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NASCAR TV ratings drop again, remain strongest in South
- 2007-11-14
NASCAR ends its season Sunday with ratings down again this year. And while it has fan interest beyond its Southern base, it's still an also-ran in big cities outside the South. This season's NASCAR Nextel Cup races -- airing on Fox, TNT, ESPN and ABC --...
'Junk Car' race needs a light
- 2007-11-13
NASCAR HAD ITS equivalent of the Final Four on Sunday -- the event leading into "the event." Only in this case, nobody watched. I mean, nobody. That's not to say nobody cared. It's just that nobody watched. OK, somebody watched. According...
NASCAR might yet pull out ratings victory vs. Indy 500
- 2006-05-31
NASCAR, in its annual same-day showdown with the Indianapolis 500, might still eke out a TV ratings win when all the numbers are in. In Nielsen overnight ratings out Tuesday, Sunday afternoon's 500 on ABC drew 5.2% of U.S. households. NASCAR's Coca-Cola 600, in Sunday prime time on Fox,...
Sports on TV, radio
- 2006-03-19
Sunday TV ARENA FOOTBALL Dallas at Orlando, Ch. 5, 10 a.m. GOLF Bay Hill Invitational, Ch. 5, 12:30 p.m. NASCAR Golden Corral 500, Ch. 13, 11 a.m. NBA Mavericks at Nets, Ch. 4, 11...
Entertaining Alliss, 74, still delivers unique candor
- 2005-07-22
Although he has been a golf analyst on ABC since 1975, Peter Alliss still can seem unpredictable. At least to U.S. viewers. Alliss, who also works for the BBC, calls six to 12 events each year for ABC, including the Senior British Open this weekend and its second-round coverage...
NBC gears up for NASCAR by switching announcers
- 2005-06-29
As NBC inherits NASCAR coverage from Fox on Saturday, it will have a change prompted by hockey. Last year NBC race announcer Allen Bestwick missed two races after being injured playing recreational hockey. NBC analyst Wally Dallenbach offered an on-air tribute to the convalescing Bestwick: "I told Allen those...
ESPN primed to bring us more on draft, more Kiper
- 2005-04-22
The first three rounds of Saturday's NFL draft will draw about 5 million visitors to nfl.com, attract its first satellite radio coverage on Sirius and get an hourlong predraft show on the NFL Network before ESPN/ESPN2 begin 17 hours of weekend coverage at noon ET. So what that nobody...
NASCAR is a hot property in eyes of TV sports honchos
- 2004-10-28
NEW YORK -- Wishes sometimes do come true, and at the top of ESPN/ABC Sports President George Bodenheimer 's wish list is NASCAR. For Fox Sports chairman David Hill , the list would begin with poker, maybe even in prime time. Participating in a roundtable on the future of...
Networks say no to NBC's delay tactic in spite of curse not foiled on ESPN
- 2004-10-11
The silence was deafening when network executives were asked if they would follow NBC's decision to put a five-second delay on sports telecasts. NBC's decision came after Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s profanity in an interview after a NASCAR race. Officials from Fox, CBS, ESPN and NBC's NASCAR partner, TNT,...
Critics of Gray's work on sideline have done poor job of reporting
- 2004-03-24
Even when he's doing his job, ESPN reporter Jim Gray cannot seem to get a thumbs up -- from his own network cohorts nonetheless. Gray might have pushed too far in his celebrated interview with a stonewalling Pete Rose at the 1999 World Series. But he only asked a...
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