Recent sports media news, including Brett Favre‘s upcoming NBC interview, ratings for Hard Knocks on HBO and a new BCS Ranking Show on ESPN.
- Big Name: NFL QB Brett Favre, who announced he would return for a second season with the Vikings this week, will be interviewed at halftime of Sunday’s Vikings/49ers preseason telecast on NBC. NBC’s Al Michaels will conduct the interview. (TV By The Numbers)
- Ratings Game: Wednesday’s edition of the NFL training camp show Hard Knocks drew a 0.5 U.S. rating and 812,000 viewers on HBO — down a tick in ratings and 7% in viewership from the season premiere one week earlier (0.6, 870,000). (Son Of The Bronx)
- Idle Note: In its first year as the exclusive home of the Bowl Championship Series, ESPN is scheduled to debut a weekly, standalone BCS Ranking Show on October 10. The show will air at 8:15 PM on Sunday nights through at least October — and likely throughout the remainder of the college football season. Previous BCS rightsholder FOX announced the weekly BCS rankings during its NFL coverage. (ESPN)
