Revenues for fights have gotten a boost in recent years through the addition of high-definition telecasts.
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According to the NCAA, 7.7 million social media comments about the tournament are made during telecasts.
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Call me crazy, but limiting telecasts to one of golf's four major championships feels exclusionary.
Employees toil in the bowels of Ashe Stadium, compiling and feeding match statistics to CBS telecasts.
The most valuable football and basketball telecasts are obviously snatched up by the national networks.
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Dodgers telecasts form the backbone of Fox's Prime Ticket, which would lose substantial value without the team's games.
Like most national award telecasts, the ratings for the Oscar ceremony have been spinning downward for a decade, losing 22% of household audiences since 1999.
Much of the decline has to do with the over-the-air BBC now sharing its live telecasts with Sky Sports, a subscriber-only network.
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The PGA Tour always reprinted the statistic, and Johnny Miller and Nick Faldo frequently mentioned it during NBC and CBS golf telecasts.
The team has also switched telecasts of more games from WGN-TV to CSN Chicago because they get more money per broadcast from the RSN.
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While corporations target March Madness as an attractive marketing opporutnity, networks also peg certain corporations whom they wish to advertise during March Madness telecasts.
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Fantasy sports players watch more game telecasts, buy more tickets and spend more money at stadiums at a higher rate than other sports fans.
The Yankees' last World Series Game Seven, in 2001 against the Arizona Diamondbacks, drew a whopping 66% more viewers than the first six telecasts averaged.
With television, a typical club is allotted roughly 70 games in an 82-game season for which it can sell local cable rights, the balance held back for national telecasts.
Longtime producers of sports programs and telecasts are all too familiar with the stock phrases about defensive plays and going out there and giving it your best.
Additionally, television ratings for Spanish-speaking telecasts dwarf those of ESPN.
The announcement continues a partnership announced last year that has included sports' fans Twitter posts appearing on ESPN telecasts and a recent experiment with college football Web-video highlights on Twitter.
The first two weeks of ESPN 3D's inaugural college football season will open up with telecasts involving three of the top five ranked teams in an ESPN.com early preseason Top 25 poll.
The plan: to extend the ever-increasing interactive experience of the ballpark to the telecast, through more moving cameras, fan shots and social media integration that will allow viewers to contribute to the telecasts through twitter and other platforms.
The critical decision for the NHL ahead of the coming Winter Classic game would seem to be whether to go up against the NFL and its telecasts that have taken the top 20 spots of all television programming during the past year.
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"We're bringing boxing back to its roots, " says HBO Sports President Ross Greenburg, who favors a return to a 1980s model where only big fights featuring the likes of Thomas Hearns, Marvin Hagler and Sugar Ray Leonard were deemed worthy of closed-circuit status (closed-circuit theater and arena telecasts being the forerunner of today's pay-per-view).
This all-sports cable sister to broadcast network ABC (and majority owned by The Walt Disney Co. (nyse: DIS - news - people )) brought a level of sophistication to coverage of the season's secondary bowl games--it aired 20 of them--that has rescued them from the amateur-hour coverage of old (remember the "MizLou" telecasts?).
Stanley Cup finals telecasts involving Detroit, Boston, Pittsburgh or Chicago are pretty much a lock to draw 4.5 million viewers, which is a big number for hockey in the U.S. "Within the hockey universe, fans have this strange ability to look at the matchups and find their reasons to watch, " said Jay Rosenstein, the former vice president of programming at CBS Sports.
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