0 comments by Ted Winters on 6/21/2018
Argentina have such an array of attacking talent that trying to squeeze them all into one starting 11 is impossible but one of the more surprising ones is that tends to be sat on the bench, especially in Argentina’s first game was Paulo Dybala. Dybala has set Serie A alight this season with his displays […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/11/2016
On Tuesday, May 10 at Frederick P. Rose Hall at Lincoln Center in New York, the Sports Emmy Awards were handed out to the national sports networks nominated in a number of categories. FS1 was the network that received the most with 8 awards. NBC was next with 7 followed by FoxSports.com with 6 then […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/6/2015
When Fox landed the rights to the FIFA World Cup in 2011, there were fears and worries that the network would not provide the gravitas that ESPN had given soccer especially after the 2010 men’s and 2011 Women’s World Cups. But now after the 2015 Women’s World Cup, we see that Fox can treat the […]
0 comments by Ken Fang
This is just amazing. Based on the trends we were seeing for the Women’s World Cup, I thought the viewership for the USA vs. Japan final would average around 15 million viewers. I was only off by ten million viewers. Sunday’s final played in Vancouver at a U.S. time zone-friendly 7 p.m. ET when families […]
0 comments by Ken Fang
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 […]
0 comments by Ken Fang
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 […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/20/2015
Today begins the Round of 16 phase of the Women’s World Cup in Canada. We have a doubleheader to kick things off today starting with Germany vs. Sweden this afternoon followed by Communist China vs. Cameroon. The Round of 16 continues on Sunday with a tripleheader highlighted by Canada vs. Switzerland. Monday will have another […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/17/2015
After a crazy last day of Group Play in the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup, we have the official schedule for the Round of 16 which begins Saturday. The entire Round of 16 will air on Fox Sports 1 as Fox will focus on the U.S. Open during the weekend. This is official now as […]
0 comments by Ken Fang
USA-Nigeria on Fox drew a very respectable audience even with the second half of the match on opposite the first half of Game 6 of the NBA Finals. With Fox airing the game, USA-Nigeria averaged an audience of 5 million viewers making it the most-watched soccer game on the network eclipsing the record set last […]
0 comments by Ken Fang
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 […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/15/2015
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 […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/11/2015
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 […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/10/2015
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. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/5/2015
The 36th Annual Sports Emmy Awards were handed out in New York on Tuesday, May 5. NBC’s coverage of the Sochi Winter Olympic Games was a big winner, but in several technical categories. We can’t say the usual suspects won because Bob Costas did not pick up the Outstanding Studio Host Award. Ernie Johnson won […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/1/2015
It’s been more than ten days since you had a notebook. Things have gone rather haywire and I’ve been quite busy dealing with issues at home, but you don’t have to be bogged down with what I’m going through. You want content so here it is. NEWS With Monday being the NHL Trade Deadline, fans […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/22/2015
From our Bloguin sister site, Awful Advertisements, we have this really good promo from Fox for this year’s FIFA Women’s World Cup. Showing the aftermath following the enthusiasm for last year’s men’s World Cup, Fox shows scenes from the 2011 Women’s World Cup in Germany and tells us that our story is continuing. That it’s not […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/12/2015
Here’s a true surprise. No one was expecting the shocking announcement from FIFA that it’s extending the current media rights agreements in North America with Fox and Telemundo in the United States and CTV/TSN in Canada for another cycle through 2026. Fox and Telemundo have yet to air a World Cup and CTV/TSN is preparing to […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/1/2015
Yesterday, we listed the bottom half of the Big Dozen Sports Media Stories of 2014. Now on this New Year’s Day 2015, we list the top half of the Big Dozen. If you need a reminder, Part I of the Big Dozen went as follows: 7. CBS Gets Thursday Night Football 8. ESPN, Fox and […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/15/2014
As Univision ends its long association with the World Cup dating back to 1972, it goes out on top with its most-viewed Final in the network’s history. The Final between Germany and Argentina drew 9.2 million total viewers and an impressive five million in the key 18-49 age demographic. For Univision, the entire month of […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/14/2014
I never would have thought in a million years that the World Cup would see huge numbers, however, throw the baby out with the bath water this year. ESPN did a tremendous job in marketing the World Cup. The U.S. men’s national team became a huge story and for one month, the networks of ESPN […]
