0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/4/2011
It appears MLB’s TV partners have deemed the Chicago Cubs-St. Louis Cardinals series the games of the weekend as MLB Network and WGN America aired the first game on Friday. Fox has today’s game and TBS will take Sunday’s game. Since the headline is about TBS, let’s check out its press release. Chicago Cubs @ […]
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We have this press release from ESPN comparing the viewership of this year’s Finals to the last time Miami and Dallas met in the NBA’s penultimate games back in 2006. Well, of course viewership is going to be up. We’re seeing more viewers year-to-year. Comparing this year to 2006 is really apples and oranges and […]
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Didn’t have time to do megalinks during the day as I was trying to get some end of the month/beginning of the month stuff done at the office. Time to get linkage in while I can. The Weekend Viewing Picks are chockful of sports action and some primetime programming. Now to the linkage. National Jessica […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/3/2011
Last night’s Game 2 of the NBA Finals took primetime with a 10.5 overnight rating. It marks the second time in as many games that the NBA won primetime over all competition. Let’s take a look at the ESPN press release touting the ratings on ABC. NBA Finals Game 2 Propels ABC to Win the […]
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In yet another bizarre rant, Jack Edwards went on WEEI’s Big Show with Glenn Ordway and Michael Holley to discuss the bite of the Boston Bruins’ Patrice Bergeron’s finger by Vancouver’s Alex Burrows. It happened just as the first period of Game 1 was ending and it was caught by NBC’s cameras as clear as […]
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Saturday, June 4 Boxing Super Six World Boxing Classic/Semifinals, Carl Froch vs. Glen Johnson — Showtime, 9 p.m. Boxing After Dark/Sebastian Zbik vs. Julio Cesar Chavez, Jr. — HBO, 10 p.m. College Baseball NCAA Division I Baseball Championship Gainesville Super Regional Jacksonville vs. Manhattan — ESPNU, noon Miami (FL) vs. Florida — ESPNU, 4 p.m. […]
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Arena Football Jacksonville at New Orleans — NFL Network, 8 p.m. College Baseball NCAA Division I Baseball Championship Gainesville Super Regional Jacksonville vs. Miami — ESPNU, noon Manhattan vs. Florida — ESPNU, 4 p.m. Fullerton Super Regional Kansas State vs. Stanford — ESPNU, 7 p.m. Illinois vs. Cal State-Fullerton — ESPNU, 11 p.m. College Softball […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/2/2011
Not only did NBC get good ratings for Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final between Boston and Vancouver, CBC saw record viewership in Canada for Hockey Night in Canada, making it the most watched NHL in the network’s history. The only other game that had a higher viewership on the network was the Gold […]
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Very impressive ratings for Game 1 of the NHL Stanley Cup Final. Overall, the ratings resulted in a 2.7 rating/5 share which is up from the 2.3/5 that was hit the previous two years. It’s also the most watched Game 1 of the Final in a dozen years. In Boston, the rating was very impressive, […]
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Time for some linkage on this very warm Thursday. I hope you all take a moment and say a prayer for the people of Western Massachusetts who head to deal with tornadoes yesterday. Four people are confirmed dead. It was quite devastating to see last night. Let’s hope the area can recover quickly. To your […]
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ESPN has announced some additional SEC football games to its 2011 schedule. We have the details below. ESPN Selects Additional 2011 SEC College Football Telecasts ESPN has selected additional Southeastern Conference college football games for telecasts across ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU and the SEC Network during the 2011 season. Two Thursday and four Saturday games with […]
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For SEC football fans, today is a big day as both CBS and ESPN have announced their preliminary football schedules for the 2011 season. Let’s take a look at the SEC on CBS schedule first. CBS SPORTS’ 2011 COLLEGE FOOTBALL SCHEDULE OFFERS BEST OF SOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE EACH WEEK CBS Sports’ Weekly Selection of SEC Football […]
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We now have the press release from NBC Sports officially announcing that the overnight ratings for Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final are the highest in a dozen years. And even with Vancouver in the Final, a city that isn’t measured by the US Nielsen ratings, the overnight resulted in a 3.2 rating/6 share, […]
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This coming from Tom Perrotta of the Wall Street Journal who broke the story that NBC will allow the entire country to watch the Roger Federer-Novak Djokovic French Open semifinal Friday morning. It will be live in the East at 11 a.m., but delayed everywhere else as the Central, Mountain and Pacific time zones will […]
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From Fox Sports, we learn that the UEFA Champions League Final ratings received a huge bump from 2010, the first year the network aired the game. Overall, the game received a 2.1 rating with a 6 share and an average viewership of 4.2 million viewers. Last year, the final got 1.2 rating with 2.2 million […]
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Just received this blurb from Turner Sports. Charles Barkley has begun a contest where he will give $25,000 to anyone with what is said to be “a bright business idea.” Charles wants you to submit a business plan to his website. Three finalists will be chosen and then the public will have a vote on […]
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NBC Sports has tweeted how Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final between the Boston Bruins and Vancouver Canucks fared. There was speculation that with a Canadian team in the final, the NHL would not do as well as last year’s Chicago-Philadelphia which set record ratings. Well, wipe that speculation away. With a thrilling 1-0 […]
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Fox closes out its NASCAR season this Sunday with the STP 400 in Kansas. Next week, TNT will start its Summer Season of six races. Kind of harsh to start the season and not get to finish it off, but that’s what happens in NASCAR. Fox gets 14 races, Speed one, TNT 6, ESPN 14 […]
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After three consecutive primetime windows, Fox Saturday Baseball heads back to its regular 4 p.m. timeslot. I have to admit, I liked having the Fox games at night with a whole slew of afternoon games that were made available on MLB.TV and MLB Extra Innings. Fox did quite well in the last primetime window getting […]
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I’ll post some press releases that I was not able to get to yesterday as my site experienced a record number of page views for the Rachael Cordingley-Carl Froch story I had. Certainly slowed my site down and for a point, I had trouble posting so I just decided to let the traffic die down. […]
