0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/9/2011
Let’s give you the quotes from TBS’ coverage of Game 1 of the National League Championship Series between the St. Louis Cardinals and Milwaukee Brewers. Check it out. Notes from NLCS on TBS – October 9, 2011 The National League Championship Series continues on TBS on Monday, October 10 at 7:30 p.m. ET with TBS […]
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Thanks to having three series reach the maximum five games for the League Division Series, TBS was able to build its ratings and viewership for the MLB Postseason. After getting off to a slow start, TBS set two records for the LDS, first Game 5 of the Tigers-Yankees series became the most watched and highest […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/8/2011
If TBS had a nightmare in its first year of covering the MLB Postseason with sweeps in three League Division Series and a five game National League Championship Series, it certainly has to be a dream this year with three five game LDS’. And with a National League Central Division rivalry in the NLCS starting […]
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Ok, I posted the coverage plans for the National League Championship Series on TBS. I might as well do so for the American League Championship Series on Fox. It all begins tomorrow night. Joe Buck will call play-by-play of the series that will have the Detroit Tigers playing the Texas Rangers. He’ll be joined by […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/7/2011
This year, TBS has the National League Championship Series between the Milwaukee Brewers and the St. Louis Cardinals. And these two teams have some postseason history having played each other in the 1982 World Series when the Brewers were in the American League. Cardinals won that series in 7 games and this year, they’ll play […]
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Let’s give you one more MLB Postseason press release and this is the quotage from last night’s coverage of Game 5 of the American League Division Series between the Detroit Tigers and New York Yankees that was won by Detroit in a 3-2 nailbiter. Here’s the quotage for you. Notes from MLB Postseason on TBS […]
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TBS is really smiling after last night’s Game 5 of the American League Division Series between the Detroit Tigers and New York Yankees. The rating for last night’s game reached a 6.2 rating, a cable TV record. And the audience for the game was 9.72 million, also a cable TV record. As a result, TBS […]
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Major League Baseball has just released the days and times for the League Championship Series which start tomorrow. The American League Championship Series begin Saturday on Fox while the NLCS start Sunday on TBS. Out a potential seven games, the National League Championship Series on TBS will have a potential six in primetime while the […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/6/2011
We have the quotes from last night’s National League Division Series that led to two more Games Five on Friday. Let’s take a look at what we have. Notes from MLB Postseason on TBS – October 5, 2011 The MLB Postseason continues on TBS tonight beginning at 7:30 p.m. ET with TBS MLB on Deck […]
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I was hoping today would be quiet, but instead, the Hank Williams, Jr. story is released and all hell breaks loose. What can you do? Anyway, let’s do some links while I can. With Hank Williams, Jr. being the stop story, I’ll start with those links first. Sports Illustrated’s Richard Deitsch. USA Today’s Reid Cherner […]
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Yesterday at the end of Game 4 of the Philadelphia-St. Louis series, Dick Stockton mentioned on TBS that Bob Brenly would not be working Game 5 as he would be attending his son’s wedding this weekend. So that resulted in several tweeps and readers asking me who would work tomorrow’s Game 5 in Philadelphia. I […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/5/2011
This was broken earlier today, but Fox is making it official now, that former Boston Red Sox manager Terry Francona who left the team last week, will be substituting for Tim McCarver on Fox when the American League Championship Series begins on Saturday. According to Fox Sports PR man Dan Bell, McCarver has a medical […]
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It’s Wednesday already? Goodness. Seemed like I was at the Rhode Island Convention Center just this week for an all-day seminar. Oh wait! I was. Anyway, let’s get to your linkage. Michael Hiestand of USA Today feels that ESPN should pull Hank Williams, Jr. from Monday Night Football pronto. Eric Deggans of the St. Petersburg […]
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As three League Division Series have gone four games and the Yankees-Tigers series now reaching the limit of five, TBS’ ratings have gone up. The longer a series goes, the more viewers get hooked and compelled by storylines and with the Yankees in an elimination game, more people wanted to see if it would indeed […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/4/2011
We have the quotage from the first half of the MLB Postseason quadrupleheader. As the Rangers closed out the Tampa Bay Rays and the Phillies took themselves a game away from taking their series with St. Louis, Turner Sports provides us with the notes and quotes from the first two games. We’ll get quotage from […]
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With the two American League Division Series playing on Monday, TBS saw increased numbers for Games 3 of Texas-Tampa Bay and the New York Yankees-Detroit series. With the Yankees-Tigers in primetime, TBS saw a rating of 3.9 and a total viewership of 6.04 million viewers up 26% and 30% from Game 3 of the Yankees-Minnesota […]
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Having spent most of the day at the Providence Civic Center and the Rhode Island Convention Center for a seminar, I wasn’t able to provide linkage. I’ve collected quite a few links for you today so let’s get to them. Michael Hiestand of USA Today goes over the ratings from the weekend and notes that […]
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TBS just sent this press release about its ratings for Monday’s American League Division Series action. For Game 3 of the Yankees-Tigers series, TBS received a 4.8 overnight rating, 30% up from last year’s Yankees-Twins game. And Game 3’s for Texas-Tampa Bay, a 2.8 rating was even with last year’s game involving the same two […]
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TBS had the two American League Division Series games on Monday, Texas at Tampa Bay and New York Yankees at Detroit. Now both series could end tonight as Texas and Detroit have 2-1 leads on their respective opponents. Tonight’s going to be a busy day into night as TBS and TNT will combine for four […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/3/2011
Before the LDS games take place today, let me post the quotage from Sunday’s National League Division Series games on TBS. Everything is posted below. Notes from MLB Postseason on TBS/NLDS – October 2, 2011 The MLB Postseason continues on TBS tonight beginning with the Texas Rangers @ Tampa Bay Rays, (Game #3 – 5p.m. […]
