Barking Carnival

A college basketball game in a pro football arena turned out to be a ratings winner as the Horns 103-90 win over the Tar Heels drew almost 3 million viewers to the ESPN Telecast. The game drew a 2.1 rating to go with over 2.9 million viewers, making it the most-viewed early season game (October through December) on ESPN in three years. The Texas-North Carolina Game is the highest rated, most-viewed

As the Tiger Woods Sex Scandal tries to answer the question, "Will Tiger reach 18 Majors or 18 Mistresses First?" the golf world has to contemplate exactly how hard will his self-induced sabbatical hurt the game.

Last year the NCAA looked on with envy as the BCS, despite a down economy, hit pay dirt with a $500 million dollar deal to move their games off of broadcast TV to ESPN. Now the organization is considering jumping out of its $6 billion dollar deal for the NCAA Basketball Tournament with CBS, expanding the tournament to 96 teams and moving it to cable as well. CBS has been the home of March Madness

GE has reached an agreement with its partners and is now ready to sell NBC and its cable channels to Comcast for about $30 Billion.

If you're fired via email late at night, and nobody else is copied on it, did it really happen? Sporstline.com writer Gregg Doyel might find out very soon. He's made a fun game of trashing a new college football conference every week in a No one is worthy!

Too bad because ABC loves them. Thanks to the early start -- and no real competition from other games -- the Red River Rivalry was the most watched college football game of the Oct. 17th weekend. Texas' 16-13 win over OU this year brought one million more fans to the TV sets than the 7.7 million who watched the game in 2008. ABC drew a 5.7 rating and 8.7 million viewers for

There have been rumors for a while that Comcast and GE are in talks about a deal in which GE would spin off its NBC Universal Unit (including the cable channels) into a new company that would merge with the content assets of Comcast. Why does the proposed takeover matter to sports fans, or more specifially college football fans? Because the head of Comcast, Jeff Shell wants the new company to compete with ESPN

I guess we all know that the Big 12 schools get about $10 million less per year than the Big 10 and SEC schools. In this economy, that's a huge problem.

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.

...or at least restrict those who aren't paying them for the privilege. The Southeastern Conference announced new rules that would restrict media outlets in terms of use of video, audio, photographs and digital descriptions of any and all SEC events, from games to practices and press conferences. After hearing from just about every media outlet outside of their TV partners ESPN and CBS, the SEC has indicated that maybe they were a little quick

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