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01.15.14
Good morning. It’s Wednesday, January 15, 2014, and this is your first early morning Sports briefing.
Tim Brando and CBS Sports are splitting up. After 18 years at the network and 16 years as host of College Football Today, Brando announced that he was leaving the company. The news comes after it was revealed recently that The Tim Brando Show would not be returning to CBS Sports Network. A CBS Spokesperson confirmed that “We’ve mutually agreed to allow Tim to pursue other opportunities.” Meanwhile, Brando wrote on his Facebook page that “It was an honor working there. I am looking forward to new opportunities and making many exciting new memories covering sports.”
NBC Sports officially unveiled its roster of commentators for the Sochi Games, with 84 names on deck. That marks the most ever for a Winter Olympics with coverage, of course, spanning NBC, NBCSN, CNBC, MSNBC, USA and NBCOlympics.com. Matt Lauer and Meredith Vieira host the Opening Ceremony on NBC on Friday, February 7, at 7:30p, joined by David Remnick with Bob Costas anchoring from the International Broadcast Center. The roster includes Olympians who have won a combined total of 35 Olympic medals along with Al Michaels, who will host the daytime show on NBCSN (weekdays) and NBC (weekends), Dan Patrick and Rebecca Lowe will host NBCSN’s daytime weekday and weekend coverage; while NBC News’ Lester Holt will host NBC’s weekday daytime coverage. Olympians are set to include Scott Hamilton, Nancy Kerrigan, Tara Lipinski, Sarah Hughes, Jonny Moseley, Tanith Belbin, Ato Boldon, Nastia Liukin and Maria Sharapova.
CBS Sports Network is entering the ring with Titan FC to showcase eight live MMA events on the channel this year, starting with Titan FC 27 on Friday, February 28th in Kansas City. “We feel that fans and fighters alike will be the true beneficiaries of the new Titan FC-CBS Sports Network deal,” said Jeff Aronson, CEO, Titan FC. “Our main goal is to put out a product that will bring fans entertaining and competitive bouts and showcase our fighters.” In addition to the television agreement, CBS Sports Network will also live stream of preliminary round fights on its website.
The NFL reports that, for a record fourth consecutive year, the four Divisional Playoff games combined to average more than 34 million viewers, ranking as the four most-watched shows on television for the week, according to Nielsen.
Anthem Media Group officially unveiled its plans for the launch of the 24-hour Fantasy Sports TV Network, which is slated to debut on March 4, 2014. The new platform will deliver content on traditional, “over the top”, online as well as mobile video outlets throughout North America, focusing on interactive fantasy sports programming. Programming will include live studio shows, call-in series, panels, celebrity and expert drafts, reality programming, and on-site commentary from sports venues. Anthem also penned an agreement with SiriusXM Radio to simulcast three daily hours of morning drive-time series RotoExperts in the Morning program from 6-9a on the new network. The network will also be supported by its flagship fantasy property, RotoExperts.com, and sports pop culture site SportsGrid.com.
NBCSN’s Fight Night series returns for the New Year on Friday, Jan. 24, starting at 10p. The main event will feature a ten-round middleweight clash between Curtis “Showtime” Stevens (25-4, 18 KOs) and Patrick “The Machine” Majewski (21-2, 13 KOs).
Universal Sports Network laid out its on-air schedule for this weekend’s Winter Bowl II programming lineup, which starts today and runs through Sunday. Universal Sports will carry 30 hours of winter sports action across seven sports from 23 events around the globe, including the FIS Alpine Ski World Cup in Wengen, Switzerland and Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy; the FIBT Bobsled & Skeleton World Cup in Igls, Austria; the World Sprint Speed Skating Championships in Nagano, Japan; the European Figure Skating Championships in Budapest, Hungary; and the FIS Freestyle Ski World Cup and the FIS Snowboard World Cup in Stoneham, Canada. The action begins at 1:30p.
It just keeps getting better! Join us on Jan. 30 for the Cynopsis Sports Breakfast of Champions event in NY for a New Year’s lesson on branding 2014. Newly added to the list of speakers is Bonnie Bernstein, Vice President of Content and Brand Development at Campus Insiders who will moderate our panel on athletes and branding, featuring NFL Players Inc. President Keith Gordon, NFL athletes Pierre Garcon and Keith Rivers, Golf Channel’s Frank Nobilo and ESPN’s Jay Williams. Speakers are also set to include keynote from IMG’s George Pyne and Anheuser-Busch’s Blaise D’Sylva, as well as a special presentation on the Year in Sports from Nielsen’s Stephen Masters. Click here to register.
Sportsman Channel is launching Saving Private K-9, examining the lives of military and law enforcement service dogs. Hosted by actor and former Marine R. Lee Ermey, the show premieres Thursday, April 24 at 8:30p and is produced by Pilgrim Studios, with Craig Piligian serving as executive producer.
The NHL named the Florida Panthers as host of the 2015 NHL Draft, which will take place at the BB&T Center in Sunrise, FL. Next year’s Draft will be held over two days, Friday, June 26 and Saturday, June 27, 2015.
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Visa is charging up a few more rounds of the World Cup, announcing a sponsorship extension through 2022, according to FIFA. The deal marks the fifth major company to extend its World Cup sponsorship until at least 2022, joins the ranks of Adidas, Anheuser-Busch, Coca-Cola, and Hyundai-Kia.
Citi unveiled the company’s national advertising and marketing campaign ahead of the Sochi Olympic Winter Games. The Retail Bank Partner of the 2014 U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Teams is featuring U.S. Olympic and Paralympic qualifiers, hopefuls and legends who comprise Team Citi via broadcast, print, out-of-home, social media, and digital advertising in addition to special events, promotions and retail activations. Team Citi athletes include Julie Chu, Billy Demong, Erin Hamlin, Ted Ligety, Evan Lysacek, Dan Jansen, Picabo Street, Alana Nichols and Rico Roman. Citi’s television campaign kicked off yesterday with a spot featuring Nordic combined skier Billy Demong, with two additional broadcast spots airing later this month will feature alpine skier Ted Ligety.
Outdoor Channel is launching a new interactive consumer campaign, dubbed “What Gets You Outdoors?” and designed to “incite a conversation among enthusiasts and drive engagement with the leading outdoor entertainment brand.” Outdoor Channel launched a microsite that aggregates all things outdoors and includes a Social Leaderboard that highlights the trending recreational activity of the moment pulled from Twitter posts that use the hashtag: #whatgetsyououtdoors. A corresponding Activity Map will mine the geographic locations of these tweets that leverage the hashtag to display a state-by-state snapshot of interests. In addition, #whatgetsyououtdoors-tagged photos and videos from Instagram, Twitter and Facebook will automatically stream into a Gallery found on the site.
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With 16 hours of action on deck for X Games Aspen this year (along with an additional 13.5 hours on ESPN3), ESPN and ABC will continue to unload the toy box for the event. The company will utilize three different types of virtual graphics – one live version and two different types of non-live versions for the Games. In addition, we’ll see the return of the Mega Mo (Ultra Slo-Mo) camera, the 30-foot-high LED Huck Tower, FlyCam, FollowCams with six trucks and 16 HD cameras in play. The action begins Wednesday, Jan. 22 at 8:30p on ESPN3 with the Men’s Ski SuperPipe Elimination.
Multiple reports yesterday that ESPN rejiggered its content division to consolidate its programming and production departments under one roof. The moves will see John Wildhack become Exec VP of Programming and Production while Norby Williamson was named Exec VP of Production, Program Scheduling and Development.
Caps/Penguins on NBCSN at 8p.
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Answer to Our Last Sports Trivia Question: Now that the Cubs have Clark, only three MLB teams don’t have an official mascot. Name two. Answers: Lots of Red Sox answers (hence today’s trivia question) but the correct teams are the Yankees, Angels and Dodgers. Kudos: David Baer-CBS/Rachael Ray Show/NY; J.R. Whalen-Wall Street Journal Digital Network/NY; Denise Epstein-Disney Media/NY; Frank Costa-CBS Sports Research/NY; Joe Guarnieri-ESPN Remote Operations/Bristol; Ken Nice-Yoh/Silver Spring; Tony Ferranti-MMSI/Warwick; Bob Eisenstaedt-Granite Springs Productions/Tampa; Tom A. McDonald-Lakeshore Productions/Chicago; Joe Haack-Time Warner/Lincoln; Matt Sautter-OpenTV/Golden; Rick Pike-InterMedia Advertising/Woodland Hills; Jack Simmons-Fox Sports/LA; Alan Perris/Beverly Hills; Tony Reyes-RGH Entertainment/Woodland Hills.
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