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Over a year that has seen the world turn upside down several times on several fronts, television ratings have proven resolute, sort of. While the numbers are down almost everywhere from the lows of the Super Bowl and the Oscars and all ports of call, it looks pretty certain that for the second year in a row Fox will…

Along with everything else, it certainly was a weird year for sports on TV, and today the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences is out with its nominations for the 42nd annual Sports Emmy Awards. ESPN dominated the network and network group races, scooping 54 and 41 noms, respectively. NFL Network was second…

Did you see the game? Then you probably heard Dick Stockton. The man who has called more major U.S. pro sports games for television than anyone in history announced his retirement today after 55 years in the business. Stockton, 78, began his career at CBS in the late 1960s and spent 17 years at the network. He also…

The NFL flatly denied a report of a preliminary rights deal with Disney, but the league is continuing to hold active talks with all bidders ahead of a key March date. Sports Business Journal reported the Disney pact, though it cautioned that “contracts have not been signed.” It pegged the annual rights fee at $2.6…

UPDATE, Feb. 24: Federal DUI charges against Bruce Springsteen were dropped today in a New Jersey court, though the rocker pleaded guilty to consuming an alcoholic beverage in a closed area. He paid a $500 fine. Charges of driving under the influence and reckless driving were dropped due to lack of evidence…

CBS may have aired the lowest-rated Super Bowl since 2007 on Sunday, but the network raked in $545 million in ad revenue from the linear broadcast, a record haul for the game. The figure is an estimate by research firm Kantar, which analyzed ads from the opening kickoff through the on-field trophy presentation, a span…

EXCLUSIVE: This year, it wasn’t a movie trailer that was all the buzz following the Super Bowl, but rather Michael B. Jordan as Alexa. Given the unpredictable environment of the pandemic, and movie theaters largely still shuttered coast to coast, most of the major studios cut their supply of trailers during Super Bowl…

There was a lot of history at Super Bowl LV on Sunday. Unfortunately, not all of it looks good when it comes to how many people actually watched  – and we’re not just talking about Nielsen’s unprecedented delay in getting the actual data out. In figures released Tuesday morning by CBS Sports, the big game had a total…

UPDATE, 5:11 PM: Well, that was quick, kind of. Nielsen still doesn’t have any Super Bowl LV ratings to report today. Yet, they do now have something to say about the unprecedented delay – though it ain’t much. “Super Bowl numbers are still being processed and verified,” a spokesperson for the blushing company finally…

UPDATED with additional ads: This year’s Super Bowl shaped up as — let us all hope — a one-of-a-kind experience. But the seventh career championship for Tom Brady, who led the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to a win over the Kansas City Chiefs (last year’s champs), had plenty of familiar elements for viewers in this unfamiliar…

It’s safe to say few people outside Boone, North Carolina, had heard of Foggy Pine Books before last night, but that changed once Stephen Colbert, Tom Hanks and Sam Elliott pitched in to give the pandemic-hit local bookstore a Super Bowl-sized boost. On last night’s special post-game installment of CBS’ The Late Show…

The crop of Super Bowl ads 2021 employed a large contingent of A-lest celebrities in front and behind the camera and featured major Hollywood brands. Not surprisingly, they dominated the list of most watched Super Bowl commercials on YouTube during gameday. Google Sunday night released data about the Top 10 most…