Broadcasting worlds collide as Jim Nantz appears with Joe Buck on Fox’s U.S. Open coverage
Nantz on Fox seemed a bit weird but it was pretty cool.
MLB.com reporter Zachary Silver catches foul ball from Orioles press box
Silver made the impressive catch early in the game and was able to keep working.
Fox’s first day prime time U.S. Open coverage posts best broadcast network viewership since 2002, but there are caveats to that
Fox's prime time U.S. Open coverage (7:30-10:30 p.m. Eastern) Thursday drew an average of 3.465 million viewers across Fox and FS1.
Ariel Helwani dons Canadian flag on SportsCenter after Raptors’ win, says “this is a team winning for an entire country”
Helwani gave a passionate speech about what he thinks the Raptors' win meant to Canada.
TSN identified Halifax, Nova Scotia as Regina, Saskatchewan during shots of Game 6 viewing parties
Just about 2,000 miles off there, TSN.
This Week In Hot Takes: Skip Bayless melts down over Kawhi Leonard winning Finals MVP
Bayless has been hating on Leonard since Leonard left the Spurs, but he took that to a new level Thursday night and Friday morning after Leonard was named Finals MVP.
NBA Finals Game 6 posts a 13.2 overnight rating, down from Game 5 and middle of the pack relative to previous Game 6...
The solid (but not spectacular) rating slots in the middle of the pack when compared to prior Game 6 ratings.
ESPN and Cumulus will launch a new D.C. ESPN Radio station, which will include Redskins’ games
Redskins' rights had previously been on The Team 980 (and its predecessors) since 2008.
Former Pro Bowl CB DeAngelo Hall is NFL Network’s latest addition
Hall spent 14 seasons in the NFL with the Falcons, Raiders and Redskins.
Blues-Bruins Game 7 was most-watched U.S. NHL game on record, overall playoffs were most-watched in 23 years
NBC reported not only great Game 7 ratings, but great ratings for the playoffs as a whole.
Reporter says Nationals threatened his credentials because he unknowingly violated Darren Rovell’s “exclusive rights to a sandwich”
The Nationals posted a photo of the new "Natitude" sandwich on their PR site on Sept. 28, 2017. Darren Rovell claimed it as an "exclusive" on Oct. 6, and the team got mad at local TV reporter Brody Logan for posting a photo that interfered with Rovell's "sandwich exclusive."
Blues-Bruins Stanley Cup Final Game 7 draws highest NHL overnight rating in at least 25 years
If you want to find a higher overnight for an NHL game, you need to roll all the way back to the 1970s.
Viewing Picks for June 13, 2019
The NBA Finals reach Game 6 tonight on ABC
Charter has reportedly agreed to a RSN carriage deal in principle with Sinclair, even before Sinclair’s RSN purchase closes
This may help alleviate some of the immediate worries about the RSNs' future carriage under Sinclair.
