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05.21.15 Good morning. It’s Thursday May 21, 2015, and this is your first early morning Sports briefing.
FOX Sports locked in programming for the upcoming FIFA Women’s World Cup, which kicks off in two weeks. The slate of matches will include 16 games airing live on FOX broadcast network with all 52 games running live from six cities across Canada on company platforms between June 6 and July 5. FOX’s broadcasts will include five in primetime (including US group stage games versus Sweden on June 12 and Nigeria on June 16), and include one semifinal, the third-place match on July 4 and final on July 5. Meanwhile, FOX Sports 1 serves up 29 matches, including all eight in the round of 16, two quarterfinals and one semifinal. The remaining seven games will head to FOX Sports 2. Leading-off coverage will be the FIFA Women’s World Cup Special, a one-hour preview show on June 5 at 7:30p on FOX Sports 1.
The company will see FOX Sports GO offer viewers three alternate streams during the tournament. The first, Match 360, gives fans backstage access to the walk players take from locker room to field and pregame warmups before every game, in-progress highlights throughout matches and post-match press conferences. A second feed offers a non-stop, in-game view from the tactical cameras showing all 22 players, while the third feed comes directly from cable-cam as it flies above the field during play.
Meanwhile, Telemundo revealed plans to showcase 10 matches in Spanish, including the opening game, all three group matches for Mexico and the final. Sister channel NBC Universo will air an additional 21 games live, including all three US group games, while all games will be streamed online.
ESPN saw its coverage of the NBA Western Conference Finals Game 1 open with a viewership spike, delivering 6,848,000 average viewers, according to Nielsen. That number is up 41% over the last time ESPN presented the Western Conference Finals and up 8% over year-ago numbers. The game delivered a 4.4 U.S. household rating, for a 10% uptick over last year. Meanwhile, ESPN’s coverage of the 2015 NBA Draft Lottery ranked as the most-watched and highest-rated ever on ESPN. The telecast generated 3,550,000 viewers and a 2.4 U.S. household rating, up 6% and 4% respectively over last year.
NBC Universal lined up its slate for Championship Sunday this weekend, with all Premier League matches starting at 10a. The schedule will include NBC and Telemundo carrying Hull City/Manchester United, while Chelsea/Sunderland runs on NBCSN and NBC UNIVERSO. Other channel games include: Newcastle/West Ham United on USA; Stoke City/Liverpool on Syfy; Everton/Tottenham on CNBC; Manchester City/Southhampton on MSNBC; Arsenal/West Bromwich Albion on Bravo; Crystal Palace/Swansea City on E!; Aston Villa/Burnley on Esquire; and Leicester City/Queens Park Rangers on Oxygen.
NBC also detailed plans for its 2015 French Open coverage, which begins on Sunday at 1p and wraps up with with the live Women’s Final on June 6 and the live Men’s Final on June 7. Host Ted Robinson anchors NBC’s coverage, joined by analysts John McEnroe and Mary Carillo.
FOX Sports hits the weekend, which includes the 56th running of the Coca-Cola 600 live on FOX on Sunday at 6p, with a special FOX NASCAR Sunday that will be dedicated to service members who have fallen in the line of duty in the past year. The company will honor those service members on a graphic scroll displaying their names and service branch. FOX Sports also pays tribute to Major Stephen Reich in a 12-minute feature that will run on FOX Sports networks around the country through Memorial Day. Major Reich served four tours of duty in Afghanistan and was killed in action on June 28, 2005 during a mission to rescue a four-man Navy SEAL team. The company pays further tribute to our U.S. servicemen and women on a series of vignettes called Warriors Among Us over the long weekend.
In addition, FOX Sports 1 and NASCAR Productions debut One Hot Night: The 1992 NASCAR All-Star Race tonight at 8:30p. The one-hour special looks back at the revolutionary race that “marked the debut of lights around a 1.5-mile track, and treated a record crowd to a thrilling last-lap battle between young guns Davey Allison and Kyle Petty.”
Golf Channel is expanding its news and tournament coverage to include the NCAA Division I Women’s Golf Championships for the first time starting Monday. Live tournament coverage launches with the final round of the individual stroke play competition, as well as tracking the teams attempting to qualify for the eight-team match play tournament. Golf Central will surround live tournament coverage with pre-and post-event news coverage produced on location, as well as daily news updates on Morning Drive. Talent includes Bob Papa on play-by-play, along with Kay Cockerill as lead analyst.
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Anthem Sports & Entertainment Corp. announced that Fantasy Sports Network has now launched on TELUS Optik TV in Canada. That ups the channels distribution to over a million homes in the country with a free preview available until August 31.
The NFL will reportedly look toward New Orleans, Atlanta, South Florida and Tampa to host the 2019 and 2020 Super Bowls, asking those cities to bid, according to the AP. Next year’s game takes place in Santa Clara, California, followed by Houston and Minneapolis.
American Forces Network is doubling down on sports, launching a second 24-hour sports channel starting June 1, according to Stars and Stripes. The channel will be called AFN Sports 2 and will replace AFN xtra on the lineup. “Our last worldwide survey indicated viewers tune into sports more than any other channel on AFN, and more than half of the several thousand emails and posts we get every year are from viewers asking us to air their team or sport more often,” AFN Broadcast Center Director Dave Gebhardt said in a news release.
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Key World Cup sponsors Coca-Cola and Visa reportedly condemned working conditions for the 2022 World Cup. The AP writes that the two companies are pressuring FIFA to make sure that Qatar improves conditions for migrant workers as they build for the tournament. “We continue to be troubled by the reports coming out of Qatar related to the World Cup and migrant worker conditions,” Visa said in a statement. “We have expressed our grave concern to FIFA, and urge them to take all necessary actions to work with the appropriate authorities and organizations to remedy this situation and ensure the health and safety of all involved.”
Madison Square Garden locked in a deal that makes Uncle Jack’s Steakhouse the official steakhouse of the legendary venue. The newest addition to the Madison Square Garden concession saw Willie Degel, owner of Uncle Jack’s Steakhouse and host of the Food Network’s Restaurant Stakeout” join Ranger’s Legends Adam Graves and Rod Gilbert ahead of Game 2 of the Eastern Conference Final on May 18.
Spotify is partnering up with ESPN, among other brands such as NBC, Comedy Central, Conde Nast Entertainment and Vice News to launch shortform videos to the platform. The new content and features begin this week for stateside users as well as those in the UK, Germany and Sweden.
Bexel Global Broadcast Solutions announced the initial purchase of 20 Sony HDC-4300 camera systems. The company has bow invested more than two million dollars in the purchase of the Sony 4K camera systems that were released at NAB 2015 in Las Vegas. The investment in the Sony HDC-4300 represents the first stage of a 75 camera system expansion plan slated to roll-out over the next two years with the camera systems already committed for the upcoming professional football season. "We are pleased to invest in the HDC-4300," says Tom Dickinson, CTO of Bexel Global. "We feel that Sony’s new camera is very impressive in every aspect. It covers HD, to super slow motion, to 4K UHD all in one camera. And it has the same camera body design as the HDC-2500 and uses all the same camera accessories, including CCU, RCP and HDLA build-up kits. The expansion of super slo-mo to 8x is also an exciting new feature to us, as sports productions are demanding higher frame rates."
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback officially signed a bill that opens legal plays in fantasy sports leagues. The legality had been in question as the state constitution only allows the state to administer games “fitting a broad definition of a lottery.”
Get ready for the Scripps National Spelling Bee, fantasy-style. The competition launched a mobile app dubbed BuzzWorthy that allows viewers to follow select spellers and score points when they advance in the competition. Players will also be able to earn points for correctly forecasting words that come up during the event.
Unikrn has launched in the UK, according to GameSport, marking the country’s first dedicated betting site for esports and competitive gaming. Fans can now watch and wager on tournaments run by European Leagues such as the ESL Gaming Network and the ESEA.
Rockets/Warriors on ESPN at 9p.
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Answer to Our Last Sports Trivia Question: Which MLB club was the last that Mike Piazza played for? Answer: Oakland. Kudos: Jason Blake-MEC/NY; Sheila Mills-Showtime/NY; Robert Dudelson-Cross MediaWorks/NY; Lon Samuelson-Hospital for Special Surgery/NY; Jon Clateman-Frozen Ropes/Syosset; Rich Dubroff-CSNBaltimore.com/Baltimore; Synda Kollman-Charter Marketing Group/Boca Raton; Andy Pittman-TAMU/College Station; Judie Henninger-Valentine Productions Inc/Santa Monica; Tom Moore-Kalt Productions/LA; Nick Monroe-Monroe Photography/San Diego; David Westberg-SAG-AFTRA Los Angeles local/LA.
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