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Charles Barkley, Steve Kerr Join NCAA Tournament Telecast Mix for CBS, Turner
By Milton Kent - AOL NewsWhen news broke in April that CBS and Turner had joined forces to lock up the rights to the NCAA men's basketball tournament for 14 years, one of the first pieces of speculation turned to whether the always volatile Charles Barkley would be added to the announcing mix for one of the more staid telecasts in the business. Not only will Barkley be one of the studio analysts for the tournament in March, but the two entities announced Thursday that NBA analyst Steve Kerr will join Jim Nantz and Clark Kellogg for a three-man booth at the Final Four. CBS Sports President Sean McManus said, during a ...
'Mean Machine' Tops 2010 List of Fantasy Football Team Names
By Tom Lorenzo - AOL NewsOften times the hardest part about playing fantasy football is trying to come up with a clever team name. It's like naming a child, except the only difference is that after six weeks you won't forget about your child and let it sit unattended to if it's not performing to your liking. CBS Sports complied their annual list of the most frequently used fantasy football team names for the 2010 season. They randomly sampled 100,000 leagues and found that the name 'Mean Machine' is the most popular team name for the 2010 season, with over 2,100 teams declaring that they are the meanest of all ...
Networks' Game of Hot Potato With US Open Final Disrespects Tennis
By Greg Couch - AOL NewsTennis takes quick hands, incredible anticipation and coordination, flexibility and the willingness to be humiliated over and over again while retaining your focus and determination. And that's just what it takes to be a fan trying to follow the game from home. It takes a gymnast to be a tennis fan. What does it say about a sport when its staple event in this country, the U.S. Open men's final, is treated like a hot potato by the networks? Over two days and three networks, no one would commit to the match. CBS: I don't want it, you take it. ESPN2: No way, you take it. ESPNClassic: But we ...
Teeing Off on Tiger
By Milton Kent - AOL NewsIt wasn't so long ago where seldom was heard a discouraging word about Tiger Woods, on or off the course, as his career and life appeared to be beyond reproach. Well, the events of last Thanksgiving and the revelations since have stripped Woods of that invulnerability for his private life. Now, his game and on-course demeanor are receiving the most serious scrutiny of his career. First, CBS' Jim Nantz sharply criticized Woods for cursing at Augusta National during the third round of April's Masters. Now, Woods is catching serious heat for his decision to pull out of the Players Championship ...
CBS, Turner Win Rights for 68-Team NCAA Tournament
By Milton Kent - AOL NewsBig changes are coming to the Big Dance. The NCAA announced Thursday a 14-year, $10.8 billion multimedia rights deal for a 68-team tournament with CBS Sports and Turner Broadcasting. The Division I Men's Basketball Committee approved the modest three-team increase to the 65-team field late Wednesday night, though it still must be approved by the Board of Governors April 29. The NCAA had considered expanding the tournament to 96 teams, with the top 32 seeds receiving byes as the bottom 64 teams played off in earlier rounds, though the proposal was met with little public support. Under the ...
Not Super Bowl, But 2010 Masters Still Media Bonanza
By Jon Weinbach - AOL NewsThere was sex, there was cancer, there was great golf, there were tears galore. CBS had it all for Sunday's broadcast of the Masters, but the result was not the highest-rated golf telecast in TV history. It wasn't the Super Bowl-esque bonanza that many were predicting, but CBS' final-round coverage at Augusta National scored a 12.0 overnight Nielsen rating, making it the third most-watched golf telecast ever and capping a record-setting weekend of golf coverage for both CBS and ESPN. The Sunday broadcast, which culminated with winner Phil Mickelson embracing his ill wife Amy, attracted ...
The Masters: Tiger's Back, Big TV Ratings And Secret Money
By Jon Weinbach - AOL NewsLost amid all the Tiger Woods hype at The Masters this week is one important business detail: Neither CBS nor ESPN figure to make much money on the tournament – even if it attracts massive TV ratings. For all of its prestige, The Masters is a uniquely un-commercialized event. The well-heeled members of Augusta National Golf Club, who own the tournament and its media rights, impose strict limits on sponsorship and do not allow more than four minutes of advertising per hour during telecasts of the tournament. (A typical PGA broadcast features eight minutes of commercials per hour.) CBS ...
March Madness: A Hit Everywhere Except the Stands
By Jon Weinbach - AOL NewsSure, Thursday's first round NCAA Tournament games were incredibly entertaining and kept millions of viewers tuned to CBS's TV and online coverage. But when it comes to actual attendance at the arenas ... they were duds. Several venues, including the New Orleans Arena, the Ford Center in Oklahoma City and the HP Pavilion in San Jose, had huge swaths of empty seats, and at Kentucky's game against East Tennessee in New Orleans, the 17,000-seat arena was barely half-full. "Every game we've played on the road has been a sellout," said Kentucky coach John Calipari. "We've had no empty seats until ...
CBS in Fine Form as Showtime Tips Off
By Milton Kent - AOL NewsNEW YORK -- For a guy who drew to an inside straight, Sean McManus displayed his best poker face Thursday. McManus, the president of CBS Sports, orchestrated the network's telecasts of the first day of the NCAA men's basketball tournament brilliantly, deftly moving the nation from one nail-biting finish to another. And yet, McManus refrained from gloating, nearly pulling out the hoary cliché, "We take these telecasts one at a time." "It's been a good start, but it's a marathon, obviously," McManus said after the first two groupings of games. "I don't get too excited if we have a great first ...
We're ALL Reporters, and We've Redefined News
By Joshua Chaney - Politics DailyAssociated Press's decision to release a photo of a mortally wounded soldier last month drew criticism from many Americans, including service veterans and Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who, in a scathing letter to the AP's top editor, called the move "appalling." While the photo is graphic, it helps to accurately depict a tragic story in a war filled with violence and death. "AP journalists document world events every day. Afghanistan is no exception," Santiago Lyon, the AP's director of photography, told Politico. "We feel it is our journalistic duty to show the reality of the war there, ...
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