Prime-Time Competition: EVENING NFL ON NBC, ESPN
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By John Ryan, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Sep. 7--The big showdown in NFL broadcasting this year is NBC and Sundays vs. ESPN and Mondays. (Personally, we think it's great that ESPN will put its pregame show on the air at 3 p.m.
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FOXBOROUGH -- When it comes to airing football games, or talking about the Patriots, Channel 4 seems to have it covered. The station has the games on CBS on Sundays, pre- and postgame shows, plus ``Sports Final" on Sunday nights. Channel 7 has the Sunday night NBC games, plus ``SportsXtra" after the news. Channel 25 has the games on Fox ...
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TODAY COLLEGE BASKETBALL/MEN 7 p.m. -- Harvard at Colgate, WRCA (1330) 10 p.m. -- Alabama-Birmingham at Oklahoma St., ESPN2 PRO BASKETBALL 8 p.m. -- Philadelphia at Chicago, ESPN 10:30 p.m. -- Portland at Utah, ESPN COLLEGE FOOTBALL 7 p.m. -- Division 1-AA Tournament semifinal: James Madison at William &amp; Mary, ESPN2 GOLF 9 a.m. -- PGA European Dunhill Championship (second ...
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TOMORROW AUTO RACING 11 a.m. -- Nextel Cup: Sylvania 300 final practice, Speed 1:30 p.m. -- Craftsman Truck Series: New Hampshire 200, Speed
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Monday was a night of dueling dramas in primetime. Fox and NBC parried with "24" and "Las Vegas" at 9 p.m., and then at 10 p.m., NBC's hot midseason entry "Medium" made it a horse race with CBS' "CSI: Miami."
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TODAY AUTO RACING 3 p.m. -- NASCAR Nextel Cup Subway 500 qualifying at Martinsville, Va., Speed Channel 4:30 p.m. -- NASCAR Busch Series Sam's Town 250 qualifying at Memphis, Speed Channel PRO BASKETBALL 7:30 p.m. -- Exhibition: Celtics vs. New Jersey at the FleetCenter, FSN, WWZN (1510) 8 p.m. -- Exhibition: Miami at Atlanta, TNT 10:30 p.m. -- Exhibition: Los ...
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By Michael Hiestand  Tonight, ESPN has an opportunity: show that TV sports can deal with real-life epics.  ESPN lavishes Super Bowl-like pregame shows on all its Monday night NFL games this season.
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With the Redskins taking on the Ravens and the Nationals and Orioles both playing night games, the Washington-Baltimore region has more sporting events tomorrow night than its televisions can handle.
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On Thanksgiving, the NFL will air the first of eight live pro football games on its own network. But it won't be available to many viewers across the country because the league hasn't reached carriage agreements with several major cable operators.
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SATURDAY AUTO RACING 7 a.m. -- Formula One: Turkish Grand Prix qualifying, Speed 8 p.m. -- Nextel Cup: Sharpie 500, ESPN, WWZN
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NBC's prime-time Olympic coverage is taped and shaped, the television version of a Reader's Digest condensed book. We get all the US highlights, the big news stories, and a well-edited drama building to the 11 p.m. hour. It's a formula that's been proven to hold an audience and pull ratings. The big downside: You have to stay up until midnight ...
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SATURDAY AUTO RACING 10:30 a.m. - Sprint Cup: Daytona 500 final practice, Speed 1:15 p.m. - Nationwide: Camping World 300, ESPN2
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Sunday's Ravens-Patriots game, which was seen in 75 percent of the country, highlighted CBS's late-afternoon NFL coverage (other games in that window were Jets-Cardinals, Dolphins-49ers, and Bills-Seahawks). Nationally, those games generated a 15.4 overnight rating (27 share) in the 56 metered markets. It was the best rating for a CBS window in 2004 and a 14 percent increase over the ...
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By Mark McGuire, Albany Times Union, N.Y.  Dec. 17--CBS dominated, NBC rebounded. The NFL Network starting showing live games, even though cable subscribers in this and many other markets can't get it.
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FRIDAY COLLEGE BASKETBALL/MEN 7:30 p.m. -- Memphis at Purdue, ESPN2 PRO BASKETBALL 7:30 p.m. -- Celtics vs. Toronto at the FleetCenter, FSN, WWZN (1510) 8 p.m. -- Detroit at San Antonio, ESPN 10:30 p.m. -- Indiana at Sacramento, ESPN BOXING 9:30 p.m. -- Friday Night Fights at Atlantic City: Rocky Juarez vs. Guty Espadas Jr. (featherweights), ESPN2 GOLF 1:30 p.m. ...
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TODAY AUTO RACING 3 p.m. -- NASCAR Nextel Cup Sylvania 300 qualifying at N.H. International Speedway, Loudon, N.H., TNT PRO BASEBALL 7 p.m. -- Red Sox at New York Yankees, Ch. 38, WEEI (850) (on cable systems where Ch. 38 is not available, the game will air on NESN); Chicago Cubs at Cincinnati, ESPN 6 p.m. -- Eastern League finals: ...
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Television: ESPN2. Dave O&#39;Brien (play-by-play), Len Elmore (color analysis) and Stacey Dales-Schuman (sidelines) call the action.