sportsmediawatch.blogspot.com - 12/10/2008
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After a year of higher ratings, Saturday Night Football ended the season with a double-digit decline.
The last Saturday Night Football telecast of the season, the Big 12 Championship Game between Missouri and Oklahoma, drew a 5.5/10 final rating and 8.8 million viewers, down 17% and 19% ...
thrfeed.com - 12/9/2008
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Exclusive: On Super Bowl Sunday, football fans will
have a choice: the Boss or the Big Balls....
ABC plans to counterprogram NBC’s game-day entertainment telecasts...
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ABC to 'Wipeout' the Super Bowl
zachls.blogspot.com - 12/4/2008
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(Photos courtesy of SEC Poon ) [Editor's note:
This will be a regular Friday feature at PlayboyU...
. It's molded after BDD's Jamboroo .] The end is coming: Saturday is the last relatively-full slate of games for the season. Fuck. That. We are ...
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Pre-Gaming: Your Last Full College Football Saturday; ...
awfulannouncing.blogspot.com - 12/4/2008
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Darren Rovell at CNBC noticed during the FSU-Florida
game this past Saturday that the team of Nessler,...
Griese and Maguire had a "Did You Know?" that said that Florida State and not U of F was actually credited with inventing the Sports Drink ...
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Did ABC Get Duped By FSU?
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... are getting flak as the financial crunch goes deeper. Daniel Kaplan reports that the National Football League Players Association is building a huge war chest. Finally, Terry Lefton tells us that the NFL is not immune from the economy and will fall short of its revenue goal this season. As a result, the Sports Media Watch reports that the NFL will cut 150 people from its staff. The SMW says Saturday Night Football on ABC ended the season on a down note. My friends over at The Big Lead feel there's too much network TV ...
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More strong numbers for Saturday Night Football.
sportsmediawatch.blogspot.com 12/4/2008 — Another big time Big 12 battle drew impressive ratings on ABC last Saturday.
Oklahoma's 61-41 win over Oklahoma State drew a 5.7/10 final rating and 9.5 million viewers on ABC Saturday night, the fifth highest rating of the season for a college ...
Strong ratings for college football.
sportsmediawatch.blogspot.com 11/11/2008 — ABC and CBS drew impressive ratings for college football coverage on Saturday.
While the highest profile game of the day may have been #1 Alabama's clash with #16 LSU, ABC drew the highest rating. Saturday Night Football, featuring Oklahoma ...
Another strong Saturday night for ABC.
sportsmediawatch.blogspot.com 11/4/2008 — Saturday nights are traditionally a dead zone when it comes to television ratings, but college football has lifted ABC to strong numbers on the night multiple times this season.
Texas Tech's classic victory over then-#1 Texas last Saturday night drew ...
Big 12 Scores In Top Ten Rated College Games in 2008
sportsontheair.blogspot.com 12/13/2008 — Athens, GA (Dec 12, 2008) - While the 2008 SEC Championship had its highest rating ever, as well as the highest rating this season, the Big 12 was dominant over the course of the 2008 season. According to Nielsen, the Big 12 took 7 of the remaining ...
More on NBA Christmas ratings.
sportsmediawatch.blogspot.com 12/27/2008 — ABC got just what it wanted for Christmas.
The network's Christmas Day NBA doubleheader, featuring Spurs/Suns and Celtics/Lakers, averaged a 4.3 rating and 7.9 million viewers, up 30% and 43% respectively from a 3.3 with 5.5 million for last year's ...
Big blowouts garner big ratings.
sportsmediawatch.blogspot.com 11/25/2008 — A tripleheader of uncompetitive blowouts still drew strong ratings on ABC Saturday afternoon.
Ohio State's 42-7 romp of Michigan drew a 5.1 overnight rating from 12-3:30 PM Saturday, down 20% from a 6.4 for the same matchup a week earlier in 2007. ...
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Rose Bowl ratings up.
sportsmediawatch.blogspot.com 1/7/2009 — The lone BCS bowl on ABC saw a bump in the ratings.
USC's win over Penn State in the Rose Bowl drew an 11.7/21 final rating and 20.6 million viewers on ABC last Thursday, up 5% and 8% respectively from an 11.1/19 and 19.0 million for Illinois/USC ...
College football notes.
sportsmediawatch.blogspot.com 2/12/2009 — The college football season may be months away, but rematches of last season's two highest-rated regular season games have already been slotted for national TV.
The September 12 rematch between USC and Ohio State will air in prime time, but not on ...
NASCAR ratings down.
sportsmediawatch.blogspot.com 11/13/2008 — Ratings dropped for ABC's abbreviated NASCAR coverage on Sunday.
The Checker O'Reilly Auto Parts 500 drew a 3.6/7 final rating and 5.7 million viewers on ABC Sunday afternoon, down 5% and 6% respectively from a 3.8/7 and 6 million for the same race ...
The BCS Gets It Wrong...Again —
Bleacher Report - College Football 12/10/2008
It’s time for another bowl season, and therefore, by default, time for another long and drawn-out debate about the effectiveness of the BCS system. Every December for the last decade, the bowl selections have been announced—and madness ...
