0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/23/2011
That’s a long headline, but I had to get your attention. From NBC Sports, we learn that Pittsburgh-Chicago which was the 3:30 p.m. Eastern time national spotlight game for Hockey Day in America finished with a 1.1 rating and 1.9 million viewers. That makes the game, the most watched non-Winter Classic contest on NBC since […]
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We have your tournaments for Golf Channel. It’ll have coverage of the PGA and LPGA Tours. Plenty of coverage of the WGC-Match Play Championship as well as the LPGA Tour stop in Singapore. In addition to the Match Play Championship, Golf Channel will be in Mexico for the other PGA Tour tourney, the Mayakoba Golf […]
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College Basketball men’s Wisconsin at Michigan – Big Ten Network, 6:30 p.m. DePaul at St. John’s – Big East Network, 7 p.m. Notre Dame at Providence – Big East Network, 7 p.m. Tulsa at Marshall – CBS College Sports, 7 p.m. St. Joseph’s at UMass – Comcast SportsNet New England/CSS/The Comcast Network, 7 p.m. Temple […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/22/2011
This Thursday, TNT has another NBA doubleheader. Both the Boston Celtics and the Miami Heat will be involved, but they’re not going to play each other. Miami will be in Chicago to take on the Bulls while the Celtics will be out west taking on Denver. We have details from TNT on what will be […]
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Starting on Wednesday, Golf Channel and NBC Sports will combine for The Group’s first PGA Tour production. Golf Channel kicks off the coverage of the WGC-Match Play Championship from Wednesday through Friday. Golf Channel will have early Saturday and Sunday coverage and then NBC takes over for weekend afternoon play. In addition, NBC Sports’ golf […]
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From what I have been able to gather, this is my best guess at what the NCAA Tournament schedule will look like under the CBS Sports/Turner Sports consortium. None of the times are official, but from articles I have culled, this is what the NCAA Tournament will look like. I’ll start it from Selection Sunday […]
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Last week, I provided the schedule for the first half of ESPN’s Judgment Week. Now, it’s time to provide you with the 2nd half. Theses are games spanning from Thursday though Sunday. In addition, College GameDay will be in Blacksburg, VA for the Duke-Virginia Tech game. Here’s your schedule. College GameDay at No. 1 Duke […]
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Time for linkage now. Jun Yang at Bloomberg Businessweek reports that YouTube is in talks with the NBA and NHL to stream live games. Now that would be cool if it happens, but I’m skeptical that it will. At MediaPost, Barry Janoff looks at some of the particulars of CBS/Turner’s NCAA Tournament programming and marketing […]
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I owe National Geographic Channel several posts and the PR department has been wonderful in sending press releases and I’ve failed to post them. So to pay back the generosity, I post this for you. National Geographic Channel has a week long programming initiative on the Treasures of Egypt and it’s rather timely with what […]
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CNBC’s Darren Rovell had this earlier today, that the NBC Sports Group was re-obtaining the rights to the entire Triple Crown after airing 2/3 of the pie for the past five years. Now, the puzzle is complete once again. The NBC Sports Group has re-acquired the rights to the Belmont Stakes, piecing it together with […]
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With NASCAR back up and running, it also means other motorsports have returned as well. ESPN provides us with its plans for motorsports coverage. Take a look. Motorsports This Week on ESPN NHRA Kicks Off 60th Anniversary Season at Pomona As the National Hot Rod Association celebrates its 60th anniversary, the NHRA Drag Racing Series […]
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Premiering tonight, Sixers City will be a magazine-style program that will bring fans closer to the team through coach’s interviews, features, plus interaction through Facebook and Twitter. Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia provides us with the details plus a look at the team’s ratings. COMCAST SPORTSNET LAUNCHES NEW SIXERS MAGAZINE SHOW “SIXERS CITY” HOSTED BY RON BURKE […]
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As the NBA returns from its wildly successful All-Star Weekend, NBA TV has two live games this week starting with its Fan Night game tonight, Atlanta taking on the Los Angeles Lakers at the Staples Center. The network has one more game tomorrow night and it’s also from Los Angeles. Let’s check the schedule for […]
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This announced this morning by the National Hockey League. First, I rarely post these type of press releases, but because it involves my favorite beer, I’m gladly doing so. The NHL has announced that it has signed a deal with Molson Coors in Canada and MillerCoors in the United States, designating that Molson Canadian is […]
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This comes from CNBC’s Darren Rovell, the NBC Sports Group will announce today that it has secured the rights to all three races of horse racing’s Triple Crown, the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness Stakes and the Belmont Stakes. In October of last year, NBC announced that it had reupped with the Kentucky Derby for five […]
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College Basketball men’s Maine at New Hampshire – Comcast SportsNet New England, 7 p.m. Illinois at Ohio State – ESPN, 7 p.m. Virginia Tech at Wake Forest – ESPN2, 7 p.m. Mississippi at South Carolina – ESPNU, 7 p.m. Iowa State at Texas – Big 12 Network, 8 p.m. Michigan State at Minnesota – Big […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/21/2011
Let’s provide some links on this holiday for some of you. For others like me, I’m at work. But instead of reading my complaints about working on a holiday, I’ll put my energy into finding links for you. Starting with the Sports Business Journal, Terry Lefton looks at how TNT’s Charles Barkley has become a […]
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There’s no press release from NBC Sports, but I thank their public relations department for e-mailing me the overnight ratings. Both the early and the late windows of the NHL doubleheader received a 1.2 rating. Equal 1.2 ratings. That’s with 3 games being televised regionally (Washington-Buffalo, Philadelphia-New York Rangers, Detroit-Minnesota) in the 12:30 p.m. Eastern […]
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Fox Sports is really happy about the Daytona 500 ratings. Yesterday, a total of over 30 million people watched part or all of the Great American Race. The ratings were 8.7 and a 20 share, that’s up 13% from last year and it’s the highest viewership since 2008. The average viewership was about 15.6 million, […]
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The NBA All-Star Game on Sunday did very well for TNT. It finished with a 5.2 rating (up 37% from last year) and averaging just under 9.1 million viewers (up 33% from last year’s 6.8 million viewers). This is the best NBA All-Star Game viewership since 2003 which was Michael Jordan’s last All-Star appearance. And […]
