Tag Archives: Super Bowl

Super Bowl ratings: Super Dud

Posted on February 7, 2019 by Terence | Permalink 0

Viewers tune out Patriots-Rams; lowest ratings in over a decade Thanks to numerous punts and less-than-inspiring play, Super Bowl LIII turned into a Super Dud. In the lowest-scoring [..]

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2019 Super Bowl Commercials review: Lackluster effort from a lackuster game

Posted on February 5, 2019 by Terence | Permalink 1

Commercials and the game itself fall flat In common lore, thirteen is considered an “unlucky” number. Well, the thirteenth edition of T Dog Media’s Super Bowl Commercial roundup [..]

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

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 Comments Off on Super Bowl ratings: One for the record books

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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