Fox's telecast of yesterday's Indians-Orioles ALCS Game
Six earned a preliminary overnight rating of 9.8/21 (THE
DAILY). NBC's Tuesday night primetime coverage of the
Marlins-Braves NLCS Game Six earned a 13.0/22, which was
"the highest-rated postseason baseball game on any network
this season." In Florida, WTVJ-NBC in Miami-Ft. Lauderdale
averaged a 38.8/53 for the NLCS Game Six, with a peak rating
of 46.5/66 at 11:00pm ET (SUN-SENTINEL, 10/16).
REVIEWS: In Baltimore, Milton Kent called Fox's final
'97 MLB telecast yesterday "spectacular," adding, "Don't be
surprised if producer John Fillippelli, director Bill Webb
and their crew" win an Emmy for "the telecast they turned in
last night." Kent: "If a star emerged from this series, it
had to be [Fox play-by-play man Joe] Buck, who is on his way
to taking his place among the heavyweights of sports
announcing" (Baltimore SUN, 10/16). In N.Y., Richard
Sandomir reviewed both network's MLB postseason coverage.
Sandomir: "Fox is doing a better job. It should; it does
baseball all season, while NBC materializes for the post-
season" (N.Y. TIMES, 10/15). USA TODAY's Rudy Martzke
writes that led by Fox, and "included in the game plans" of
both NBC and ESPN, "[t]echnical advances have brought
viewers closer to the action of what has been considered a
slow-paced, out-of-touch sport" (USA TODAY, 10/16).
WORLD SERIES ON CNBC: NBC "will again offer a World
Series postgame show" on CNBC, "[d]espite having a negative
reaction from its affiliated stations in the past,"
according to Richard Huff of the N.Y. DAILY NEWS. The
postgame telecasts will appear on CNBC after every game but
the series finale, which will be on NBC. Affils "argue that
NBC is essentially telling viewers to tune away from the
network -- and its local stations -- to watch the postgame
events elsewhere" (Richard Huff, N.Y. DAILY NEWS, 10/16).
