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Game 6 Nail-Biter Draws 14.7 Overnight, ABC's Fourth-Highest NBA Rating Ever06 / 19 / 13The Heat's last-second comeback last night in Game 6 of the NBA Finals resulted in the fourth-highest rating ever for an NBA game on ABC and sets the stage for a massive mark tomorrow night in Game 7. The game, which saw the Heat beat the Spurs 103-100 in OT, earned a 14.7 overnight rating, peaking... |
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PGATour.com To Air Series On UW Golf Team
PGATour.com is expanding its coverage beyond the Tour itself with a new behind-the-scenes series focused on the Univ. of Washington golf team. PGA Tour Entertainment cameras will follow UW as it prepares to play in the NCAA men’s golf championship. The series of short episodes will debut tomor ...
ESPN Has First Mass Layoffs In Years
ESPN confirmed that it will be laying off an undetermined number of its employees today, the first time in four years that the company will have had mass layoffs. As part of the layoffs, many open positions will not be filled. The affected employees will have severance packages that vary depending o ...
SI Brass Discuss Future Of Publication
Collins' story appeared on SI.com before appearing in the magazine There is "an evolution taking place at Sports Illustrated" that was "underscored in how they rolled out their recent scoop on the Jason ...
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"30 For 30" To Feature Pistons' Bad Boys
ESPN Films VP & Exec Producer Connor Schell this week said that a two-hour documentary dubbed "Bad Boys" will air "in the spring of 2014 sometime between the end of the NBA regular season and the NBA Finals as part of ESPN's '30 for 30' series," according to Richard Deitsch of SI.com. The idea f ...
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ACC Network Faces Roadblock In Rights Issue
Viewers should not "expect an ACC-branded TV channel to be launched any time soon," according to Smith & Ourand of SPORTSBUSINESS JOURNAL. ESPN needs to "control the conference’s syndicated rights to launch a channel," but those rights are "tied up until 2027 through deals with Raycom ...
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Preakness Stakes Ratings Up 9% For NBC
NBC earned a 6.0 overnight Nielsen rating for the race portion (5:45-6:45pm ET) of Saturday’s Preakness Stakes, which saw Oxbow win and deny Orb a shot at the Triple Crown. The rating is up 9% from a 5.5 overnight last year, which saw I’ll Have Another win the second leg of the Triple Cr ...
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Spurs-Grizzlies Game 1 Draws 3.9 Overnight
ABC earned a 3.9 overnight Nielsen rating for Game 1 of the Grizzlies-Spurs Western Conference Finals yesterday. That is down 27% from a 5.3 for the opening game of the Mavericks-Thunder series in ’11, the last time ABC/ESPN broadcast the Western Conference Finals. That game aired on a Tuesday ...
Rangers' Tortorella Curses During In-Game Interview
NHL Rangers coach John Tortorella during yesterday's Eastern Conference Semifinals Game 2 against the Bruins dropped an expletive during a live interview with NBC's Pierre McGuire, according to Pat Leonard of the N.Y. DAILY NEWS. McGuire approached Tortorella "on the bench in the heat of the moment" ...
U.S. Open The Latest Property To Go To Cable
The USTA Thursday officially announced its 11-year, $825M deal with ESPN that puts the U.S. Open exclusively on cable, the "latest assault on the fraying broadcast sports model," according to Richard Sandomir of the N.Y. TIMES. Only the Super Bowl and the World Series "seem safe on broadcast televis ...
ESPN Hosted Brainstorming Event
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