Week in review.

• The Arena Football League board of directors votes to cancel the 2009 season.
• Giants/Cowboys draws a 15.4 overnight rating, the best overnight of the season for Sunday Night Football. For only the second time this season, NBC draws the highest overnight of the weekend for an NFL game.
• The NBA is set to reveal the latest ads in its “Where Amazing Happens” campaign on Christmas Day.
• The NHL ramps up its marketing efforts prior to the Winter Classic on New Year’s Day.

Tuesday

• Ratings for nationally televised NBA games are down in Seattle (20% on ESPN, 10% on TNT) and Oklahoma City (18% on ESPN, 33% on TNT). In Oklahoma City, Thunder telecasts are averaging a 1.2 rating on KSBI and a 1.1 rating on FS Oklahoma.
• Viewership for the Heisman Trophy Presentation slips slightly from last year.
• Giants/Cowboys draws a 13.7 final rating and 23.1 million viewers, making it the third-highest rated and second-most viewed NFL telecast on NBC since 2006.

Wednesday

• CBS and Time Warner are discussing a joint bid for the rights to the 2014 and 2016 Olympics. Most of you still believe that NBC would do the best job of covering the Olympics.
• Browns/Eagles sends Monday Night Football to its third-smallest audience of the season.

Thursday

• Final ratings for college football games on broadcast and cable. The top-ranked college football networks in order of total viewers: ABC, CBS, ESPN, NBC, FSN and Versus.
• Ratings for most of the college football games on national television this season.
• While the ratings for Giants/Cowboys got most of the attention, CBS drew the highest NFL ratings of the week with Steelers/Ravens.

Friday

• ESPN will swap its NBA and college basketball announcing teams on January 7.
• You saw it here first: Vancouver columnist calls the NBA a “ghetto gutter” and “America at its worst.” Also, Sports on My Mind wonders why ESPN did not report on Brian Giles‘ alleged abuse of his girlfriend, and one columnist wonders if we’re seeing the end of professional sports as we know it due to the economy.

Saturday

• Only thirteen WNBA games will be nationally televised in 2009, the fewest in league history. ABC is scheduled to air only one game, an Opening Day tilt between the Sparks and Shock.
• Ratings predictions for the rest of the holiday season.