Showing 121 - 135 of 160 articles tagged "Sports"

• Posted Monday 10/02/17 at 6:58AM EDT

  ESPN won’t televise the National Anthem before today’s Monday Night Football game

  Tonight, the cable sports network will return to its normal coverage of not showing the anthem after much of the...

• Posted Friday 9/29/17 at 11:05PM EDT

  NFL on Amazon was mostly just football on TV, with internet glitches

  Amazon’s first broadcast of an NFL game Thursday night might have been a preview of the future.

• Posted Friday 9/29/17 at 2:51AM EDT

  The Voice alum Meghan Linsey says she’s been receiving death threats after taking a knee at NFL game

  Linsey took a knee in Nashville this past Sunday after singing the National Anthem at the Tennessee Titans-Seattle Seahawks game.

• Posted Wednesday 9/27/17 at 3:06PM EDT

  Why didn’t TV networks show angry, booing NFL fans while showing the National Anthem?

  One anonymous TV staffer tells the Sporting News that camera operators were ordered to avoid crowd shots.

• Posted Tuesday 9/26/17 at 5:44PM EDT

  NFL ratings actually went up 3% after President Trump’s attack on National Anthem protesters

  Updated numbers show that CBS saw a ratings bump on Sunday, while Fox was down.

• Posted Tuesday 9/26/17 at 2:26AM EDT

  ESPN’s Doris Burke will be the first woman to become a national NBA game analyst

  She’ll regularly analyze NBA games, both in the regular season and in the playoffs.

• Posted Monday 9/25/17 at 1:26PM EDT

  ESPN will begin measuring its viewership based on streaming and regular TV viewing combined

  Starting Monday, viewership will be measured using what's known as “Total Audience Measurement.

• Posted Monday 9/25/17 at 1:24PM EDT

  NFL shows seriously covered President Trump’s comments berating players for kneeling

  ESPN’s three-hour Sunday NFL Countdown devoted 22 minutes to Trump’s comments at the start of the show (with the president’s...

• Posted Wednesday 9/20/17 at 2:21PM EDT

  Report: Jay-Z turned down the Super Bowl halftime show

  According to The Source, the NFL approached the rap mogul about becoming the 2018 Super Bowl halftime performer.

• Posted Monday 9/18/17 at 10:50PM EDT

  Is the NFL’s RedZone channel a source of its ratings and attendance woes?

  The RedZone channel, showing live "whip-around" coverage of games airing on CBS and FOX on Sunday afternoons, has been “singled...

• Posted Monday 9/18/17 at 1:40PM EDT

  Friends is a hit among Latin American Major League Baseball players who use it to help learn English

  New York Mets infielder Wilmer Flores, a 26-year-old from Venezuela, is so obsessed with Friends he’s watched each episode seven...

• Posted Friday 9/15/17 at 10:40PM EDT

  Don Ohlmeyer thought he’d be remembered for putting on an NFL game without an announcers

  The former NBC executive, who died Sunday at age 72, thought experimenting with an announcer-less game would bring in ratings,...

• Posted Friday 9/15/17 at 10:40PM EDT

  ESPN is setting a terrible precedent by sending College Gameday to Times Square

  The college football staple deserves to be at the location of a football game, not in the “worst part of...

• Posted Friday 9/15/17 at 3:31PM EDT

  Amazon’s NFL stream will include an audio option for football newbies

  When it begins showing NFL games in two weeks, the streaming service will offer two audio feeds, the CBS feed...

• Posted Friday 9/15/17 at 3:31PM EDT

  Trump urges ESPN to “apologize for untruth” in wake of Jemele Hill calling him a white supremacist

  Trump tweeted early this morning, “ESPN is paying a really big price for its politics (and bad programming).