CSTV.com will offer live and on-demand streaming video of up to the first 56 NCAA Tournament games through the Regional semifinals as well as streaming video of interviews, pre-and post-game press conferences, and video highlights. Local-market webcasts of games broadcast by CBS will be blacked out. [More at E-Media Tidbits]
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NFL podcasts
The National Football League has a deal to make recordings of this year’s remaining playoff games available for portable audio players (iPods, etc). The recordings will be available for purchase at iTunes and other sites that sell audio over the Internet.
Play-by-play on line two
Rick Bozich — a sports columnist for The Courier-Journal in Louisville, Kentucky– isn’t sure he needs radio anymore:
“I followed the final 15 minutes of the Louisville-Florida basketball game while I was in Freedom Hall on Saturday. The game, remember, was played in Gainesville. I was courtside for Kentucky’s annual Basketball 101 lecture against Indiana. I did not have a radio. I did have my cell phone. I connected to the Internet. Clicked to an ESPN site. Another click, and play-by-play from Gainesville flashed on my screen. Stats. Time. The works. Actually, that’s not true no greasy bacon ads. So tell me again, for precisely what do I depend on WHAS radio?
From my perspective, the most interesting part of this story is that the cheif operating officer of our company brought it in to me. He gets it and that’s very important. One more thing… Radio is not going away. I don’t want it to go away. But broadcasters must find a way to embrace new technologies instead of trying to lobby them out of existance or deny that existance.
Foul!
I thought I mentioned it here but couldn’t find it. A long time ago, when John Ashcroft was governor of Missouri, he played in a benefit basketball game. I think is was The Governor’s Office vs. The Media.
I somehow wound up on the media team. I don’t fault Mr. Ashcroft for ringer-ing himself with a bunch of gigantic state troopers but this photo of W reminded me what a mean and dirty brand of ball the governor played. Anyone that’s played much pick-up ball knows this type of player. First to swing an elbow…first to scream foul…and incredulous if anyone dared call him on a foul.
The photo of Bush makes me wonder how often he got his ass kicked as a kid.
Figure Skating Is Not A Sport
“If you wear makeup or someone hands you a stuffed animal after you compete, it’s not a sport.” — Sarah Maguffee (after watching Olympic ice skating event)