blog.timesunion.com - 10/26/2009
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“Highlights will still be a large focus of the show,” NBC Sports chairman Dick Ebersol vowed in August, when the network decided to send Bob Costas on site for its “Football Night In America” pregame show.
Of course, that contradicted Ebersol’s statement from three ...
fangsbites.com - 10/21/2009
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I'm running out of headlines for the NFL
ratings which continue to rule the roost. This comes...
from the NFL this morning. Who knew that a 59-0 blowout would become the most watched show of the week? TITANS-PATRIOTS ON CBS MOST-WATCHED SHOW OF THE WEEK NFL Games Top Playoffs in 2 of 3 ...
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The NFL Kills The Competition
fangsbites.com - 10/27/2009
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On Sunday, Game 6 of the American League
Championship Series on Fox beat Sunday Night Football on...
NBC, but the peacocks spun it so that it won key demographics against MLB. Check out the press release. NBC SPORTS SCORES WITH "SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL " Through 7 Weeks SNF No. 1 Primetime ...
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NBC Sports Spins Sunday's Ratings
sportsbusinessjournal.com - 10/26/2009
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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 ...
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NBC campaign set to start snowballing toward Vancouver
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Morning Journal- October 26, 2009
Sports Media Journal —
... made on air this weekend by ESPN College Football analyst Bob Greise… Pete Dougherty at the Albany Times Union questions NBC’s lack of Sunday highlights … Brian Steinberg at Ad Age reports the NBC’s Sunday Night Football is the ...
The Calm Before the Storm Links
Fang's Bites —
... a related note, The Big Lead breaks news that the other party of the Steve Phillips affair, Brooke Hundley, was fired from ESPN today. We have a rare Monday column from the New York Daily News' Bob Raissman who has rare love today and it's for Fox's production of ALCS Game 6. Pete Dougherty from the Albany Times Union has the World Series schedule. Pete has the NFL TV schedule for Week 8 in New York's Capital Region. Pete would like to see more highlights on NBC's Football Night in America and I totally agree with him. ...
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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 ...
Programming Note
hardballtimes.com 28 days ago — 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, ...
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 ...
Comcast must make the right calls on sports in any NBC deal
sportsbusinessjournal.com 29 days ago — It’s looking more likely that Comcast will be successful in its attempt to take control of NBC , judging by a series of meetings the two sides have had over the past few weeks. Toward the end of October, the top executives from NBC and Comcast — ...
TV Sports - An NBC-Comcast Deal Could Offer Ebersol a New Role
nytimes.com 18 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 ...
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 ...
Two Football Viewership Notes
fangsbites.com 21 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 ...
Yankees > Giants
hardballtimes.com 10/26/2009 — Baseball is my sport, but NBC pays me, so I'm torn :
In a television matchup of New York sports teams, baseball’s Yankees were more popular than football’s Giants.
The Yankees earned an 11.4 rating for their Game 6 victory last night over the Los Angeles Angels in the American League ...
Could Comcast/NBC rival ESPN?
usatoday.com 25 days ago — Comcast, the USA's largest cable TV operator, made a surprise (and unsuccessful) takeover bid for ESPN parent Disney in 2004 in hopes of creating the world's biggest media company. If it can get NBCU, the General Electric division that includes NBC ...
Dungy: Why midseason changes rarely work —
Redskins Insider 10/26/2009
In an unscientific Redskins Insider poll last week, we asked whether management's endorsement of Jim Zorn made you more or less hopeful going forward. There were more than 3,000 votes, and 62 percent of respondents said they felt no difference and ...
All eyes -- and opinions -- focus on play-calling —
Redskins Insider 10/26/2009
So you may have read once or twice or thrice that the Redskins are using a play-caller tonight who began the season as a volunteer at a senior citizens' center. It's not just Coach Jim Zorn and his coaches who were baffled by management's decision to ...
Cerrato: 'We expected to be 3-3' —
Redskins Insider 10/26/2009
Vinny Cerrato, the Redskins' executive vice president for football operations, says that at this point in the season, management expected the team to have a 3-3 record. So at 2-4, if we're doing the math right, Jim Zorn's team is only slightly ...
