Friday, August 31, 2012

Sports Media Digest- August 31, 2012

http://sportsmediajournal.com/ CBS Sports Network to Produce Two NFL Pre-Season Roundtable Shows- The CBS Sports Network will produce two NFL- themed roundtable studio programs in advance of the new season. The first, Eye on the NFL: Season Preview airs Sunday, Sept. 2nd at 7:00 PM, ET hosted by Jim Nantz with analysts Shannon Sharpe, Dan Marino and Dan Dierdorf. James Brown, Phil Simms, Boomer Esiason and Bill Cowher will host Eye on the NFL: Hot Topics Monday, Sept. 3rd at 7:00p.m. ET. U.S. Open Tennis This Weekend on CBS- CBS Sports will be providing live coverage of the U.S. Open Tennis Championship this holiday weekend. Action begins Saturday from 12:00p.m. to 6:00p.m. ET. It continues Sunday and Monday from 11:00a.m. to 6:00p.m. ET. Bill Macatee will be joined by Mary Carillo and John McEnroe in the booth. Jim Courier returns for his fourth year as analyst and calls the action alongside Ian Eagle. Mary Joe Fernandez serves as reporter. Chris Wragge joins this year serving as a contributor. ESPN Releases Updated ScoreCenter and Windows Fantasy Football Apps- ESPN announced this week the release of a Fantasy Football app for Windows phones and an update to its ScoreCenter iPad app. The ESPN Fantasy Football app, will make its debut on Windows Phone exclusively on Nokia Lumia smartphones. In addition to up-to-the-minute scores, news and video of the top live events of the day, ScoreCenter for iPad gives sports fans a personalized view of their favorite teams and leagues, including customized scoreboards, breaking news, alerts and video highlights, as well as live integrated Gamecasts and direct access to WatchESPN. IndyCar Racing this Weekend on NBC Sports Network- The NBC Sports Network will present live coverage this weekend of the IndyCar Grand Prix of Baltimore. The network will carry the qualifying Saturday at 6:00p.m. ET with race coverage Sunday at 2:00p.m. ET. Bob Jenkins, Jon Beekhuis and Wally Dallenbach, Jr. will call all the race coverage. Additionally, Marty Snider, Kevin Lee, Robin Miller and Townsend Bell will serve as pit reporters calling all the race action

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