Two Football Viewership Notes
fangsbites.com 23 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 ...

This day in history...
sportsmediawatch.blogspot.com 24 days ago — 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 ...

TV Sports - An NBC-Comcast Deal Could Offer Ebersol a New Role
nytimes.com 20 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 ...

Would NBC deal help break the DirecTV/Versus stalemate?
sports.yahoo.com 23 days ago — One look at the Puck Daddy inbox over the last few weeks reaffirms that DirecTV is winning the war of attrition in its stalemate with Versus. Earlier this season, we'd receive a few emails a day from fans enraged at both sides of the dispute; they've been reduced to a trickle now, and the fact ...

Patriots/Colts scores for NBC
sportsmediawatch.blogspot.com 17 days ago — A stirring battle between heated rivals gave NBC one of its highest overnight ratings ever for Sunday Night Football.The Colts' comeback victory over the Patriots drew a 15.1/24 overnight rating on NBC Sunday night, up 22% from Cowboys/Eagles during ...

Pats/Colts classic boosts NBC
sportsmediawatch.blogspot.com 15 days ago — Patriots/Colts was just the latest big draw for NBC Sunday Night Football, which is averaging the most viewers for an NFL primetime package in over a decade.Sunday's Patriots/Colts game drew a 13.7/21 final rating and 22.4 million viewers on NBC, up ...

Weekend overnight ratings
sportsmediawatch.blogspot.com 29 days ago — .nobrtable br { display: none }Overnight ratings for sporting events on broadcastFinal ratings for some of these events may already be available.Source: Sports Business DailyFootball Sport Game/Event Date Time Net Rating NFL  ...

Can NBC deal help break the DirecTV/Versus stalemate?
sports.yahoo.com 23 days ago — One look at the Puck Daddy inbox over the last few weeks reaffirms that DirecTV is winning the war of attrition in its stalemate with Versus. Earlier this season, we'd receive a few emails a day from fans enraged at both sides of the dispute; they've ...

USA Network's new deal with WWE could foreshadow a bigger deal
latimesblogs.latimes.com 17 days ago — USA Network's move to renew its deal for "Monday Night Raw" with World Wrestling Entertainment for another four years may be just the beginning of a broader partnership between the NBC Universal-owned cable network and Vince McMahon's WWE. WWE, as...

NBC Says "SNF is No. 1 in Primetime"
fangsbites.com 15 days ago — Not to be outdone by the press release issued by Fox Sports earlier today regarding the ratings for the late afternoon NFL game regularly outrating Sunday Night Football, NBC Sports has come out with this release stating that SNF is the top-rated show in all of primetime. There's no mention of ...