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NBC campaign set to start snowballing toward Vancouver
sportsbusinessjournal.com 30 days ago — 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 ...
Comcast must make the right calls on sports in any NBC deal
sportsbusinessjournal.com 23 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 — ...
Two Football Viewership Notes
fangsbites.com 14 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 ...
Could Comcast/NBC rival ESPN?
usatoday.com 19 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 ...
This day in history...
sportsmediawatch.blogspot.com 15 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 ...
The Blind Side Trailer (video)
youtube.com 29 days ago — A poor, oversized and under-educated teenager is recruited by a major college football program where he is groomed into an athletically and academically succ...
TV Sports - An NBC-Comcast Deal Could Offer Ebersol a New Role
nytimes.com 11 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 ...
DEVELOPING: Comcast Getting Closer to Buying NBC
fangsbites.com 23 days ago — 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 ...
