Seen on Screen: NBC Premiers First Primetime Heavyweight Title Fight in 30 Years; Prime Ticket/FOX Sports West Announces Clippers Schedule

by Wilson Sy, Editorial Assistant

Premier Boxing Champions returns to primetime on NBC this Saturday, Sept. 26, at 8:30 p.m. ET, highlighted by heavyweight champion and Alabama native Deontay “The Bronze Bomber”” Wilder (34-0, 22KOs) making his second title defense, facing France’s Johann “Reptile” Duhaupas (32-2, 20 KOs) from Legacy Arena in Birmingham, AL. The broadcast will be the first heavyweight title bout in primetime on NBC since May 20, 1985, when another undefeated American heavyweight champion, Larry Holmes, defended his title against Carl Williams in Reno, NV. PBC on NBC will showcase three undefeated American heavyweight boxers Dominic “Trouble” Breazeale (15-0, 14 KOs), of Glendale, CA, facing “Big” Fred Kassi (18-3-1, 10 KOs), and St. Louis, Mo., native Charles “Missouri” Martin (21-0-1, 19 KOs) squaring off against Vicente “Bufalo” (15-4, 10 KOs). Play-by-play announcer Marv Albert and analysts Sugar Ray Leonard and B.J. Flores will call the action…

…The Los Angeles Clippers and Prime Ticket/FOX Sports West announced the team’s broadcast schedule for the 2015-16 season, highlighted by 71 regional television broadcasts and 33 nationally televised contests. Prime Ticket and its sister network, FOX Sports West, will regionally telecast a total of 71 Clippers regular season games and three preseason contests during the upcoming season throughout Southern California. All games airing in Los Angeles on Prime Ticket will also be available in San Diego on Fox Sports San Diego. In addition, all Clippers game televised on Prime Ticket will also be streamed live on Fox Sports Go. In their 20th season overall as a telecast partner and seventh season as the sole television home for the Clippers, Prime Ticket and FOX Sports West will provide all game telecasts in High Definition (HD)…

…Boston’s Fenway Park will host a big air skiing and snowing event from Feb. 11-12 of next year. NBCSN will air live coverage on Thursday, Feb. 11, 8:30-10 p.m. ET, of the men’s and women’s snowboarding events and on Friday, Feb. 12, 9:00-10:30 p.m. ET, of the men’s and women’s free skiing events. The big air ramp will be 110 feet high and run from center field to home plate. For perspective, the Green Monster left-field wall is 37 feet high. Other big air events have been held at famous stadiums, including the Beijing 2008 Olympic Stadium, the San Francisco Giants’ AT &T Park and outside the Rose Bowl…

…FOX SPORTS UNIVERSITY will head into the 2015 Fall Semester, partnering with 13 major college programs, including newcomers Rutgers, Pittsburgh, Xavier, St. John’s, and Arizona. In addition to working with specific schools on a national campaign, FOX SPORTS UNIVERSITY establishes social connection portals, that links thousands of students through social media and creates a foundation for career-building networking. FOX SPORTS UNIVERSITY is designed to stay current and topical, keeping pace with today’s sports business challenges across a broad spectrum of topics and delivery tools, including the complicated social media arena. Returning programs for the Fall Semester include Howard University (second year in the FOX SPORTS UNIVERSITY program), New York University (second year), Baylor University (third year), University of Minnesota (fourth year), Northwestern University (fifth year), University of North Carolina and Arizona State University (sixth year), and the University of Southern California (seventh year)…

…Jorge & Jen, hosted by ESPN Radio host Jorge Sedano and newcomer Jen Lada, will make its debut starting Monday, Sept. 28, and will be broadcast weekday evenings from 9 – 11 p.m. ET. With more than 15 years of radio broadcast experience, Sedano previously hosted Sedano & Stink alongside Mark Schlereth from 2013 through March 2015. Since then, he has hosted The Sedano Show. Lada, a Chicago native, has made guest host appearances on a variety of ESPN Radio and television shows. With more than a decade of broadcasting experience, Lada was an anchor and reporter in the Chicago area for Comcast SportsNet, covering professional Chicago sports. The program will be available nationally on ESPN Radio, espnradio.com, the ESPN app, SiriusXM, Apple iTunes, Slacker Radio, and TuneIn…

…AXS TV has acquired the rights to Magnolia Pictures’ celebrated sports documentary Nowitzki: The Perfect Shot, which will premiere on Thursday, Oct. 29, at 11 p.m. ET/8 p.m. Nowitzki: The Perfect Shot is the true story of NBA Champion, 13-time NBA All-Star, and Dallas Mavericks icon Dirk Nowitzki. The film explores the beloved big man’s early beginnings playing second league German basketball, leading to his relationship with mentor Holger Geschwinder — a German basketball hero-turned-physicist who noticed the young Nowitzki’s talents and helped him craft what would ultimately become his signature jump-shot…

…NBA TV will feature comprehensive coverage of NBA Media Day on Monday, Sept. 28, from 1-5 p.m. ET including live interviews and press conferences with players and coaches from across the NBA. Matt Winer will host Monday’s in-studio coverage with analysts Steve Smith, Isiah Thomas and Brian Shaw, and reporter Vince Cellini. NBA TV will also feature a Media Day Recap show looking back at the day’s top stories and interviews at 9 p.m. The network’s coverage will feature on-site reports from around the league including Rosalyn Gold-Onwude with the Golden State Warriors, Kristen Ledlow (Cleveland Cavaliers), Dennis Scott (Miami Heat), Sekou Smith (Atlanta Hawks), Jared Greenberg (San Antonio Spurs), LaChina Robinson (Oklahoma City Thunder), Matt Bullard (Houston Rockets), Steve Aschburner (Chicago Bulls) and David Aldridge (Los Angeles Lakers). NBA.com will offer live streaming throughout Monday’s NBA Media Day coverage.