Game 1 ratings lowest ever in prime time
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Game 1 of the NBA finals drew the lowest rating ever for an opening-game in prime time, dropping 19 percent from last year.
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Errors and walks make for a frustrating opener for the Red Sox, who were fortunate to escape with a victory. By Steve Wilstein. BOSTON -- Game 1 of the 100th World Series should have been rated &quot;R&quot; for Little Leaguers.
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The purists went berserk back in 1993. They hated the idea. The wild card was bad for baseball. Just wait and see.
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Even as local TV people marveled yesterday at Boston's 49.8 rating (70 audience share) for Tuesday night's Game 6 of the American League Championship Series, speculation had begun about what kind of number last night's Game 7 would earn.
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CBS and ABC fell to their  lowest ratings among the coveted adults 18-49 demographic in  two decades last week, as reruns and summer alternatives drove  viewers from their couches.
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The National Hockey League announced yesterday that it was locking out its players from midnight last night, a move that plunges the weakest of the major US sports into the gravest crisis in its history.
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A game between two of the league&#39;s top scoring teams from last season wasn&#39;t pretty. Both the Kings and Sonics shot below 42 percent in the first half of last night&#39;s NBA game at KeyArena.
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Paul Pierce may not be having one of the best shooting seasons of his career, but he is right on target with one observation: the pathetic state of the Atlantic Division. After the Celtics' loss Wednesday in Toronto, Pierce called the division "the worst in NBA history." We could well see the first NBA division winner with a losing record ...
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It&#39;s November, so the networks must be in search of ratings. &quot;Monday Night Football&quot; played along this week with a sexed-up skit - a punt straight out of the old-school send ups of sports stereotyping.
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The television audience for the Grammy awards ceremony in the US falls to its lowest level since 1995.
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Shaq versus Kobe drew the highest rating south of the border 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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The meeting of the Miami Heat and the Los Angeles Lakers produced an 8.0 preliminary overnight Nielsen rating, a 78 percent leap from the comparable broadcast last year.
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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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The practicalities of next generation services "There's nothing decent on TV," is a common refrain in our house. Even though we have heeded the BBC adverts and invested in some Freeview boxes, it seems that even increasing the available channels from five to roughly 50 does not guarantee a cosy evening in front of the box. It wasn't much different when we lived in America, except that baseball was on most evenings; however, I am in a minority in my family being a fan of the sport.â¦
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Where do you begin after a game like this? This loss, albeit to the #1 team in the country, will go down as one of the worst Sun Devil games in history.
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Viewers swarmed to NBC&#39;s  &quot;Singing Bee&quot; on Tuesday night as Fox&#39;s telecast of baseball&#39;s  All-Star Game dropped to near-historic lows.
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Game 2 of the NBA finals lost nearly one-third of its television audience from last year.