From ABC/ESPN: Lakers Win Over Celtics on ABC Earns Highest Regular-Season Rating in Four Years Audience is 66 Percent Higher than Last Year's Christmas Game The Christmas day rematch of last year's Finals, in which the Los Angeles Lakers broke the Boston Celtic's 19-game win streak 92-83, earned a 5.3 household rating on a fast-national … Continue reading Celtics-Lakers Delivers Highest NBA Regular- Season Rating in Four Years
The Lakers put an end to the Celtics 19 game winning streak last night with a 93-83 win over Boston in Los Angeles. Steve Bulpett says that the Celtics turned into Plaxico Burress in this one. You know...shooting themselves in the foot...Marc J. Spears has the Celtics giving the Lakers their due for the win. Paul Flannery says … Continue reading Lakers End Celtics Streak
From an article by Russell Adams in the Wall Street Journal late yesterday: The Times Co., which faces a cash shortage accelerated by steep industrywide revenue declines, has been rumored for months to be open to selling non-core assets. Besides its flagship newspaper, the Times Co. owns the Boston Globe, About.com and a 17.5% stake … Continue reading New York Times Co Looking To Sell Globe, 17.5% Share of Red Sox?
Today's WEEI schedule: 10 AM - 1 PM: Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Semi-Finals against Cleveland 1 PM - 4 PM: Game 6 of the Eastern Conference Finals against Detroit 4 PM – 7 PM: Game 4 of the Finals against the Lakers 7 PM - 10:30 PM: Game 6 of the Finals against … Continue reading WEEI Today Re-playing Celtics Run To Title
OK, so that doesn't exactly read as a ringing endorsement of the Comcast SportsNet special Manny being Manny - The Final Days in Boston, which is set to debut tomorrow night following the Celtics post game show. But I'm sure you can forgive me for fearing the worst of this show, which I assumed would … Continue reading CSN’s “Manny Being Manny” – Not as bad as you might think…
So the Boston Celtics - the most storied franchise in pro basketball - set a record for the longest winning streak in team history, AND beat the NBA record for the best start in league history (27-2)...and they can't even be the lead sports story in Boston? Instead, all the coverage and talk is about a player that … Continue reading Sox Trumped By Yanks for Teixeira
From CSN this afternoon: Celtics-Bulls at Top of Ratings Chart in Seven Male and Female Demos BURLINGTON, MA – Comcast SportsNet’s Celtics-Bulls telecast was the Number 1 or Number 2 rated program in seven different demos on Friday, December 19, earning a record 7.5 rating and reaching an estimated 270,000 households in New England. In … Continue reading CSN Celtics-Bulls Top Rated Show on Local TV
Just some quick hits from this morning: It's report card day, and as you can imagine, there weren't many bad grades to be seen on the Patriots side on Sunday. Here are the reports: Michael Felger - The only "F" is for Favre. Ron Borges - Randy Moss the only Patriots player relegated to the back of … Continue reading Tuesday Quicklinks
A few soundbites from the network shows yesterday: FOX Analyst Howie Long on the New England Patriots: “Matt Cassel in my mind has been the best quarterback in the division. Bill Belichickhas done as good a job coaching as he’s done at anytime during his career, but he won’t get any credit for it because … Continue reading In Case You Missed It…
In case you missed it, last night I was a guest of the excellent Celtics post game show, Celtics Stuff Live. The show is now part of Comcast SportsNet's Celtics coverage, and a recap and podcast download of the show is available on the Celtics Stuff Live section of the CSN website. During the show we talked … Continue reading BSMW on “Celtics Stuff Live”
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