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SCREAMS ASIDE, BIEBER IS NO MATCH FOR THE NFL

November 22, 2010 by · Leave a Comment 

Once again, NBC’s Sunday Night Football, this week featuring the New York Giants against the Philadelphia Eagles, scored solidly for the network, drawing an average 21.05 million viewers, peaking in the first half hour with 23.60 million. Not even Justin Bieber could compete. In fact, ABC’s telecast of the American Music Awards in which the […]

POWER FAILURE HALTS NFL TELECAST

November 15, 2010 by · Leave a Comment 

Two power outages at the New Meadowlands Stadium in New Jersey disrupted Fox’s coverage of the New York Giants-Dallas Cowboys game during the third quarter on Sunday — and halted play, once for about three minutes, then for 12 minutes, while stadium engineers worked to restore the stadium’s lighting. But once up, the network’s expensive […]

SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL SCORES AGAIN FOR NBC

October 4, 2010 by · Leave a Comment 

Football once again drew a big crowd during primetime Sunday night as an NFL overrun on Fox at 7:00 p.m. drew 18.61 million viewers, while NBC’s Sunday Night Football between the Chicago Bears and the New York Giants averaged an almost identical 18.58 million viewers beginning at 8:30 p.m. Unlike most football telecasts, which generally […]