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 […]
CBS ruled Monday night by a wide margin with coverage of North Carolina vs. Gonzaga in the “2017 NCAA Div. I Men’s Basketball National Championship.” North Carolina’s win over Gonzaga averaged a 13.2 U.S. household rating and 23 million viewers, ranking as the fourth largest NCAA Basketball National Championship in each marks since 2005. North […]
The Final Four of the “NCAA Div. I Men’s Basketball Tournament” on CBS dominated the Saturday television landscape. Saturday night’s NCAA Final Four National Semifinal games averaged 16.8 million viewers, making it the second most-watched Final Four in 19 years (since 1998, trailing only 2015). Viewership of the doubleheader — Gonzaga vs. South Carolina and North Carolina […]
CBS was a dominant force on Sunday night. Not only did it lead the evening in total viewers for the fourth consecutive Sunday (on this night, an average of 12.27 million), but it also led in all key demos including adults 18-49 (2.2 rating/8 share) and adults 25-54 (2.9/9). The network was catapulted by the […]
With scarce options on the broadcast networks on the evening, TBS ruled Saturday night in all key figures, by far, with the regional finals of the “NCAA Div. I Men’s Basketball Tournament.” It was Gonzaga vs. Xavier for the West region in the early window followed by Oregon vs. Kansas for the Midwest in prime […]
On this Friday night, CBS was prime time’s top network on television and TBS was the night’s top cable network due to the Regional Semifinals of the “NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament.” According to fast nationals, both CBS and TBS combined to average 12 million viewers which ranks as the third most-watched Sweet Sixteen Friday since […]
North Carolina Tar Heels versus Kentucky Wildcats — two of college basketball’s perennial top teams in the nation — in the South regional final from Memphis, Tenn. was the marquee matchup of the Elite Eight weekend of the 2017 NCAA Div. I Mens Basketball Tournament. With 10 seconds remaining, Kentucky’s Malik Monk tied the game […]
The end of the road to determine the men’s Division I college basketball national champion for 2017 is near. This will be the first year since 2013 that CBS will televise both the Final Four Semifinals and the National Championship. This year, those events will be held at the University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, […]
The first 59 games were played in the 2017 NCAA Div. I Mens Basketball Tournament with none of them ending with a buzzer-beating winning shot nor entering into overtime. Then, game No. 60 took place — the East regional semifinal between the Wisconsin Badgers and the Florida Gators from New York City’s Madison Square Garden […]
