Barking Carnival

Perhaps as soon as next year. The NCAA has an "opt out" clause in its $6 Billion contract with CBS this summer and they have already asked for a Request For Proposal from any and all networks interested. The current contract with CBS is backloaded -- the network owes the NCAA $2.3 Billion over the next three years. CBS kept the contract last time around by bidding up the rights to all platforms --including video

Since reaching the World Series in 2005, the Houston Astros have played losing baseball (315-332), but Fox Sports Houston is in a battle to keep the regional rights to Astros broadcasts, and the competition is coming from cable providers. Comcast and AT&T have been attempting to lure the Astros -- and the Houston Rockets -- away from FSN to start their own Regional Sports Networks. The Astros have an out clause in their long-term

Here's a little pop culture crap to take our minds off of the Great Roundball Abortion of 2010.

In a move that surely elicited a deep belly laugh from Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delaney, Nebraska athletic director Tom Osborne announced Thursday that should the Big Ten decide that the Huskers and the greater Omaha area's 37 television sets are just too lucrative to pass up they might possibly be willing to entertain the notion of teaming up with those fellows and their $270 million yearly television revenues and prestigious and lucrative

“What starts here changes the world.”

After Thursday night's BCS championship game between Alabama and Texas, the Longhorns have now played in the two highest-rated games in BCS Championship history. 'Bama's 37-21 win over the Horns drew over 30 million viewers to ABC's telecast last Thursday night. The Alabama-Texas BCS Championship game is the most viewed sporting event on any network since last year's Super Bowl. The game pulled a 17.2 final rating and 30.8 million viewers on ABC,

The differences between the two coaches involved in this week's BCS Championship Game were made even more evident today in this L.A. Times column. Love this quote: He (Brown) followed Alabama Coach Nick Saban to the microphone at a news conference at Disneyland over the weekend. Saban looked as though he'd rather be having a root canal and called things other than playing the game "clutter," but Brown, when asked whether this was fun for him,

No surprise here as the best game of the decade was also was also the most-watched game of the the BCS era. The Longhorns 41-38 win over USC for the National Championship drew an audience of over 35 million. The Longhorns dramatic National Championship win drew 5.5 million more viewers than the next college telecast -- the 2003 Miami-Ohio State BCS Championship game. As expected, the BCS title games dominate the ratings, but

Folks with Time Warner Cable might want to check around and find a spot to watch the Cotton, Sugar, Fiesta and Orange Bowls from because the cable operator will drop all Fox stations and channels on New Years Day.

College football viewership was up across the board in 2009, with CBS and ESPN enjoying their best ratings in over a decade. Overall, the networks carrying college football (ABC, CBS, ESPN, NBC, Versus) saw an average viewership of 3 million, up about 100,000 from the year before. CBS saw its 15-game SEC lineup average right at 7 million viewers per telecast. That was one and a half million more viewers per game than the 2008

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