The NBC Sports Group is bullish about the NHL as the league enters the best postseason in sports. Regular season ratings ended with double digit increases for both NBC and NBC Sports Network. Viewership on NBCSN gave the Peacock the...
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Monthly Archives: April 2013
Starting Wednesday, NBC Sports Group will begin coverage of Kentucky Derby Week leading to the actual Run for the Roses on Saturday. NBC Sports Network will carry the Kentucky Derby Draw on Wednesday as well as the Kentucky Oaks on...
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The Boston Bruins have set another regular season ratings record on the New England Sports Network, a.k.a. NESN. For the 2013 regular season, the Bruins registered an average 6.3 household rating in Boston. That’s up 35% from the 2011-12 record...
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With the NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs starting tonight, let’s post a couple of hockey-related press releases in one post. Tonight, the Western Conference Quarterfinal series between the Minnesota Wild and Chicago Blackhawks commences with Game 1 at the United Center....
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30Apr
College Baseball Prairie View A&M at Texas — Longhorn Network, 7 p.m. New Mexico at Texas Tech — Fox College Sports Central, 7:30 p.m. College Football College Football Live — ESPN, 3:30 p.m. Golf Inside the PGA Tour — Golf...
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Monday was quite the day in the sports world. As people were getting up and preparing to go to work on the East Coast, little would they know how things were going to develop. Let’s review what happened as events...
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Thanks to the fine people at NBC Sports public relations, I have the announcing assignments for the NHL Stanley Cup Conference Quarterfinals through Sunday. Mike Emrick and Pierre McGuire work in Chicago and Washington on Tuesday and Thursday, respectively. Then...
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This in from NFL Network, the viewership for its coverage of the draft drew over 7 million total viewers for the three day event. That’s up 17% from the previous year when it saw an audience of 6.07 million. The...
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Here’s our last ESPN-centric post for now. The Alleged Worldwide Leader says it will cover all of the 16 sites comprising the NCAA Division I Baseball Championship Regionals. This will occur between May 31 through June 3. This marks the...
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ESPN has announced that six Big Ten football games will be played in primetime on Saturday nights either on ABC, ESPN or ESPN2 this fall. Three games will have Ohio State, two games involve Michigan and Northwestern and Wisconsin get...
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This is the first of three ESPN-centric posts. This one deals with the NFL Draft which concluded on Saturday. ESPN says it averaged a 2.1 rating for the three days of coverage which is up 3% from last year. In...
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As the other Canadian NHL rightsholder, TSN has the availability to pick up the teams from the Great White North that CBC does not select. In this case, TSN will air the San Jose-Vancouver series after CBC chose Montreal-Ottawa and...
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Canada’s Public Broadcaster CBC gets ready for the 2013 Stanley Cup Playoffs. The network has made its choices for playoffs and naturally went with Toronto-Boston for one series. And it took the all-Canadian Montreal-Ottawa series as its second pick. These...
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Once again, NBC Sports Group will provide blanket coverage of the NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs. The networks of NBC will have every game of the playoffs. NBC, NBC Sports Network, CNBC and NHL Network will be involved in the first...
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29Apr
College Football College Football Live — ESPN, 3:30 p.m. College Softball Virginia Tech at Virginia — ESPNU, 7 p.m. English Premier League Aston Villa vs. Sunderland — Fox Soccer, 2:55 p.m. Golf The Haney Project: Michael Phelps: Season Finale —...
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Now that the National Hockey League regular season is over, it’s time to post the schedules for each series. In the first round, local regional sports networks can air playoff games. Only NBC games are exclusive in the United States,...
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Tonight, the characters of Mad Men dealt with the aftermath of April 4, 1968, the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. We saw Peggy hoping to buy a new apartment. Meagan Draper wins an award for her past work at...
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I need to be posting more. I’ve been busy during the day and find myself trying to catch up on Viewing Picks at night and it’s been a losing proposition. I’ll do my best to update more often here in...
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28Apr
College Baseball Purdue at Michigan State — Big Ten Network, noon TCU at Kansas State — Fox College Sports Atlantic, noon Texas Tech at Oklahoma — Fox College Sports Atlantic, 2 p.m. South Carolina at LSU — ESPN, 3 p.m....
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27Apr
Arena Football Tampa Bay Storm at Spokane Shock — CBS Sports Network, 10 p.m. Australian Rules Football Carlton Blues vs. Adelaide Crows — Fox Soccer Plus, 2:30 a.m. Boxing World Championship Boxing, Buenos Aires, Argentina Middleweight Title Bout: Sergio Martinez...
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26Apr
College Baseball Purdue at Michigan State — Big Ten Network, 3 p.m. Minnesota at Iowa — Big Ten Network, 7 p.m. College Lacrosse ACC Tournament, Chapel Hill, NC Semifinals Maryland vs. Virginia — ESPNU, 5 p.m. Duke vs. North Carolina...
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25Apr
College Baseball Kentucky at Mississippi — ESPNU, 7:30 p.m. College Football College Football Live — ESPNU, 3:30 p.m. College Softball Alabama at LSU — ESPN2, 8 p.m. Golf European PGA Tour Ballentine’s Championship, Seoul, South Korea First Round — Golf...
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The ESPN family of networks will be back with seven NBA Playoff games starting this Friday through Sunday. In addition, several commentators will work multiple games during that three day stretch. ESPN and ESPN2 will combine for three games on...
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NFL Network will be on the case live from Radio City Music Hall in New York for the 2013 Draft. NFL Network’s desk will be filled with Rich Eisen manning the host chair with Mike Mayock as the main draft...
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Broken last night by USA Today’s Michael Hiestand and made official today, Lindsay Czarniak, a fast-rising star at ESPN, has been named as host of the Indianapolis 500. She replaces Brent Musburger. Czarniak is no stranger to motorsports. She was...
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Boxing All Access: Mayweather vs. Guerrero, Episode 3 — Showtime, 10 p.m. College Football College Football Live — ESPNU, 3:30 p.m. CFB Daily: Spring Blitz — ESPNU, 4:30 p.m. Inside College Football: Draft Special: On the Clock — CBS Sports...
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I know. I haven’t done links in a very long time. Let me provide some for you. I won’t make promises about providing them regularly as every time I do, something happens to make me break that promise. But I...
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23Apr
College Baseball Vanderbilt at Louisville — CBS Sports Network, 6:30 p.m. USF at Florida — Fox College Sports Atlantic, 7 p.m. College Football College Football Live — ESPNU, 3:30 p.m. CFB Daily: Spring Blitz — ESPNU, 4:30 p.m. Inside College...
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The NFL Draft is set to begin this week. The three day affair starts Thursday in primetime at 8 p.m. ET and will continue through Saturday afternoon. ESPN will be there will with a cast of thousands and a new...
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22Apr
College Football College Football Live — ESPNU, 3:30 p.m. CFB Daily: Spring Blitz — ESPNU, 4:30 p.m. College Softball Georgia Tech at North Carolina — ESPNU, 7 p.m. English Premier League Manchester United vs. Aston Villa — ESPN2, 2:55 p.m....
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