Archive for July 12th, 2011

More viewers tuned into this year’s edition of the Major League Baseball Home Run Derby, but the numbers were still lower than usual. The 2011 MLB Home Run Derby drew a 4.0 U.S. rating and [...]

Recent news involving sports media personalities, including Fox Sports’ Joe Buck continuing to recover from a vocal chord ailment, CBS Sports’ Jim Nantz being honored by the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and Charlotte Bobcats’ [...]

Sunday’s Women’s World Cup match between the United States and Brazil hit a twelve-year high in viewership on ESPN. The United States/Brazil Women’s World Cup quarterfinal earned a 2.3 U.S. rating and 3.890 million viewers [...]

Saturday’s inaugural NASCAR Sprint Cup race from Kentucky put up good enough numbers for TNT. The NASCAR Sprint Cup Quaker State 400 earned a 3.0 U.S. rating and 4.968 million viewers on TNT Saturday night, [...]

Overnight ratings for the MLB Home Run Derby were even with last year, when the event ended up with its lowest final rating in nearly a decade. Coverage of the 2011 Major League Baseball Home [...]

Sports Media Watch presents Announcing Recommendations. Today, the NFL on NBC, CBS, FOX, ESPN and NFL Network. Among the topics addressed: Is it time to slim down the often-packed studio shows? Should Joe Buck be [...]

In a deal that the NHL says will “streamline national U.S. NHL media sales for the next five years,” NBC Sports Group has agreed to sell advertising for the NHL’s television, online and mobile platforms. [...]