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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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Root Sports To Carry MWC Football, Hoops
The Mountain West Conference and DirecTV Sports Networks have reached a multiyear deal for Root Sports Rocky Mountain to carry MWC football and men's basketball games. The channel will produce and televise about 10 football games annually and a minimum of 25 MWC intra-conference and non-conference m ...
Pepper Returns To TV With ESPN
ESPN yesterday announced that Dottie Pepper has joined the net's golf team, with her first assignment set for next month's U.S. Open. Pepper, who for the last eight years has covered the sport for NBC Sports, Golf Channel and SI, will serve as an analyst, on-course reporter and anchor ...
ESPN's Skipper Welcomes Competition
ESPN President John Skipper yesterday noted several broadcast networks in the last couple years have "decided that there might be something to this 24-hour sports channel thing,” but he said ESPN execs "like competition," according to Mike Reynolds of MULTICHANNEL NEWS. He said, "They are goin ...
McCain Continues Fight For A La Carte Option
U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) yesterday told a Senate subcommittee that "Americans are at a 'tipping point' as it regards their monthly pay-TV bill and should be given the option of purchasing channels individually instead of as a bundle with hundreds of channels," according to Bob Fernandez of th ...
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ESPN, Twitter Expand Partnership
ESPN and Twitter today at the network's upfront presentation announced a "major expansion of their collaboration to post sports-related videos on the short-messaging service," according to Ovide & Hagey of the WALL STREET JOURNAL. ESPN plans to "show video-highlight clips on Twitter of major spo ...
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In L.A., Joe Flint cites sources as saying that Fox Sports 2 "will launch around the same time and perhaps even the same day as Fox Sports 1," which is scheduled to debut Aug. 17. FS2 "will take the place of Fuel TV." While FS1 is "getting a big marketing push behind it," FS2 will have "a much ...
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ESPN, USTA Close To Deal For U.S. Open Exclusivity
For the first time in more than four decades the U.S. Open tennis tournament semifinals and finals could be moving to a new TV home. ESPN is close to a deal to obtain all rights to the N.Y.-based tournament beginning in '15, according to several sources. CBS has broadcast the tournament every year s ...
NBC Gets Best Players Overnight Since '91
NBC earned a 5.7 overnight Nielsen rating for the final round of The Players Championship yesterday, which saw Tiger Woods win by two strokes over David Lingmerth, Jeff Maggert and Kevin Streelman for his first win at TPC Sawgrass since '01. The rating is tied with Woods' win in '01 as the best fina ...
Heat-Bulls Leads Weekend NBA Overnights
ESPN's Heat-Bulls Game 3 on Friday night led all weekend NBA Playoff games with a 5.2 overnight Nielsen rating. In the late window on Friday night, ESPN drew a 4.7 overnight for Spurs-Warriors Game 3. Both telecasts rank in the top 10 all-time among NBA Conference Semifinal games on the net. For the ...
NBA To Begin TV Talks This Summer
The NBA "plans to start informal negotiations on its next media rights deal this summer, two years before its current ESPN and Turner Sports deals wrap up," according to sources cited by Ourand & Lombardo of SPORTSBUSINESS JOURNAL. ESPN and Turner are paying the league a combined $930M annually ...
