NEARLY 3/4 OF BALTIMORE VIEWERS WATCHED AFC FINALE

Sunday’s AFC Championship game between the Baltimore Ravens and the New England Patriots may have scored solidly in the ratings nationally. (With 41.5 million viewers, according to preliminary Nielsen figures, it was the highest-rated program since last year’s Super Bowl, but it was down from the NFC Championship game that aired in the comparable time […]

AFC FINAL FETCHES BEST RATINGS SINCE SUPER BOWL

According to preliminary overnight Nielsen ratings, Sunday’s AFC Championship game on CBS between the Baltimore Ravens and the New England Patriots averaged 41.5 million viewers — and while that figure represented the biggest audience for any program since last year’s Super Bowl, it was down significantly from the NFC Championship game which aired on Fox […]

SUNDAY’S AFC TITLE MATCH TO GET SUPER BOWL TREATMENT

Sunday’s AFC championship game between the Baltimore Ravens and the New England Patriots on CBS will serve as a sort of dress rehearsal for the network’s coverage of the Super Bowl on Feb. 3, producer Lance Barrow suggested during a teleconference with reporters on Tuesday. “We will have in this broadcast Sunday our whole setup […]

BOX OFFICE SINKS FURTHER

BOX OFFICE SINKS FURTHER With tens of millions of viewers remaining at home on Sunday to watch the AFC and NFC finals (CBS’s coverage of the NFC championship final was the most-watched ever, averaging 54.9 million viewers), final box office figures for the weekend came in significantly below studio estimates. Paramount’s No Strings Attached ended […]

THE CAPE FAR FROM SUPER ON MONDAY NIGHT; BCS ALMIGHTY

On the surface, NBC’s hopes of being saved on Monday night by its superhero series, The Cape, would appear to have been dashed when the series made a last-place debut in its regular time period following its preview debut on Sunday. But, facing opposition from a championship BCS game on ESPN, the network decided merely […]