Monthly Archives: September 2008

IndyRacing League airs five times on ABC, 13 times on Versus

By Ken McMillan | Published: September 30, 2008 | Comments closed
The Indy Racing League schedule for 2009 will open with three telecasts on Versus, five of the next seven races on ABC Sports and the remaining eight events back on Versus. April 5 — St. Petersburg, 2 p.m., VersusApril 19 — Long Beach, 3:30 p.m., VersusApril 26 — Kansas Speedway, 4 p.m., VersusMay 24 — Indianapolis [...]
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Rangers all over the radio dial

By Ken McMillan | Published: September 30, 2008 | Comments closed
Hey Rangers fans … you thought you had problems trying to listen to the Blueshirt games on radio last year? It’s only going to get harder in the month of October, not only finding the radio signal, but finding the radio station. An early look at the October schedule has five games on WEPN (1050 AM), [...]
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TBS, ESPN Radio assign playoff announce teams

By Ken McMillan | Published: September 29, 2008 | Comments closed
The Boston Red Sox-Los Angeles Angels series has been given the top billing in the Major League Baseball playoffs, if you believe in the TV broadcasting assignments.TBS has assigned the Red Sox-Angels series to its top announce team of Chip Caray (Braves play by play) and Buck Martinez (Orioles analyst). Dan Shulman and Dave Campbell [...]
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Sad for my Mets and Shea’s final act

By Ken McMillan | Published: September 28, 2008 | Comments closed
Pardon me if I am feeling melancholy today. My Mets failed to get it done on the final day of the regular season again  — you had to see me flipping the TV remote in the air on Braun’s homer in Milwaukee and Schoeneweis’s and Ayala’s gopher balls in New York — and then we [...]
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Big-city baseball thrills TV execs at playoff time

By Ken McMillan | Published: September 25, 2008 | Comments closed
The television executives at Fox Sports and TBS have to be absolutely giddy about upcoming Major League Baseball playoffs because just about all of the top TV markets in the country will be represented with large viewing audiences.In the American League, you have Los Angeles (with the second-largest TV market in the USA), No. 7 [...]
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No ESPN baseball on Sunday

By Ken McMillan | Published: September 25, 2008 | Comments closed
In years past, ESPN used to carry a host of Major League Baseball games on the final Sunday of the regular season if they had any implications on the playoffs.That is no longer the case. ESPN does not have the rights to the final day of the season (all Sunday afternoons, in fact, since TBS has [...]
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You can thank me, baseball fans

By Ken McMillan | Published: September 25, 2008 | Comments closed
I was just speaking to Pete Silverman at ESPN Radio (1050 AM) in New York, and he told me the station planned to air the Colorado-Florida State football game on Saturday afternoon at 3:30 p.m.When I asked whether the station would air baseball games with playoff implications, he paused, and said he would switch the [...]
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Army men’s hoop gets three network games

By Ken McMillan | Published: September 24, 2008 | Comments closed
The Army men’s basketball team will have three televised games this season.Army’s Dec. 10 game at Penn State will be aired on ESPNU.The first meeting with Navy has been moved from Saturday, Jan. 24, to Sunday, Jan. 25, to accommodate an ESPNU noon telecast. That game will be played at West Point.The second meeting with [...]
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Army road game on weekend college football offerings

By Ken McMillan | Published: September 24, 2008 | Comments closed
Army football hits the road for the first time this season, but that doesn’t mean you can’t watch the Black Knights. Versus has picked up the Army-Texas A&M game on Saturday (12:30 p.m.) as part of the network’s Big 12 Football package. Thursday7 a.m., 11:30 a.m. – Penn State Football Story, YES8 p.m. — Mississippi Valley State [...]
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Liberty playoffs on MSG, ESPN2

By Ken McMillan | Published: September 24, 2008 | Comments closed
The New York Liberty will have all three of its Eastern Conference finals with the Detroit Shock televised in the Women’s National Basketball Association playoffs. Friday: Game 1 in New York, MSG, 7:30 p.m. (MSG pre-game show at 7 p.m.)Sunday: Game 2 in Detroit, ESPN2, 3 p.m.Monday: Game 3 in Detroit, ESPN2, 7 p.m. (if necessary) The [...]
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