ABC will televise five races and NBC Sports Network has 13, including the final 11, for the 2014 IndyCar racing season. ABC has the season-opening Grand Prix of St. Petersburg (Fla.) on March 30 and the inaugural Grand Prix of Indianapolis – a tune-up, so to speak, for the Indianpolis 500 – on May 10. [...]
The New York State public school football playoffs have reached the semifinal stage, with Section 9 schools playing in four contests. TIme Warner Cable SportsChannel will be airing the Eastern state semifinal games live. TWC Sports can be seen on Ch. 461 in high definition and Ch. 413 in standard definition. The Time Warner overflow [...]
Seton Hall University announced its men’s basketball games will air on WNYM (970-AM) this season, with four conflict games appearing on WMCA (570-AM), including Saturday’s opener with Niagara. Gary Cohen, the TV voice of the New York Mets, returns as the play-by-play voice of the Pirates with Dave Popkin back as color commentator. The pair [...]
NBA League Pass, hosted by InDemand, is being offered free to all digital cable subscribers for a free preview week that runs through Nov. 5. The action got underway on Tuesday with one contest, and full slates of games are on the Wednesday and Friday dockets. Subscribers who order early will receive a discount, with [...]
Time Warner Cable will be producing Saturday’s football game pitting Washingtonville and Pine Bush. The game will be aired live at 2 p.m. on channels 413 (standard definition) and 461 (high definition). The broadcast will be replayed at 7 p.m. Sunday, 1 p.m. Monday, 7 p.m. Wednesday and 11 a.m. Thursday. Time Warner will also [...]
NBC Sports Net will televise five Hockey East games this season as part of its 25-plus game schedule. Dave Strader and Dave Goucher will split the play-by-play duties and Ken Hodge will be the analyst. Fri. Oct. 25 – Massachusetts at Maine, 8 p.m. Fri. Nov. 1 – Northeastern at Boston College, 8 p.m. Fri. [...]
With the Sochi Olympic torch relay already underway in Russia, NBC announces it will televise 34 1/2 hours of U.S. Olympic trials leading into the Games in February. NBC Sports Live Extra will stream all NBC coverage to PCs, mobile devices and tablets. Fri. Nov. 15 – Curling, men and women trials, match 1, 3:30 [...]
NewsRadio 88 (WCBS 880-AM) will serve as the backup radio carrier for Brooklyn Nets basketball this season. Through March 30, the Nets are scheduled for 13 games on WCBS and the rest on flagship WFAN (660-AM, 101.9-FM). The Nets move to WCBS whenever the Devils are airing on WFAN. The schedule for 10 April games [...]
TBS and ESPN Radio have made its broadcast team determinations for the Major League Baseball playoffs. Monday night’s AL playoff for the final wild-card, pitting Tampa Bay at Texas at 8 p.m., will have Brian Anderson, analysts Joe Simpson and John Smoltz and reporter David Aldridge. The National League wild-card playoff, with the Cincinnati Reds [...]
Comedian Jerry Seinfeld will join the SNY Mets broadcast team for Tuesday’s 7 p.m. telecast as the Mets take on the San Francisco Giants. Seinfeld will take part in the pregame show with Chris Carlin and Bob Ojeda and then join Gary Cohen, Keith Hernandez and Ron Darling in the SNY booth. Seinfeld made a [...]