Archive for September 13th, 2010

Suspended Fanhouse.com personality Jay Mariotti has officially been charged following a domestic dispute last month. Mariotti was charged on Monday with “two counts of domestic violence with injury, two counts of domestic violence, one count [...]

Recent sports TV ratings news, including the WNBA Finals on ABC, NFL pregame coverage on FOX and CBS and regional MLB action on FOX. Game 1 of the Dream/Storm WNBA Finals drew a 0.5 overnight [...]

Golf ratings may still be up compared to 2008, when Tiger Woods missed the second half of the season, but events continue to trail 2009 — when Woods was frequently in contention. Final round coverage [...]

NASCAR did not exactly light up the ratings on Saturday night, though the Air Guard 400 managed to match the previous week’s edition of Saturday Night Football. ABC drew a 2.8 overnight rating for the [...]

Despite airing in its regular timeslot for the first time in three years, the U.S. Open Women’s Final drew its lowest overnight rating on CBS in over a decade. CBS drew a 1.9 overnight rating [...]

ABC did as poorly in the ratings on Saturday afternoon as Florida State did on the field. Regional college football action featuring Florida State/Oklahoma drew a mere 2.1 overnight on ABC Saturday afternoon, down a [...]

While CBS did not quite attract the huge numbers of FOX and NBC on Sunday, the network still managed an impressive rise in overnight ratings for Week 1 of the NFL season. Sunday’s Week 1 [...]

NBC was not the only network to draw big numbers for NFL coverage on Sunday. FOX drew a 17.1 overnight rating for Sunday’s NFL national window (featuring Packers/Eagles), up 14% from coverage featuring Washington/Giants last [...]

Week 1 of the NFL season was very good to NBC. Sunday’s Cowboys/Washington Sunday Night Football game drew a 16.6 overnight rating on NBC, up 24% from Bears/Packers last year (13.4), up 28% from Bears/Colts [...]