I wish this documentary had come out sooner. Tonight, MLB Network premieres a new behind-the-scenes film produced by MLB Productions. This has all six World Series umpires miked and the film shows what each man is saying either behind the...
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Starting tonight and lasting through New Year’s Eve, Comcast SportsNet Bay Area will give San Francisco Giants fans a chance to re-live a magical 2012 postseason with the re-airing of seven games including the entire World Series that led to...
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Let’s do some linkage on this Monday. Sports Illustrated’s Richard Deitsch talks with TNT’s Charles Barkley about the next phase of his career. Michael Hiestand of USA Today notes that Saturday nights are becoming a sports TV bastion. Chris Chase...
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I’ll do a few links on this Thursday. Can you believe it’s November already? Michael Hiestand of USA Today says the NBA’s television partners are still setting their lineups as the season begins. Hiestand reports that the Mitt Romney campaign...
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I hope those of you in the Mid-Atlantic states are ok after Hurricane Sandy. I’m lucky to still have power after yesterday’s gusts in Southern New England. I know many are not. Hopefully you’re ok after Sandy and you can...
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We have the final ratings for the 2012 World Series on Fox. First, the ratings for Game 4 which ended as the highest rated of all the broadcasts this year. It resulted in an 8.9 rating and 14 share, down...
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This in from Fox Sports. It mentions that Game 2 saw a slight ratings increase from Game 1. With a much closer 2-0 game in Game 2 that saw the San Francisco Giants take a 2-0 series lead over the...
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We have the ratings from World Series Game 1 on Fox from Wednesday night. First, Fox won the night over all competition and also scored an 18-49 demographic win. The network says it received a 7.6 fast national rating and...
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Throughout the World Series, MLB Network will produce two of its studio shows, MLB Tonight and The Abortion Known as Intentional Talk on location from San Francisco and Detroit. MLB Tonight: World Series Edition will have two pregame shows on...
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Fox Sports is back to air the entire World Series, no matter how far it goes. Fox’s history with the World Series dates back to 1996 and since 2000, the network has aired the Fall Classic consecutively and will continue...
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Now with the World Series decided, we know that the San Francisco Giants will take on the Detroit Tigers, a first-time matchup between two heritage MLB franchises. Fox Sports will have all of the games live on TV. ESPN Radio...
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What a magical time in the Bay Area. The Giants have caught the imagination of fans in Northern California (except the A’s fans) with their run in the National League Division Series and the National League Championship Series going 6-0...
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As a rightsholder to Major League Baseball, ESPN gets access to the field before and after the World Series and can have Baseball Tonight live at the stadiums before Fox goes on the air. For this year’s Fall Classic, Baseball...
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ESPN Radio which has the rights to the entire MLB Postseason has provided its announcing crews for the Wild Card games all the way to the World Series. The main crew will be Dan Shulman and Orel Hershiser. They’ll begin...
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I’m not going to go too wild on this. Other sites are doing similar posts as well. I’ll provide what I feel are the best calls in Sports Broadcasting this year. The only way to do this is to post...
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Let’s provide some linkage on this NFL Sunday. Dennis Dodd at CBSSports.com writes that the SEC plans to reopen its humungous media rights contract with ESPN soon after its admission of Missouri into the conference is made official. Glenn Davis...
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Ok, let’s get this done. Lots of linkage from yesterday and today. I need to catch up. Let’s go. Check out your Weekend Viewing Picks for the sports and entertainment programming for Saturday and Sunday. National Mike McCarthy of USA...
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Let’s do some links on this Monday. Some good stuff to get to. Michael Hiestand of USA Today writes that CBS’ Bill Cowher may make broadcasting a true second career after shooting down another coaching rumor. At Fox Sports, Brian...
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Let’s some linkage on this Sunday. Mike Reynolds from Multichannel News writes that the NBA lockout has forced the cancellation of the rest of its November games forcing ESPN, TNT, NBA TV and regional sports networks to fill huge programming...
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The most watched World Series game since Game 4 in 2004 saw a total audience of 25.4 million people. That is upper echelon NFL-like numbers. Fox saw a rating of 14.7 and a 25 share for Game 7 of the...
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We have the overnight numbers for World Series Game 7 from Friday night. Thanks to a compelling Game 6 Thursday night that hooked viewers, plus some weak competition on ABC, CBS, NBC and The CW, Fox was able to blow...
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We interrupt the NFL Week 8 previews for a baseball respite. While many sports media observers have praised Joe Buck’s call of David Freese’s walk-off home run to force a Game 7 in the World Series (not me, however), you...
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We have the final numbers from Fox Sports in what was a big night for the World Series and the network setting up a penultimate Game 7 tonight at 8:05 p.m. ET. Fox received a 12.7 rating with a 21...
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Due to a crazy schedule for most of this week and then having a medical procedure done yesterday, I have not been able to blog like I’ve wanted to. Links have been scarce, but I’m available to do them now...
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We have the former St. Louis Cardinals and the performers who will take part in the pregame and in-game festivities for Game 7 of the World Series. Former American Idol participant Chris Daughtry sings the National Anthem. And former Redbirds...
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Overnight ratings for the thrilling, compelling and exciting Game 6 of the World Series. With St. Louis twice being down to its last strike of the season, the Cardinals scored in the 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th innings to overtake...
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Former St. Louis Cardinals David Eckstein and Vince Coleman will be involved in tonight’s World Series Game 6 pregame ceremonies. And we also have those who will sing the National Anthem and God Bless America. Take a look. CARDINALS GREATS...
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This in from Fox regarding Monday’s ratings for Game 5 of the World Series. Final ratings show that Game 5 received an 8.8 rating with a 14 share. About 14.3 million people watched. Fox won the night in key demographics...
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Just saw this tweet from the great John Ourand of Sports Business Journal: [blackbirdpie url="http://twitter.com/Ourand_SBJ/status/128846523806130176"] We’ll get final numbers later, but both MNF and the World Series got their lowest overnight ratings respectively. Fox will take the win, however. I’ll...
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We have a press release from Fox based on the overnight numbers for Saturday and Sunday. We should have final numbers tomorrow and because of sports overruns on Saturday, Nielsen’s final numbers for the night are delayed. But Fox is...
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