0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/2/2013
Last month, I gave you my College Basketball TV Awards for the 2012-13 regular season. As promised, I’ll provide you with the NCAA Tournament Edition featuring my picks for Final Four, Regional Final and First Week levels. Those not worthy and there will be a couple, will get the infamous Carton of Chinese Cigarettes handed […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 4/1/2013
I keep thinking the bottom is going to fall out on the ratings for the 2013 NCAA Tournament. Games haven’t been great, but despite that, the ratings for the NCAA Tournament on the CBS/Turner combination continue to rise. Sunday was no exception. Despite two blowouts, ratings for Sunday’s Elite Eight action were up significantly from […]
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There weren’t too many surprises in the NCAA Tournament on Sunday as Michigan and Louisville took their games with relative ease. However, the big surprise may have been the overnight ratings for the South and Midwest Regional Finals. Both games on CBS averaged an 8.9 number with a 19 share. CBS’ overrun into primetime also […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/31/2013
Here are the tip times for the Final Four®. Wichita State-Louisville tips off first and that will be followed by Michigan-Syracuse. 2013 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Final Four Tips Off Saturday, April 6, on CBS Turner Sports and CBS Sports’ exclusive coverage of the 2013 NCAA® Division I Men’s Basketball Final Four® on Saturday, […]
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I hope you’re having a good Easter. The CBS/Turner combo tells us that Saturday’s Elite Eight Regional Finals were up slightly from last year. This despite some ugly basketball especially in the first game between Syracuse and Marquette. Saturday’s two regional finals generated a 5.8 Fast National household rating with a 12 share, up 2% […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/30/2013
Another press release from CBS/Turner Sports must mean good news for the NCAA Tournament and it does. Friday’s Sweet 16 action which included an exciting overtime Kansas-Michigan game which ended in a Wolverines win, scored in the ratings and in viewership. CBS and TBS saw a big Fast National household rating of 8.2 and a […]
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Before the NCAA Tournament Regional Final action today and tomorrow, CBS will offer the women’s and men’s final of the Sony Open. Today at noon ET, it’s the women as #1 seed Serena Williams takes on the #3 seed Maria Sharapova. On Sunday at 11:30 a.m. ET, the men’s final pits Andy Murray against David […]
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From the CBS Sports/Turner Sports consortium, we have Friday’s overnight ratings for the Regional Semifinal action and thanks to a Kansas-Michigan game that went to overtime on TBS, the NCAA Tournament posted the highest overnight ratings for that night since 1990. The ratings resulted in an 8.9 with a 17 share which beat last year’s […]
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Tip times are set for Sunday’s Elite Eight. The South Regional Final will tip on CBS at 2:20 p.m. ET. That will be followed by the Midwest Regional Final, also on CBS, at 5:05 p.m. Details are below. TURNER SPORTS AND CBS SPORTS ANNOUNCE TIP TIMES FOR REGIONAL FINALS ON SUNDAY, MARCH 31 ON CBS […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/29/2013
Saturday, March 30 Men’s Pregame & Studio Shows Road to the Final Four — CBS, 2:30 p.m. NCAA Basketball Tournament Press Conference — Big Ten Network, 4 p.m. NCAA March Madness 360 — CBS Sports Network, 4:30 p.m. Big Ten Basketball & Beyond: Tournament Edition — Big Ten Network, 9 p.m. NCAA March Madness Bracket […]
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Thanks to the fine people at the CBS Sports and Turner Sports PR departments, we learn that viewership for the 2013 NCAA Tournament is up 8% from 2012. Even with the amount of blowouts we’ve seen, interest in the tournament has increased over last year. According to Nielsen, the NCAA Tournament is averaging 9 million […]
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This from CBS/Turner, overnight ratings for Thursday’s NCAA Tournament Regional Semifinal games are up 4% from 2012. The games on CBS and TBS averaged a 7.3 and a 14 share, up from last year’s 7.0/12. Ratings were up despite the fact that three of four of the games were blowouts. Overall, the ratings for the […]
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It occurred early in CBS’ coverage of the NCAA Tournament Sweet 16. As host Greg Gumbel introduced Doug Gottlieb to the studio joining Greg Anthony, Charles Barkley and Kenny “The Jet” Smith, Gottlieb tried to make a diversity joke and it backfired. You can clearly see Anthony, Barkley and Smith glaring at Gottlieb and forcing […]
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This in from CBS and Turner Sports. The tip times for the first half East and West Regional Finals have been set. Both games will be on CBS Sports. The East Regional in Washington, DC will take place at 4:30 p.m. ET while the West Regional Final will tip off at 7:05 p.m. All tip […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/27/2013
No matter what you think of Tim McCarver and judging from the reaction on social media, a lot of people are happy he’s leaving the Fox broadcast booth after this season. I was not a fan and felt he was overrated by the New York media when he was with the Mets in the 1980’s […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/26/2013
This coming in from CBS Sports, the Tiffany Network has signed a new contract with the Old Big East. Under the terms of the new contract, CBS will air Old Big East men’s basketball games for six years through the 2019-20 season, mirroring ESPN’s agreement with the conference. CBS will get the rights to as […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/25/2013
The ratings and viewership for the NCAA Tournament continue to set records. CBS/Turner Sports note that the average 8.9 million combined viewers for the first week of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament on CBS, TBS, TNT and truTV are the most dating back twenty years. Last year, the first week average was 8.2 million viewers. The […]
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I’m out and about today. CBS/Turner are happy about Sunday’s overnight numbers. The day averaged a 7.6 rating with a 15 share, up a whopping 19% from last year, the highest for the first Sunday of the NCAA Tournament since 1993, and the first week is averaging a 6.3/14, the highest average in 23 years. […]
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Here we go for the tip times and announcing assignments for the Regional Semifinals on Thursday and Friday for the 2013 NCAA Tournament. CBS and TBS will share the games. Verne Lundquist, Bill Raftery and Rachel Nichols are assigned to the East region. Kevin Harlan, Len Elmore, Reggie Miller and Lewis Johnson are out West. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/24/2013
It’s been a while since I’ve written a College Basketball TV Awards post. It’s been so long, that I’ve lost the archive for it. That transition from Blogger to WordPress a few years back did it. This is mostly for the regular season. I’ll do a bonus TV Awards for the NCAA Tournament after the […]
