Archive for February 7th, 2011

FOX hit a nine-year high in ratings and viewership for Sunday’s Super Bowl XLV pregame show.Over four hours of pregame coverage earned a 11.5 fast-national rating and 22.2 million viewers on FOX Sunday afternoon, the [...]

The Super Bowl continued its reign of complete dominance of the television landscape Sunday night, as the Packers’ win over the Steelers drew the largest audience in the history of American television.Super Bowl XLV earned [...]

It was no competition for the Super Bowl pregame on FOX, but Sunday’s Magic/Celtics game on ABC drew good numbers.The Celtics’ win over the Magic earned a 2.8 overnight rating on ABC Sunday afternoon, up [...]

The Packers and Steelers’ home markets finished in a tie for the second-best local Super Bowl rating of all time.Sunday’s Super Bowl XLV drew a 59.7 overnight rating in both Pittsburgh and Milwaukee, the second-highest [...]

The Super Bowl pregame show earned numbers comparable to some of the biggest events in sports.FOX earned a 12.2 overnight rating for Sunday’s Super Bowl XLV pregame show, up 13% from last year (10.8, CBS). [...]

If Sunday’s Super Bowl XLV truly was the last NFL game for the foreseeable future, the league went out with a bang.Super Bowl XLV, in which the Packers defeated the Steelers for their first Super [...]

NBC continues to exert its influence over Comcast’s primary sports outlet, Versus.Versus NHL play-by-play voice Joe Beninati will no longer call games for the network, according to multiple reports. Beninati will remain as the voice [...]

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