Archive for December 12th, 2009

Last week’s BCS Selection Show drew a 5.8/9 final rating and 9.3 million viewers on FOX, down 8% in ratings and 11% in viewership from a 6.3/10 and 10.5 million last year. The 5.8 rating [...]

Idle note: ESPN’s Around the Horn and Pardon the Interruption will begin airing in high definition starting in Fall 2010. The two long-running talk shows will move from Atlantic Video studios in Washington, D.C., to [...]

Tiger Woods will not just be absent from the golf course in the coming weeks. Woods sponsor Gillette announced on Saturday that it would “support his desire for privacy” by reducing his role in their [...]

Brian Kelly‘s final game as Cincinnati head coach drew strong numbers on ABC last Saturday. Cincinnati/Pittsburgh drew a 4.7 final rating on ABC last Saturday afternoon, up 88% from a 2.6 for Virginia Tech/Boston College [...]

Like its SEC counterpart, last week’s ACC Championship Game drew record ratings — but not in a good way. Georgia Tech’s win over Clemson last Saturday night drew a 1.6 U.S. rating and 2.5 million [...]

The reigning Super Bowl champions — though perhaps not for much longer — drew a solid audience to NFL Network on Thursday. The Steelers’ loss to the Browns drew a 2.8/5 U.S. rating and 4.5 [...]

Ratings and viewership for every NFL telecast through Week 13 of the season, ranked from the most-viewed game to the least-viewed. Through Week 13, the November 1 national window (mostly Vikings/Packers, FOX) stands as the [...]

The center of a unyielding tabloid maelstrom, Tiger Woods has announced plans to temporarily step away from the game of golf. Woods announced on Friday that he will “take an indefinite break from professional golf,” [...]