Archive for July, 2011

The NFL Network canceled two previously scheduled live football telecasts this weekend in favor of offseason NFL coverage. NFL Network preempted Friday’s Sharks/Predators Arena Football League quarterfinal game to air coverage of NFL player movement. [...]

Due to the recently completed 2011 NFL lockout, the HBO series Hard Knocks will take this year off. HBO Sports and NFL Films have announced that Hard Knocks, the annual reality series chronicling an individual [...]

Recent sports TV ratings news, including an increase for the Tour de France on CBS, numbers for the debut of Summer of Saratoga horse racing on NBC, and a viewership record for NFL Network.

Recent sports TV ratings news, including a double-digit decline for Major League Baseball on FOX, a double-digit increase for Formula 1 racing on FOX, and a viewership record for IndyCar Series racing on Versus.

Ratings improved substantially for coverage of last week’s PGA Tour Canadian Open on CBS. CBS earned a 1.8 final rating and 2.500 million viewers for final round coverage of the Canadian Open last Sunday, up [...]

Ratings and viewership declined sharply for the final week of the 2011 Copa America soccer tournament. The Uruguay/Paraguay Copa America final earned a 1.2 final rating and 2.251 million viewers on Univision Sunday afternoon, down [...]

The overall numbers were minuscule, but the WNBA All-Star Game had a massive increase in viewership on ABC last weekend. The 2011 WNBA All-Star Game earned a 0.54 final rating and 756,000 viewers on ABC [...]

Recent news involving sports media personalities, including former college football coach Tim Brewster joining Fox Sports, Cleatus the Dancing Robot moving to FOX college football coverage, and NHL announcer Dave Strader officially leaving the Coyotes [...]

Had FOX won rights to the Olympic Games, often criticized play-by-play voice Joe Buck would have hosted the network’s coverage. Fox Sports president Eric Shanks told USA Today that Buck would have hosted the network’s [...]

ESPN NBA analyst Jalen Rose will spend just under three weeks in jail for drunken driving. Rose was sentenced to 93 days in Oakland County Jail for driving under the influence, of which he will [...]