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ESPN led the nominees for the 30th annual Sports Emmy Awards with 42 nominations, followed by NBC with 28. Fox and HBO were tied for third with 18. The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences will announce the winners of the Sports Emmys at a ceremony April 27 at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P...
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ABC’s “Lost,” NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” and HBO’s “Entourage” and “John Adams” are among the television programs being honored with a 2008 Peabody Award. AMC’s critical darling “Breaking Bad” will also receive a Peabody Award, as will Nick’s “Avator: The Last Air Bender.” Several of HBO’s documentary...
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NBC Universal Sports and Olympics Chairman *** Ebersol said he thinks bidding for TV broadcast rights on the 2014 and 2016 Olympics might not take place until the second half of the year. “I’ve gotten the clear impression over the last three to four months that the bidding is going to be delayed for...
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NBC will air “The Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony: TV Event of the Year” on Dec. 27 at 8 p.m. The two-hour special, hosted by Bob Costas and Matt Lauer, will highlight the Opening Ceremony and the greatest moments of the Beijing Games. The special also will offer a brief look forward at the 2010 Vancouver...
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NBC Sports has made an agreement with USA Swimming to broadcast the 2009 World Swimming Championships and 2009 USA Swimming National Championships on NBC Sports and Universal Sports. NBC also will broadcast the National Championships in 2010 and 2011. NBC will feature weekend coverage from the 2009 World...
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NBC Universal topped another Olympic milestone: During the first 11 days of the Beijing Olympics, 200 million people have watched the Games across NBCU’s networks. Through 11 days, Beijing has bested the 2004 Athens Games by 12 million and the 1996 Atlanta Games by 4 million. Atlanta still holds the...
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NBC continues to reap the benefit of the Phelps effect, adding another $15 million to its already impressive Olympics ad sales total. The network said Tuesday that it sold the extra ad inventory within the last week. Add in $10 million it sold in the first couple days of the Games, and NBC has increased...
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Michael Phelps may be hogging all the glory, but if NBC’s marketing division had any say in the matter, Greg Daniels would be walking away from the Beijing Games with a gold medal or two of his own. The executive producer of NBC’s comedy anchor “The Office” has given the Peacock a major promotional coup...
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The ringing endorsement from the Beijing Olympics is that broadcast still takes the gold in media. Despite all the hype about the Olympics being available on digital platforms, broadcast television’s massive reach is dominating the viewership and ratings breakdown. According to NBC’s Total Audience Measurement...
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Online streaming of the Olympics has generated massive traffic for NBC, but the Games are still overwhelmingly a broadcast TV event. That take-away comes not from NBC, but Fox, which on Thursday issued an analysis of numbers that made the case that, whatever gains streaming video has made this year,...
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NBC’s Olympian promotional push on behalf of “The Office” moves to the next level tonight. The network is expected to premiere the second in what could be as many as five Olympics-themed spots created and scripted by “Office” executive producer Greg Daniels and his staff of writers. The first promo,...
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On Monday and Tuesday, the first two days the full crew of “Today” broadcast together from the Beijing Olympics, the NBC morning show averaged 6.425 million viewers and 6.428 million viewers, respectively, according to preliminary fast national data from Nielsen Media Research. The early data shows that...
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Tuesday’s prime-time Olympics coverage on NBC set a network high not seen since the finale of “Friends” in 2004. Posting an 11.3 rating/30 share in prime-time in the 18- to 49-year-old demographic, NBC’s Beijing coverage also was a Tuesday high since the Salt Lake City Games in 2002. The Games earned...
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Based on a new system for measuring viewership on multiple platforms, NBC said more than 113 million people watched Olympic programming on Sunday. NBC is introducing what it calls a Total Audience Measurement Index, which combines into one number the audiences on broadcast and cable television, the Internet...
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Four days into the Beijing Olympics and NBC continues to boast ratings numbers higher than those for the 2004 Athens Summer Olympics. The first Monday of the Games on NBC increased 5% over the Athens telecast, as the Beijing Games pulled in a 17.4 rating/28 share in households. Viewers last night tuned...