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ESPN is looking to snag the Olympics away from longtime rights holder NBC, a top executive at the cable sports behemoth told USA Today. In an interview with Mike McCarthy, John Skipper, ESPN's executive vice president of content, promised that...
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When the U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) and cable giant Comcast Corp. teamed up in early July to announce a new channel devoted to the games which would launch next year, they promised "excitement, competition and values connected with the Olympic...
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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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Golf Channel Swings Into HD The Golf Channel’s high-definition channel has launched in nearly 16 million homes, TelevisionWeek reported. The channel will feature coverage of the first three events of the PGA Tour from Hawaii, marking the first time the events have aired in HD. Other HD programming, including...
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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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Musician will.i.am’s “Yes We Can” video, about Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, was the most searched-for viral video of the year, according to AOL-owned video search service Truveo. Truveo released data on most popular search trends today. It reported that after the will.i.am video, the most searched...
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NBC Universal Research President Alan Wurtzel thinks the research done during the Beijing Olympic Games has won the gold medal he was looking for. NBCU put in place a number of research studies during the Games designed mainly to track how people consume related content on multiple media platforms, something...
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NBC Universal’s 2008 Beijing Olympic Games coverage on the NBC Olympics Mobile Web site attracted 6.5 million unique visitors and 36 million page views, according to Omniture. The mobile Web site also garnered 826,000 mobile video views and 300,000 total SMS/MMS alert subscripts between Aug. 8 and Aug...
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The Universal Sports Network will expand to nine new markets, making its lineup of Olympics-related sports programming available to more than 30 million television households. The new markets are New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco/Oakland/San Jose, Washington, D.C., San Diego...
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Despite reports that Yahoo! Sports outdrew the official Olympics site at NBCOlympics.com, a new study from Digital Life America said Olympics viewers rated NBCOlympics.com as their favorite site for last month’s Games. According to the study, released today, about one-third of viewers picked NBCOlympics...
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Oprah Winfrey taped her season-opening show Wednesday morning in Chicago accompanied by 150 medal-winning Olympic athletes. In front of an audience of more than 6,000, in what could be the largest audience ever for an episode of “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” Ms. Winfrey opened the program with the Olympic...
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NBCOlympics.com earned only $5.75 million in online video advertising revenue, according to estimates released today by eMarketer. The new-media research firm issued the projection based on video streams delivered on the site during the 2008 Beijing Olympics. eMarketer said the figure represents only...
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Coca-Cola, McDonald’s and Visa have had the most memorable ads during the Olympics, according to research conducted by TNS Custom and TNS Media. Coca-Cola, McDonald’s and Visa enjoyed 21%, 15% and 11% unaided brand recall, respectively, for Olympic viewers. Recall grew for the three brands among those...