television ratings Stories - Bloody Elbow
Defending UFC's Choice of Brock Lesnar for The Ultimate Fighter Coach
I was a guest on Steve Cofield's radio show on ESPN Las Vegas 1100 yesterday evening to discuss UFC heavyweight Brock Lesnar being selected as a coach for season 13 of Spike TV's "The Ultimate Fighter". More specifically, I was asked to respond to the idiocy from some hardcore fans about the...
DREAM.16 Ratings Fail to Impress in Primetime, But Hold Strong
Honestly, FEG and TBS have to be scratching their heads after their latest effort at MMA this weekend, as DREAM returned to primetime action for the first time in around a year. The last time DREAM saw primetime as a standalone show was in October of 2009. In 2009 DREAM only saw two primetime TBS...
Are We Losing Interest in the BCS?
I'll admit, I greeted the slate of BCS game this year with more of yawn than anything else. I know I'll be sick of the Alabama-Texas hype by the second week in January, and none of the other games really piqued by interest. It's been that way for a couple of years, actually, ever since I started...
NFL preseason game blows Red Sox-Yankees out of the water
While this is coming from a Twitter page, it's from a trusted Sports Business Journal writer. According to SBJ's John Ourand (and his Twitter page), the Buffalo-Tennessee preseason game apparently did approximately 7.9 million viewers to the Red Sox-Yankees 4.7 million viewers. Once official...
EliteXC Loses Ratings Battle to America's Most Wanted
The early overnight numbers are in...and they're not exactly great: Kimbo Slice got back in the ring last night for CBS’s EliteXC Saturday Night Fights and got pounded in the ring, losing to Seth Petruzelli in 15 seconds, and to Fox’s America’s Most Wanted in the ratings by...
DREAM Not Deferred...Yet
While ominous clouds gather, there might - might - be some life left for at least one last hurrah: As reported in Part 1, the average viewership was 9.0% with a peak of 13.4% during the Akiyama-Minowa match.Sasahara stated, "These are not numbers we can be optimistic about. The end of the year...
A Closer Look at DREAM's Japanese Television Ratings
As always, the most under appreciated news coverage in MMA (read: Jordan Breen's Japanese notebook) gets the good stuff: in this case, the skinny on how DREAM's ratings on Tokyo Broadcasting System's stacked up against other sporting ventures: The week of the telecast was a thin lineup for...
Scheduling Quirk or CBC/NHL Conspiracy?
This is just interesting rather than being a big deal but I was looking through the leafs' schedule and noticed there are three Saturdays (Dec 13, 27 and Jan 17) throughout the season where they aren't playing. Now is it just me or will these be the first saturdays in the history of the nhl that...
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