People & Personalities: Pang Joins Blues As TV Analyst
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Pang Will Join Blues' FS Midwest
Broadcast Team Beginning Next Season |
NHL analyst Darren Pang will join the Blues' FS Midwest broadcast team beginning next season, where he will call games alongside play-by-play announcer John Kelly. Pang had been the Coyotes' analyst since '05 (Blues). In St. Louis, Dan Caesar reports Blues TV analyst Bernie Federko is "being sent to an ice-level commentary job on the club's home-game telecasts to make room" for Pang. Federko during road games "will be on the pregame and postgame shows, not at the rink." Blues President of Hockey Operations John Davidson: "I think we are more of a complete broadcast now." FS Midwest "takes the entire local package next season" (ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, 7/10).
WATCH FOR FLYING OBJECTS: TMZ.com reported ESPN sideline reporter Erin Andrews was "struck in the chin" by a foul ball during the fourth inning of Wednesday night's Dodgers-Mets game. Andrews was "hustled to the hospital a few innings later, but only suffered a bruised chin." ESPN in a statement said Andrews is "totally fine. The producers on site suggested she go to the hospital as a precaution. Doctors released her soon thereafter" (TMZ.com, 7/9).
MIAMI'S VICE: In Miami, Barry Jackson reports WPLG-ABC sports anchor Will Manso this week became the station's "only full-time on-air talent whose primary job is sports," marking the "first time that has happened in this market in memory." Meanwhile, WTVJ-NBC GM Ardyth Diercks said that "not only were No. 3 sportscaster Andrea Brody and a top sports producer laid off, but sportscaster Adam Kuperstein now will split his time between news and sports." Alsom two sports producers at WFOR-CBS "have been dumped, leaving a depleted staff" (MIAMI HERALD, 7/10).
NOTES: Former ESPN sideline reporter Stacey Dales is a "candidate to replace Michelle Beadle as YES's reporter on Nets telecasts" after Beadle left the net to become a co-host of ESPN's "SportsNation" (N.Y. POST, 7/10)....Emmy Award-winning CBS correspondent Erin Moriarty has been selected to be the narrator for "Minor League," the 13-part reality series "set to air on PBS and the Armed Forces Network in March" (ROCHESTER DEMOCRAT & CHRONICLE, 7/10).
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