Three more years for WWE Raw on USA Network. So, that means three more years of Vince McMahon and brain-dead wrestling fans screaming “What?” at every opportunity. Ugh. So if David Stern and Gary Bettman can stick around and continue to ruin the NBA and NHL, respectively…
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 […]
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 […]
The Daily Southtown lays into Major League Baseball, calling the new deal that puts most playoff games on cable TV isn’t friendly to fans, particularly to those of the Chicago Cubs, whose team may make the postseason, and fans without cable or satellite are out of luck. When ESPN had the rights to the divisional series in the past, they […]
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.
This story from Crain’s Chicago Business from the previous week has an item about the Chicago White Sox – the 2005 World Series Champions who are struggling on the field this year – and in the ratings and at the box office, too. As a result, the team has decided to put its ad agency account up for review. Like […]
Teddy Greenstein in today’s Trib talks about the soon-to-launch Big Ten Network and how it is struggling to get carriage among the Midwest’s biggest cable operators, including Comcast, Time Warner, Wide Open West, and Charter systems. The Big Ten Network also wants to be on an expanded sports tier, and not a pay-for-play sports tier. BTN officials point that the […]
The 2007 NBA Finals will go down as the least watched finals ever – The San Antonio Spurs-Cleveland Cavilers matchup drew just a 5.5 Nielsen household rating last night, and a 6.2 for the entire series, in which the Spurs swept the Cavs in four. Along with record-low ratings for the World Series (between Tigers-Cardinals) last fall and the Stanley […]
With what else? The Stanley Cup Finals, of course. And the Canadian posters are blaming the United States’ love of mindless dramas and even more mindless reality TV for the very low Stanley Cup ratings, never mind that eight of the top ten highest-ranked programs on Canadian TV two weeks ago were U.S. programs like American Idol and CSI. Of […]
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, […]
The ratings for Major League Baseball games are up 20 percent on regional cable networks, according to Nielsen, and advertisers are clearly benefiting from the strong start. Some of them, like Fox’s Detroit and Houston’s regional sports networks, are averaging better ratings than the local CW and MyNetworkTV affiliates in prime time. Meanwhile, Fox’s Saturday Game of the Week (which […]
NBC picks up 30 Rock for another season. Well, it they can renew the NHL and Miss USA…..
Ah, the rare Sunday post… Can anyone tell me why NBC is airing a Blackhawks-Blue Jackets hockey game this afternoon? (Given the NHL’s stupidity, it’s no surprise.) Can anyone tell me why the Bulls have three straight national TV appearances in which they lost two in a row and will likely lose tonight at Phoenix? Haven’t our city’s image suffered […]
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