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(from SportsBusinessDaily) The 27.7 million average viewers are
the most for a non-U.S. Olympics since the 1976
Montreal Games. --- Also, USA averaged a 0.70 household rating and 491,000 viewers in the adult 18-49 demo; MSNBC, a 0.46 household rating and 267,000 (adults 18-49)...
The Republican convention will end next Thursday night
with John McCain’s acceptance speech. Next Thursday night also
marks the beginning of the NFL season as the Redskins face the Giants. Although the NFL & NBC moved the game to 7:00, the Republican Party should be worried about a 3+ hour game.
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Terrell Owens and Three 6 Mafia Interview - VIDEO
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Beijing Olympics Recap and Big Ten Network Chatter on this Weekend's SBR
Posted 13 hours ago at Sports Business Radio blogs
Republicans Should Fear Eli Manning and Jason Campbell
Posted 16 hours ago at Sean's Ramblings
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NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell visited on Thursday with
Dan Patrick, and Goodell talked about the possible expansion
of the regular season and, in turn, the potential shrinkage of the preseason. Goodell said that a change would come in 2010 at the earliest, and that it would be tied to the ...
LOS ANGELES - Butterfly, freestyle, relay -- monologue?
Michael Phelps is trading the pool for the "
Saturday Night Live " stage. The recording-breaking swimmer, who took home eight gold medals at the Bejing Olympics, will host the 34th season ...
NBC 5 full-time sports anchor/part-time society reporter Newy
Scruggs traveled to Burlington, Wisc., to see what Ramiro
Romo thought of his son's celebrity girlfriend. "Jessica Simpson is a wonderful person," Mr. Romo said. Tony Romo talked ...
(Usually) Everyday I'll throw out a photo from
the AP or one of the bigger sites and
you provide the caption. Hilarity ensues. I'm also adding a handful of links at the bottom of the page that you should check out each day. Last Thurday's ...
From Reuters: The Big Ten Network and Time
Warner Cable have reached an agreement for the channel
to be carried on TWC lineups in the eight states in which the college athletic conference schools operate. The agreement in principle, announced Monday, follows the year-old channel’s distribution deal with Comcast, which was inked in June. It will ensure...
I'm not sure how many of you saw
the men's 10m diving finals the other night, but
it was pretty awesome. Chinese diver Zhou Luxin held what appeared to be an insurmountable lead even after botching his final dive. It didn't look good for ...
A parting shot, or at least questions regarding
NBC's coverage of the Olympic Games. First note: The
U.S. men's volleyball team won gold on Sunday, the team coached by Hugh McCutcheon, whose father-in-law was stabbed to death by a deranged Chinese ...
Waiting For Next Year's take on Cleveland columnist,
Bill Livingston's latest.
Let them shut me down for posting this
one. 118-107 is your final and Team USA Basketball
has been officially redeemed.... I have to admit that I got a bit teary eyed when all of the players went over and shook Doug Collins hand after the ...
Watch the Olympic Basketball Semifinals online, including replays
for USA vs. Argentina and Lithuania vs. Spain
So the payback to all of you not
living in east coast standard time is a live
gold medal basketball game tonight that isn't starting at 2:30 in the morning (the start time for us East Coasters). NBC, for once, plans on airing the USA-Spain game ...
With NBC turning the page on another Olympic
season, it's time for the powers that be to
begin looking into alternative forms of promotion for their network. Most of their premier series - The Office, Heroes, 30 Rock - will be making triumphant ...
(08:49) NBCOlympics.com: Brandi Chastaine and others discuss the
USA's 1-0 win over Brazil in Thursday night's Women's
Soccer Final. --- Extensive highlights and analysis shown here. --- Julie Foudy interviews USA players after the match, including GK Hope Solo. --- Other Olympic soccer highlights and full match videos from both the men and women's tournaments are linked from here, too...
Over the last seven seasons, mixed in with
one pathetic playoff appearance in '04 Knick fans have
stopped rooting typically by the time the month of March rolls around. Usually during the time, the playoff brackets begin to unfold, we as Knick fans are already pondering off season trades, and coaching personnel firings and executions. Where do we get our arrogance? I often find myself ...
I'm probably not the first person to say
this, but tape delay has ruined Olympic hoops for
those of us on the West Coast. I know, I could watch it on my laptop. Or go into a self-imposed media blackout until the game actually airs, which creates such ...
My favorite Tiki Barber moment will always be
that time he appeared on the Discovery Channel game
show Cash Cab. When asked what Steinbeck novel included a character named Tom Joad, Tiki answered, "Lonesome Dove." Your favorite moment my vary. ...
Late Thursday night, Tiki Barber (through an MSNBC
spokesperson) denied uttering the "See You Next Tuesday" word
during an Olympic Update segment last week. The two parties combined to give Neil Best and Newsday a few interesting "turns of phrase" ...
As Michael Phelps won eight gold medals and
accomplished the greatest Olympic performance ever , his mother
and his two older sisters got almost as much face time on NBC as Bob Costas. We saw features about Phelps' mom, Debbie, we heard her screaming ...
The Olympics have been huge for NBC, with
giant ratings and giant profits . Meanwhile, the other
networks are looking like Angola taking on the Dream Team. From The Hollywood Reporter : Little noticed in all the fanfare is that NBC's competitors are ...
We found the blog site's mascot adorable: a
cartoon figure in the shape of Nevada, complete with
an eye patch. However, a quick telephone call to the Bucket of Blood revealed that someone got his wires crossed: Yes, a governor and first lady were ...
MMARated Radio was rolling with the big dogs
today as we welcomed Donald Trump Jr. (left) to
the program to talk, what else, Affliction. Some of the topics we touched on included: * His role with Affliction * Why did the Trumps decided to get involved ...
The birth of the Internet means you can
no longer dictate what is news, when news happens
and what is appropriate for viewers. We get to make all those decisions for ourselves, thank you. So, to be quite honest, I'm not all that upset with NBC's ...
Read full story for latest details.
Everyone saw the goofy clip of Tiki Barber
getting lifted off the set by Rulon Gardner right
(if not, click here )? Well, Barber has been getting hammered by multiple outlets for his "juvenile and nasty" segments with co-host Jenna Wolfe on MSNBC's ...
Multiple news outlets are reporting that Gene Upshaw,
the Oakland Raiders Hall of Famer who has ruled
the NFL players' union for the last quarter century, has died at the age of 63. Upshaw's death was first reported by Jim Riggio of Clear Channel , ...
SportsByBrooks sets up this inside scoop-poop perfectly: "If
you have always wanted to know the inner things
living deep inside Charles Barkley to make him the man he really is, you're about to get a treat." Yes, via Sports Media Watch , ...
It's only a spoiler if you buy into
NBC's ridiculous and draconian and consumer-unfriendly policies of waiting
on a 12-hour story before showing it on video. Here is a video (via Daily Motion), but it will likely only be up for minutes more, if that. ...
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Type By Relevance Go WATCH LIVE: Men's 10k WATCH LIVE: Men's 10k Women's Quarterfinals - Hungary vs. Romania Women's Quarterfinals - Hungary vs. Romania ...
Been there. Done that.
One of the best shows ever on ESPN
was Chris Berman and Tom Jackson's highlight show, "NFL
Primetime". It was a simple, no frills, highlight show and a throwback to how Sports of television used to be. Sure Berman was obnoxious at times, but there ...
In news you already know: Kyle Orton has
won out over the Sex Cannon for the Bears
starting job. Judging from the above pic, he’s as shocked as you are. In news you already know but still can only scarcely believe: The Bengals have ...
I'm sure some of you remember the lovely
Leryn Franco. She was the attractive Paraguayan picked up
by NBC cameras during the Beijing Opening ceremonies. It took people a little while to figure out that she competes in the javelin, but it took ...
Watching Brazil against Argentina in the semi-final of
the Olympic games this morning, I felt like I
was in a timewarp back to t















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NBC's final primetime Beijing ratings overview; highest ...