This from the National Hockey League which crows about the national ratings in Canada and the United States, plus local TV ratings in several markets. And there’s talk about the record traffic online to NHL.com as well as to the...
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Monthly Archives: April 2011
On Sunday, TBS will be in New York for the Toronto Blue Jays-New York Yankees. Brian Anderson will call the game for TBS and he’ll be joined by former Yankees pitcher David Wells and former Mets pitcher Ron Darling. Here...
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On MLB’s 20 Greatest Games on Sunday, MLB Network reviews one of the strangest, bizarre, and zany games, Game 6 of the 1986 World Series. The Red Sox were one out and one strike away from winning their first World...
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Time for some linkage on this Saturday. Etan Vlessing of the Hollywood Reporter notes that NBC had its best opening round NHL playoff ratings in 7 years. Mike Reynolds from Multichannel News says ESPN’s NFL Draft ratings were down from...
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Since I have info from both Comcast SportsNet Philly and NESN in regards to the same series, why not combine them into one press release post. The series starts today on NBC as it will air Game 1 and Game...
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Fox Saturday Baseball returns this week with another early 1 p.m. East start time as NASCAR is being run at 7 tonight. So to avoid any possible runovers and conflicts, baseball goes early at 1. NASCAR fires off at 7...
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29Apr
I’m not going to go crazy with a full set of links, but some that are topical. I was all over the place today and could not do the megalinks and I’m not in the mood to gather a full...
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29Apr
Saturday, April 30 Boxing Fight Camp 360°: Pacquaio vs. Mosley – CBS, 8 p.m. Fight Camp 360°: Pacquaio vs. Mosley – Showtime, 10 p.m. College Baseball Alabama at Georgia – ESPN2, 1 p.m. Penn State at Michigan State – Big...
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College Baseball Michigan at Ohio State – Big Ten Network, 7 p.m. TCU at BYU – the mtn., 9 p.m. College Lacrosse Patriot League Tournament, Lewisburg, PA Semifinals Army vs. Colgate – CBS Sports Network, 5 p.m. Bucknell vs. Lehigh...
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It’s been rumored for months regarding this new “secret” project that Bill Simmons a.k.a. “Captain Blowhard” has been working on. Over the last couple of months, we’ve heard of several writers who have been tapped like Katie Baker of Deadspin,...
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This summer, ESPN’s voice of soccer, Ian Darke and Julie Foudy will call the FIFA Women’s World Cup from Germany. They’ll be the lead announcing team for ESPN. Two other teams will be announced at a later date. Ian Darke...
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Earlier today, I sent an e-mail to NESN asking if the ratings for Game 7 of B’s-Habs was a record or close to it. Well, we now know it’s not just broken the previous ratings record of 14.1 set in...
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Finally getting to some linkage. Had some work to do first and of course, that takes precedence. Lots of stuff to get to. First from John Ourand of the Sports Business Journal/Sports Business Daily, he reports that Monday Night Football...
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Coming up tonight on the CBS Television Network, Cleveland Browns running Peyton Hillis will make an appearance to present the Top Ten list on the Late Show with David Letterman. Hillis was announced yesterday as the cover athlete of the...
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Starting Saturday, Versus will air the World Hockey Championships live from Slovakia. With the time difference, most of the games will take place in the morning here in the States. And it’s nice to see former ESPN2 nhl2nite host and...
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From Turner Sports, we note that ratings for the NBA Playoffs are up 29% from last year and viewership is up 33% as well. TNT’s coverage is averaging 4.3 million viewers, up from 3.2 million in 2010. Here’s Turner’s press...
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Got this press release yesterday, but with everything going on, I did not have time to post it, but now I have some time. This is from The Group talking about Kentucky Derby coverage for next week. Some 14 hours...
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College Baseball Kentucky at LSU – ESPNU, 7:30 p.m. Golf LPGA Tour/Avnet LPGA Classic, 1st round – Golf Channel, 12:30 p.m. PGA Tour/New Orleans Classic, 1st round – Golf Channel, 3 p.m. MLB American League Seattle at Detroit – MLB...
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CBC will have coverage of two series in the NHL Conference Semifinal round. It’ll naturally pick up the Vancouver-Nashville series and its main team of Jim Hughson and Craig Simpson will be up top with Glenn Healey sitting in between...
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The NHL has just released the schedule for the Conference Semifinals. I have each series listed below. They’re complete with TV networks from both the US and Canada. 2011 EASTERN CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS #1 Washington Capitals vs. #5 Tampa Bay...
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Tonight, Mike Mayock had his own NFL Network special and provided his final mock draft for this year before the selections take place on Thursday night. Here’s his picks for the 1st round. NFL NETWORK DRAFT EXPERT MIKE MAYOCK UNVEILS...
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NESN gave Jack Edwards the opportunity to make a final comment after the Boston Bruins win in overtime over the Montreal Canadiens to take the NHL Eastern Conference Quarterfinal series in seven games. Yet, I’m still trying to figure out...
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Here’s a press release from CBC on the stellar viewership it had for Bruins-Montreal and Blackhawks-Vancouver. CBC’S HOCKEY NIGHT IN CANADA DRAWS 3.82 MILLION VIEWERS TO VANCOUVER/CHICAGO GAME SEVEN Classic overtime game ranks as second largest Stanley Cup Round One...
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In Game 7 of the Montreal Canadiens-Boston Bruins series at the TD Garden, NESN’s Jack Edwards was in rare form once again as he yelled at Roman Hamrlik as he was checked and fell down. You may remember during Game...
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After a week off for Keith Thibault’s vacation, we’re back with another edition of the Sports Media Weekly Podcast. Today, our guest is Albert “Scooter” Vertino of Turner Sports’ NBA Digital division. Long-time NBA watchers know that name is familiar...
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We have your NFL Network programming and NFL.com activities. Check it all out. NFL NETWORK & NFL.COM PROGRAMMING NOTES (4/27 – 5/3) MIKE MAYOCK UNVEILS HIS 2011 MOCK DRAFT TONIGHT AT 8:00 PM ET Top 100: Players of 2011 Premieres...
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Another amazing ratings record for the Comcast SportsNet regional networks. The Flyers Game 7 win over the Buffalo Sabres turned out to be the most watched hockey game in CSN Philadelphia’s history. We have the particulars in the press release...
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Comcast SportsNet Chicago set another ratings record on Tuesday for Game 7 of Blackhawks-Canucks and Game 5 of Pacers-Bulls. These are really good ratings. We’re talking a 13.33 for the Blackhawks which played late night and lost in overtime to...
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Last night, NHL Network aired CBC’s feed of Boston-Montreal as Versus was unable to pick the game up. Very good move. In a repeat, NHL Network will take Root Sports feed of tonight’s Game 7 between the Tampa Bay Lightning...
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Let’s do some linkage. Before I get into the stories of the day, you may have noticed that I have instituted a comment system using Intense Debate. If you were with me at my old Blogger site, you will know...
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