By Jason Davis - WASHINGTON, DC (Jan 19, 2011) US Soccer Players -- Fox, the national broadcast network that counts iconic properties like The Simpsons and the National Football League among its assets, blazed a new trail by airing a live English Premier League soccer match on Sunday. Soccer getting the full televised sports treatment on a network that isn’t an opt-in premium purchase, but a ...
Was UFC on Fox 2 better than the show's November debut? Sort of. While the telecast's panel was much informed, its presentation and fights left much to be desired, writes Loretta Hunt.
LAS VEGAS - Dana White said he "wasn't in the mood" to attend the UFC on FOX 2 post-event press conference - after 10 years of not missing a fight and maybe missing only a handful of pressers. "I usually try to skip press conferences where I know I'm going to," White said before someone offered, "get hammered?" In so many words, yes. Three main-card fights went to a decision during the Jan. 28 ...
Heated competition and demand for sports cable programming is driving up broadcasting rights fees. And some Major League Baseball clubs find themselves flush in a sport with no limit on how much they can spend for players. So where does all this leave the Indians?
Without much fanfare, soccer will take another big step into the American mainstream this weekend when Manchester United's game at Arsenal becomes the first English Premier League match to be televised ...
The fourth-ranked University of Arkansas baseball team will appear on TV at least 16 times during the 2012 season
As expected, NFL Network has bolstered its primetime game roster, adding five Thursday Night Football contests in the 2012 campaign. Commissioner Roger Goodell, speaking at his state of the NFL address to the media in Indianapolis on Friday before Super Bowl XLVI, said the NFL Network will air 13 Thursday Night Football telecasts, kicking off in the second week of the season and extending ...
Old pressures meet new in the UFC's game of scheduling a big slate of 2012 fights.
INDIANAPOLIS (MainStreet) -- Super Bowl Sunday is a melange of full-contact sport, carpet-bombed advertising and pizza/wing/chip-fueled gluttony for the more than 110 U.S. million viewers who tune in. For the rest of the country, it's just Sunday. The NFL, NBC and dozens of advertisers and retail outlets really want America to believe that the world grinds to a halt on Super Bowl Sunday and any ...
NEW YORK, N.Y. - Without much fanfare, soccer will take another big step into the American mainstream this weekend when Manchester United's game at Arsenal becomes the first English Premier League match to be televised live by a U.S. over-the-air network.
NEW YORK -- Without much fanfare, soccer will take another big step into the American mainstream this weekend when Manchester United’s game at Arsenal becomes the first English Premier League match to be televised live by a U.S. over-the-air network.
I know I am wasting my time with this story–the NFL is never going to change the Pro Bowl, especially after how many people tuned in last season. In 2011, the Pro Bowl on Fox had 13.4 million viewers . The prime-time, network-televised All-Star game had more viewers than any Pro Bowl since 1997 and the highest rating for the game since 2000. The NFL isn't in the habit of changing what works. If ...
By J Hutcherson - WASHINGTON, DC (Jan 27, 2012) US Soccer Players -- The news that Arsenal - Manchester United drew 1.2 million viewers in the United States for a live game early on a Sunday morning has opened a new discussion for the what it means for televised soccer to succeed. Use whatever cliché you would like, but the impact of that game should have the holders of other foreign soccer ...
By Tom Jones, Times Staff Writer Friday, January 20, 2012 tom jones' two cents The latest from the world of sports. Personality of the day When you think of the new breed of sports analysts, the two names that come up most often as the pioneers are John Madden and Tim McCarver . Fox Sports chair David Hill wants to add another name to that list: Fox NASCAR analyst Darrell Waltrip , above. "I ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Without much fanfare, soccer will take another big step into the American mainstream this weekend when Manchester United’s game at Arsenal becomes the first English Premier League match to be televised live by a U.S. over-the-air network.
Mixed martial arts is the fastest growing sport right now, and with its continued growth as a sport comes the continued growth of fans. Fans of MMA are passionate and rally behind individual athletes very often, to the point where they almost feel part of the fighter’s camp. This is due to the exposure we are getting from the head companies who represent the sport. Zuffa, comprised of UFC and ...
NEW YORK -- Without much fanfare, soccer will take another big step into the American mainstream this weekend when Manchester United's game at Arsenal becomes the first English Premier League match to be televised live by a U.S. over-the-air network. "To do this 10 years ago, had we put to the affiliates that we wanted to take the time to show a soccer game, we would have been either laughed at ...
GREENSBORO, N.C. - At least 43 games involving Atlantic Coast Conference baseball teams are scheduled to be carried nationally and/or regionally by ESPNU, ESPN2, ESPN3 and RSN (Regional Sports Network) during the 2012 season.
Paul Sunderland wouldn't describe it as a rebound, a rebrand or a reinvention of himself since his time calling Lakers games.
Charlotte, NC (Sports Network) - Five new members will be enshrined into the NASCAR Hall of Fame on Friday. Cale Yarborough, Darrell Waltrip, Richie Evans, Dale Inman and Glen Wood make up the 2012 class. They were voted into the NASCAR HofF last June.
