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Salon.com
March 19, 2001
Eric Boehlert |
XFL makes history! Unfortunately, it's in the flop category.   |
Salon.com
February 20, 2001
Eric Boehlert |
Is the XFL taking the WWF down with it? As smashmouth football ratings continue to fall, some wonder whether Vince McMahon is endangering his wrestling empire... |
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... |
Salon.com
February 12, 2001
King Kaufman |
Amateur hour The XFL can't seem to get beyond ineptitude and lame behind-the-scenes material... |
AskMen.com
November 15, 2000
Mark Simmons |
XFL: As If Football Needed Any More Attitude On February 3rd, 2000, Vince McMahon, Chairman of publicly traded WWF Entertainment Inc., announced to investors that the venerable "sports entertainment" cash cow was going to start a football league, aptly named the XFL... |
Salon.com
May 11, 2001
King Kaufman |
It leave me The XFL belongs to the ages now, and we're left with only our memories, if we can remember any... |
Salon.com
February 7, 2001
Allen Barra |
Smashmouth football sucks The XFL thinks its brutal, dumbed-down product is what fans want. Actually, fans want more scoring and fewer commercials... |
BusinessWeek
November 24, 2010
Patrick Cain |
The NFL: A Pro Football League of Its Own The history of rivals to the National Football League is one of short-lived ambitions |
Sports Illustrated
April 5, 2000 |
Understanding Wrestling-America ...We really seem to have three Americas now, don't we? There is the United States of America, Miami-America and Wrestling-America.... |
AskMen.com
Steve Seepersaud |
Least Profitable Sports Leagues Many pro sports leagues are running in the red. Here's a look at some of the least profitable pro sports leagues in recent years. |
Sports Illustrated
February 7, 2001
Frank Deford |
Great X-pectations XFL is far from matching wrestling's allure... |
AskMen.com
Steve Seepersaud |
Alternative Leagues Real pro wrestling... New SlamBall season coming soon... Arena Football team value skyrockets... Euroleague hoops immensely popular... |
Sports Illustrated
February 5, 2001
E.M. Swift |
Take the XFL, leave its announcers Memo to Dick Ebersol and Vince McMahon: Your product doesn't offend me. Your announcers do. Big time... |
Sports Illustrated
January 3, 2002
Frank Deford |
Games glut All-sports, all-the-time has caused ratings erosion... |
Sports Illustrated
September 26, 2000
John Walters |
Making sense of NBC's tumbling Olympic ratings Question: Could NBC's ratings for the Olympics be any worse? Answer: Only if Dennis Miller were added to the broadcast team... |
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. |
The Motley Fool
June 1, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Are You Ready for Some More Football? The country isn't ready for another football league. If there's a way to out-NFL the NFL at its own game, don't you think someone would have come up with the better mousetrap by now? |
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. |
The Motley Fool
May 24, 2004
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Hockey's Hard Times At its best, hockey is a beautiful sport, blending brutality with finesse. Now, the league must score with the game's dwindling television audience. |
Sports Illustrated
October 30, 2002
Stephen Cannella |
National pastime is past its prime Despite all the excuses, baseball just doesn't matter anymore |
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 Illustrated
February 5, 2001
Peter King |
A Night at the (Soap) Opera This is what I didn't like about the XFL opener Saturday night in the desert just east of here---and what I did like... |
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? |
Salon.com
June 19, 2001
Eric Boehlert |
Destiny's double dribble What happens when a television network tries to entertain an arena full of basketball fans with platinum pop groups? The fans bite back... |
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. |
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 Central
February 25, 2008
Jon Gonzales |
Happy 25th, USFL! (Or What Could've Been) Had the United States Football League continued down the path it was blazing, and had a few breaks gone its way, it likely would have survived to today. |
The Motley Fool
September 30, 2004
Brian Gorman |
NBC's Non-News The network needs more than publicity stunts to keep its status as a leader. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
October 6, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Watch Tina Fey Save General Electric If one impersonation can save a company, we've hit desperate times. |
The Motley Fool
June 10, 2010
Adrian Rush |
NBC's Hockey Power Play Last night's Stanley Cup clincher was a relative ratings win. |
Sports Illustrated
May 15, 2001
Peter King |
Where Go Them? There will be no pot of gold at the end of the XFL rainbow, not for the players unemployed in the wake of the league's decision to fold last week and not for NFL teams waiting to pick the bones of the eight expired clubs... |
Sports Central
March 7, 2013
Kevin Beane |
Changes Afoot in U.S. Sports Broadcasting Looks like the U.S. sports channel landscape is about to change dramatically. FOX Sports has announced that they are rolling out a national sports network called "FOX Sports 1" on August 17th. |
Salon.com
March 19, 2002
Eric Boehlert |
Is the WWF on the ropes? Sunday's Wrestlemania broadcast, with its much hyped match between Hulk Hogan and the Rock, might not have been enough to save Vince McMahon's crumbling empire... |
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. |
Sports Illustrated
May 30, 2001
Paul Zimmerman |
Catching up is hard to do When I returned from three weeks abroad and I had gone through the mountain of newspapers in front of me, I was struck by one singular thing: Practically nothing had happened on the football landscape. Make that nothing unexpected... |
BusinessWeek
February 2, 2004
Diane Brady |
Is The WWE Rousing Itself Off The Mat? Vince McMahon's wrestling empire is getting a second wind -- but the Street isn't sold yet. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
December 5, 2009
Adrian Rush |
Can Comcast Cross-Check DirecTV? The DirecTV-Versus hockey feud continues -- but maybe not for much longer. |
AskMen.com
April 4, 2001
Mark Simmons |
WCW Takeover Vince McMahon recently announced that his WWF would be purchasing its former archenemy; World Championship Wrestling... |
The Motley Fool
June 16, 2005
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Madden Moves to NBC The network shows it's serious about its new football deal. |
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. |
InternetNews
November 2, 2005
Tim Gray |
NBC to 'Netcast' News NBC will offer "NBC Nightly News" over the Web. |
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. |
InternetNews
June 19, 2009
David Needle |
Microsoft in NBC Deal to Supply Ad System NBC is looking for Microsoft to help it identify the best potential audience for the least cost. |
BusinessWeek
October 8, 2009
Grover & Lowry |
A Touchdown for Comcast? Wall Street may not like the cable giant's bid for NBC Universal, but it could make sense. |
InternetNews
September 11, 2006
Nicholas Carlson |
NBC Does Broadband Before Broadcast NBC today announced it will stream the premieres of "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip" and "Twenty Good Years" before they broadcast them. It's the latest in a string of news to suggest to local broadcasters they are facing a brave new world. |
Fast Company
June 2010
Dan Macsai |
Fans Help Extend Television Shows' Lifetimes Here, a look at some of the TV shows saved by loyal viewers -- and how many seasons their fan campaigns bought them. |
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
January 27, 2004
Selena Maranjian |
Can You Say That on TV? Congressional leaders ponder the future of bad words on the air. |
