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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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Sources: Guggenheim Reworking TWC Deal
Guggenheim Baseball Management is being "forced to rework" its pending 25-year, $7B media-rights deal with Time Warner Cable, according to sources cited by Kosman & DeCambre of the N.Y. POST. The sources said that the new deal could end up seeing the company "fork over" $130M annually to MLB und ...
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Appeals Court Rules For Comcast In TC Suit
The DC Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday ruled Comcast "does not need to place the Tennis Channel in the same cable subscription tier as its own sports networks," according to Brendan Sasso of THEHILL.com. The ruling "strikes down" a '12 FCC decision that tried to "force Comcast to place the Tennis ...
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ABC Sees Least-Viewed Live Indy 500 Broadcast
ABC earned a 3.7 fast-national Nielsen rating and 5.7 million viewers for Sunday afternoon’s Indianapolis 500, marking the lowest viewership for the race since it began airing live in ’86. The previous low was 5.8 million viewers in ’10. The rating for the race, however, marks the ...
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Fox' Coca-Cola 600 Rating Down Slightly
Fox finished with a 4.3 rating and 7.1 million viewers for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Coca-Cola 600 on Sunday night, down from last year's race, but still high enough to give Fox a win among among networks in primetime. This year's race also had a 40-minute delay due to a cable breaking on a ...
F1 Race Could Face U.S. Open Conflict On NBC
The latest issue that F1 and local organizers of New Jersey’s Grand Prix of America "must negotiate if the race is to become a reality" is a "potential conflict between the U.S. Open and the preferred date of the race for the worldwide F1 community -- which also happens to be Father‘s Da ...
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Johnson Draws More Unkind Reviews
Fox’ Gus Johnson called play-by-play for the UEFA Champions League final on Saturday between Bundesliga clubs Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich, and the broadcast “featured the full Johnson -- the trademark over-the-top zeal, some mangled pronunciation (it's Franck REE-be-ry and not RI ...
SI Plans Daily, Live Web Show
Sports Illustrated will "expand its presence in live online video with a new daily talk show, 'SI Now,' beginning June 3 on SI.com," according to Eric Fisher of SPORTSBUSINESS JOURNAL. The half-hour program will air at 1:00pm ET and be hosted by Maggie Gray. Content will be "a mix of news and commen ...
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ESPN Relaunches ESPNW.com
ESPN has relaunched espnW.com, with the destination receiving a substantial refresh based around a heightened focus on video content and mobile functionality, behind-the-scenes content on female athletes, and material delving into social issues and commentary. The new espnW.com will also be the onli ...
ABC Looking For Indy 500 Ratings Uptick
The Indianapolis 500 this Sunday on ABC will have "no shortage of compelling story lines," leaving TV execs "feeling confident about another bump in viewership this year," according to Dave Skretta of the AP. Ratings for the race "dropped precipitously throughout the 1990s," and while there have "be ...
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FS Midwest Not Changing MLB Telecasts
FS Midwest for this year has "killed the idea" of adding some elements to MLB Cardinals games that would "bring viewers closer to the game, such as chatting with players not in the immediate line of fire while play is in progress," according to Dan Caesar of the ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH. Concepts dis ...
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