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Univ. Of Kansas Signs Deal With Time Warner Cable For Tier-3 TV Rights06 / 18 / 13The Univ. of Kansas and IMG College have signed a long-term deal with Time Warner Cable for KU's Tier-3 TV rights that will see regional distribution of more than 300 hours of original programming. TWC Metro Sports will air live games from various sports as well as non-game programming such as pre- ... Tags: Media, Time Warner, IMG |
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CSN Bay Area, Yahoo Launch Talk Show
Comcast SportsNet Bay Area and Yahoo Sports on Friday announced a partnership to produce "Yahoo SportsTalk Live," a new hour-long sports roundtable discussion show airing Monday-Friday at 5:00pm PT. The show, hosted by Jim Kozimor, will debut live today from the Yahoo campus in Sunnyvale, Calif. ( C ...
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PRO FOOTBALL WEEKLY's Hub Arkush on Friday announced the publication will be closing, writing, "In my final act as the voice of Pro Football Weekly, it is time to say goodbye. Pro Football Weekly, as we’ve all known it since the first issue rolled off the press in late August of 1967, is no mo ...
NBC Sports Net Scores Best NHL Ratings
NBC Sports Network averaged a 2.1 U.S. rating and 3.4 million viewers for Blackhawks-Red Wings Western Conference Finals Game 7 on Wednesday night, marking the net's highest-rated NHL game on record, with viewership ranking third. The game was also the highest-rated NHL Conference Semifinal game eve ...
Pac-12 Execs Happy With Networks' First Year
The Pac-12 Networks' inaugural year is "nearly in the books," and it was an "ambitious beginning to what the conference hopes will be a long and lucrative addition to the sports fans’ television yearnings," according to Kerry Eggers of the PORTLAND TRIBUNE. Pac-12 Networks President Lydia Murp ...
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Final Nielsen Ratings
ESPN and ESPN2 combined to average 254,000 viewers for 51 telecasts during the ’12-13 EPL season, with the league’s games set to move to NBC Sports Network next season. That figure is down from 321,000 viewers last season and 301,000 viewers during the ’10-11 season. ESPN Deportes ...
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Disney CFO Jay Rasulo on Thursday said that there "won't be a contest to unseat ESPN's position" as the leader in sports TV. Rasulo: "There may well be a very fierce battle for a distant No. 2. People are going to spend a lot of money for rights, but they are going to end up a distant No. 2." He add ...
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Paul Finebaum Opens Up On ESPN Move
Radio host Paul Finebaum discussed his new five-year deal with ESPN and the SEC Network with AL.com's Bob Carlton, and he said the decision to relocate to Charlotte after nearly 30 years in Birmingham was "difficult." Finebaum's wife, Linda, is the Chief of Medicine at Birmingham's St. Vincent ...
ESPN Feels "Really Good" About SEC Net Progress
ESPN Senior VP/Programming Justin Connolly, who is overseeing the development of the SEC Network, yesterday said network execs "feel really good about where we are right now" ahead of the station's August '14 launch, according to Scott Rabalai ...
ESPN Increasing College Baseball Coverage
College baseball has seen a "surge of interest over the past decade," with the latest example coming this weekend, as "for the first time all 16 of the NCAA Tournament regionals will be televised on one of the ESPN networks," according to Kurt Voigt of the AP. ESPN showed "just six of the regional s ...
Yahoo-NBC Sports Tops ComScore Ranks
The Yahoo Sports-NBC Sports digital alliance retained its top position in comScore traffic reports for April, ranking first in Media Metrix Multi-Platform rankings among U.S. sports sites. But the rest of the list showed continued changes in the new reach metrics blending online, digital video and ...
