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ESPN Sets Cable Record With BCS Championship Telecast
While Auburn captured the National Championship with a 22-19 victory over Oregon, ESPN captured a national record. Their telecast of the BCS Championship game is the most-watched telecast in cable history. Over 27.3 million viewers tuned in to ESPN Monday night, according to Nielsen...
ESPN Opens Up The Vault To The NFL — Again
Carolina Panthers owner Jerry Richardson is one of the key negotiators for the NFL with the Players Union over a new Collective Bargaining Agreement, and he is not optimistic about a quick settlement. Richardson complains that the players just want "more money and less work." Meanwhile the NFL's...
BCS TV Ratings Down: ESPN Says "Who Cares?"
The overnight ratings for the Rose Bowl and the Fiesta Bowl both dropped by double-digits, and that doesn't worry ESPN in the least. TCU's win over Wisconsin in the Rose Bowl drew an overnight rating of 11.7 on ESPN -- down from the 13.8 rating that last years game drew on ABC. The overnights for...
Pac 10 Network – Why it Was A Deal Killer For Texas
A few weeks back, the Pac 10/12 quietly announced that there was a "strong likelihood" that the Conference would start its own cable channel in 2012. As with any other major undertaking the "Devil is in the Details," and buried in the details of the conference's plan for its own network are a...
Cause and Effect
EFFECT The TV ratings for the regular season of college football were generally down across the board. CAUSE Texas Florida Michigan Penn State USC Notre Dame These collegiate "brand names" were all Missing In Action from the final regular season AP Top 25 Poll. Those teams were a combined 41-32...
Longhorn TV Network Could Be Worth $15 Million A Year
Reports are that UT and ESPN are just days away from finalizing a long-term deal that dramatically increases the yearly broadcast revenue stream for the program. The TV, cable, and digital distribution deal would bring in at least $10 million and as much as $15 million a year to the Longhorn...
UT Close To Picking Partner For Longhorn Network
There are reports that the creation of a Longhorn Network will take a major step by the end of the month. The paysite Sports Business Journal is stating that Fox Sports Net is the leader to become the broadcast partner for UT in the venture. The target date for launching the Longhorn Network is...
NFL Racks Up Record TV Ratings For Week 1
When negotiators for the NFL players and owners get together this off-season to work out a new contract, they need to be put in a locked in a room with nothing to read but the Nielsen ratings from this season. Looking at the massive TV numbers for their game might actually knock some sense into the...
Boise State-Va. Tech A Ratings Winner For ESPN
Boise's States last minute 33-30 win over Virginia Tech was easily the most-watched college football game of the weekend. The game pulled an overnight rating of 6.8 on ESPN. One ratings point translates into approximately 1.65 million viewers. The game pulled more than twice as many viewers as the...
Bevo Gets Into the Energy Business
Whenever the Longhorn Sports Network is up and running, UT would appreciate it if you would use Texas Longhorns Energy to power up your HDTV. UT has entered into a 6-year agreement with Dallas-based Branded Retail Energy to use the Longhorn brand to sell consumers electricity and natural gas in...
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