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Did CBS Spike An NFL Storyline On <em>The Good Wife</em>?
Two weeks ago, the co-creators of the CBS show, The Good Wife, sat on a New Yorker Festival panel called "Television and Politics." At one point, they were asked if they envied the freedom granted their cable counterparts. Michelle King, sitting next to her husband and Good Wife co-creator, Robert...
<em>SNL's</em> Jay Pharoah Does A Tremendous Shannon Sharpe Impression
Jay Pharoah is SNL's master impressionist, and although his Barack Obama may be a bit uninspiring, his Shannon Sharpe leaves nothing to be desired. Our only complaint has to do with his tie knot. That sucker needs to be much, much bigger....
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Dear CBS, Please Stop Using Yellow In Your Ticker [Update]
I've been bugged by this since around 3:55, and I'm not the only one—we've gotten emails and tweets from people complaining about CBS's ticker, which uses a striking yellow "Final" box to indicate which games are over. If you're half paying attention, it makes you think there's a flag on the play. E...
Peyton Manning Is From Los Angeles, According To CBS
CBS's Manning Bowl graphics have played up the brothers' backgrounds, with a New York City skyline for Eli and for Peyton.. Los Angeles? Wait, why?...
Manzielotry: "CBS Sports has added an extra camera that will focus solely on Texas A&M quarterback and reigning Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel. ... 'The one analogy I can make in terms of covering someone is we obviously spent four years covering Tim Tebow at Florida,' said Silver." [SI.com]...
Chad Johnson Is Now Dishing Out Fantasy Football Advice On TV
For anyone wondering what Chad Johnson's up to now, he's on CBS Sports Network giving fantasy advice. At least Chad's capitalizing on his best asset: talking....
Wawrinka After Djokovic Match: "Ah Fuck"
Stanislas Wawrinka lost a grueling match to Novak Djokovic earlier today, which included this killer 21-minute game. After the match he was gassed but gutted out the press conference while cramping up. At one point it was so painful he had to stop, then grimaced and moaned "ah, fuck." Twice....
Nostalgia Done Right: The <em>Family Ties</em> Creator Who Gave Me A Shot
In the summer of 1991, I was sitting next to my sister in the back seat of my parents' Toyota Previa, reading a book about Bobby Thomson's "Shot Heard 'Round the World." We were driving across country because my parents were afraid to fly, Hopewell Junction, N.Y., to Los Angeles, California, where ...
Ex-ESPNer David Berson Is The Clear Successor To Take Over CBS Sports
David Berson is the new president of CBS Sports, a jump up from his previous role overseeing the difficult-to-remember-it-exists CBS Sports Network. Sean McManus will remain chairman of CBS Sports, but I've been told that his job will become increasingly figurehead-ish and Berson is going to take o...
ESPN Will Replace CBS As The Home For The U.S. Open Finals. Thank God.
In two years, ESPN will start broadcasting the men's and women's finals at the U.S. Open. ESPN has gone all-in on tennis—it already airs the Australian Open and the Wimbledon finals—and this means that CBS's decades-long run of broadcasting the men's and women's U.S. Open finals will conclude next S...
Jim Nantz Nearly Jumped Into The Stands During The Super Bowl Blackout
CBS got hammered for its dreadful coverage during the Super Bowl blackout, and Jim Nantz is finally ready to talk about it. When the lights went out, the announcer says, he called his producer and offered to jump into the stands from the broadcast booth and race down to the field to offer aid to str...
Here's How Every Network Announced Dzhokar Tsarnaev's Capture On-Air
Most of us learned that the manhunt for Dzhokar Tsarnaev was over via Twitter or by listening to online feeds of law enforcement radio. But for those watching at home, the suspenseful moment of his capture—and learning that he was alive—would be a memorable if complicated moment: somber in light of...
In A Bizarre Flip Flop, Nick Faldo Changes His Mind On Tiger Woods
Wait, what? Nick Faldo was stomping around The Golf Channel this morning basically calling for Tiger Woods's head. He said that Woods should do the "manly thing" and withdraw from the Masters after he improperly took his drop several feet behind where he originally hit his third shot at the 15th ye...
Bob Costas Slams CBS And Jim Nantz Over Gutless Masters Coverage
Bob Costas went on The Dan Patrick Show and really quite beautifully torched CBS's Masters coverage for not acknowledging "Augusta's history of racism and sexism." Here's Costas:...
"What They Must Not See": A Top Producer Weighs In On How To Cover A Catastrophic Injury
Earlier we examined some of the difficulties and choices faced by broadcasters when a live event is derailed by a gruesome injury, like Louisville's Kevin Ware's compound fracture. We asked Fred Gaudelli, lead producer of NBC's Sunday Night Football, how he's handled similar situations in the past—a...
Two Replays, No Warning: How Broadcasters Handle Gruesome Injuries
For 45 seconds after Louisville's Kevin Ware suffered a compound fracture, his tibia poking out from his shin, CBS kept its cameras off him. That 45 seconds was enough time for the production room to view the replays, realize how graphic they were, decide whether to show the play again, and decide h...
