Posted by srr50 on August 25th, 2009 under Football
playing America's Game in America's Stadium.
The Cowboys hosted Tennessee in a relatively meaningless pre-season game last Friday night -- and the game finished in the Top Twenty in prime time ratings for the week. Over 6.6 million viewers tuned in to make it the most watched sporting event of the week.
Fox assumed (correctly) that a lot of folks would tune in to see the latest Jerry Jones allegiance to excess.
Posted by srr50 on August 4th, 2009 under Football
the ACC, Big 10, Big East and the Pac 10.
Heading into the 2009 football season, the Southeastern Conference is begining a 15-year deal with ESPN and CBS that makes the conference "A First Among Equals" in the BCS. While the numbers are staggering in terms of money flowing to SEC schools, the ramifactions of the contracts reach beyond the bottom line. But first and foremost, it is the money that catches your attention.
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The NFL Network settled its fight with Comcast Cable today, giving the channel a huge boost in potential viewers.
Comcast, the nation's largest cable outlet, started the fight in 2006 when it moved the NFL Network off its basic digital tier to the more expensive sports tier. The NFL Network wanted to boost is price from 15 cents per subscriber to 70 cents. Comcast didn't think the 8 live games that the NFL Network would
Out of the six BCS conferences, only the Big East has a worse overall regional TV package than the Pac 10 (The Big 12 is barely better). Thanks to the current economic climate the Pac 10 is looking to add to its revenue stream by starting its own regional network.
According to 2007 Internal Revenue Data, the Pac 10 was trailing the other major conferences in gross receipts (game day revenue) -- by a wide
Posted by srr50 on January 6th, 2009 under Football
Texas and Ohio State put on a show last night, and FOX Sports was a major beneficiary. The Longhorns last-minute win over the Buckeyes will probably turn out to be the third highest-rated BCS Bowl game since Fox took over the rights.Quan's dramatic finish helped produced an overnight rating over three ratings points higher than the 8.4 overnight rating pulled by West Virginia's upset of OU in the 2008 Fiesta Bowl.
Last night’s