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TGL ratings hold steady with holiday start to season
Television ratings for the start of TGL's second season are holding steady with last year's viewership numbers.,The Dec. 28 season opener for the indoor team golf league co-founded by Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy garnered 646,000 viewers on ABC and the second match on Jan. 2 drew 354,000 viewers, ac...
CFP ratings plummet 7% as games opposite NFL struggle again
While college football is big business, the NFL remains king as more evidence arrived from last weekend's television ratings.,Even the first round of the College Football Playoff last Friday and Saturday struggled to compete against opposing NFL regular-season games on the airwaves.,The four first-r...
MLB attendance tops 71M as TV ratings also rise
Major League Baseball is giving credit to faster game times and an expanded postseason for raising the league's overall attendance for the third consecutive season.,A total attendance of 71,409,421 was reported by MLB this season, as the Los Angeles Dodgers passed 4 million in total attendance for t...
NFL announces five nationally televised preseason games
The NFL announced the five nationally televised prime-time 2025 preseason games on Thursday.,Action begins with the Los Angeles Chargers facing the Detroit Lions in the Hall of Fame Game in Canton, Ohio, on Thursday, July 31. The game will air on NBC.,In Week 2 of the preseason, the Buffalo Bills wi...
WNBA Draft audience second best ever, down from 2024
The WNBA Draft pulled in its second largest television audience Monday with an average of 1.25 million viewers, according to ESPN.,The broadcast peaked at 1.46 million viewers and was up 119 percent, on average, from the 2023 WNBA Draft. UConn's Paige Bueckers was the No. 1 overall selection Monday ...
UNC's First Four win draws record TV ratings
While North Carolina's addition to the NCAA Tournament was deemed controversial, there is no denying the program's March pedigree and it was evident in record First Four television ratings on Tuesday.,According to Front Office Sports, North Carolina's 95-68 victory over San Diego State in an NCAA To...
Fox projections put Super Bowl viewership at record high
Despite the Super Bowl being a blowout, an average of 126 million U.S. viewers tuned in to see the Philadelphia Eagles thrash the Kansas City Chiefs 40-22 on Sunday, according to estimates Monday from Fox Sports.,The game in New Orleans was available for viewing on Fox, Telemundo, Fox Deportes, Tubi...
Report: LIV, Fox discussing broadcast deal for '25
LIV Golf and Fox Sports have engaged in "high-level discussions" toward a television contract for the 2025 season, Sports Business Journal reported Tuesday.,More specific details weren't clear, including which Fox property would broadcast the tournaments and whether Fox would pay a fee for the right...
Ratings for start of MLB's division series up 41 percent
A combination of tight matchups, dramatic finishes and the presence of Shohei Ohtani and Aaron Judge combined to drive up television ratings for the start of MLB's division series.,Games on Fox's family of networks and Turner's family of networks saw a 41 percent spike in ratings from last year, acc...
Will Levis’ Shoulder Injury Could Be Blessing in Disguise for Tennessee Titans
Tennessee Titans QB Will Levis injured his shoulder on a play where he threw himself out of bounds on Monday Night Football, but that injury could become a good thing for the Titans....
Ten NFL Players That Might Breakout in 2024
Every year, a handful of NFL players take the league by storm. Keep an eye on these 10 players who could break out in the 2024 season....
Charles Barkley to retire from television after 2024-25
Hall of Fame member Charles Barkley said he will work one more season on television before calling it a career.,Barkley, who works as an analyst on TNT's "Inside the NBA" studio show, said Friday night that the 2024-25 season will be his last in his second career.,The NBA has been negotiating its ne...
Stanley Cup Game 1 ratings up 43 percent
Canada's participation the Stanley Cup Final attracted plenty of interest as Game 1 between the Edmonton Oilers and Florida Panthers on Saturday saw a 43 percent increase in ratings across North America over last season.,According to the NHL, the championship series opener drew an audience of 7.1 mi...
Hall of Fame Game highlights nationally televised NFL preseason slate
The NFL released its 2024 preseason schedule Friday, also revealing the five games that will be televised nationally. ,Each of the NFL's five primary media partners will take a turn to get its crews ready for the season, starting with ESPN/ABC airing the Hall of Fame Game from Canton, Ohio, on Aug. ...
The pros and cons of proposed advancements in the NFL and college football
College football might follow in the footsteps of the NFL as the NFL mulls taking a page out from soccer. After the Michigan sign-stealing scandal, in-helmet communicators could be coming to FBS programs, as well as a two-minute timeout. The Shield meanwhile might eschew the chain gang for optical t...
Caleb Williams, Jayden Daniels and Marvin Harrison Jr. are making the right call by not working out at the NFL Combine
In young people’s latest affront to the spirit of competition, the participation of some top NFL draft prospects in the upcoming scouting combine will be slim to none. Caleb Williams and Jayden Daniels will not throw until their respective Pro Days. Marvin Harrison Jr. will not be participating in a...
Sports agency wants NFL prospects to avoid pre-Draft test that C.J. Stroud reportedly bombed
The S2 cognition test may go the way of the Wonderlic. According to a report from The Athletic one sports agency is directing its NFL Draft prospects to not participate in any cognition tests in their pre-draft process this year. The organization, Athletes First, emailed NFL teams last month to noti...
Jayson Tatum shoe promo might have cost the NBA millions
A few pairs of shoes and a Jayson Tatum All-Star berth may have cost the NBA millions of dollars. ...
The Super Bowl has become a great concert that features a football game
Usher, Beyonce, Jay-Z, Taylor Swift, Ice Spice, Post Malone, Andra Day, Reba McEntire, Alicia Keys, H.E.R., Lil Jon, Ludacris, Jermaine Dupri, and will.i.am all performed or were at the same party on a Sunday night in Las Vegas. Super Bowl LVIII was part football game, part music festival. And over ...
Looks like Taylor Swift didn't ruin the NFL after all
Maybe talk of the decline of the NFL at the hands of Taylor Swift and the Deep State was premature. CBS announced Monday that their Super Bowl LVIII broadcast drew 123.4 million average viewers across all platforms. The broadcast metrics included audiences that watched on CBS, Paramount+, Nickelodeo...