NBA finals suffer record-low TV ratings
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The NBA finals were a television bust. San Antonio's four-game sweep of Cleveland finished with a record-low 6.2 television rating and 11 share on ABC, Nielsen Media Research said Friday.
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Shaq vs. Kobe drew the highest rating in six years for a regular-season NBA game. The overnight rating for the Miami Heat&#39;s 104-102 overtime victory over the Los Angeles Lakers on ABC on Christmas Day was 8.0.
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Game 2 of the NBA finals took a hit in the TV ratings, and the series finale of "The Sopranos" was the prime suspect.
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The much-heralded Christmas Day  matchup between Kobe Bryant's Los Angeles Lakers and Shaquille  O'Neal's Miami Heat was the highest-rated regular season  basketball game on television in nearly seven years,  broadcaster ABC said on Monday.
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A select group of sports fans will  watch the National Basketball Association All-Star game on  Sunday in the first-ever live high-definition 3D sports  telecast that NBA officials hope will create a buzz about  profiting from the new technology.
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A record nine international players will take part in the best-of-seven National Basketball Association Finals, which will be televised to 205 nations in 46 languages starting here Thursday.
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The TV timeout is one of the banes of a sports fan's life. You're at a stadium, the game is rolling along . . . until everything just stops for 1 1/2-2 1/2 minutes.
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If the global marketing miracle known as the NBA has finally come to face the fragile rapport it has with its core audience at home in the United States, let it be said that the Palace of
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The sight of Detroit fans scuffling with NBA stars at the end of a game and showering players with beer, ice and popcorn gives the city another black eye as it struggles to overcome a well-worn reputation for violence and unrest.
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Heat center Shaquille O'Neal's much hyped matchup with former Laker teammate Kobe Bryant on Christmas gets the highest rating in six years for a regular season game.
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History tells us that these NBA Finals are, essentially, over. In 60 previous NBA Finals, only three times has a team come from a 2-0 deficit to prevail. Cleveland, which has led for 96 seconds over two games, does not appear to have what's needed to be the fourth. That's being kind, really. The Cavaliers look hopelessly ...
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Dwyane Wade was the undisputed star of last season's NBA finals.
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By BRIAN MAHONEY NEW YORK - The NBA has another ugly scene to recover from. This one involved its leading scorer and happened in its most famous arena.
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Boston&#39;s wins against St. Louis in the first two games of the World Series drew the highest television ratings for the start of baseball&#39;s championship since 1996.
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DAVID STERN LIKENS an NBA season to &quot;1,200 episodes of reality programming.&quot; In tomorrow&#39;s presentations of &quot;Survivor, NBA Arena,&quot; Shaq promises to be a brick wall when Kobe the Corvette drives the lane, after the Pistons drop in on an Indianapolis crowd
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A select group of sports fans will watch the National Basketball Association All-Star game on Sunday in the first-ever live high-definition 3D sports telecast that NBA officials hope will create a buzz about profiting from the new technology.
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The Stanley Cup finals lost nearly a quarter of what already was a small television audience.