If I’m NBC, I certainly hope the NHL is making money somehow because it won’t do it through ratings. Last Saturday, Game 3 tied a record low for a primetime show on NBC. Sports Media Watch says this can’t be necessarily tied to hockey. It does appear that Monday’s ratings did go up. It had to, where else could they go?
But for ESPN, it couldn’t get any better. Ratings for Sunday Night Baseball are up and Sunday’s Yankees-Red Sox game garnered the highest ratings for a regular season MLB game.
Bill Simmons has a new column that will appear in the new issue of ESPN the Magazine. This is how sports greatness having a shelf life. Good stuff from Bill as always.
The Tennis Channel gets a good grade for its coverage of the French Open. Veteran SI tennis writer Jon Wertheim also gives the Tennis Channel high marks, but gives the American men failing grades for not getting out of the first round.
Canadian sports network TSN announces its fall schedule.
And can you believe the Women’s College World Series Game 2 between Arizona and Tennessee has been scoreless and is in the 9th inning? You don’t care, but I find myself flipping back and forth between this and the Red Sox-A’s game. A Tennessee win gives the Lady Vols a second national championship this season (the basketball team won in April), but an Arizona win forces a third and deciding game on Wednesday. Interesting stuff.
