TBS Wins Cable Ratings Race With MLB Wild Card Doubleheader
by Caryn Robbins - October 09, 2012 TBS won the Friday night Cable ratings with the coverage of the MLB Wild Card Doubleheader. Here are the highlights of 22 ad-sustained programs that aired in primetime on the cable networks last night, courtesy of TravisYanan...
Fox's SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE Up from Last Week in Key Demos
by Tyler Peterson - September 10, 2013 As summer comes to a close, FOX ranked No. 2 for the week among Adults 18-49 and Adults 18-34. Tuesday's penultimate episode of SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE was up +8% among Adults 18-49 versus the prior week. On Wednesday with back-to-back episodes of MASTERCHEF, FOX led the night among Adults 18-49 ...
College Football Coverage Delivers Major Ratings Boost for ESPN Networks
by Tyler Peterson - September 01, 2013 The first Saturday of the 2013 college football season on August 31 kicked off with a large audience for a four-hour College GameDay Built by The Home Depot and continued with game and studio coverage across ESPN networks. ABC, ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPNU all posted significant overnight ratings, led by a...
ESPN Makes Plans for New Bowl in Boca Raton
by Sarah Bellet - October 11, 2013 ESPN Regional Television, a subsidiary of ESPN, announced the creation of the Boca Raton Bowl in a six-year agreement beginning in 2014. The pre-Christmas bowl game will be affiliated with the American Athletic Conference, Conference USA and the Mid-American Conference with each conference participa...
Edward Norton-Hosted SNL is #1 No-Sports Show of the Night
by Caryn Robbins - October 28, 2013 “SNL” was the #1 non-sports telecast of the night on the Big 4 networks...
NBC Sports Announces College Football & Hockey Live Weekend Coverage
by Caryn Robbins - October 10, 2012 NBC and NBC Sports Network will air more than 18 hours of live-event college football and college hockey coverage this weekend...
ESPN Announces College Football Coverage
by Conor Sheeran - August 26, 2013 ESPN will kick off the 2013 college football season with national coverage of 46 games in five days as part of the sixth annual DICK's Sporting Goods Kickoff Week from Thursday, Aug. 29, to Monday, Sept. 2....
CBS Sports Airs Coverage of Notre Dame v Air Force College Football Today
by TV News Desk - October 26, 2013 CBS Sports Network features a college football doubleheader today, Oct. 26, highlighted by Notre Dame at Air Force (5:00 PM, ET). Andrew Catalon and Aaron Taylor call the action, along with reporter Lauren Gardner from Falcon Stadium in Colorado Springs, Colo....
Fox Sports Announces Saturday Night Primetime Schedule
by Caryn Robbins - April 09, 2012 Over the last several months FOX Sports has methodically developed an unprecedented prime time sports broadcast schedule on Saturday nights beginning this month and extending into December. ...
Erin Andrews Joins FOX Sports
by Caryn Robbins - July 02, 2012 College football on FOX just became must-watch TV this fall as the popular Erin Andrews, one of sports television's brightest stars, rejoins the FOX Sports family....
ECU and UCF Meet in Primetime on CBS Sports Network Tonight
by Caryn Robbins - October 04, 2012 CBS Sports Network's national college football coverage continues on Thursday, Oct. 4 with a primetime matchup between East Carolina and Central Florida at Bright House Networks Stadium in Orlando, Fla. Dave Ryan, Doug Chapman and reporter Evan Washburn handle the call....
ESPN Announces College Football Coverage for August
by Caryn Robbins - July 26, 2013 Following the conclusion of ESPN's “Car Wash” of more than 50 college football coaches visiting ESPN's Bristol, Conn., headquarters, the season will kick into high gear across ESPN platforms in August....
New BWW Series - TRANSLATING SPORTS: College Football Edition
by Matt Tamanini - August 30, 2013 Last week I began a quest to unite two quintessentially American institutions; sports and musical theatre. Though this might be nothing more than an impossible dream, this is my quest, to follow that goal, no matter how hopeless, no matter how far... I have to take this metaphor. In this week's edit...
CBS is First in Ratings by Largest Margin of the Season
by Caryn Robbins - November 08, 2011 CBS has won week seven by nearly 5 million viewers, making it the largest margin of victory this season. ...
ESPN Reaches 12-Year Agreement For New College Football Playoff
by Tyler Peterson - November 21, 2012 ESPN and the group that will administer the new college football playoff have reached an agreement in principle to present the playoff games and selected other games for 12 years on an exclusive basis across ESPN's platforms. The agreement will begin after the 2014 regular season (including January...
ESPN 3D To Televise Ohio State At Wisconsin Football Game 10/16
by Charlie Piane - October 08, 2010 ESPN 3D will televise No. 2 Ohio State at No. 20 Wisconsin on Oct. 16. Kickoff is set for 7 p.m. ET. This marks the fourth 3D appearance for Ohio State. The Buckeye's were first featured in 3D last year on Sept. 9 and will have had three appearances on the new network in 2010....
CBS Sports Airs New Series COLLEGE FOOTBALL CONFIDENTIAL: ARKANSAS Today, 9/29
by Claire Hannum - September 28, 2012 CBS SPORTS SPECTACULAR airs a special presentation of COLLEGE FOOTBALL CONFIDENTIAL: ARKANSAS, a new series on CBS Sports Network that brings fans behind-the-scenes with exclusive access to one of the top SEC football programs today, Sept. 29....
ESPN Reveals Announcer Pairings for 2013 College Football Coverage
by Tyler Peterson - August 13, 2013 ESPN's 2013 college football game coverage will include the return of a deep roster of knowledgeable and experienced commentators working familiar assignments across ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPN3, ESPNEWS, ESPN Radio and ESPN Regional Television....
BCS Championship Brings in Cable's Second Biggest Audience of All Time
by Tyler Peterson - January 08, 2013 ESPN's telecast of the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) National Championship - No. 2 Alabama's 42-14 victory over No. 1 and previously unbeaten Notre Dame - attracted the second largest audience of any program in cable television history, an average of 17,216,000 households (17.5 Fast National house...
ESPN Adds Pac-12 College Football to 2013 Schedule
by Caryn Robbins - May 29, 2013 ESPN has added eight Pac-12 Conference college football games to its 2013 schedule for ESPN, ABC and ESPN2 telecasts....
Sugar Bowl On ESPN Brings Big Ratings For Network
by Charlie Piane - January 05, 2011 The Allstate Sugar Bowl earned an 8.4 overnight rating on ESPN, according to Nielsen, the second-highest overnight rating for college football in ESPN history. The game, a 31-26 Ohio State win over Arkansas, trails only last week's Rose Bowl Game (11.7), and all four BCS telecasts this month are amo...
ESPN Announces TEXAS KICKOFF CLASSIC in 2013
by Caryn Robbins - October 11, 2012 ESPN announced the creation of the Texas Kickoff Classic - an opening weekend college football game between Oklahoma State and Mississippi State at Reliant Stadium in Houston to be played Saturday, Aug. 31, 2013....
ABC Scores Saturday Night's Most-Viewed Program with Stanford-Oregon Game
by Tyler Peterson - November 20, 2012 The ABC Saturday Night Football Presented by Windows 8 broadcast on Saturday, Nov. 17 - Stanford upsetting then-undefeated No. 2 Oregon 17-14 in overtime - was the most-viewed and highest-rated college football game of the week and garnered the night's largest audience among all networks. The telec...
ESPN Adds ACC College Football Games to 2013 Schedule
by Tyler Peterson - May 23, 2013 Twenty additional 2013 Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) college football games have been added across ESPN, ABC, ESPN2, ESPNU and ESPN3. Combined with five previously released games, every conference home contest, as well as a road and neutral site matchup, will be available on an ESPN platform duri...
CBS Sports Kicks Off 2012 SEC Schedule with Alabama vs. Arkansas, 9/15
by TV News Desk - September 13, 2012 CBS Sports kicks off its 12th season of national coverage of SEC football with the "Game of the Week" on Saturday, Sept. 15 (3:30-7:00 PM, ET) with *#1-ranked Alabama taking on Arkansas.... |
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