An article written in the Sun-Times today (how come Feder didn’t get a chance to write this?), mentions four call letters you’d better get reacquainted with – WPWR. Of course, Fox-owned WPWR-TV (Channel 50), a former UPN affiliate now-turned My Network TV affiliate has the Bears-Redskins game Thursday night, which is carried on NFL Network, which of course, you can’t […]
Comcast SportsNet and the Chicago Blackhawks have announced four additional home games to be televised in March and April, in addition to the eleven they have already announced (one of them has already aired.) One game includes a visit from the Stanley Cup Champion Anaheim Ducks (nee “Mighty”) on March 5. All games will be shown in high-definition, a huge […]
With the Pumpkin Pie Awards for Excellence Welcome to the second annual T Dog Media Blog Turkey Awards. Once again, we’re here to serve up the disasters in media in 2007. I have nineteen turkeys to hand out… so let’s get gobbling! And this year’s awards go to… – The Chicago Bears. A Super Bowl hangover this year. And especially Rex […]
Last night’s first Chicago Blackhawks home game against the Detroit Red Wings averaged a household rating of 0.8, according to Nielsen Media Research. While that number seems disappointing (after all, it’s hockey), it was an improvement over the 0.4 rating it has averaged so far this season, it tied an October 31 game against Dallas for the season high (0.8), […]
With the Bears and Bulls going down the drain and a writer’s strike that seems to be getting worse by the minute, it’s going to be a long, cold winter in Chicago. Only thing I can say is… Go Hawks! I can’t believe I just said that. But it may be the only thing worth watching on TV (thanks to […]
Hawks also looking for over-the-air broadcast partner The Chicago Blackhawks and Comcast SportsNet held a press conference yesterday to announce the home-game schedule that will air on the regional sports net. Click here to view the official press release and the schedule. The first of these games airs this Sunday, with the Hawks hosting the Detroit Red Wings at 6 […]
-The recently completed World Series was a success for Fox, despite the fact that the Boston Red Sox swept the Colorado Rockies in four. Game 4 drew 20.9 million viewers, up from last year’s Game 4 World Series between Detroit and St. Louis. The series altogether drew an average of 17.1 million viewers, up 8 percent from the Detroit-St. Louis […]
There are certain things in life that are guaranteed. CBS’ morning show languishing in the ratings basement. Wheel of Fortune topping the syndicated ratings chart every week. And Chicago Blackhawks home games blacked out on local TV. Well, one of things may be coming to an end. The Chicago Tribune is reporting on its website that the Chicago Blackhawks are […]
Let me start off by saying this is the last sports-related column yours truly will write for a long time (unless if it’s providing NFL coverage maps or something ratings-related.) In fact, this is a media blog, and not a sports one, and I can tell you readers are already starting to fall asleep, giving the pathetic state Chicago sports […]
Usually yours truly doesn’t devote a space here to attack someone (yeah, right), but I have to give attention to Jay Mariotti’s latest column from the Daily Onion regarding the death of Chicago Blackhawks owner Bill Wirtz… From: T Dog To: Jay Mariotti, Chicago Sun-Times Dear Moron: Who do YOU THINK YOU ARE when you tell us how to behave? […]
The Chicago Blackhawks owner dies at 77. Rather than type something here, I’ll just guide you to this link. It sums up my thoughts, exactly. And here’s a Think Tank (the first one I wrote) you can read from last year on the Hawks and the NHL.
More bad ratings news for sports: The Stanley Cup Finals have been a complete disaster for Versus and the NHL, drawing just 466,000 viewers for Game 2 between the Anaheim Ducks and the Ottawa Senators. Ratings are down 22 percent in households from a year ago. Of course, when the NHL commissioner is as stupid as the Blackhawks’ owner is, […]
Diane Wets of Newsday says that tonight’s “laugh n’ sniff” promotion of tonight’s My Name Is Earl is a joke (of the pathetic sense) and today’s sitcoms are hardly the caliber of past Must See TV sitcom successes. When you think about it, the state of the sitcom is pretty much like the state of the Chicago Blackhawks – Both […]
And like The Great American Dream Vote – get clocked out. CMT has dumped the once popular pageant after two years. This comes after NBC picked up the Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants for three more years, despite the fact that nobody watches them. (They did the same thing with the NHL on Tuesday. So why can’t CMT follow […]
…to end this sorry season, and get the hell out of town, hopefully for good. (and take your sorry management with you.) ESPN’s Ultimate Standings ranked the Hawks dead last in the NHL. This is what yours truly posted on a Tribune blog: Maybe the same people who keep going to Hawks games are the same ones who keep voting […]
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