Tag Archives: Super Bowl

Super Bowl LII ratings couldn’t match last year’s

Posted on February 8, 2018 by Terence | Permalink 0

But 103.4 million viewers isn’t bad Super Bowl LII gave us what we wanted in a football game – a close contest throughout, an exciting finish, and best [..]

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Best/Worst Super Bowl Commercials of 2018: We’re having the time of our lives

Posted on February 6, 2018 by Terence | Permalink 1

Tide strikes again Last year, Tide had two memorable ads in the top ten as Procter & Gamble “cleaned up” in the Best Commercials category. This year, Tide [..]

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Super Bowl LI: Historic, but not in the ratings department

Posted on February 7, 2017 by Terence | Permalink 0

New England Patriots come from behind and beat the Atlanta Falcons History was made in Super Bowl LI – but not in the ratings. Tom Brady led the [..]

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Super Bowl 50 falls short of viewership record

Posted on February 10, 2016 by Terence | Permalink 0

But 111.9 million viewers is pretty darn good The Golden Anniversary of the Super Bowl from Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif. drew incredible numbers – though the [..]

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The Upfronts Post-Game Show

Posted on May 18, 2015 by Terence | Permalink 0

What we learned: – The sitcom is almost dead – Too much drama – Greg Berlanti is now the most powerful person on TV Now that the parties have [..]

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Super Bowl XLIX: One for the record books

Posted on February 2, 2015 by Terence | Permalink 0

The last-minute nail biter between the Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots becomes the most-watched program of all time and the tenth-highest rated Chicago pulls in higher number [..]

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Ed Sherman’s Skittles “boycott” devalues the word

Posted on January 29, 2015 by Terence | Permalink 0

Sports media “boycott” of Skittles because of press snub actually undermines real causes  (Editor’s Note: This post has been slightly edited from the original version on T Dog [..]

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T Dog’s Think Tank: “Heroes” returns. Oh God, why?

Posted on February 25, 2014 by Terence | Permalink 0

Just when you think the idiots who run broadcast network television couldn’t get any stupider, here comes this piece of news: NBC aired a promo Saturday night – [..]

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Super Bowl ratings: One for the record books

Posted on February 4, 2014 by Terence | Permalink 0

Tribune Broadcasting came out as biggest winner of all – four of its stations placed in the top ten most-watched markets  If you thought the audience would dwindle [..]

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Fox threatens to move its programming to cable

Posted on April 10, 2013 by Terence | Permalink Comments Off on Fox threatens to move its programming to cable

Is this legitimate? Or nothing more than an empty threat? Who’d thought something as small as a dime-sized antenna would cause this much trouble? The industry was a [..]

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Swearin’ Super Bowl Sunday

Posted on February 6, 2013 by Terence | Permalink Comments Off on Swearin’ Super Bowl Sunday

  Super Bowl XLVII down from last year, but still pulls in an audience; CBS to be investigated for F-bomb; and so is WMVP for unrelated incident The [..]

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Best and Worst Super Bowl Commercials – 2013

Posted on February 5, 2013 by Terence | Permalink Comments Off on Best and Worst Super Bowl Commercials – 2013

Welcome to the seventh annual wrap-up of the best and worst Super Bowl commercials (man, time flies!) The ads were featured in Super Bowl XLVII, a matchup between [..]

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CBS new 2012-13 primetime schedule

Posted on May 17, 2012 by Terence | Permalink Comments Off on CBS new 2012-13 primetime schedule

CBS unveiled its 2012-13 primetime schedule Wednesday morning in advance of its upfront presentation later in the afternoon. The Tiffany network introduced four new shows – three drams [..]

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One for the record books – yet again

Posted on February 7, 2012 by Terence | Permalink Comments Off on One for the record books – yet again

The Voice and Smash get off to impressive starts Here we go again – for the third year in a row, the Super Bowl has set another viewing [..]

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NFL agrees to new deals with CBS, NBC, and Fox

Posted on December 15, 2011 by Terence | Permalink Comments Off on NFL agrees to new deals with CBS, NBC, and Fox

The National Football League has secured deals with three of its network partners to keep football on over-the-air broadcast TV for the next decade. The deals keeps everything [..]

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