The National Football League announced its postseason television schedule on Sunday, December 31. Eight of the twelve current playoff teams hadn’t reached the playoffs in 2016-17; seven of them will play on Wild Card weekend. Wild Card weekend marks the kickoff to the NFL postseason on Jan. 6-7. ESPN and ABC will simulcast the first […]
In this final week of the NFL regular season, the playoff fates of those trans still mathematically in contention will be decided in games played in the late afternoon window on New Year’s Eve: The Atlanta Falcons can clinch a playoff berth with: 1) A Falcons win 2) A Seahawks loss 3) A Falcons tie […]
CBS won the week of Dec. 11 in viewers which included its most-watched Sunday of this fall with an average of 12.31 million viewers on Dec. 17, thanks to a 38-minute NFL runover (New England Patriots vs. Pittsburgh Steelers; 29.72 million). “60 Minutes” was the week’s #1 news program and the top non-sport program. “The […]
Heading into this week, the nation’s current top four teams — Villanova, Michigan State, Arizona State and Duke — won their six games for the week of Dec. 18-23 by an average margin of 39.7 points. Tenth-ranked TCU has the nation’s longest winning streak at 17 games dating to last season’s NIT championship, and now […]
Two key matchups highlight Week 16 of NFL action on Christmas Eve: the Atlanta Falcons vie for the NFC South division lead but must defeat current leader New Orleans Saints in the early afternoon window; two NFC wild card contenders, each with an 8-6 record, battle in the late afternoon window on most Fox stations […]
CBS features its second weekend of college basketball coverage for the 2017-18 season with the aptly-named CBS Sports Classic doubleheader of Ohio State vs. North Carolina followed by Kentucky vs. UCLA on the afternoon of Saturday, Dec. 23. Follow @SonOfTheBronx If you can see this text, your browser does not support iframes. This section of […]
What follows are the Live + Same Day results on the broadcast networks for the week of Dec. 4 (with change versus the comparable year-ago period in parentheses): –Total Viewers: NBC: 8.09 million (-24), CBS: 6.83 (-12), Fox: 4.58 (+ 9), ABC: 4.05 (-10), Univision: 1.74, CW: 1.30 (-12), Telemundo: 1.05, UniMas: 756,000 –Adults 18-49: […]
Several key matchups highlight Week 15 of NFL action: the Los Angeles Chargers and the Kansas City Chiefs battle for the AFC West lead on Dec. 16; NFC West rivals Los Angeles Rams and Seattle Seahawks — two of NFC’s best — face off on Dec. 17; and, in a matchup of the AFC’s two […]
The Crossroads Classic, the four-team basketball event of Indiana schools — Indiana Hoosiers, the Purdue Boilermakers, the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, and Butler Bulldogs — held in Indianapolis, Indiana at Bankers Life Fieldhouse, will take place on Dec. 16 and be televised on Fox. Purdue and Notre Dame are both ranked in the Associated Press […]
