Archive for May 28th, 2008

For the second straight week, the NBA Playoffs dominated cable. The six playoff games televised last week finished as the six most watched programs on cable. Every playoff game drew at least 5.4 million viewers, [...]

Chuck Fruit: A member of The Sporting News 100 Most Powerful People in Sports list for twelve straight years, the former Anheuser Busch and Coca Cola marketing executive died yesterday at the age of 61. [...]

NBA ratings are up across the board this postseason, with ABC seeing its best numbers in two years. Through ten broadcasts, ABC is averaging a 3.7 rating for NBA Playoff games, up 28% from a [...]

Ratings for games 1 and 2 of the Stanley Cup Finals were the highest since Versus began airing NHL games three years ago. Versus averaged a 1.3 national rating for the first two games of [...]