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10.03.14 Good morning. It’s Friday, October 3, 2014, and this is your first early morning Sports briefing.
ESPN’s return to the MLB postseason knocked it out of the park. The NL game ranked as the most-watched and highest-rated MLB Wild Card Game across any network ever, according to the company, with 5,591,000 viewers tuning in and snagging a 3.6 rating, according to fast nationals from Nielsen. Those numbers mark a 22% rise in viewership and 20% in ratings compared to the 2013 NL Wild Card Game. The contest was also the most-viewed MLB game ever on WatchESPN with more than 9.9 million total minutes viewed and an average minute audience of 48,589.
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Meanwhile, with Dick Vitale now locked in to a new deal, ESPN announced that Jay Bilas has also agreed to an extension with ESPN through the 2022-23 men’s college basketball season. Bilas will call top men’s college basketball games, including that addition of ESPN’s Saturday Primetime Presented by DIRECTV game-of-the-week assignment to his analyst role on College GameDay. Bilas joined ESPN in the 1994-95 college basketball season as a game and studio color commentator.
In addition, ESPN also wrangled Hall of Fame Coach Jim Calhoun to its roster, where he will serve as a men’s college basketball analyst. Calhoun will offer insight and analysis across ESPN, including studio programming, joining select game telecasts and conducting sit-down interviews with top figures in the game, first appearing on the State Farm Champions Classic on Nov. 18.
NBC Sports Group, Universal Sports Network and U.S. Figure Skating unveiled the broadcast schedule for the 2014-15 figure skating season. NBC Sports Group is on deck for more than 30 hours of broadcast coverage throughout the season, including 13.5 hours of live and taped programming of the seven-event ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Series, 9.5 hours of the 2015 Prudential Figure Skating Championships and same-weekend coverage of the 2015 World, Four Continents and European championships. Universal Sports will also broadcast 37 hours of live and delayed coverage of the Grand Prix Series and ISU championship events. NBC will kick off its Grand Prix Series coverage from 2014 Hilton HHonors Skate America from Oct. 24-26 in Chicago. Meanwhile, icenetwork will feature live and on-demand streaming of every skater in every discipline from more than 20 senior-level events throughout the season on a subscription basis.
Verne Lundquist gets the spotlight in a new one-hour documentary that runs on Nov. 29 at 1:30p on CBS. The special, dubbed In Your Life, will relive some of the most memorable moments in sports during his career and follow Lundquist over the past year, which marks his 50th as a broadcaster.
FOX Deportes’ coverage of the UEFA Champions League Group Stage match between Paris St. Germain/Barcelona handed the channel with a win for the day among all Spanish-language sports networks on Sept. 30, according to Nielsen. The contest averaged a 3.72 HH rating with 305,000 total viewers and 182,000 P18-49.
Big news for SCORE International, which continued to push its international boundaries, inking a deal with ESPN to broadcast all six of its 2014 U.S. one-hour television programs, featuring the entire 2014 SCORE World Desert Championship race series, throughout Latin America, the Caribbean, Australia and New Zealand. “We are thrilled to be licensing our television programming to ESPN throughout Latin America” said Roger Norman, owner of SCORE International. “SCORE International and its sponsors have invested significant resources this year to create world-class television programming of our race events for broadcast across the U.S. Now, we’ll be able to further expand our media capabilities to share this incredible content with some of our most passionate fans in Mexico, throughout Latin America and around the world.”
Boxeo Telemundo Ford kicks off its final season of 2014 with a battle between Jonathan “Pitbull” Vidal and Daniel “El Alacran” Lozano for the World Boxing Organization’s Latino Super flyweight title. René Giraldo and Jessi Losada will call the action.
NBA TV will see its Open Court series return Tuesday, Oct. 7, at 6:30p with a roundtable discussion centered on the NBA’s 50 Greatest Players and the 10 players the panel believes should be added as all-time legends. The hour-long show features Charles Barkley, Shaquille O’Neal and Isiah Thomas discussing their inclusion in the original list, players who should be added to the original 50, and the criteria used to measure greatness. The episode is hosted by Ernie Johnson.
Westwood One locked in a multi-year agreement with Sports USA Media to represent its Sunday afternoon NFL broadcasts for sponsorship deals. The agreement starts with the 2015 NFL season. Charles Steinhauer, Westwood One’s COO, stated: "The NFL, with its storied franchises, is the cornerstone of American sports. We are proud to extend our reach with this engaging content for our advertisers by partnering with Sports USA."
Meanwhile, AdLarge Media extended its agreement with Sports USA for exclusive national advertising sales representation of live coverage of NCAA football through the 2015 season. The deal includes 20 NCAA games, including the “College Football Game of the Week” every Saturday plus selected Thursday night college games and Bowl games.
A day after announcing Derek Jeter’s move into the media world with The Players’ Tribune, the company announced that Russell Wilson was joining as the first Senior Editor of the platform. Wilson posted his first piece for the site that explored his own personal experience with bullying and his thoughts on speaking out against domestic violence. "It’s simple. Derek Jeter and Legendary are at the top of the game. That’s where I want to go,” Wilson said of the decision to join The Players’ Tribune. In the coming days and weeks, The Players’ Tribune will announce additional professional athlete editors and contributors.
FOX Sports is now live streaming all of its MLB postseason games airing on Fox and Fox Sports 1 on Fox Sports GO. Streaming coverage will include the National League Division Series, National League Championship Series, and the World Series. Games will also be available on the platform in Spanish via Fox Deportes. Six of the 10 largest video providers in the country have agreements with FOX Sports GO including Comcast, Time Warner Cable, AT&T U-verse, Cox, Cablevision, and Bright House.
Cardinals/Dodgers on FOX Sports 1 at 6:30p.
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Answer to Our Last Sports Trivia Question: Which professional league once had a franchise named the Indianapolis Olympians? Answer: The NBA. Kudos: Michael Ritz-BucStar Consulting/NY; David Stern-BARD Entertainment/NY; Synda Kollman-Charter Marketing Group/Boca Raton; Charles Cuttone-Sports Vue Interactive/Princess Anne; Marc Grayson-Grayson Worldwide Media and Property Sales/LA; Judie Henninger-Valentine Productions Inc/Santa Monica; Tom Moore-Kalt Productions/LA; David Westberg-SAG-AFTRA Los Angeles local/LA.
Later — Chris
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