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07.23.14 Good morning. It’s Wednesday, July 23, 2014, and this is your first early morning Sports briefing.
NBC Sports unveiled its broadcast slate for the upcoming NHL regular season, coming off of the most-watched NHL regular season ever on NBC and NBCSN. This season, the company will offer 103 regular-season games featuring 14 contests on NBC and 89 more on NBCSN. The season begins with an Opening Night doubleheader on Oct. 8 on NBCSN, launching its Wednesday Night Rivalry coverage at 7:30p featuring the Flyers/Bruins followed by the Sharks/Kings at 10p. In addition, the NHL All-Star Game will return for the first time since 2012, with NBCSN covering All-Star weekend on Jan. 24 and 25. NBCSN will offer most games on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday nights throughout the season and, beginning in January, a Sunday game will be added most weeks.
The Blackhawks will make the most appearances in the national games, with 20. Other teams featured prominently on the schedule docket include the Bruins with 17, Red Wings with 15, Flyers with 16 and Penguins with 19.
FOX Sports booked its fall plans, unveiling studio personalities and game broadcast teams for the upcoming college football season. This year, FOX broadcasts a one-hour prime-time pregame show on Saturdays leading into the biggest game of the week. Rob Stone hosts beside analysts Joel Klatt and the incoming Dave Wannstedt. Gus Johnson once again teams with analyst Charles Davis as the lead college football broadcast team and will be joined by sideline reporter Molly McGrath, who continues as co-host of FOX Sports 1’s America’s Pregame. Meanwhile, Joey Harrington will be joined by Joe Davis with Kris Budden on the sidelines. Tim Brando will call Thursday night games on FOX Sports 1 with Klatt serving as analyst, and is also in the booth on Saturdays. Craig Bolerjack teams with analyst Ryan Nece. FOX Sports kicks off the action Aug. 28 at 10p on FOX Sports 1 with Rutgers/Washington State.
Pac-12 Networks also revealed talent assignments for the 2014 college football season. Coverage will see Nick Aliotti, who served as a guest analyst on the Networks’ 2014 spring football coverage, begin his first full season as a studio analyst and contribute to Pac-12 Football Weekly, as well as pregame, halftime and postgame shows, joining Rick Neuheisel, Ronnie Lott, Curtis Conway, Jake Plummer, Glenn Parker, Yogi Roth and Anthony Herron. Pac-12 Networks’ 35 live game telecasts will be voiced by a team of veteran broadcasters that include Ted Robinson, Kevin Calabro, Roxy Bernstein and JB Long. The game analyst team also includes Parker, Roth and Herron in the booth, while Ashley Adamson, Jill Savage and Drea Avent provide reports from the sidelines.
Universal Sports Network and the International Association of Athletics Federations locked in a multiyear extension of their media rights agreement to carry IAAF’s track & field events in the U.S. through 2019. The deal, finalized with the IAAF’s commercial partner, Dentsu Inc., delivers Universal Sports, which already has rights to the IAAF World Championships, Beijing 2015, multiplatform rights, including exclusive TV and Internet rights, to all IAAF World Athletic Series events in track & field, cross-country, race walking and half-marathon including the IAAF World Championships, London 2017, and the 2019 edition.
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Rory McIlroy apparently didn’t have the same impact as Phil Mickelson (and a contending Tiger Woods). Golf.com reports that the 2014 Open Championship gave ESPN its worst Open ratings since the network took on the event in 2009. Viewership was off-pace by 26% for Sunday’s final round, compared to 2013, at 3.2 million viewers.
Speaking of golf, ESPN2 carries all four days of play in the Senior Open Championship presented by Rolex on Thursday through Sunday with ESPN2’s telecasts running noon-2p daily. Sean McDonough hosts ESPN2’s telecasts with analysis by Andy North and Curtis Strange.
Golf Channel offers nearly 30 hours of live competition and news coverage of the inaugural International Crown this week. The event is a global biennial match-play competition featuring “a field of 32 players representing eight countries battling to be crowned the best golf nation.” Golf Channel carries four hours of live, match-play coverage Thursday-Sunday, July 24-27, starting at 11:30a Thursday and Friday, and 3p on Saturday and Sunday. Terry Gannon and Judy Rankin anchor coverage.
SiriusXM broadcasts the fifth annual SiriusXM Celebrity Fantasy Football Draft, showcasing a slate of SiriusXM hosts, celebrities and athletes today on SiriusXM Fantasy Sports Radio. This year’s participants will include Maurice Jones-Drew; Pro Football Hall of Famer Chris Doleman; Kevin Griffin and Tom Drummond, founding members of the band Better Than Ezra; actor and SiriusXM host Robert Wuhl; former Mets GM and SiriusXM host Steve Phillips; and more. The broadcast beings at 3p and will be hosted by SiriusXM’s Bruce Murray and Rich Gannon.
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Univision Communications reported a rise in second-quarter financials bolstered by the World Cup. The event helped lift revenue by 23.2% to $833.7 million, with the World Cup contributing an estimated $115.5 million of incremental net advertising revenue and an estimated $17.3 million of OIBDA, according to multiple reports.
NASCAR announced that Chase Grid Live Sponsored by Toyota and Sprint will make its debut in downtown Chicago on September 10-11. The free outdoor fan fest will wrap up with a two-hour live show featuring all 16 Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup drivers. “There’s no better way to introduce our new Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup format than by inviting our fans the most loyal in sports to be a part of the celebration,” said Steve Phelps, NASCAR chief marketing officer. “We are fortunate to have partnered with two world-class brands in Toyota and Sprint to provide an unforgettable fan experience as we embark on this significant moment for our sport.” Throughout the two-day fan fest, ESPN will feature live segments with many of the 16 drivers competing in the Challenger Round and various other NASCAR personalities making appearances on-site.
The Southern Conference announced plans to launch the SoCon Digital Network, which will serve as a free streaming service offering live and on demand content starting in late August. Content will be accessible via SoCon member school websites, as well as through the conference’s official site, SoConSports.com. In addition, the conference purchased more than $2 million worth of video and audio equipment for its member institutions to bring them all up to the SoCon Digital Network’s broadcast standards.
Giants/Phillies on ESPN at 7p.
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Answer to Our Last Sports Trivia Question: Yesterday’s Question: What caused Don Mattingly’s pants to split on Seinfeld? Answer: After being changed to cotton, the Yankee uniforms shrunk. Kudos: Joe Santamaria-NBC/NY; Steve Benitez-Yankees Entertainment & Sports Network/NY; Tom Hessemer-D S SIMON/NY; Mike Donato-ABC/NY; G. David Brown-FOX Sports/Charlotte; Tom Wetzel-MMSI/Warwick; Matt Meachem-Gracenote/Queensbury; Synda Kollman-Charter Marketing Group/Boca Raton; Gretchen Brady-KDAF/Dallas; Bill Robertson-WCHA/St. Paul; Bill Goodfriend-Charter Media/St. Louis; Barbara Spafford-Spafford Creative/Mobile; Tom Moore-Kalt Productions/LA; David Westberg-SAG-AFTRA Los Angeles local/LA; Greg Dudsic/Venice; Amy Joanides-The Nielsen Company/Santa Cruz.
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