sportsmediawatch.blogspot.com - 5/19/2008
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Sidney Crosby and the Penguins are going to the Stanley Cup Finals, and NBC may be the biggest winner.
The deciding game of the Penguins/Flyers Eastern Conference Finals drew a 1.7/4 on NBC Sunday afternoon, up 6% from a 1.6 for Ducks/Red Wings last year. The 1.7 overnight is the highest of the playoffs.
The 1.7 is also the second-highest NBC has ever drawn for a non-Stanley Cup Finals NHL
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Ratings jump for conference finals on NBC
Puck Daddy —
... snagged a 1.7 rating and a 4 share on Sunday afternoon, according to Sports Media Watch. That's 6 percent better than last year's ratings for Ducks/Red Wings on the same weekend, and it's the highest overnight rating for NBC in these playoffs. ...
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faceoff-factor.com 5/18/2008 — Are you looking for even more of a reason to believe that the Penguins will be victorious in Game Five? Besides the fact that only 8.4% of Stanley Cup Playoff series that start off 3-0 make it to a sixth game (13 out of 155), the Penguins are undefeated this season when playing on NBC. In games televised by NBC, the Pens have gone 7-0-0 this season. Let’s take a look at those games.
NBC to screw the NHL again —
Kuklas Korner
After last year's disasterous double booking of the NHL playoffs and the Preakness Stakes, NBC has not learned its lesson. And they have decided not to be any nicer to the NHL. Today's game 5 of the Western Conference final between Dallas and Detroit is set for a 1:30 eastern time start. NBC has announced that, just like last year, it will switch its coverage from hockey to horseracing at ...
NHL Preparing for Preakness Stakes Debacle Part II —
Sean Leahy's Going Five Hole
NEW YORK - The contingency plan for Saturday's 1:30 p.m. ET DAL@DET NBC broadcast is as follows: If the game goes into overtime, the local Dallas and Detroit NBC affiliates will stay with the game until it's conclusion In markets outside Dallas and Detroit, the game will shift from NBC to VERSUS after completion of the 1st OT There are some markets that may pre-empt the game but at this ...
NHL returns to NBC this weekend, after almost not —
Sports stories from Newsday
If the Stars and Flyers hadn't averted sweeps in the NHL conference finals, NBC would have ended up showing zero games in this round. (The NHL got bumped by golf last weekend.)
But now there will be two games this weekend. NBC wouldn't mind seeing the Red Wings and Penguins get it over with and advance at that point, though. Because that finals matchup is about as good as the network could ...
Stanely Cup Finals Are Set —
Capitals Insider
The finals begin Saturday when the Wings host the Pens at 8 p.m. Here's the entire schedule: Sat., May 24, 8 p.m. at Detroit (VERSUS) Mon., May 26 8:00 p.m. at Detroit (VERSUS) Wed., May 28 8:00 pm. at Pittsburgh (NBC) Sat., May 31 8:00 p.m. at ...
