Found January 27, 2012 on Boston Sports Media Watch: Yardbarker Blogger Network
With a rainy day in Southern New England, it’s time to provide you with some media links. Lots of them on a Friday. You can check out the Weekend Viewing Picks for the sports and entertainment programming suggestions. Now to the links. National USA Today’s Michael Hiestand talks with NBC’s Al Michaels about calling his 8th Super Bowl and 2nd for NBC. Mike Ozanian from Forbes says NFL TV rightsholders will be able to reap financial benefits while non-rightsholders end up holding the bag. Sam Mamudi of Marketwatch.com says you can follow along the USA Today Super Bowl Ad Meter results in real time thanks to a new Facebook app. Michael O’Connell from the Hollywood Reporter has a sneak peek at some of the Super Bowls ads. Kelly McBride of the ESPN Poynter Review Project looks at why ESPN made so much of Tim Tebow. Alex Klein at Romanesko looks into why the Yale Daily News sat on a story for several months and how it took the New York Times to report on former qua...
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