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Sports Illustrated August 16, 2000 Frank Deford |
Sydney Olympics must overcome The Sydney Olympics are a month away, so let's look at the problems they face in attracting their usual high degree of interest in the United States. |
BusinessWeek August 9, 2004 Katie DeWitt |
NBC's Marathon Of Coverage Spread over seven channels, the network will offer more programming than the past five summer Olympics combined. And for the first time, all 28 Olympic sports will air on TV. Will viewers have the stamina to stay tuned for more than 1,200 hours of Games? |
Sports Central February 17, 2006 Diane M. Grassi |
Winter Olympics TV Coverage Far From Golden Sports fans are not averse to watching Winter Olympics coverage, but trying to figure out NBC's television schedule has become a sport of Olympic proportions unto itself. |
AskMen.com Steve Seepersaud |
Top TV Network Contracts Televised sporting events have huge audiences. The bigger the game, the bigger the audience. In America, no game is bigger than the Super Bowl. More than half of all the television sets in the U.S. are tuned in to the NFL's championship game. |
Sports Illustrated January 3, 2002 Frank Deford |
Games glut All-sports, all-the-time has caused ratings erosion... |
The Motley Fool February 12, 2010 Eric Bleeker |
NBC's Winter Olympics Nightmare Will the peacock's loss on the Vancouver Games be Disney or News Corp.'s gain? |
Sports Central January 25, 2006 Diane M. Grassi |
Winter Olympics Athletes Face Double Standard Big media and corporate sponsorship of sporting events in the US have become as big a story these days as the sports and athletes they themselves sponsor, with nary an opportunity missed by advertisers and networks alike to promote themselves. |
Sports Illustrated September 25, 2000 John Walters |
All about Bob Fun and Games for Costas as Olympics enters Week 2... |
AskMen.com Steve Seepersaud |
Top 10: Highest-Rated Broadcasts Let's recap the 10 most-watched sports-related broadcasts of all time. No big shocker here -- the Super Bowl dominates. |
The Motley Fool January 18, 2007 Steven Mallas |
Nielsen Now Rates TV Ads Adjusting to the digital age, new ratings will track commercials' popularity. Whatever occurs, a better system to collect viewer data should eventually benefit advertisers and networks alike. |
AskMen.com June 26, 2002 Mark Simmons |
Why Did NBC Drop The NBA? With ABC and ESPN picking up the torch from NBC for the rights to broadcast NBA games, analysts are asking whether the Peacock Network made the right decision by letting the NBA go. |
BusinessWeek August 9, 2004 |
Going for Network Gold in Athens NBC Universal Networks Group President Randy Falco explains why he's confident that the expanded Olympic coverage is a worthwhile investment. |
Search Engine Watch August 21, 2008 Erik Qualman |
NBC's Olympic Fool's Gold; Google Comes Home Empty-Handed It's understandable that an older-school company like NBC may get some things wrong, and rely on old metrics to judge success. But Google didn't exactly turn in a world-record performance for the Olympics either. |
Salon.com October 31, 2001 Allen Barra |
Why no one's going to watch the World Series this year Hint: It has nothing to do with the Yankees (who are going to win again)... |
Salon.com February 1, 2001 Eric Boehlert |
The XFL won't work Wrestling impresario Vince McMahon and NBC have teamed up for an ultrarough new football league. They're gonna get sacked... |
Sports Illustrated October 12, 2000 Tim Layden |
Missing the action NBC's tedious telecast was caught in a time warp. Not only were the features overtly sappy and obvious, but the pacing of the telecasts was glacial... |
Sports Illustrated October 30, 2002 Stephen Cannella |
National pastime is past its prime Despite all the excuses, baseball just doesn't matter anymore |
Salon.com June 20, 2000 Eric Boehlert |
NBA in disarray Come back, Mr. Jordan: The NBA Finals are in danger of going down as the lowest-rated playoffs since 1981, while couch potatoes turn off college games, too. What's wrong with hoops? |
Sports Illustrated February 19, 2002 Janet Maslin |
Medal Worthy NBC's two toughest jobs in broadcasting the Olympics have been guessing what will make the best broadcast and, more important, knowing when to leave well enough alone. So far the network is succeeding at both... |
BusinessWeek May 9, 2005 Lowry & Grover |
NBC: Now It's Wait-And-See TV The ex-ratings champ hopes its fall lineup will still be worth a premium to advertisers. |
Sports Central August 13, 2004 Martin Hawrysko |
New NFL TV Rights Could Get Interesting Rumors suggest that Disney might be considering moving Monday Night Football to ESPN. It will not necessarily be the end of the world. |
PC World January 18, 2001 Cameron Crouch |
Cyber Super Bowl Has Its Limits Web sites and wireless services bring football to your PC or PDA, but TV has a lock on the field... |
AskMen.com Steve Seepersaud |
Sports Revenues During the Holidays Sports fans and TV network executives alike will enjoy this holiday season as NBA, NFL and college bowl matchups rule the airwaves. |
Sports Illustrated March 19, 2002 Kostya Kennedy |
Going tubing NFL's new TV plan is friendly, the Yankees' and Nets' YES Network a fan foe... |
Salon.com May 26, 2000 Eric Boehlert |
Photo finish Read 'em and sweep: ABC and NBC tie for the May TV ratings sweeps, but both sides claim victory. |
InternetNews February 10, 2006 Susan Kuchinskas |
NBC's Digital Olympics NBC partners with Google, Intel, Sun, Lenovo and Apple to provide Olympic coverage to an audience beyond the TV-viewing public. |
Fast Company June 2008 Lucas Conley |
Audiobrain Meets NBC: Creating Music for the Beijing Olympics How Audrey Arbeeny and Michael Sweet are using sound to help NBC orchestrate its Olympic coverage into narrative storytelling. |
The Motley Fool September 24, 2010 Travis Hoium |
This Company Won Television's Big Week CBS dominates the first week of the fall season. |
Salon.com February 12, 2001 Eric Boehlert |
XFL, Week 2: Sacked! After a big debut, ratings for the "smashmouth" football league tank... |
The Motley Fool May 16, 2005 Brian Gorman |
NBC: Praying for Ratings NBC is embracing religious-themed programming to help its ratings slump. The benefits are less than clear. |
Sports Central February 18, 2006 Greg Wyshynski |
Who Owns the Olympics? By keeping a death-grip on what should be public-domain content, NBC Sports has placed a shroud of anonymity over the Olympics in Turin. |
Sports Illustrated January 29, 2002 Tim Layden & Kostya Kennedy |
Seasonal Debate Forget the Summer Games, the Winter Olympics are tops... Put the Winter Games in deep freeze, the Summer Olympics are hot... |
The Motley Fool September 10, 2004 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Were You Ready for Some Football? Disney kicks off another season of Monday Night Football -- on a Thursday. For ABC, football means big business. |
InternetNews September 5, 2008 David Needle |
NBC's Web Olympics Coverage a Record Breaker Sports fans had a long menu of choices when it came to keeping up with the Olympics online, including using their mobile phones. |
Sports Central August 14, 2012 Brad Oremland |
Thumbs Down For Olympic Coverage I mentioned last week that I didn't get into the Summer Olympics as much as usual this year. Much of the reason, I'm afraid, was NBC's television coverage of the London Games. |
The Motley Fool August 13, 2004 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Olympic Malaise With the Olympics kicking off two weeks of heated global competition, I'm left asking some obvious questions. Will General Electric achieve a decent return on the $793 million it is paying for exclusive stateside broadcasting rights? |
The Motley Fool August 30, 2004 Phil Wohl |
Olympics: No Ad Bonanza The showcase for the world's athletes doesn't produce marquee names for advertisers. |
AskMen.com Lewis Helfand |
Sportscaster Salaries There are very few people who can throw a fastball like Randy Johnson or dominate a game like Shaq. And that's why these men earn the big bucks. But what about the men and women who call the games? How much do they get paid? |
The Motley Fool December 15, 2003 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Monday Night Foolball Disney, the parent company behind ABC and ESPN is trying to get the National Football League to grant it the luxury of picking between two different games to broadcast nationally on Mondays. |
Salon.com August 1, 2000 Eric Boehlert |
The GOP Convention ratings debacle, Day 1 CBS and ABC tune in, America tunes out and NBC wins by ignoring the convention entirely. |
HBS Working Knowledge March 6, 2006 James Aisner |
Winners and Losers at the Olympics Harvard Business School professor emeritus Stephen Greyser has been studying, teaching, and writing about the business of sports for over 30 years. Here, he discusses his perspectives on the the marketing aspects of the recent Turin Games. |
BusinessWeek September 24, 2007 Burt Helm |
Cable Takes A Ratings Hit Cable companies will suffer under Nielsen's new system, which counts who's watching the ads. |
Salon.com September 15, 2000 Allen Barra |
Why I hate the Olympics Greed, hypocrisy, dumb sports and Bela Karolyi, just for starters. Plus: Mets? Braves? Try Giants. Dennis Miller: He doesn't know football, but at least he's not funny. |
Home Theater November 5, 2009 Mark Fleischmann |
Despite DVR, Viewers Still Spud-like Far from sapping ratings, recorders have become hit makers. |
Salon.com February 11, 2002 Gary Kamiya |
Red, white and wrong NBC's jingoistic provincialism is missing what the Olympics are all about -- but the Games will prevail... |
BusinessWeek September 27, 2004 Ronald Grover |
Jeff Zucker: Life Without Friends Keener competition means Jeffrey Zucker will have to work harder to keep NBC No. 1 |
Salon.com February 18, 2002 King Kaufman |
NBC shows its true colors You mustn't miss a minute of the Olympics, the network says, unless we can save a few bucks by you missing a whole day. Plus: Ohno, hockey and more... |
Salon.com September 15, 2000 Steve Burgess |
Thank God the Yanks aren't hosting the Olympics Maybe this year we'll be spared the USA's boorish egoism. |
Sports Illustrated September 18, 2002 Frank Deford |
Let's sing Autumn's busy first month of sports inspires reflection |
The Motley Fool April 19, 2005 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Football's Double Reverse NFL fans, it's almost time to adjust your remote-control preferences. Come next year, Disney's ABC will hand off the Monday Night Football franchise to its ESPN subsidiary, while ESPN will be handing off its Sunday night gridiron contests to rival General Electric's NBC. |