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Sports Central
November 8, 2012
Kevin Beane |
Ranking the Networks I am a sports fan, and I actually like all of these channels. I say this because I don't want the programming directors of the networks low on the list to jump out their 45th-floor windows.   |
Sports Central
April 7, 2011
Kevin Beane |
Sports Television: Past and Present When I was a kid in the 1980s, sports on television was worlds different than it is now. |
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. |
AskMen.com
Simon Kuper |
3 Big Questions (And Answers) For Soccer In 2011 Question One: Will Jose Mourinho leave Real Madrid if he fails to take the Spanish title from Barcelona? |
Sports Central
January 15, 2009
Kevin Beane |
Slant Pattern Reviews the Networks Grading the sports channels and the sports bureaus of the major over-the-air networks. |
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
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. |
Sports Central
October 1, 2007
Ross Lancaster |
An American's Sports Odyssey Into Soccer Soccer becomes the highlight of a sports weekend. |
AskMen.com
Steve Seepersaud |
Most Profitable Sports Leagues The top five richest pro sports leagues. |
BusinessWeek
November 20, 2006
Jon Fine |
Is Fox's Business Channel A Go? Murdoch & Co. first floated the notion of a 24/7 business channel two-plus years ago, and we're still waiting. |
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
Rob Fox |
Thierry Henry Won't Save Soccer In America Beyond the money, it's difficult to see why a player of Henry's stature would want to compete in a league that's seen by many outside of North America as a golden retirement home for European and South American pros. |
Sports Illustrated
January 3, 2002
Frank Deford |
Games glut All-sports, all-the-time has caused ratings erosion... |
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. |
The Motley Fool
August 19, 2005
W.D. Crotty |
Crown's Jewels on Sale Crown Media considers selling the Hallmark Channel. The company's stock is up 20% this morning, giving the company an enterprise value of $1.7 billion. |
BusinessWeek
May 2, 2005
Grover & Lowry |
A Ball ESPN Couldn't Afford To Drop Yes, ESPN paid plenty for Monday Night Football, but the deal may keep potential rivals, particularly Comcast Corp. and Fox Sports, at bay. |
The Motley Fool
October 21, 2005
Steven Mallas |
XM's Foxy Deal Fox News Channel will continue to make News Corp. shareholders smile with an XM marketing scheme. The channel's radio exposure should lead to higher TV ratings and more lucrative advertising rates over time. |
AskMen.com
Rob Fox |
Why The EPL Is The Best: Fox On Football If you're anything like me, you currently have a huge World-Cup-size gap in your schedule. A football vacuum, if you will. |
BusinessWeek
January 19, 2004
Ronald Grover |
TV's Oddest Couple Surprise! Rupert Murdoch and National Geographic are getting along famously as they challenge Discovery Network |
The Motley Fool
January 11, 2005
Rich Duprey |
Fox Throws, and Takes, a Block News Corp.'s acquisition prevents takeover, while Fox News gets filtered. |
BusinessWeek
October 8, 2007
Grover & Brady |
Fox vs. CNBC: Countdown To War Fox Business Network has the deep pockets and patience of News Corp. behind it. It'll need them. |
The Motley Fool
December 7, 2011
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Football Is All About the Hikes The NFL wants major networks to pay more for content. |
The Motley Fool
August 18, 2005
Stephen D. Simpson |
New Sheet of Ice for the NHL Comcast could win big with this expensive bet: trying to build its OLN (formerly known as the Outdoor Life Network) programming. |
Sports Illustrated
April 25, 2001
Frank Deford |
The name game WUSA may lead American women to claim soccer as their sport... |
AskMen.com
Mark Simmons |
soccer betting What do we think about when high-budget sporting franchises come to mind? Baseball? Basketball? Hockey? Although all of these might be valid answers to the question, soccer should also be added to the list. |
BusinessWeek
January 10, 2005
Tom Lowry |
Can Murdoch Outfox CNBC? With a Fox business channel likely to launch, a cable brawl is ready to begin. |
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? |
Sports Central
June 29, 2010
Brad Oremland |
Why I Don't Love Soccer Why has the beautiful game of soccer, something easy both to play and to understand, failed to make headway against baseball and basketball and American football? |
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. |
The Motley Fool
May 9, 2005
Steven Mallas |
Murdoch Must Outfox Costs News Corp. has a great asset in Fox Broadcasting -- if it can rein in the programming expenses. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool
April 25, 2011
Travis Hoium |
New Media Brings a Sports Overload The NFL draft shows just how many options sports fans have for consuming content. |
Sports Illustrated
June 17, 2002
Phil Taylor |
No vacancy U.S. has no room for soccer on its full sports plate. |
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... |
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. |
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... |
Home Theater
July 31, 2003 |
Fox Plans HDTV, Comcast Adds ESPN HD High-definition television got a big boost from two major sources in July. |
The Motley Fool
September 29, 2011
Robert Eberhard |
Spending Money to Make Money With the NFL Various NFL partners are responsible for games every week and will benefit from the league's popularity. |
Sports Illustrated
September 23, 2000
Grant Wahl |
Coming of age U.S. men's soccer joins ranks of the world's best... |
AskMen.com
Steve Seepersaud |
The Business of Sports Scheduling Here is a look at how the complex task of scheduling is accomplished and how much money is at stake. |
Sports Central
September 1, 2004
Diane M. Grassi |
Olympics Coverage Fails U.S. Women's Teams Now that the 2004 Summer Olympic Games have come to a close, it might be the right time to evaluate the television coverage and the accessibility to view the sports U.S. fans most coveted during the Games. |
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 |
CFO
July 15, 2008
Kate O'Sullivan |
Going for the Gold Can a savvy finance strategy propel Women's Professional Soccer to post-Olympic glory? |
The Motley Fool
October 11, 2007
Steven Mallas |
NBC Takes a Breath of Fresh Air NBC buys the Oxygen Network, which targets 18- to 24-year-old women, and comes with about 74 million subscribers. Was it a smart move for the media giant? |
Sports Illustrated
July 18, 2001 |
Divided we stand There's a league for everyone these days. Declining TV ratings for individual sports are caused by an increase in choices. |
The Motley Fool
November 24, 2004
Steven Mallas |
Murdoch Eyes New Prey: CNBC Rupert Murdoch is thinking about creating a business channel. |
Salon.com
July 2, 2002
Andrew O'Hehir |
Ten things I learned about life and soccer from the 2002 World Cup There is a football God, and despite the wild twists and turns of this year's tournament, He's still Brazilian. |
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. |
Salon.com
June 27, 2002
Allen Barra |
If the U.S. won the World Cup An apocalyptic scenario involving Howard Cosell. |
CFO
February 1, 2011
David M. Katz |
"We Can't Get Carried Away by Our Success." Why "knowing when to say no" is key to ESPN's impressive growth. An interview with CFO Christine Driessen. |
Sports Central
April 17, 2008
Sean Crowe |
Why the NHL is Dead The question is, how do we bring it back to life? |
