Media Notes
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KDFI-MYT Decides Not To Renew 10-Year
Contract With Rangers After This Season |
In Dallas, Barry Horn reported the MLB Rangers' over-the-air games are moving to KTXA-Ind next season after KDFI-MYT "decided not to re-up" its 10-year contract, which expires this season. KTXA is "planning to broadcast 25 Friday night games in 2010," and the "bulk of the remainder will stay on cable's Fox Sports Southwest, which has another five seasons on its current Rangers deal." Rangers announcers Josh Lewin and Tom Grieve will "remain the cable and over-the-air TV broadcast team after the switch" to KTXA (DALLAS MORNING NEWS, 6/6).
ACTION NEWS: SI.com's Peter King reports the Eagles are installing a "Blogging Trailer" adjacent to the club's training camp practice fields at Lehigh Univ. in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, "for use during and immediately after practice for bloggers covering camp and for beat guys filing to instant-news blogs." Eagles Dir of Football Media Services Derek Boyko: "Reporting on the NFL has become such a 'now' business. I saw this (trailer) as being in the 'need' category, because so many bloggers are doing immediate stories, and now the beat reporters are doing the blogging, too" (SI.com, 6/8).
ON THE SIDELINES: In N.Y., Bob Raissman noted NBC's Tiki Barber "ain't going to get much face time" in his new "on-site reporter" role for "Football Night in America." Raissman: "There's no way around it, Barber's stock has plummeted. He's the TV equivalent of General Motors, but there ain't no bailout coming his way." An industry exec said Barber "made some improvement last season, but he still came over as somewhat buttoned-down and elite" compared to Jerome Bettis, who was an "everyman kind of guy." Raissman wrote Barber, unlike Bettis, at least "still has the NBC gig" (N.Y. DAILY NEWS, 6/7).
EYE ON THE EYE: USA TODAY's Michael Hiestand notes CBS News & Sports President Sean McManus "has begun Twittering." McManus Saturday on Twitter posted about golfer Tiger Woods' participation in this weekend's PGA Tour The Memorial tournament, "What a difference it is to have Tiger in a CBS event" (USA TODAY, 6/8).
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