0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/28/2011
The CBS/Turner collaboration is crowing about the overall total NCAA Tournament ratings through the Elite 8 which are quite good. Overall, the average has totaled 6.8 with a 14 share which is up 15% from the average from a year ago. But then, the press release states Sunday’s overnight rating received a combined average 8.5/17 […]
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It’s been quite a while since the last mailbag, October of last year to be precise and I’ve been meaning to do one. Let’s do one now since we have a few questions stockpiled. Thanks to you for sending questions and if you want to have one answered for the next mailbag later in the […]
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College Basketball NCAA Women’s Tournament Regional Semifinals Dayton, OH Region Tennessee vs. Notre Dame – ESPN, 7 p.m. Spokane, WA Region Stanford vs. Gonzaga – ESPN, 9 p.m. College Basketball Invitational Championship Game 1/Oregon at Creighton – HDNet, 8 p.m. MLB Florida vs. New York Mets – SNY, 1 p.m. Houston vs. Philadelphia – Comcast […]
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Four live games on NBA TV including the Fan Night game which will have the Miami Heat returning to Cleveland as LeBron James, the prodigal sun returns to his home state once again. We’ll see what the reaction from fans are this time. It’ll probably be a lot calmer than his first game back when […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/27/2011
Just before CBS’ Final Round coverage of The Masters®, two weeks from today, we have another edition of Jim Nantz Remembers, where he looks into a memorable tournament from years past. This year, Jim looks back at the 1975 Masters where Jack Nicklaus had to fend off the charging Tom Weiskopf and Johnny Miller to […]
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Here we are. We’re down to the Final Four®. We now have the tip times for Saturday in Houston. THIS JUST IN… …from CBS Sports and Turner Sports CBS Sports’ exclusive coverage of the 2011 NCAA® Division I Men’s Basketball Final Four® on Saturday, April 2 (6:00-11:00 PM, ET) tips-off with Butler taking on VCU […]
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Golf Channel has sent over the guest list for its morning show, Morning Drive. Among the guests include Boo Weekley, Tom Watson and Amy Alcott. Here’s what you can expect starting on Monday. Coming Up on Morning Drive…March 28-April 1 Boo Weekley and Tom Watson to Make Morning Drive Debuts Gary Koch, Jim Furyk, Amy […]
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CBS’ two games which were extremely compelling and went down to the wire received a 6.2 rating with a 13 share. That’s even with last year. The average viewership was 9.9 million viewers which is the highest average since 2005. Overall, the tournament is averaging 5.9/13 which is the highest average since 2005. We have […]
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Let’s provide some links on this Sunday. Original plans to go to work have been scrapped leaving me free to do links which is good for you. I certainly hope you had a chance to read my Sunday thoughts which I hope to make a weekly feature here at Fang’s Bites. Here are the links. […]
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This is the first of what I hope will be weekly Sunday posts. I’ll provide three or four thoughts into one post and I hope you enjoy them. Consider this to be a throwback to when sports media writers would write a lengthy column in the Sunday newspapers. As I mentioned, I hope to make […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/26/2011
Just received from CBS/Turner, the last split telecasts of the NCAA Tournament took place on Friday and once again, the ratings and viewership were up from last year. Altogether, the nighttime doubleheader of the Southwest Regional and the East Regional semifinals took in a 7.0 rating with a 14 share on CBS/TBS, up 13% from […]
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Unfortunately, I was not able to do the Friday megalinks as I was traveling in between two offices and had to hit a couple of places in between. And when I got home, I wasn’t in the mood to do links. But I may incorporate some Friday stories here in the links. Let’s take a […]
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Another night in the NCAA Tournament and another rise in the overall overnight ratings. Last night got off to a bad start with two blowouts (North Carolina-Marquette and Kansas-Richmond), but the late window really ramped up with two compelling games (Kentucky-Ohio State and VCU-Florida State). Thanks to games that went down to the wire in […]
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Ok, we have your tip times for Sunday as we had two stellar games in the late evening session to determine the last two entries into the Elite 8, the Regional Finals. CBS has both games starting at 2:20 p.m. Eastern Time. Here are the tip times with announcing assignments. I hope Marv Albert’s voice […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/25/2011
Turner Sports brings in Clemson coach Brownell this weekend. THIS JUST IN… …from Turner Sports and CBS Sports: Clemson University head coach Brad Brownell joins CBS Sports’ and Turner Sports’ coverage of the 2011 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship, serving as a guest analyst in the Atlanta studio. Brownell will work truTV’s hour-long Infiniti NCAA […]
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This just in from CBS/Turner Sports. The ratings for the start of the NCAA Tournament Regional Semifinals turn out to be very good once again for the CBS/Turner Sports consortium. With CBS and TBS airing the Sweet Sixteen games from New Orleans and Anaheim, the final total average ratings turned out to be 7.6 with […]
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Lost in the NCAA Tournament action last night was the blood rivalry game between the Boston Bruins and Montreal Canadiens. The Bruins got the job done last night by shellacking the Canadiens by a 7-0 score making B’s fans across the country quite happy. It also translated to record ratings for NESN, also known as […]
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Another night at the NCAA Tournament, this one for the Sweet Sixteen and again, having multiple platforms for the games, this time CBS and TBS gave the overall ratings another boost last night. Overall, the two networks received an average overnight rating of 8.6 with a 14 share. It means that these are the highest […]
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I can’t believe Keith Thibault of Sports Media Journal and I have 49 podcasts, but we have. You can count them! On Thursday, Keith and I convened via Skype once again and recorded the latest edition of the Sports Media Weekly Podcast which needs a new name. If you have any suggestions, let me know […]
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Saturday, March 26 Boat Racing Oxford vs. Cambridge – BBC America, 12:30 p.m. Boxing Boxing After Dark/Featherweights, Yuriorkis Gamboa vs. Jorge Solis (title fight) & Matt Remillard vs. Mikey Garcia – HBO, 9:45 p.m. College Basketball Viewing Picks College Hockey NCAA Division I Men’s Hockey Tournament Northeast Regional, Manchester, NH Semifinals New Hampshire vs. Miami […]
