jere Longman on the case. Reute ...
People | SportsNewser James Brown: Studio Host, Entreprenuer By Noah Davis on Nov. 19, 2010 - 2:56 PM Fun facts we learned in The New York Times‘s profile of James Brown, who “invested a six-figure sum to start [Brown Technology], which specializes in database management and information security.” He “sold ...
People | SportsNewser SB Nation Gets Paid By Noah Davis on Nov. 8, 2010 - 1:17 PM Is this the equivalent of a young upstart phenom signing his first big contract? All Things D reports that SB Nation raised $10.5 million in Series C funding. Khosla Ventures led the round. The collection of 290 sports and news si ...
SportsNewser | TV Biz Gus Johnson To Call 23 Games For Big Ten Network By Marcus Vanderberg on Oct. 25, 2010 - 6:04 PM Less than a week after losing his gig with the New York Knicks, the Big Ten Network announced that Gus Johnson will call 23 games this winter, twice as many as the previous two seasons. Of Johnson’s 23 games, 20 will be regu ...
SportsNewser Mel Kiper Denies Claims In Sports Illustrated Story By Marcus Vanderberg on Oct. 13, 2010 - 1:28 PM And here comes the fallout from George Dohrmann’s Sports Illustrated story. ESPN is looking into Mel Kiper’s relationship with NFL agent Gary Wichard as described by Josh Luchs in this week’s SI cover story on ag ...
