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    Olbermann was suppose to call Astros-Yankees yesterday for ESPN Radio, but was replaced by Ryan Ruocco instead. Olbermann said on his Twitter he came down with food poisoning.
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    This happened in the 70s, with some mild controversy... The current logos of CBS 2s New York and Los Angeles, and the CBS 2s in Chicago and Pittsburgh (KDKA):
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    Yep...once they get those stations, that only leaves Boston as the only top-20 TV DMA where Fox doesn't own a station (which they traded to Cox Media [along with Memphis' WHBQ] to get San Francisco/Oakland a few years ago). They could get back into Boston, if they offer Sunbeam TV (which also owns WSVN) an offer they couldn't refuse. Sunbeam owns also WLVI in Boston, which now lives on as a subchannel of WHDH...Fox could offer a king's ransom for the whole group, and might in essence keep WSVN as a Fox station (and WSFL as a CW station), and force another network switch in Boston.
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    http://variety.com/2018/tv/news/sinclair-tribune-fox-station-deal-seattle-1202707565/ Fox's continual quest to own stations in several key NFL markets (and uber-ally markets) may come to fruition, once the Sinclair-Tribune merger is completed. Fox is set to buy at least six stations from Sinclair/Tribune, including three of the stations they sold in 2008 to help finance News Corp's purchase of the Wall Street Journal (WJW Cleveland, KDVR Denver, and KSTU Salt Lake City), plus Sacramento's KTXL, the long-awaited prize in Seattle's KCPQ (it didn't mention sister KZJO, which likely means they'll stay with Sinclair-owned KOMO-TV), and a wild card--WSFL-TV, the CW station in Miami/Fort Lauderdale. I can't see Fox running a standalone CW affiliate in South Florida, which ultimately means incumbent Fox affiliate WSVN (much like their sister station in Boston, WHDH) will be forced to go independent, and in turn current MyNetworkTV affiliate WBFS, owned by CBS, will more than likely take the CW affiliation. That also means Miami would undergo its third affiliation/channel swap in the last thirty years, two occasions of which WSVN was a part of (losing NBC in 1989, due to the Peacock buying WTVJ, and now possibly losing Fox to WSFL).
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    It wouldn't surprise me if Univision makes a play for LAFC TV and radio rights (they own two TV and four radio stations in the area).
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    https://www.lafc.com/youtube-tv-faq They put a FAQ page, and it looks like these LAFC YouTube TV matches will be geo-blocked outside of Southern California, limited to basically from Bakersfield to the north, south to the Mexican border, Santa Barbara to the west, and the Colorado River to the east. They'll have their own dedicated "channel", so it'll be treated just as a local station.
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    The Disney-21CF deal is going to take a minimum of a year to get federal approval, but this deal is also tied to other agreements, such as the Sky Networks in the UK. The Sinclair-Tribune merger should completed within next few months, pending final approval from the DOJ and FCC; the merger is of vested interest for Fox, because Sinclair and Tribune are two of Fox's largest affiliate groups, in terms of number of stations (Sinclair owns and/or operates 30 Fox affiliates, Tribune owns 15 Foxes) and audience reach percentage. Because of that, and thwarting an attempt by Sinclair to potentially launching their own network (and they [Sinclair] have network affiliation agreements with every major U.S. broadcast network and MyNetworkTV, and owning the Univision affiliations in Seattle and Portland), Fox is getting back into the station buying game, especially in those key markets they want to protect.
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    Before you get too carried away...the FCC won't be involved in this decision, because there's no broadcast station licenses involved; this deal will be under the purview of the Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice. The Fox network is keeping the 28 stations it owns, and is planning buy some of the stations that need to be divested in the Sinclair Broadcasting-Tribune Broadcasting merger (using some of the cash/stock coming from the Disney deal), including several stations that Fox once owned until a few years ago (particularly WJW Cleveland, WITI Milwaukee, and KTVI St. Louis), with the ultimate prize being Tribune's duopoly in Seattle (KCPQ/KZJO), the largest NFC market where Fox doesn't own a station.
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    Denver is the only major market in the U.S. with no NBC/Comcast or Fox regional sports presence...they're served by AT&T SportsNet (Rockies) and the Stan Kroenke-owned Altitude Sports (Nuggets & Avalanche). I know with Kroenke owning the Rams in Los Angeles, eventually he and his family would have to sell-off their Denver sports properties, as part of the NFL's cross-ownership rules, and that may well also include Altitude. Outside of Denver, Altitude also handles the production of the Rams preseason telecasts, despite their TV flagship being already owned by one of the NFL's broadcast partners (CBS). Oddly enough, NBC/Comcast owns cable systems in every market serviced by AT&T SportsNet (Pittsburgh, SLC, Denver, Houston, Seattle), except now in Las Vegas, where Cox and CenturyLink are the major cable providers there; another sense of irony, what is now AT&T SportsNet Southwest (Astros & Rockets) was created from the remnants of the since-defunct Comcast SportsNet Houston.
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    McNabb and Eric Davis (the ex-CB) got suspended from ESPN; Davis does radio for their L.A. station, but he also works for FS1 (pretty much a regular on both of Cowherd's TV shows)...as if they (Fox) don't have enough to deal with already (and up the 405 from NFL Media HQs). Warren Sapp and one of Bill Simmons' right-hand people (Eric Weinberger) are also named in this sexual harassment lawsuit.
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    In the old arena configuration, the Warriors had individual retired number banners in the final years prior to the renovation... One end had the banners of Rick Barry and Nate Thurmond, and the other end was Tom Meschery and Al Attles; Credit to Bob Busser's Ballparks site Edit: I'm almost 100-percent certain that the the three smaller banners in-between the team banner and Attles' retired jersey are the '47, '56, and '75 championship banners. I saw another picture on the site, looks like from the mid-to-late '80s, and the Warriors' retired numbers were on a single banner on one of the arena.
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    The only Ringer podcast I listen to with any consistency is the Masked Man show. I've had to skip around some of the Simmons episodes; I generally like Cousin Sal and Joe House, and as McCarthy mentioned, when he has the likes of Buck, Michaels, Collinsworth (just days after Simmons ripped him on a podcast back in the summer), and other sportscasters, those are generally the better episodes. I haven't gotten into their NFL podcast yet; I've always liked Mike Lombardi's insight on the NFL, being in broadcasting and spending years in NFL front offices. Unless Simmons and/or House appear, i could take or leave the NBA podcasts.
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    Same quirk for Week 5, this time it's CBS...they have Chargers-Giants in the early slot, while the Rams host Seattle in the late slot; however, that's also Fox's doubleheader week (Packers-Cowboys is the national 4:25 ET game). The early game will be on KCBS, while KCAL 9 has the (dis)pleasure of airing Seahawks-Rams against Packers-Cowboys on Fox 11. So counting Panthers-Lions on Fox 11 in the early slot, and the SNF game (Chiefs-Texans), we're getting five games next weekend.
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    Marvelous had a trading card too...and a thicker toupee LOL A pre-NBC, way pre-ESPN Hannah Storm... Ralph Lawler, legendary voice of the Clippers...still going, and it currently third-longest tenure NBA team announcer behind Al McCoy (Suns) and George Blaha (Pistons)
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    Greenberg was a guest on the His & Hers podcast a couple years ago, and when he was asked by Jemele Hill how he and Golic get along, he said that their relationship is strictly professional, nothing more, and they're just two totally different personalities, on and off the air. Hell, just based on Greeny's earlier comments on His & Hers, I can't say I'm surprised that there's friction between he and Golic. It's not uncommon that there's friction between "stars" on TV and radio shows, because how much no matter they get along (on a professional level) with all of the years they've worked together, something will eventually come to a head.
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    I heard Mr. Lear on another podcast last year (a hip-hop podcast no less), and all I can say is that I wish could be as fluid and sharp as he is by the time I'm in my mid-90s (God willing). The man created/produced some of my favorite all-time TV shows, and there's no one that could come close to change television the way he did. While Aaron Spelling and Garry Marshall were putting out "escapism" TV in the '70s and 80s, Lear and his company put out TV as about as real as it gets.
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    Its own version of Real Sports/60 Minutes. E:60 would often run on most Tuesday nights when they didn't have a live event.
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    Micheal Ray taking to it Kareem during the Knicks' "blue and maroon" era... Earl the Pearl (AKA Black Jesus) in the twilight years...Getty says this picture took place in 1980, but the Knicks' blue and maroon uniforms were in place starting in '79-80. This certainly had to be in 1978-1979...the Pistons starting wearing their short-lived "lightning bolt" uniforms beginning that season (it was also the first [and only full] season of Dick Vitale as head coach). Notably, the Pearl wore #10 when he was with the Baltimore Bullets, but he wore #33, and I guess, #14 in his rookie year ('67-68).
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    Seemed to be pretty normal throughout the life of that scoreboard, which was installed in 1975; the original scoreboard was situated in the same spot. Remember too with many of it architectural flaws, the Garden had also a smaller-than-regulation NHL rink (191 ft. by 83 ft.), and it looked like with the hockey configuration, the scoreboard sat maybe a third of the way between center ice and the penalty box.
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    His birth year.
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    Lakers vs. Celtics in another of their many Finals battles--1963 at the L.A. Sports Arena, although I can't find the actual date of this picture. LASA hosted games 3, 4, and 6. The Pontiac Silverdome, just prior to a Lakers-Pistons matchup in the 1980s Another Pistons game at the Silverdome, this time in 1987 against Michael Jordan's Bulls. Tip-off of the final NBA playoff game ever at Boston Garden in 1995, game four of the Celtics' first-round series against the eventual Eastern champ Magic.
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    For its time, that center-hung scoreboard was bad-ass...that Oakland Tribune logo, though, looks a like a logo for one of those regional bread brands. It's something about those old NBA/ABA arenas that have a certain type of character that the newer arenas lack...
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    I stand corrected in that it's not the Salt Palace...however, Moses actually made his ABA debut against the Nets at Nassau Coliseum; the following night (October 19, 1975), the Stars played the Squires in Hampton. Both Hampton and Richmond Coliseums have somewhat similar interiors, and both were built and opened around the same time (1970) Here's the interior of Hampton Coliseum
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    That's the Salt Palace, Salt Lake City...
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    The Knicks switched to the more familiar classic look in 1968-69, Clyde's sophomore NBA season. I actually thought it was the season before, which coincided with the mid-season opening of MSG IV.
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