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Radio change to the south

Some of you might listen to Washington's all-sports station, WTEM (980 AM), which carries into a chunk of the Baltimore area. Redskins owner Daniel Snyder's Red Zebra Broadcasting this week announced programming changes at WTEM. Red Zebra will install ESPN Radio's...

Your NBC Olympics lineup

NBC has announced its announcing and reporting teams for the Beijing Olympics on the network and other outlets, such as USA Network, CNBC and MSNBC. Here, mostly copy and pasted to avoid any twinges of carpal tunnel syndrome, is the list:HOSTS:...

Love-hate with Billy Packer

Or maybe it's more like hate-love. He was never the fun guy, the enthusiasm guy like Dick Vitale or Bill Raftery, so Billy Packer didn't engender much affection from college basketball fans. So now that he's giving up college basketball...

Ron Darling on O's

Though the TBS telecast of the Orioles-Red Sox game Sunday was blacked out here, TBS sent along some highlights of analyst Ron Darling's comments. Here's some of what he had to say about the Orioles:On Orioles second baseman Brian Roberts'...

No mornings with Linda Cohn

ESPN has changed its plans for the live weekday morning SportsCenter rotation that begins next month. Instead of starting at 6, the live shows will begin at 9. Until then, ESPN will rerun the latest SportsCenter from the night before,...

Patrick-Olbermann, the NBC version

Did anyone notice that Showtime yesterday announced its lineup for the network's new version of Inside the NFL?It wasn't the best day to do so, because NBC has reunited Dan Patrick and Keith Olbermann for its Football Night in America NFL...

Baltimore loves Venus and Serena

You know how sports ratings news here often includes the information that Baltimore's numbers have been below the national average? Not this time. The rating for Saturday morning's Wimbledon women's final on WBAL ranked as fifth-highest among the nation's biggest...

Turns out Joe Buck does like baseball

After his radio comments about preferring to watch The Bachelorette over sports cast him in an unflattering light, Fox's Joe Buck let everyone know -- through The New York Times -- that he really is a sports fan.“I do watch sports. How...

Joe Buck: Bachelorette over baseball

Joe Buck was discussing baseball on Colin Cowherd's ESPN Radio show this week -- especially comparing it with the NFL -- and wasn't genuflecting before the altar of the emerald chessboard. Sure, he was probably kidding when he said he'd...

NBA rules

Maybe Shaq can rap about what high ratings taste like.With the month just ended, the six games of the NBA Finals finished as the top six highest-rated shows overall on TV for June, drawing from 13.4 million to 17.4 million...