Private Canadian broadcaster CTV has acquired the rights to air NFL games for a three-year term, beginning this fall. The Canadian NFL package was previously held by Global, another private-owned broadcaster. The deal includes the next three Super Bowls, all playoff games, and the weekly 1 p.m. regular season game, which usually features teams in American border cities (mainly the […]
More on the Super Bowl ads, which became a super joke: – Phil Rosenthal wrote in the Tribune that the like the Bears, the ads fell short of goal, especially the CareerBuilder.com ad, which ditched the popular monkeys for workers in the jungle. (Personally, I wish they would put more effort into making a better connection between job seekers and […]
Interesting observations about the Super Bowl XLI ratings: – The game averaged a 42.6 rating and 64 share, according to Nielsen – the highest rated Super Bowl since 2000. The game itself pulled in 93.1 million viewers – the third most-watched television broadcast of all time – behind the final episode of M*A*S*H in 1983 (The all-time champ with 105.9 […]
[This was originally posted Monday night, but was taken down because of technical and editing problems – but it’s back up now -enjoy! :0) ]A little footnote : This isn’t the most creative batch of commercials to come out this year. The effort -much like the game – was sloppy. On that note, here are the The T Dog Blog’s […]
Later today, We’ll post our top ten best Super Bowl commercials (along with video of the winner), but for now – here is the top ten worst (I suppose if Rex Grossman’s performance was an ad, it would easily top the list….) Here’s the top ten (we’ll do the Casey Kasem style from 10 -to-1 – in the best SB […]
Bears lose to the Colts 29-17 in Super Bowl XLI. A Chicago team loses in a Championship game for the first time since in 15 years (Blackhawks lost to Penguins in Game 4 of Stanley Cup Finals at Chicago Stadium.) Congrats to the Colts, and hats off to MVP Peyton Manning for playing a good game, and especially to head […]
Here how much has changed since the Bears last went to the Super Bowl: Number of broadcast networks: 1985: 3 Today: 7 Format of 94.7FM: 1985: WLS-FM (Rock/Top 40) Today: WZZN-FM (Oldies – the format and call letters of this frequency would change numerous times between 1985 and 2005)Cost of a candy bar: 1985: 39 cents Today: 89 cents Top […]
(First off, I’ll be posting mainly in the late-night hours this week because of other commitments that have popped up during other hours of the day…. But I will post breaking news when I feel its warranted…. On that note…) Stations in Illinois and Indiana are gearing up to cover the big game: – The CBS affiliates in the home-team […]
For those of you who need their Britney-Lindsey-Angelina-Rosie-Donald fix, move over: CBS-owned WBBM-TV is pushing Mary Hart out for a week to air “Mission Miami: Countdown to the Super Bowl”, which covers the Bears at the big game, all this week at 6:30pm. But those who need that fix can tune to Entertainment Tonight’s sister show The Insider, on WCIU-TV […]
With the Chicago Bears in the Super Bowl, CBS-owned WBBM-TV has set up an HDTV hotline to help viewers who have problems receiving the station’s HDTV signal over the air (antenna). WBBM has been notorious for having problems with its over-the-air HD signal. For more information on how to receive the station’s HD signal with an antenna or through cable, […]
This was ours…. It can be ours again on February 4. GO BEARS!!!
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