Monday’s WWE Raw broadcast saw multiple match graphics run upside down
This was quite the recurring issue.
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Zach Lowe reportedly agrees to multi-year extension with ESPN
It looks like Lowe has again decided to stick with ESPN despite interest from other companies.
Week 3 CFB ratings see lowest Notre Dame home opener since at least 1997, Fox winning noon again, drops for ABC/ESPN and CBS
There were plenty of year-over-year drops in the Week 3 ratings, including for NBC, ABC and ESPN.
Injuries to top quarterbacks like Ben Roethlisberger and Drew Brees could cause major ratings impacts for NFL primetime games
Around 11 primetime games alone could be affected by starting quarterback injuries (and a retirement, in the case of Andrew Luck).
Italian pundit Luciano Passirani says “the only way to outmuscle [Lukaku] is to give him 10 bananas to eat,” gets banned from station
Saying Lukaku could only be stopped by giving him bananas to eat was a terrible remark, and one that led to Passirani being banned from Milan station Telelombardi.
Fox’s Joe Buck, Troy Aikman and Mike Pereira blasted “killer mistake” by officials that wiped out a Saints’ TD
"Just a killer mistake that hurt the Saints so badly. When it's that close, you have to lead the fumble. You can always come back and kill it with incomplete. But even though they give the ball to the Saints here, and it gives them the ball, it doesn't correct the mistake that really should have resulted in a touchdown."
NFL ad pricing is up 5 to 10 percent year over year, a rebound from 2018’s declines
Improved 2018 regular-season ratings likely played a role here.
Craig Kilborn showed up on The Rich Eisen Show for a martini toast to ESPN, a discussion of leaving The Late Late Show,...
Kilborn also discussed losing a three-point contest to Steve Kerr. "The league did not want me to win. I was like the Sacramento Kings, they didn't want me to win."
Ryan Nanni on new Vox multiplatform CFB brand Banner Society: “There’s a value to growing audience in each place.”
Vox Media college football site Banner Society is taking a new approach, focusing not just on a website, but also on platforms from Reddit to Twitch to Twitter and Instagram. Banner Society head Ryan Nanni spoke to AA about that.
ESPN unveils 12 new “This Is SportsCenter” ads, including three (two debuting on digital) with WWE’s Becky Lynch
ESPN's bringing out a new batch of "This Is SportsCenter" ads, and WWE's Becky Lynch is heavily featured.
Brian Windhorst: “I’ve got to get someone with a box that will let me watch at 1 a.m. on Sunday morning…I’ll slide you...
"'The Box' doesn't have a name, it doesn't have a brand, you can't buy it in a store. But if you get 'The Box,' I can get everything. The problem is, I've got to get someone with a box, Scott, that will let me watch at 1 a.m. on Sunday morning when the Browns play the Titans."
NBC’s NFL kickoff broadcast picked up a “I’ve never had my butt fingered” on a hot mic, making Al Michaels laugh
Whoever this was just gave us a whole lot of information no one asked for.
Al Michaels and Cris Collinsworth started the NFL kickoff with old-school hats with press badges
The latest NFL 100 throwback came from NBC's announcers.
Mike Mayock tried to move from loquacious NFLN analyst to tight-lipped, background Raiders GM, but is back in the media spotlight
Raiders' GM Mike Mayock has taken a much different media approach than NFL Network analyst Mike Mayock, generally preferring to sit in the background, but he's still wound up in the spotlight thanks to the Antonio Brown situation.
NWHL signs a three-year streaming deal with Twitch for all games, which will include a rights fee
All the NWHL games will be now on Twitch, and the league and players are getting some revenue from that.
