Archive for August 31st, 2011

The third week of the 2011 NFL preseason did not attract particularly impressive numbers for TV partners NBC, CBS and ESPN. The Week 3 national TV slate began and ended on a down note. First, [...]

Additional sports TV ratings news, including a six-year high for the WNBA regular season on ESPN2, another season-high for the Texas Rangers on Fox Sports Southwest, and a double-digit decline for NASCAR’s Nationwide Series.

Recent sports TV ratings news, including a double-digit rise for MLB on FOX, increases for the PGA Tour Wyndham Championship, and softer numbers for horse racing’s Summer of Saratoga series.

Recent news involving sports media personalities, including Today Show executive producer Jim Bell producing next year’s Olympics, new hosts for the NFL Network’s NFL Total Access, and the death of Detroit Lions beat writer Tom [...]

Though viewers will have the opportunity to watch all Olympic events live next year, primetime coverage of will continue to use the oft-criticized tape delay format. NBC will use the “traditional formula of human-interest features [...]

Former NBC Sports Group Chairman Dick Ebersol will return to the company in a smaller role. Ebersol will serve as a special advisor to current NBC Sports Group chairman Mark Lazarus, the New York Times [...]

NFL Network earned one of its largest ever NFL preseason audiences for Monday’s Jets/Giants game. The rescheduled NFL preseason game between the Jets and Giants earned 1.784 million viewers on NFL Network Monday night, the [...]

Hurricane-related preemptions resulted in a double-digit decline in ratings and viewership for the first NASCAR race of the season on ABC. Saturday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Irwin Tools Night Race from Bristol (TN) earned a 3.0 [...]