fangsbites.blogspot.com - 3/7/2008
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Before the current NBA season started, there was talk about how the referee betting scandal would hurt attendance and TV ratings. In addition, there was the Knicks sexual harassment trial which had coach Isiah Thomas and owner James Dolan on the front pages of the New York tabloids every day. And the NBA was coming off one of its lowest rated finals ever . But one thing is happening this ...
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Boston digs Pistons/Celtics.
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One imagines Duke/Virginia was not nearly the draw for ESPN that Pistons/Celtics Round III could have been. Thanks to college basketball, the Worldwide Leader in Sports was forced to pass on the third battle between the two best teams in the NBA. Without the national broadcast to compete with, Comcast SportsNet New England was the only outlet on which fans could watch the game in Boston -- a circumstance that helped lead to the best rating for a regular season Celtics game in ten years. Comcast SportsNet New England ...
Fiddlin' and Diddlin' - Daily Links 3/7
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... it? Celtics are more than Big 3 and that's scary FL's Take: Scary indeed. With Perk and Rondo picking it up and breaking out of late and Cassell and Brown on the way, there is plenty about the Celtics that should scare opposing teams. WEEI Doc Rivers on Dennis and Callahan James Posey on Dale and Holley Patriot Ledger Celtics in no hurry to suit up Sam Cassell Fang's Bites Celtics set ratings record in Boston FL's Take: The Celtics are setting ...
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Media Approval Ratings: Bob Costas [Media Approval Ratings]
deadspin.com 3/7/2008 — We once joked that Bob Costas seems like the type of guy who would pee sitting down, but that's a little harsher than our personal opinion toward him really is. He's a St. Louis guy, after all, and it's not everyone who can deal with both Dan Marino ...
NBA TV Ratings Are Up
myespn.go.com 3/8/2008 — John Dempsey writes in Variety : National TV audiences are flocking back to the NBA, led by double-digit gains in all the adult-male demographics on ABC, ESPN and TNT. ESPN, which has earned season-to-date biggest bragging rights, is averaging ...
Los Suns v. Los Spurs = Los números buenos. —
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The strength of the NBA Western Conference has led to higher ratings for ABC.
The Phoenix Suns' 94-87 victory over the San Antonio Spurs drew a 2.6 overnight on ABC, up 73% from the 1.5 Nuggets/Kings drew on the comparable date last year. Keep in mind last year's Nuggets/Kings game aired on college basketball's Selection Sunday.
Excluding Christmas, ABC is averaging a 2.7 overnight rating for 9
Question of the day. —
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The ratings game. —
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The ratings for the NHL on NBC are bad enough to warrant serious questions about the league's viability on network television. Rangers/Flyers last Sunday averaged a 0.8 rating, down 33% from a 1.2 for regional action last year. Since the Winter Classic, NBC has drawn ratings of 0.8, 0.8, 0.8, 0.7 and 0.8 for five NHL telecasts.Pistons/Celtics Round III was a big deal in Boston and Detroit, as
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It’s no doubt the anticipation of PJ Brown’s Celtics debut drove Comcast Sports Net’s ratings to their highest in 10 years.
Comcast SportsNet’s Boston Celtics vs. Detroit Pistons telecast delivered a 5.7 household rating, the highest rated Boston Celtics regular season telecast in 10 years.
The Celtics-Pistons game was billed as a playoff preview, and the Green’s win ...
Weekend ratings. —
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Overnight (metered market) ratings by sport.
Basketball.
3.4: NBA on ABC, Mavericks/Lakers (3:30 PM Sunday)
2.3: NBA on ABC, Bulls/Cavaliers (3:30 PM Sunday)
1.9/5: College basketball on CBS, Kentucky/Tennessee (12 PM Sunday)
1.6/4: College basketball on CBS, Duke/NC State (12 PM Saturday)
1.6/4: College basketball on CBS, Indiana/Michigan State (2 PM Sunday)
1.6/3: College basketball on CBS,
The Lakers against the Lakers. —
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Four years ago, NBA Commissioner David Stern was asked what his dream NBA Finals match-up would be.
"The Lakers against the Lakers," was the surprisingly candid, though half-joking, response. And that is no surprise. The Lakers are the NBA's version of Tiger Woods or the New York Yankees; they move the needle like no other team can.
ABC knows this first hand. Yesterday afternoon, the Lakers'
