Archive for February 17th, 2009

Ratings and viewership for every Daytona 500 since 1975. From 1980-2001, the Daytona 500 averaged an 8.5 rating, with a peak rating of 9.6 for the 1994 and 1999 races. Since 2001, the year NASCAR [...]

Ratings for Sunday’s rain-shortened Daytona 500 hit their lowest levels since FOX began airing the event in 2001. The Daytona 500, won by Matt Kenseth, drew a 9.2/19 final rating and 16 million viewers on [...]

One of the most well known television analysts in sports returns to the air this week. TNT NBA analyst Charles Barkley will make his return to the network’s NBA studio show this Thursday. Barkley had [...]

In the Alex Rodriguez steroid controversy, ESPN may be dealing with the appearance of a conflict of interest. A week after Rodriguez admitted using steroids in an interview on the network, with a reporter who [...]

ESPN will provide extensive coverage of Alex Rodriguez’ press conference from Tampa on Tuesday. SportsCenter, ESPNews and ESPN Radio will each provide coverage of Rodriguez’ first press conference since he admitted using performance enhancing drugs [...]