A hard-hitting Nevada team against Pennsylvania star pitcher Mo’ne Davis spelled ratings gold for ESPN, and grabbed a 3.4 overnight Nielsen rating and an average of nearly five million viewers (4,988,000) P2+ for the channel to make it the highest-rated Little League World Series telecast ever on ESPN. That number is also up 143% over […]
CBS Sports serves up farewell coverage of its long ties with the US Open Tennis Championships starting Saturday at 11a with men’s and women’s third-round action and wraps up with the men’s singles championship on Monday, Sept. 8 at 5p. Over 37 hours are on deck with lead play-by-play announcer Bill Macatee and Mary Carillo […]
Billy Crystal will lead the Emmy tribute to his long-time friend Robin Williams at Sunday’s awards show. “We felt we needed to do something powerful and memorable,” said producer Don Mischer. “Billy seemed like the perfect choice.” Williams, who last year honored Jonathan Winters in the Emmys’ In Memoriam segment, was found dead on August […]
Showtime gave season three orders to summer series Ray Donovan and Masters of Sex. The dramas are “quintessentially Showtime: bold, provocative, premium television with production values at the top of the food chain,” said David Nevins, president, Showtime Networks. Masters is averaging nearly four million viewers across platforms per week, while Donovan is averaging five […]
Crackle series Sports Jeopardy! with Dan Patrick will premiere Sept. 24. Hosted by Emmy-winning sportscaster Dan Patrick, the weekly 30-minute program takes on the format of the iconic quiz show. More than 30,000 contestants registered to audition for the series over the summer.
Disappearing message and photo app SnapChat will start sending out movie and TV clips, ads and news articles this November. The Wall Street Journal reports advertisers and media companies are discussing providing content for a new service called SnapChat Discovery – users will be able to read clips or watch videos by holding a finger […]
Major League Soccer and KickTV are the latest to sign on for a content partnership, collaboration and distribution agreement with The Whistle Sports Network. The deal will surround The Whistle’s recently launched Xbox application. KickTV on YouTube offers all things soccer with more than 1.1M regular subscribers, 13 channels and over 110M views. Meanwhile, The […]
Eleven NFL players will join six-time Grammy Award-winner and multi-platinum recording artist Carrie Underwood for her performance of Waiting All Day for Sunday Night, the opening theme for Sunday Night Football on NBC. Names will include the like of Payton and Eli Manning, Russell Wilson, Colin Kaepernick and Philip Rivers.
Discovery had its highest-rated “Shark Week” in the stunt’s 27-year history. The week delivered over 42 million viewers (P2+cume), with Discovery the top network in all of television among M18-34 and M18-49 delivery for the week. Making the biggest splash: Shark of Darkness: Wrath of Submarine, ranking as the top non-sports cable telecast in 3Q14 […]
This Sunday’s episode of Showtime’s Ray Donovan (August 24 at 9p) was directed by series star Liev Schreiber. It’s Schreiber’s first time directing for the small screen.
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