- Michael Wilbon has signed a multiyear contract extension with ESPN that shifts most of his work to television and away from the Washington Post.
- Monday Night Football was the most watched cable series of all time (9.9 rating), and the seventeen games broadcast by ESPN were the top seventeen most watched broadcasts on cable this year.
- This week, FOX will continue to experiment with having Joe Buck anchor the studio show from Los Angeles while veteran Dick Stockton calls the main games with Troy Aikman. Buck will be back for playoff coverage.
- NFL games on NFL Network are averaging 3.1 million viewers; that’s slightly higher than regular season NBA games on ABC and baseball games on FOX, but significantly lower than the numbers for games on ESPN.
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