Monthly Archives: August 2008

Move aside Olympics; it’s time for U.S. Open tennis

By Ken McMillan | Published: August 25, 2008 | Comments closed
You just spent two weeks watching the Olympics.Now it’s time to spend two weeks watching the U.S. Open tennis championships.USA Network is the cable home of the Open once again. For the duration of the opening week, you can watch action from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. and 7-11 p.m. from Monday through Friday. Over the Labor [...]
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Olympic ratings continue to slide with no swimming, gymnastics

By Ken McMillan | Published: August 24, 2008 | Comments closed
The absence of artistic gymnastics and swimming, and disappointing showing by the U.S. track team helped lead Olympics ratings for NBC to plummet in the second week. Since Tuesday night, NBC’s average viewership has dropped from 26.6 million to 24.8 million on Wednesday to 22.4 million for Thursday and down to 17.6 million on Friday — [...]
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Olympics on TV for months to come

By Ken McMillan | Published: August 24, 2008 | Comments closed
Did you forget to program your TiVo? Did you run out of videotapes? Did your kids decide to watch cartoons?Well, if you missed any of the Olympic broadcasts, you will have a second chance to catch what you missed starting next month.Universal Sports, the new cable sports channel of NBC Sports, will be airing replays [...]
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Rangers’ return highlight September on MSG Network

By Ken McMillan | Published: August 23, 2008 | Comments closed
The New York Rangers will have seven preseason games televised on MSG Network in September, starting with a Sept. 20 game at Ottawa and moving on to the Rangers’ trip to Europe with a special 10 a.m. live telecast from Switzerland on Sept. 30. Here’s a look at September highlights on MSG Network and MSG Plus MSG [...]
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Giants-Jets clash tonight

By Ken McMillan | Published: August 23, 2008 | Comments closed
Hey New York, did you know there is a big football game on tonight?Okay, maybe not that big, considering its the preseason, but it’s time for the Giants-Jets clash. That also means the first of the many comparisons between new Jets QB Brett Favre and Super Bowl MVP QB Eli Manning of the Giants.The game [...]
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Tim McCarver calls out Jeff Kent

By Ken McMillan | Published: August 23, 2008 | Comments closed
Has there been as talented a crybaby in baseball in the past 20 years as Jeff Kent?The former Met, Blue Jay and Giant is now toiling with the Dodgers. In the past two weeks, Kent — batting in the three hole — has seen a resurgence in his hitting, posting a .455 average. He says [...]
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We interrupt these Olympics for a big race in the USA

By Ken McMillan | Published: August 23, 2008 | Comments closed
Okay, so let’s get this straight, since it’s past two in the morning … Barack Obama of Illinois has decided to ask Joe Biden of Delaware to be his vice president nominee two days in advance of going to the Democrat party convention in Colorado, and the announcement of the breaking news comes from Beijing, [...]
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NBC dropped ball on soccer

By Ken McMillan | Published: August 21, 2008 | Comments closed
I know it’s difficult for network programmers to change on the fly, especially when events occur out of pre-planned coverage hours, but I believe NBC dropped the ball on Thursday morning.NBC’s mid-day show, which started at 10 a.m. in all time zones, gave us taped coverage of USA’s gold-medal match loss to The Netherlands in [...]
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Phelps’ success spurs NBC to act quickly

By Ken McMillan | Published: August 21, 2008 | Comments closed
NBC is hoping the tremendous success of the Olympic swim meet and Michael Phelps’ on-going quest to compete at the 2012 London Games will translate to great swim ratings in the non-Olympic years.On Thursday, NBC announced it will cover the U.S. championships in 2009, 2010 and 2011, as well as the 2009 World Championships in Rome. NBC [...]
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Magrane rips Olympic baseball’s extra-inning rules

By Ken McMillan | Published: August 20, 2008 | Comments closed
NBC Olympics baseball analyst Joe Magrane doesn’t mince words about his thoughts of the “extra-inning” rules being used in Beijing.“I think it’s garbage,” Magrane said pointedly. And, mind you, he said this as the United States took advantage of the rule to strike for four runs in a 4-2, 11-inning win over Japan in the [...]
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