Barking Carnival

More than 106 million persons tuned into Super Bowl XLIV Sunday night, making it the most-viewed program in TV history. The previous record was set back in 1983 by the “M-A-S-H” finale which was seen by 105.97 million viewers. In metered markets across the country, the telecast of the Saints win over the Colts averaged a 46.4 rating and 68 share, meaning just under one out of every two homes with a TV set was tuned

Texas 49-39 win over Texas A&M not only kept the Horns unbeaten season alive, it is one of the top-rated college games on ESPN this season. The game drew a 3.7 rating and 6.7 million viewers. That was a 20% increase over last years telecast which drew 5.6 million viewers on Thanksgiving night. This year's contest is the highest-rated Thursday night football game of the season on ESPN, but that will probably change with tonight's

That's what you will see Monday leading up to the Monday Night Football Game featuring Favre's Minnesota Vikings vs. the Green Bay Packers. The WWL is already basking in the glow of record cable ratings for MNF this season. For the third week in a row, the contest delivered The largest audience on cable TV for 2009. The Dallas Cowboys 21-7 win over Carolina drew over 15.7 million viewers - the largest audience for any

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.

Last weekend offered further proof that football is the sport of choice among fans, and ESPN is its top promoter. The WWL set cable viewing records for both the USC-Ohio State game and Monday Night Football. The Saturday night telecast of the Trojan's 18-15 win over the Buckeyes was the network's most-viewed college football game ever. Over 10.5 million viewers tuned into the game. USC's win over Ohio State helped ESPN become

It may have been a lousy weekend for the ACC, but the Labor Day matchup between Miami and Florida State was a ratings winner for hte league and ESPN. While the ACC went 4-6 in non-conference play, Miami edged the Seminoles 38-34 as 8.4 million viewers watched. That made the contest the second-most watched regular season college football game in the 30 years of ESPN. The most watched college football game on the WWL was

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

You the typical Sportcenter viewer that is. Oh they already have a pretty good idea as to who you are. The WWL isn't looking for a one-night stand. They are into you and want a permanent relationship, so they want to know what gets your heart beating faster, what makes you perspire, what gets your "arousal" rate up. And they have chosen Austin as the place to open

Our resident quipster HenryJames once remarked that the internet is only good for porn and telling people that they suck. People like bad sports announcers. Who are being produced by the sports media machine as rapidly as the Fed prints pesos. And, they..umm, suck! Well, not today. Not all of them. I'm putting away my internet snark to tell you my favorite college football announcers. These are the

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