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The Fun Factor of Watching Sports on TV

Watching sport is one of the most relaxing and entertaining ways to spend free time. Whether watching it on TV or online, there are numerous channels that broadcast sports events live, directly to your living room. On tvsportguide.com you can find a list of all the upcoming sport events and all the channels that broadcast […]

The Big Dozen Sports Media Stories of 2015

2015 was not your ordinary sports media year. We did have some upheaval in sports properties, record viewership for a new event, record viewership once again for the Super Bowl and some upheaval at ESPN. Overall, it made for an interesting year in covering the sports media beat in 2015. As is our tradition at […]

2015 World Series Game 2 Ratings Up from Last Year

While Game 2 was a Kansas City 7-1 blowout, Fox saw increased ratings from last year. Fox experienced an 8.2/14 rating/share with 13.7 million viewers. While that’s down from Tuesday’s numbers, it is up from 2014’s Game 2 which had a 7.9/14 and 12.9 million viewers. The rating is up 4% from last year and […]

World Series Game 1 Scores for Fox

Fox Sports is pleased about its ratings and viewership for the opening game of the World Series. Thanks to a compelling game between the New York Mets and Kansas City Royals plus a widely-discussed power outage that affected Fox’s production truck as well as the replay system, the numbers increased to its highest levels since […]

USA-Japan Draws Over 21 Million Viewers

The numbers for USA vs. Japan in the Women’s World Cup continue to come in and they continue to amaze. This from the Sports TV Ratings account: So if the numbers hold, that smashes the record for the 1999 Women’s World Cup Final on ABC (17.3 million viewers). Fox has to be celebrating with 20.35 […]

USA-Japan Sets New Overnight Rating Record for Soccer in America

The buzzsaw that is the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team has continued all the way through to the FIFA Women’s World Cup Final. Fox Sports officials in Vancouver and Los Angeles must be doing backflips, handstands and popping a lot of champagne corks. USA vs. Japan which ended in a convincing 5-2 win for the […]

Thursday’s Sports Media Notebook — June 18, 2015

To the notebook: NEWS The big sports media news from Wednesday came from a feature on HBO in this week’s Hollywood Reporter. In discussing the new era of HBO with its HBO Now over the top service was a line that the network is looking at luring soon-to-be ex-ESPN’er Bill Simmons. On June 21, HBO […]

2015 NBA Finals Result in Being Most-Watched Since 1998

The NBA Finals gave ABC great numbers in both ratings and viewership. The six game series averaged a viewership of 19.9 million and the rating ended up at an impressive 11.6. Both of those numbers were up 30% and 26% respectively from the 2014 Finals between the Miami Heat and San Antonio Spurs. The viewership […]

Wednesday’s Sports Media Notebook — June 17, 2015

Ok, let’s do this. NEWS The 2015 NHL Stanley Cup Final ended up being the second most-watched series on record just below the most-watched 2013 SCF between Boston and Chicago. This year’s series averaged 5.551 million viewers which is just off from 2013 which averaged 5.753 million. For Game 6 on Monday, the series-clincher for […]

NBA Finals Continue to Rack Up the Ratings

Disney officials have to be happy as the current NBA contract with ESPN is ending and a new one is set to begin in 2016. The ESPN-produced 2015 Finals airing on ABC is setting records all over the place. Game 5 between Cleveland and Golden State averaged the highest viewership of the series with over […]

Monday’s Sports Media Notebook — June 15, 2015

To the notebook now. Lots of things to get to. NEWS The Women’s World Cup is still scoring for Fox. After the U.S. Women’s team’s debut last week vs. Australia which drew 3.331 million viewers on Fox Sports 1, Friday’s game against Sweden and the US’ former coach Pia Sundhage averaged 4.5 million viewers. That […]

NBA Finals Continues to Draw Viewers In

Despite a blowout win by Golden State that assures the NBA Finals will go at least 6 games, last night’s Game 4 drew the highest ratings for a such contest in over ten years. Thursday’s game averaged a 13.9 overnight rating which is 31% better than last year’s 10.6 for Game 4 of Miami-San Antonio. […]

Sports Media Notebook — June 11, 2015

Let’s do another notebook for you on this Thursday. NEWS The NBA Finals are breaking records. Through three games, the series between the Cleveland Cavs and Golden State Warriors is averaging almost 18.5 million viewers and a 10.8 rating which is slaughtering all programming on broadcast and cable. Game 3 drew an 11.1 rating on […]

NBA Finals Game 3 Rocks the Rim on ABC

ESPN officials are crowing about the ratings for the NBA Finals on ABC. Game 3 between the Golden State Warriors and Cleveland Cavaliers set the record for highest rating for an NBA Final Game 3 on the American Broadcasting Company. The overnight rating was 13.7 which is 33% higher than last year’s Game 3 between […]

Sports Media Notebook — June 10, 2015

Oh, bloody hell, it’s been a while since I’ve done a sports media notebook. We have quite a few things to provide so in lieu of me explaining why you haven’t seen one in months, let’s just get to the news, linkage and other stuff. NEWS A couple of things to lead with this morning. […]

Game 1 of 2015 NHL Stanley Cup Final Scores for NBC

Well, the final ratings for the NHL Stanley Cup Final are out and NBC is finding a way to celebrate the numbers. Game 1 of Chicago-Tampa Bay saw the Blackhawks come from behind to win 2-1 over the Lightning. The game drew a U.S. household rating of 3.34 which is up from last year’s opening […]

Over 28 Million Watch Duke-Wisconsin on …. CBS

CBS ends 34 years of consecutively airing the NCAA Division I Men’s Championship Game on a high note. After last year’s game between UConn and Kentucky which averaged a 12.5/20 final rating/share, this year’s contest pitting Duke and Wisconsin saw a rise of 28% to 16.0/28. Viewership also saw a big jump as Duke-Wisconsin averaged […]

2015 NCAA Basketball Championship Game Scores for CBS

The overnight ratings are in and the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship between Duke and Wisconsin turned out well for CBS. For those who thought the game would not attract big numbers without Kentucky were wrong. Duke-Wisconsin attracted a big 17.7/27 overnight rating/share which is 33% better than last year’s UConn-Kentucky contest which could […]

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