The March Madness of 2018 continues as the 16 teams that won this past Thursday (Mar. 15) play on Saturday and the 16 teams that won this past Friday (Mar. 16) play on Sunday. The collective networks will again present integrated game and studio productions with pregame, halftime, bridge and postgame shows from studios in […]
Let the March Madness of 2018 begin! March 11 was Selection Sunday as 68 teams, their seedings and regions were announced for the upcoming annual tournament to ultimately determine the men’s Division I college basketball national champion. 67 tournament games will be televised on four different networks. CBS will broadcast 21 games throughout the tournament […]
While most of the nation’s conference tournaments will conclude this weekend, several teams have already clinched automatic bids in the Division I Basketball Championship Tournament by winning their respective conference tournaments: Atlantic Sun: Lipscomb Big South: Radford Big Ten: Michigan Colonial: Charleston Horizon League: Wright State MAAC: Iona Missouri Valley: Loyola (Chicago) Northeast: LIU Brooklyn […]
In the midst of conference tournament season where many of the nation’s teams are vying to earn a spot in the Big Dance (Division I Basketball Championship Tournament), several teams have already clinched automatic bids there by winning their respective conference tournaments: Big Ten: Michigan Big South: Radford Atlantic Sun: Lipscomb Missouri Valley: Loyola (Chicago) […]
From the opening night of coverage on Feb. 8 thru the final night on Feb. 25, the PyeongChang Winter Games averaged a Total Audience Delivery of 19.8 million viewers. NBC Olympics’ primetime performance more than doubled the combined primetime viewership of ABC, CBS and Fox (9.8 million). NBC Olympics’ Total Audience Delivery measured broader PyeongChang […]
Virginia remained at No. 1 for the week of Feb. 25-Mar. 4, receiving 48 votes from a media panel in the Associated Press Top 25 poll, up six from a week ago. No. 2 Michigan State, the 2017-18 regular season Big Ten title winner, received 17 first-place votes. The Xavier Musketeers defeated Georgetown 89-77 on […]
In addition to summer staple “Big Brother,” CBS will populate its primetime lineup this summer with a new competition series called “TKO” from Mark Burnett and MGM Television. The logline: “TKO” features one player racing through daunting obstacles while the other contestants are manning battle stations along the course, firing over-the-top projectiles in an attempt […]
The ranks of the top four teams of the Associated Press Top 25 poll — Virginia, Michigan State, Villanova and Xavier — remain unchanged from last week. Wins over Virginia Tech and Clemson vaulted the Duke Blue Devils back into the Top 5 in at No. 5, up seven spots from last week. The Texas […]
NBC has claimed the primetime 2017-18 season-to-date lead among total viewers, with an average of 9.569 million persons for the season through 20 weeks in “most current” results from Nielsen Media Research that include fast-official results for Feb. 9-11. This marks the first time NBC has ranked #1 in total viewers at any point during […]
