Hitting the round of 16 at the Women’s World Cup, FOX Sports lined up its slate of broadcasters for the next phase of the tournament with the first knockout round set to begin Saturday and all matches set for FOX Sports 1. JP Dellacamera, Tony DiCicco and Cat Whitehill call the US match versus Colombia […]
The 2015 NBA Finals finished with a boom, benefitting ABC as the Warriors victory helped the series rank as the most-watched and highest-rated ever on ABC, according to Nielsen. The six-game series averaged 19,939,000 viewers with an 11.6 U.S. household rating, up 30% and 26% respectively, over the 2014 slate. The deciding Game 6 scored […]
Meanwhile, FOX continued its power play for the FIFA Women’s World Cup, as the USA/Nigeria matchup delivered 5 million viewers to the network, making it the most-watched FIFA Women’s World Cup Group Stage match ever and the most-watched soccer match ever on the network, breaking the marks set Friday for USA/Sweden, per Nielsen. Overall, the […]
Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Final, which saw the Blackhawks clinch the prize on Monday night, handed NBC with an average of 8.005 million viewers and a 4.44 HH rating, according to Nielsen, which would mark the third-most watched Stanley Cup Final Game 6 in history. Overall, the series averaged 5.551 million viewers and […]
NBA League Pass is changing up its approach to the 2015-16 NBA season, allowing fans to buy single games and individual team packages. Fans using the single game offering can buy individual live games on a given day during the regular season, while the team package, available for all 30 NBA teams, will give fans […]
The NFL is testing uncharted waters, hiring Jordan Levin to serve as the league’s first Chief Content Officer and SVP. Levin will now be charged with developing and implementing “an innovative, league-wide content plan that advances the long-term growth objectives of the NFL across all of its owned and operated media assets, including NFL Network, […]
The Players’ Tribune locked in the first close of its Series B financing, pulling in $9.5 million. The round for the Derek Jeter-founded media company was announced by New Enterprise Associates and allow the platform to continue delivering athlete-generated content across a variety of multimedia channels and allow for the expansion of The Players’ Tribune’s […]
Cleveland and Golden State continue to drive audiences, with ABC notching the most-watched and highest-rated NBA Finals ever on the channel through four games, according to Nielsen. The series is now averaging 18,896,000 viewers with an 11.0 U.S. household rating, up 24 and 28%, respectively over last year’s series. Game 4 alone averaged 19.8 million […]
With its first US Open on deck next week, FOX Sports unveiled its full broadcast schedule and programming plan for the famed tournament with more than 38 hours of live golf action on FOX and FOX Sports 1 in the cards, in addition to continuous live-streaming available throughout the championship on FOX Sports GO. Unofficial […]
The French Open proved hospitable for Tennis Channel, which is claiming new ratings high marks for the network in average and single-day tune in. Live tournament coverage saw an average 0.72 household coverage-area rating, for a 33% markup over last year’s coverage of the tournament. The network also scored an average of 175,000 households in […]
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