Archive for July, 2010

Recent sports TV ratings news, including the NASCAR Nationwide Series, Padres ratings in San Diego and the World Series of Softball. Last Saturday’s NASCAR Nationwide Series Kroger 250 drew a 1.5 U.S. rating and 2.357 [...]

ESPN’s John Skipper did not exactly speak in glowing terms about ESPNews and ESPN Classic in a recent interview. Skipper was blunt in discussing the shortcomings of both networks in an interview with the Houston [...]

This summer, hour-long primetime NBA specials are apparently en vogue. The NBA will unveil its Opening Week, Christmas Day and Martin Luther King Day schedules during an hour-long TV special on NBA TV Tuesday night, [...]

Additional sports TV ratings news, including the Tour de France, the PGA RBC Canadian Open and the Formula 1 Grand Prix of Germany. Versus averaged 456,000 viewers for the 2010 Tour de France, down 14% [...]

Recent sports TV ratings news, including FOX Saturday Baseball, ESPN Sunday Night Baseball and a new season-high for the Rangers on Fox Sports Southwest. FOX drew a 1.4 final rating and 2.193 million viewers for [...]

Perhaps it was the presence of Manchester United or leftover hype from the World Cup, but the 2010 MLS All-Star Game had a significant rise in viewership. Manchester United’s 5-2 win over the MLS All-Stars [...]

Recent news on sports media personalities, including Buck Showalter leaving ESPN and Jay Glazer and Daryl Johnston joining NFL Network. Buck Showalter: The ESPN MLB analyst is leaving the network to take over as the [...]

Once called Roone Arledge, “only smarter,” the man behind ESPN Hollywood, Playmakers and Rush Limbaugh on Sunday NFL Countdown (and to be fair, Pardon the Interruption) has been hired by NFL Network. Former ESPN Senior [...]

November World Series games will be a thing of the past in 2011. The 2011 World Series will begin on Wednesday, October 19, eight days earlier than this year’s scheduled October 27 start. Assuming MLB [...]

Overnight ratings for sporting events on broadcast last weekend, including MLB on FOX and the PGA RBC Canadian Open on CBS. Also included are overnight ratings for the weekend of July 17-18. Final ratings for [...]