- Final round coverage of the PGA Travelers Championship drew a 1.8 overnight rating on CBS Sunday, up 6% from both last year and 2008 (1.7). Third round coverage on Saturday drew a 0.9 overnight, down 18% from both last year and 2008 (1.1). (Sports Business Daily)
- NBC drew a 1.5 overnight rating for Wimbledon coverage on Saturday, up 36% from last year (1.1), but down 12% from 2008 (1.7). Coverage on Sunday drew a 1.2 overnight, up 20% from last year (1.0), down 29% from 2008 (1.7), and the network’s second-lowest overnight for the middle Sunday of the tournament since at least 1998. (Sports Business Daily)
- Sunday’s Formula 1 Grand Prix of Europe drew a 0.8 overnight rating on FOX, down a tick from the Grand Prix of Canada two weeks earlier (0.9). To put the numbers in perspective, the 0.8 overnight is on par with only non-Indianapolis 500 IndyCar race on ABC this year. (Sports Business Daily)
Ted Turner, whose cable business transformed TV sports, dies
Ted Turner, the media mogul and team owner whose TBS "SuperStation" helped pave the way the era of cable...
