fangsbites.com - 11/2/2009
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In a story that will be in tomorrow's New York Times, we find that NBC is getting closer to being under Comcast's fold. Michael J. de la Merced and Andrew Ross Sorkin write that a formal announcement of Comcast's purchase to become a majority owner of NBC is expected as early as next week . It ...
Programming Note
hardballtimes.com 11/3/2009 — When I started writing ShysterBall in the spring of 2007, the idea was to give me a place to be where I could escape the stress and unpleasantness of my legal career, if only for the briefest of moments. As time went on, it began to consume more and more of my waking hours and, in all honesty, ...
Comcast + NBC = Sports Juggernaut
businessweek.com 10/23/2009 — Look out ABC/ESPN. If Comcast acquires NBC Universal from GE, it could become the dominant player in the cable-sports business By Rick Horrow and Karla Swatek 1. What a Comcast Buyout of NBC would Mean for Sports If Comcast's ( CMCSA ) high-profile ...
A Comcast-NBC link-up would create potential rival to ESPN
online.wsj.com 10/12/2009 — SAM SCHECHNER Comcast Corp. executive Jeff Shell said at an industry conference in June that expanding the sports business at his cable networks was the "top of our list over the next five years." If Comcast's bid to control NBC Universal succeeds, it ...
TV Sports - An NBC-Comcast Deal Could Offer Ebersol a New Role
nytimes.com 27 days ago — Dick Ebersol has thrived under General Electric for 20 years as the head of NBC Sports. He has spent billions of G.E.’s dollars on the rights to show eight Olympic Games, from Atlanta to London. But Ebersol might soon have a new boss Comcast if ...
NBC Wins with Pro and College Football
fangsbites.com 10/20/2009 — NBC Sports has received the final weekend ratings and they were good. They were good for Sunday Night Football which won the night over some tough competition and they were good for USC-Notre Dame on Saturday afternoon. NBC SPORTS SCORES WITH "SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL" AND NOTRE DAME Falcons ...
Two Football Viewership Notes
fangsbites.com 30 days ago — To show that football attracts viewers, we have ratings notes from both NBC and CBS. Starting with NBC, almost 22 million viewers watched Sunday night's Cowboys-Eagles game proving that the marketing campaign that "Sunday night is Football night" is practically true. 21.9 MILLION WATCH ...
NBC campaign set to start snowballing toward Vancouver
sportsbusinessjournal.com 10/26/2009 — By JOHN OURAND Staff writer NBC Sports is set to launch an extensive marketing campaign promoting the Vancouver Winter Olympics starting Nov. 4, 100 days before the opening ceremony. The campaign, dubbed “Countdown to Vancouver,” officially kicks off ...
If Comcast Buys NBC,,,
fangsbites.com 10/1/2009 — As we're waiting to hear more on a possible Comcast/NBC deal , here is what we're looking at if the two parties indeed merge. A combined Comcast/NBC would have the following sports properties: The NFL (Sunday Night Football) Olympics - Versus definitely gets Olympic hockey NHL - it would be ...
This day in history...
sportsmediawatch.blogspot.com 11/9/2009 — November 9, 1989: The NBA signs a lucrative 4-year television deal with NBC.The deal, worth over $600 million, "more than triples" the NBA's previous 4-year deal with CBS. Under the deal, NBC would air 20-26 regular season games -- up from 16 games on ...