FOX Sports 1 revealed its inaugural regular-season Major League Soccer TV slate from its new deal with the league, with coverage set to launch on March 8 with the first of three doubleheaders, starting with the New York Red Bulls/Sporting Kansas City at 7p. Overall, the slate consists of 34 matches, with 33 games scheduled […]
The inaugural College Football Playoff National Championship saw its debut game boost ESPN to the largest audience in cable history, according to Nielsen. Monday’s telecast averaged 33,395,000 viewers with an 18.2 US household rating, setting new records for both the largest audience and highest rating in cable television history. That marks a 31% spike in […]
Speaking of football, FOX Sports reports that the NFL playoffs are tracking to be the most-watched ever for the company, according to Nielsen. With three games down, 2015 NFC Playoff games on FOX are averaging 39.3 million viewers, up 6% compared to a year ago with household ratings this season compared to last rising 3% […]
ESPN and Tennis Channel are serving up the Australian Open starting this weekend. ESPN’s coverage begins Sunday at 7p, with over 100 live hours on deck on TV and WatchESPN and 800 hours slated from a record 13 courts on ESPN3. ESPN’s coverage wraps up with the women’s and men’s championships live on ESPN at […]
The V Foundation for Cancer Research and family members representing Stuart Scott are launching a new cancer research fund honoring the memory of Stuart Scott. The Stuart Scott Memorial Cancer Research Fund is designed to help continue Stuart’s fight against cancer and “assist some of the most vulnerable and disproportionately impacted communities battling this horrible […]
As Golf Channel prepares to hit 20 years on Jan. 17, the network is hitting 2015 on a four-year ratings run, and has drawn the most-affluent audience in all of television for both total day and primetime in 2014, according to Nielsen. Now, as the networks prepares for its third decade, Cynopsis Sports spoke with […]
Lots of headlines over the weekend with the news that Lenny Kravitz would be joining Katy Perry when she headlines the Pepsi Super Bowl XLIX Halftime Show on NBC on Feb. 1. The news came following Perry’s interview during NBC’s broadcast of the AFC Divisional Playoff game with the full interview with NBC’s Willie Geist […]
The first-ever College Football Playoff National Championship Presented by AT&T will see ESPN deliver a CFP Megacast with over a dozen ways to follow the big game across its platforms. In addition to the traditional telecast on Monday, Jan. 12, at 8:30p on ESPN, the initiative will include a different telecast across ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPNEWS, […]
Boston was selected to represent the US in its bid to host the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The USOC stated that the ruling followed more than one round of voting. “We’re excited about our plans to submit a bid for the 2024 Games and feel we have an incredibly strong partner in Boston that […]
MLS opened the books to season 20, announcing its 2015 schedule which marks the first of an eight-year television and media rights partnership with ESPN, FOX Sports and Univision. The new season will offer a record amount of nationally televised games, two more weekends of “high-profile rivalry games” and – for the first time in […]
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