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Joined December 2008
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John Ourand
4 months
It's scary to leave a place you love after nearly 18 years. SBJ is a great place to work. But I'm a fan of Puck's and excited to get started. You can sign up for my soon-to-launch newsletter here:
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4 months
After 17 years, John Ourand ( @Ourand_SBJ ) says goodbye to #SBJ πŸ‘‹ The following was shared with our staff from Publisher & Executive Editor Abe Madkour earlier this morning ⬇️
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John Ourand
3 months
The Grammys top TV market from last night was Kansas City, which posted a 13.6 rating. That's up 86% from last year. Kansas City clearly is the home TV market for Taylor Swift.
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An Astros fan heard the infamous trash can bang 54 times in a game against the Blue Jays. "Toronto right-hander Mike Bolsinger allowed four runs in 1/3 of an inning that day and never pitched in the majors again."
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Warriors-Grizzlies on ABC Sunday (Game 1) averaged 7.7 million viewers - the most watched conference semi game on ABC for 11 years. It peaked at 10.2 million viewers.
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3 years
NBC has told distributors and some sports leagues that it plans to shut down its NBCSN sports channel by the end of the year. Story coming in SBD
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6 years
Jets-Browns pulled in 8.6 million viewers and was NFL Network's highest rated and most watched Thursday night game since December of 2015.
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7 years
Facebook's war on fake news starts with a pop up window for re-posters of bad info.
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5 years
This 1/4-page ad from "an anonymous and appreciative Astros fan" ran in today's Washington Post Sports section.
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4 years
NFL Draft TV Numbers: Top three markets for the draft are all Ohio: Columbus: 16.7 rating/32 share Cleveland: 15.9/29 Cincinnati: 15.6/28
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4 years
"The Last Dance" numbers blew away even the most optimistic projections. Episode 1 averaged 6.3 million viewers and Episode 2 averaged 5.8 million viewers across ESPN & ESPN2.
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9 years
The speech Stuart Scott gave at last year's ESPYs is worth watching. "You beat cancer by how you live..."
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Chants of β€œFree Kevin Brown” erupt at Camden Yards. This is the TBS telecast. I did not hear this on MASN.
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2 years
ESPN has pulled out of Big Ten media rights negotiations, ending one of the longest sports media relationships in the business. ESPN said no to the conference’s final offer of a 7-year/$380 million per-year package, sources tell SBJ. Story to be filed soon.
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5 years
ESPN+ now has 2 million paid subscriptions, double the number from five months ago, Bob Iger says.
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4 years
Shocker: CBS walks away from SEC negotiations. All signs point to ESPN/ABC picking up the package. SBJ has the details:
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Mark Jones and Mark Jackson will call Game 1 of the NBA Finals on ABC tonight.
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Fox says last nights Game 7 eclipsed the 40 million viewer mark and is the most-watched baseball game in 25 years.
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3 years
TNT's Bucks-Nets Game 7 that went into OT Saturday night: 6.906 million viewers.
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4 years
Fox Sports statement: "Cris Carter is no longer with Fox Sports. There is no further comment at this time.”
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5 years
Ryen Russillo is leaving ESPN after 14 years to join The Ringer. Russillo signed a multiyear deal with The Ringer. SBJ Media: πŸ”’ πŸ”’
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1 year
It’s cool to see that most of the comics in today’s paper are tributes to Charles Schulz on what would have been his 100th birthday.
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5 years
In accepting an ESPY award, Alex Morgan thanks ESPN for agreeing to carry NWSL games. "We obviously enjoyed success on the biggest stage right now. But when the World Cup is behind us, it is the professional league that we need to continually lift up and grow."
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1 year
Oof: 0.2 overnight rating for LIV golf in the 26 metered markets that carried it on CW.
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5 years
RIP ESPN the Magazine. ESPN will shut down the print version of the magazine this September. The money-losing publication launched in March 1998. SBJ's story:
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3 years
Top NHL local TV markets this season: 1. Pittsburgh 2. Las Vegas 3. St. Louis This is the first time in at least 12 years, Sabres games on MSG Plus are not in the top two. The Sabres' 35% drop is the steepest in the league. SBJ Media has the details: πŸ”’πŸ”’
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5 years
TV Sports on Wednesday 1. Blazers-Nuggets on TNT: 3.513 million viewers. 2. Hurricanes-Islanders on NBCSN: 1.188 million viewers. 3. Stars-Blues on NBCSN: 1.003 million viewers. 4. Barcelona-Liverpool on TNT: 635,000 viewers 5. Astros-Twins on ESPN: 588,000 viewers
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3 years
That thrilling UConn-South Carolina women’s basketball game that went to OT? It averaged 461,000 viewers on FS1 -- the most watched women’s college basketball game by far on the network.
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4 years
Last night's "Monday Night Football" combined for 15,435,000 viewers on ABC/ESPN, up 26% from last year’s Week 2 Monday Night Football telecast between Cleveland and the New York Jets that aired solely on ESPN (12,217,000).
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4 years
Sources: @DeionSanders is leaving NFL Network. His contract had expired, but he opted to leave.
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2 years
Inbox: NBC hired @katienolan to do short-form Olympic pieces for both linear and digital.
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6 years
Huge news: Skipper resigns from ESPN.
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5 years
Huge Thursday Night Football TV numbers last night: 14.6 overnight translates to the top overnight rating in "Thursday Night Football" history.
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3 years
Top NBA local TV teams this season: 1. Warriors 2. Blazers 3. 76ers The Knicks outpaced the Nets in New York (1.24 rating vs 0.68). The Lakers rated better than Clippers in L.A. (1.94 vs 0.62). SBJ Media has the details: πŸ”’πŸ”’
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2 years
In the KC market, the game peaked with a 90 share from 8:45-9p CT. That means that, in the Kansas City market 90% of all TVs that were on were watching the game.
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3 years
News: The Dallas Cowboys will be the β€œHard Knocks” team this season. The five-episode series debuts Aug. 10 on HBO. Live Schreiber returns as narrator.
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3 years
Overnights: NBC's coverage of the Cowboys-Bucs game hit a five-year high in the overnights, source says. The 15.9 overnight is up 16% from last year. This number does not include out-of-home viewing, so the final national number is almost certain to see an even bigger increase.
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6 years
Spotted: Four days before the start of training camp, Redskins QB Alex Smith dined at Bareburger in Dupont Circle tonight and picked up the checks for most of the tables around him.
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10 months
The Orioles will be on ESPN's "Sunday Night Baseball" July 30 - the first time "SNB" has been at Camden Yards in five years. The O's will play the Yankees.
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2 years
ACC Network finally gets carriage on Comcast. Deal was just announced officially.
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5 years
College Football Saturday CBS Notre Dame-Georgia: 9.287 million viewers Fox Michigan-Wisconsin: 4.733 million CBS Auburn-Texas A&M: 4.659 million ABC Texas-Oklahoma State: 3.637 million ESPN Florida-Tennessee: 2.461 million ESPN Florida State-Louisville: 1.535 million
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3 years
NBA Finals Game 5: 9.615 million viewers; down big from 2019's Warriors-Raptors Game 5 (18.449 million viewers).
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ESPN will start Sunday Night Baseball games an hour earlier next season, starting at 7pmET, according to this AP report.
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4 years
. @notthefakeSVP is moving back to the D.C. area; will host midnight "SportsCenter" from the same studio as "PTI." SBJ's story:
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7 years
BREAKING: Jamie Horowitz, President of National Networks for FOX Sports, will be leaving FOX Sports effective immediately.
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Huge TV numbers for β€œThe Match:” Champions for Charity: * 5.8 million viewers; most-watched golf event in cable TV history, TNT says. * Peak of 6.3 million viewers (5:45-6p ET).
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3 years
Good night, Marv Albert. What a career. The all-time voice of the NBA.
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2 years
No official announcement yet. But word is that NBC is the winner of Premier League rights.
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4 years
Kevin Durant is now a minority owner of the Philadelphia Union. @markjburns88 has the details.
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5 months
Washington Wizards playoff series wins 2023: 0 2022: 0 2021: 0 2020: 0 2019: 0 2018: 0 2017: 1 2016: 0 2015: 1 2014: 1 2013: 0 2012: 0 2011: 0 2010: 0 2009: 0 2008: 0 2007: 0 2006: 0 2005: 1 2004: 0 2003: 0 2002: 0 2001: 0 2000: 0 1999: 0 1998: 0 1997: 0 1996: 0 1995: 0 1994: 0
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Most of the calls on DC sports radio today about the Wizards-Caps move to Virginia cited rising crime as a major factor in why they’ve avoided going to games downtown lately.
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4 years
The Redskins will make it official tomorrow. The team will change its name, two sources to @BenFischerSBJ . SBJ's story:
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NFL Network’s re-air of Sunday’s Patriots-Steelers game last night averaged 928,000 viewers, making it the network’s most watched game re-air. Comp: last night’s live coverage of Rockets-Heat on TNT averaged 1.1 million viewers.
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3 years
ABC had 8.56 million viewers for Game 1 of the NBA Finals. That's down a whopping 35% from 2019, when it was the Raptors and Warriors.
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7 months
Want to hear an amazing Colorado-CSU TV stat? At 2:15amET, the game still registered 8.230 million viewers - an audience that was more than 1 million viewers bigger than the peak audience of any other CFB game this week.
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9 months
Multiple sources confirm this ridiculous story. Shoutout to @mattjergs , who was the first one I saw with the news.
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Here's the clip of Kevin Brown's pregame comments on the Orioles' recent record against the Rays ahead of a series finale on July 23. Sources tell AA these comments led to Brown's current indefinite suspension from Orioles' broadcasts.
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4 years
ESPN is canceling "High Noon." Show will run through the end of March. ESPN executives told staff this afternoon. SBJ Media is live.πŸ”’πŸ”’
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ESPN: Jessica Mendoza signed a multi-year extension keeping her in the "Sunday Night Baseball" booth and having her make more regular appearances on"Baseball Tonight," "SportsCenter" and "Get Up!"
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Sources: @ClayTravis played a big role in getting @realDonaldTrump to call Big Ten commish Kevin Warren this morning. My SBJ story with @SmittySBJ :
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8 years
My favorite part of all Supreme Court decisions: The Running of the Interns. @cspan
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Bradley University to a reporter who has covered the team for 29 years: "You don’t promote the Bradley brand...we don’t want you here."
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2 years
With Mark Jones, Mark Jackson and Lisa Salters, tonight will be the first time an NBA Finals telecast will have all Black announcers.
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Yesterday morning’s Chiefs game posted an incredible 94 share in Kansas City. That means that 94% of the TVs in use were tuned to the Chiefs-Dolphins game.
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4 years
. @barstoolsports Barstool was in the running to sponsor a college football bowl game in Mobile, Ala., @markjburns88 reports. The sponsorship ended up going to @LendingTree . SBJ Media is live: πŸ”’πŸ”’
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2 years
CFP Semis 16.1 million for Bama-Cincinnati 16.5 million for Georgia-Michigan Last year 18.9 million for Bama-Notre Dame 19.1 million for Ohio St.-Clemson
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9 months
KevinBrown-gate made CNN this morning.
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3 years
What a pro Mike Tirico is.
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4 years
I was surprised to this this full-page advertisement in today's Washington Post. Classy move by the @astros .
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6 years
ESPN's Monday: Brewers-Cubs: 2.532M viewers. Rockies-Dodgers: 2.688M viewers. Chiefs-Broncos: 13.214M viewers.
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2 years
Brian Flores will be in-studio on "CBS Mornings" tomorrow, joined by his attorneys Doug Wigdor and John Elefterakis.
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2 years
Barring a last-minute change of direction, ESPN will be not carry Big Ten games for the first time in 40 years. SBJ Media is live:
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4 years
BREAKING: CBS signs Tony Romo to a long-term deal, sources tell me.
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4 years
ESPN Programming plans: ESPN: SportsCenter all day and night ESPNEWS: video simulcasts of radio shows (First Take, Your Take Radio and The Will Cain Show) and taped programming ESPN2: simulcast a combination of ESPN and ESPNEWS.
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NBC: Eagles-Bears 22.9 overnight rating "is best for any NBC NFL Playoff since...2006 & best Wild Card game for NBC in 25 years (23.3/41 for John Elway & Broncos at L.A. Raiders, 1/9/94)."
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3 years
Saturday College Football Numbers Georgia-Clemson on ABC: 8.863M viewers Alabama-Miami on ABC: 5.674M Penn State-Wisconsin on Fox: 5.409M UCLA-LSU on Fox: 3.219M Texas-Louisiana on Fox: 2.879M Oklahoma-Tulane on ABC: 2.526M W VA-Maryland on ESPN: 1.35M
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John Ourand
2 years
Early numbers suggest that Ohio State-Michigan could end up with 14-15 million viewers.
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John Ourand
3 years
Kansas City's local TV rating for yesterday's Bills-Chiefs game was a 61.9. Its share was an 85 share. That means that 85% of all TVs in use with the KC DMA were tuned into the Chiefs game. An astounding number.
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4 years
The NBA’s TV scorecard so far: TNT down 23% ESPN down 20% RSNs down 13% SBJ Media is live: πŸ”’πŸ”’
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3 years
The Midwest makes up four of the top five TV markets for yesterday's Hot Dog Eating Contest. Top Markets: 1. Cincinnati 2. New York 3. Milwaukee 4. Pittsburgh 5. Columbus
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John Ourand
4 years
ESPN's two XFL games over the weekend averaged 2.9 million viewers. * Sunday's St. Louis-Dallas game averaged 2,495,000 viewers (and pulled a 7.4 rating in St. Louis. * Saturday's Seattle-DC game averaged 3.303 million viewers.
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5 years
Source says overnight TV rating from last night’s Packers-Bears game is really good - up around 14-15% from last season. It should come in around a 15.3 or so.
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4 years
Inbox: Tony Romo will interview Sam Darnold, Daniel Jones and Josh Allen as part of a 30-minute show that airs on CBS May 24 at 2pmET. Tracy Wolfson will host "In the Huddle with Tony Romo."
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4 years
* A Super Bowl on Feb. 28. * A regular season that starts in mid-Oct. * No bye weeks. * No Pro Bowl. These are all contingencies the NFL has considered as it moves forward with plans to hold a full regular season. My story with @BenFischerSBJ .
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1 year
Sunday Night Shocker from Disney: "Robert A. Iger is returning to lead Disney as Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately."
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3 years
ESPN will cancel Nichols' show "The Jump." It will launch a new afternoon NBA show in the lead-up to next season. No details on that show’s format or host.
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ESPN commits $1 billion to the American Athletic Conference - an average of $83.3 million per year - through 2031-32. Here's my story with @SmittySBJSBD .
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7 years
ESPN: Michigan-Ohio St.'s 10.4 overnight rating is "easily the best for a college football regular season game this season across all nets."
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10 months
The Suns TV rights with Gray Television now is official, according to the team. Diamond Sports opted not to match the deal. Story coming in SBJ.
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6 years
The new XFL will have no cheerleaders. It will not hire players who have arrest records. And it will make sure that all of its players stand for the national anthem.
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4 years
A Duke doctor who is advising the ACC tells @SmittySBJ that football can be played safely this fall.
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4 years
Colleges have looked into moving football season up to July, August and September this season, @SmittySBJ reports. An abbreviated summer season is "an opportunity to play games when the warm weather could help prevent the spread of the virus."
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1 year
BREAKING: Warner Bros Discovery tells teams it wants out of the regional sports network business. SBJ's story:
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4 years
Jackie MacMullan will host a narrative NBA podcast for The Ringer and has committed to make regular appearances on other Ringer pods. Her first appearance comes later today on Simmons’ pod.
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5 months
John Angelos was in DC today at the Econ Club of DC lunch, and you’ll never guess who he was chatting with in the Green Room beforehand. David Rubenstein, who is said to be negotiating to buy the O’s. (GM CEO Mary Barra also was part of that conversation at the Ritz.)
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7 years
Ratings: NFLN pulled a 6.1 overnight rating for Rams-49ers. There's no easy comp, but it is up 20% over NFLN's total average last season.
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7 years
Fox: Packers-Cowboys averaged 48.5 million viewers, the biggest TV audience for any NFL Divisional Playoff game ever.
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7 months
According to overnight ratings, last night's Colorado game easily was the most viewed college football game of the day despite the 10pm kickoff.
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