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Chicago Hope: Blackhawks' Local Audience Helping Drive NBC, NBSN RatingsThe Blackhawks' local ratings in the Chicago market during the NHL playoffs are "having a huge impact on the overall national rating for their games on NBC and NBC Sports Network," according to Ed Sherman of the CHICAGO TRIBUNE. NBC Sports Net's Blackhawks-Red Wings Western Conference Semifinals Gam... Tags: Chicago Blackhawks, Media |
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MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL PROPERTIES TO LAUNCH INTERACTIVE GAME
MLBP has teamed up with NTN Communications to create "DiamondBall," a new interactive baseball game to be played during live telecasts. This agreement entitles NTN to produce "DiamondBall" for broadca
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NBA PLAYOFF RATINGS ON NBC CONTINUE TO IMPRESS
The Game 7 showdowns between the Rockets and Suns and the Knicks and Pacers last weekend pushed NBC''s cumulative playoff average to its highest mark in 18 years. Through four weekends and 16 telecast
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CANADIAN NETS TO BID ON NAGANO NEXT WEEK
The IOC will entertain bids for the Canadian broadcast rights to the ''98 Nagano Games next week. CTV paid C$12M for the ''94 Lillehammer Games, but was beaten out for Atlanta by CBC''s C$30M bid. In
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Times Mirror announced that it will stop publishing the Baltimore Evening Sun on September 15 (AD AGE ONLINE, 5/26)....Prime Sports'' "Press Box" will move to 10pm beginning June 1 (Prime).... St. Lou
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The Rockets are looking to offer tomorrow night''s playoff game against the Spurs for a reduced pay-per-view price at UH''s Hofheinz Pavilion. Cable customers have to pay $19.95 for the game, while th
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OWNERS LOOK TO THE BASEBALL NETWORK TO PUMP UP EARNINGS
With attendance and local cable and TV ratings all down, MLB owners hope The Baseball Network "not only will draw viewers back but also pump millions into the 28 teams," according to USA TODAY''s Hal
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Capital Group Companies, Inc., one of the largest institutional shareholders in CBS Inc., declined to vote its 6.22% stake in favor of management''s slate of directors. Gordon Crawford, the Capital Gr
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IS THE NHL FRONT OFFICE'S COMMITMENT TO THE GAME, OR TO FOX?
There is more criticism this morning for the NHL league office from Canada, this time concerning the decision to have the Canucks and Blackhawks play back-to-back games in each city this weekend in or
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FIFA RELEASES FINAL WORLD CUP '94 VIEWERSHIP FIGURES
On a cumulative basis 32.1 billion people around the world watched one or more of the games of World Cup ''94 -- one billion more than expected and 5.4 billion more than watched ITALIA ''90, according
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INTERACTIVE UPDATE: SHARKS GET NEW PARTNER FOR WEB PAGE
The Sharks and San Jose Arena have announced that they have joined with Sun Microsystem Computer Co. of Mountain View, CA, in a collaborative venture to build the Sharks'' and the Arena''s Home Pages
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