Iowa Tube Talk: 1/5/14

Friday, January 10, 2014

TV Schedule, Saturday, January 11

Bull Riding: PBR Built Ford Tough 9pm on CBS Sports Network (same day tape)

College Basketball:

Big 10:

Indiana @ Penn St. 11am on BTN
Minnesota @ Michigan St. 1:15pm on BTN
Ohio St. @ Indiana (women's) 3:30pm on BTN

ESPN's Big Monday Returns On Monday

Conference basketball is underway and with that is the season premier of ESPN's Big Monday.

NBC Continues To Build Its NASCAR Broadcast Talent

It's still another year until NBC begins to televise NASCAR races on NBC & NBCSN, however, NASCAR continues to build its roster of broadcast talent and recently added a crew chief to the broadcast both.

TV Schedule, Friday, January 10

Boxing: Friday Night Fights 8pm on ESPN2

College Basketball:

Radford @ High Point 6pm on ESPNU
Wright St. @ Valparaiso 8pm on ESPNU

ESPN Announces MLB Opening Day Schedule

Pitchers and catchers will start reporting to Arizona & Florida for the start of Spring Training in just over a month and today, ESPN has announced its broadcast schedule for Opening Day of the 2014 MLB Season.

CBS Crows About Its NFL Ratings

CBS Sports was the most watched broadcast network that televised games during the 2013 NFL regular season.

NFL 2013 TV Recap

With the NFL regular season complete, the NFL has provided a recap of the NFL on TV.

TV Schedule, Thursday, January 9

College Basketball:

Big 10:

Nebraska @ Michigan St. (women's) 6pm on BTN
Michigan @ Nebraska 8pm on ESPN2
Northwestern @ Iowa 8pm on ESPNU
Penn St. @ Illinois (women's) 8pm on BTN

NBC Adds Nancy Kerrigan For The Winter Olympics

NBC has added a big name to it's broadcast talent of figure skating at the upcoming Sochi Winter Olympic Games.

Tennis Channel Gears Up For The Australian Open

For the seventh consecutive, the Tennis Channel will be serving up live coverage of the 2014 Australian Open.

As in previous years, Tennis Channel will offer 10 straight nights of live primetime matches that will begin on Monday, January 13 and conclude Wednesday, January 22. All total, Tennis Channel will offer more than 180 hours of coverage, including 30 hours of live action, 60 hours of encore replays, and 80 hours of Australian Open Today and nine hours of daily highlights.

For a complete broadcast schedule and a roster of Tennis Channel broadcast talent, visit the Web Site linked above.

ESPN Gears Up For The Australian Open

The first grand slam event of the 2014 tennis season gets underway this week when first round play in The Australian Open gets underway on Sunday with 12 hours of live coverage on day 1.

ESPN's BCS National Championship Game Draws Record Ratings

The final ratings are in for the BCS National Championship game and the ratings are historic.

TV Schedule, Wednesday, January 8

College Basketball:

Big 12:

Kansas @ Oklahoma 6pm on ESPN2
Oklahoma St. @ Kansas St. (women's) 7pm on Fox College Sports Pacific
Texas Tech @ Iowa St. (women's) 7pm on Cyclones.tv (Mediacom)
Texas @ Oklahoma St. 8pm on ESPNU

Big 10:

Minnesota @ Penn St. 6pm on BTN
Illinois @ Wisconsin 8pm on BTN

NFL Fans Make Wild Card Weekend The Most-Watched Ever

NFL fans flocked to the TV in record numbers for Wildcard Weekend of the 2014 NFL Playoffs.

A Final Look At The BCS Ratings

Last night's BCS Championship Game bought to an end to the college football season and to an end of the BCS as well and the championship game generated big ratings.

BCS Ratings Update Through The Orange Bowl

ESPN's ratings of the first three games of the BCS are up from last year and the trend continued with the Discover Orange Bowl.

NFL Viewing Guide - Divisional Playoffs

Here is your viewing guide for the NFL Divisional Playoffs. All times are Central.

TV Schedule, Tuesday, January 7

College Basketball:

Big 10: Ohio St. @ Michigan St. 8pm on ESPN2

Big 12:

Baylor @ Iowa St. 6pm on ESPN2
Kansas St. @ TCU 7pm on Big 12 Network (WOI-DT 5.2)

Fox Sports NFC Wildcard Puts Up Big Ratings

The ratings machine that is the NFL continued to roll on yesterday with Fox Sports coverage of the NFC Wildcard game of San Francisco visiting Green Bay.

Ratings Update for CBS Coverage of the AFC Wildcard

No big surprise here, but yesterday's CBS Sports coverage of the AFC Wildcard game was the highest rated in 19 years. San Diego's Wildcard win at Cincinnati was the highest rated in viewership and rating in 19 years generating nearly 31 million viewers and a rating of 18.9/36.

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