Mike Reynolds

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Overnight of the Century

[Updated: Nov. 7] And thus far that moniker also applies to the new millennium for CBS, which tackled its top regular-season, college football Nielsen rating since the late 1980s with its Nov. 5 coverage of LSU-Alabama. Billed as the latest “Game of the Century,” Saturday night’s special between the SEC West rivals didn’t quite live up to that hype — unless... More

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Nielsen Life Left In The Old Ballgame

It may have taken a lead-in for the ages, but Fox scored big with its coverage of Game 7 of the St. Louis-Texas World Series. Fox closed out what was truly a Fall Classic with a 14.7 rating/25 share and 25.4 million viewers for its Game 7 telecast on Oct. 29, the highest-rated and most-watched MLB contest since the Boston Red Sox swept away the Cardinals and the 86-year “Curse of the... More

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Much Left To Wonder About World Cup Rights Deals

Last week, Fox and Telemundo gained the U.S. media rights to top FIFA events from 2015 through 2022, highlighted by the men’s World Cup in Russia in 2018 and Qatar four years thereafter. It was an upset — perhaps not as big as the U.S. topping England 1-0 in the group stage during the 1950 World Cup in Brazil — because money and FIFA president Sepp Blatter were involved.... More

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In The Tigers' Lair

It wasn’t Saturday Night in Death Valley , which was probably a good thing for Auburn, considering that tigers hunt nocturnally and how blood-thirsty things became in the Baton Rouge afternoon. As LSU fans have lamented the lack of a 2011 SEC night game in their storied lair, it may have amplified their purple and gold snarl — even though their Tigers donned mostly white... More

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MLB Game 5s: Giveth and Taketh

After years of seeing MLB’s Division Series come up short in drama and games, TBS almost ran the table this year. The “very funny” network, with an assist from sister service TNT, got to televise 19 of possible 20 first-round MLB playoff games, highlighted by a trio of one-run Game 5s — only Texas topping Tampa in four prevented a DS Grand Slam, so to speak.... More