NFL’s Top 6 TV Matchups: Cowboys, Chiefs Primed to Draw Record Crowds in 2023
Outside of Dillon Brooks’ galaxy-brain WWE heel turn or the ill-advised evolutionary misstep that is Power Slap, there is perhaps nothing in sports more noisy and stupid…
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Baseball’s Time Machine Is Winning Back Younger Fans
Major League Baseball’s efforts to eliminate the grand old game’s most leaden moments have succeeded in melting 31 minutes off the average nine-frame outing, and while…
No One’s Losing Sleep Over LIV Golf’s Dismal TV Ratings
Two seemingly contradictory statements can be true at the same time, and in the world of sports media, this dynamic plays out with such frequency that it’s practically…
Super Bowl Ratings: 113 Million Viewers, Third Most in TV History
Fox’s telecast of Super Bowl LVII on Sunday night brought in an average 113 million viewers, according to Nielsen, as reported by Variety. That makes the Kansas…
2023 Super Bowl: Expect a TV Ratings Rebound
Prediction: The Super Bowl will see its TV audience nudge north of 100 million viewers in the U.S. for the first time since 2018. As Variety reports, the biggest…
NFL Ratings Report Card: Network Deliveries Continue to Climb
As the NFL pivots to the postseason, advertisers are taking stock of their $4 billion investment in the league’s slate of 271 national and regional games. Despite the…
2022 TV Recap: It’s the NFL’s World; the Rest of Us Just Live in It
Post-tweedy academic types and the Terminally Online insist that the Internet has killed off the American impulse to engage in a collective media experience. However…
World Cup’s Argentina-France Final Delivers 22.3 Million Viewers
Sunday’s jaw-dropping match between France and Argentina may have been the greatest World Cup final ever staged, but even with the added benefit of out-of-home…
Sky-High NFL Ratings Prove Fans Don’t Care Who’s Calling Games
Two years ago, Tony Romo inadvertently transformed himself into a Corona-shilling agent of chaos, as his successful bid for a 10-year, $175 million extension with CBS…
Aces Championship Keeps WNBA Ratings Afloat Amid Scheduling Competition
WNBA ratings were soaring heading into the Finals, a showdown between the Las Vegas Aces and Connecticut Sun, but the best-of-five series ran up against scheduling…
USFL Faces Tough Slog as It Looks to Build on Early TV Ratings
While financial mishaps and a global pandemic conspired to snuff out two recent high-profile attempts at launching a viable spring football league, the backers of the…
Ahead of Rights Talks, NASCAR Cup Series Gets Off to Blazing Start
Since the 2022 NASCAR Cup Series officially got underway four weeks ago, not a single televised sporting event has put up bigger TV numbers. Now in its 74th season, the…
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