0 comments by Matt Verderame on 1/31/2015
When you think of the NBA, the Atlanta Hawks do not usually come to mind. The Chicago Bulls, Cleveland Cavaliers, San Antonio Spurs, Los Angeles Clippers and others get the main headlines, but the Hawks are the group setting records for local ratings this season. That’s what happens when you win 17 games in a […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia
A social media company named Proofpoint analyzed the Facebook accounts of 12 NFL teams during the first three weeks of January, and came to some interesting conclusions about fans of those 12 teams during those three weeks. Dallas Cowboys fans were the most active fanbase, commenting over 247,000 times on the team’s Facebook activity in the […]
0 comments by Ken Fang
All Times Eastern Bobsled FIBT World Cup, La Plagne, France Men’s 2-Man — Universal Sports, 1 p.m. (same day coverage) College Basketball Viewing Picks College Hockey Men’s New Hampshire at Notre Dame — NBCSN, 6:30 p.m. North Dakota at Nebraska-Omaha — Fox College Sports Central, 8 p.m. Minnesota at Wisconsin — Big Ten Network, 8:10 […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 1/30/2015
UCLA coach Jim Mora isn’t doing so well on Twitter lately. Earlier this month, he deleted his account after getting into some hot water with Kansas State fans. Then, the account returned from Twitter purgatory on Thursday night and tweeted out this photo of Maea Teuhema, a 2015 recruit that UCLA is trying to lure […]
0 comments by Douglas Pucci
If you would like to ask about or request ratings for a program or event on these networks, please reach Douglas on Twitter @SonOfTheBronx. NFL Network Top 10 (and Select) Programs RANK PROGRAM DAY TIME DUR HH VWRS (000) 1 2015 SENIOR BOWL Sat 4:00PM- 7:30PM 210 0.5 668 2 PRO BOWL DRAFT Wed 8:00PM-10:12PM […]
0 comments by Douglas Pucci
If you would like to ask about or request ratings for a program or event on these networks, please reach Douglas on Twitter @SonOfTheBronx. NBCSN Top 10 (and Select) Programs RANK PROGRAM DAY TIME DUR HH VWRS (000) 1 2015 NHL ALL-STAR GAME Sun 5:00PM- 8:08PM 188 0.7 1194 2 2015 NHL SUPERSKILLS COMPETITION Sat […]
0 comments by Douglas Pucci
If you would like to ask about or request ratings for a program or event on these networks, please reach Douglas on Twitter @SonOfTheBronx. ESPN Top 10 (and Select) Programs RANK PROGRAM DAY TIME DUR HH VWRS (000) 1 2015 NFL PRO BOWL Sun 8:00PM-11:24PM 204 5.1 8770 2 NFL COUNTDOWN (live) Sun 6:08PM- 8:00PM […]
0 comments by Matt Yoder
Ever since Super Bowl Media Day, it seems as if the titanic struggle of “Marshawn Lynch vs The Media” has overtaken DeflateGate as the controversy du jour in the lead up to the big game. Even Katy Perry made light of the situation, quoting Lynch’s “I’m just here so I don’t get fined” mantra during […]
0 comments by Matt Yoder
Television rights deals have become one of the main sources of income for professional sports leagues over the years. It’s a multi-million dollar business, and often times, multi-billion dollar business for the biggest leagues. But when it comes to revenue from television deals, we usually just focus on what professional sports earn in America. There’s a […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia
When Major League Soccer inked their new rights deal with ESPN, one of the most interesting subplots of the deal was ESPN also acquiring the digital rights to MLS games. ESPN was supposedly creating an over the top service for MLS games that wouldn’t be airing nationally, but apparently, that’s not the case for the 2015 season. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang
All Times Eastern Bobsled FIBT World Cup, La Plagne, France Women’s 2-Man — Universal Sports, 1 p.m. (same day coverage) Boxing Friday Night Fights, Foxwoods Resort and Casino, Mashantucket, CT Lightweights Karl Dargan vs. Tony Luis — ESPN2, 9 p.m. College Basketball Men’s Harvard at Princeton — ESPNU, 6 p.m. Yale at Columbia — American […]
0 comments by Matt Verderame on 1/29/2015
Seattle Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch has been attending all the media sessions in Glendale, Ariz. at Super Bowl XLIX. Throughout his mandatory appearances, Lynch has said nothing of note, repeatedly stating the only reason for his presence is to avoid a fine from the NFL. Unfortunately for Lynch, he might be fined anyway. During […]
0 comments by Andrew Coppens
Ed Note: This post appears courtesy our friends at 32 Flags, Bloguin’s international soccer vertical. When it was announced that ESPN and Fox Sports would split a 10-game schedule of United States men’s national team games, there was a collective groan from most of the soccer viewing public. The hardcore fan had been put off […]
0 comments by Matt Yoder
The Atlanta Hawks have been all the rage in the NBA this season. Their 17th straight win last night now puts them in the Top 15 of all-time NBA winning streaks. At 38-8, they have the best record in the Eastern Conference by 7 games and are doing it with a perfectly assembled lineup of […]
0 comments by Matt Yoder
For 11 out of the past 13 years, the Super Bowl has seen an increase in viewership, culminating in the record 111.5 million people that tuned in for last year’s game. Eventually, the list of the most watched programs in American television history will be nothing but Super Bowls as the game competes only with […]
