Lou D'ermilio News
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Pat Summerall, the former National Football League player who teamed with John Madden to form one of the most popular broadcasting duos in television history, has died. He was 82.
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Rupert Murdoch’s 15-year drive to create a competitor to Walt Disney Co.’s ESPN has put News Corp.’s new national sports network on a path to show a profit within two to three years.
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Super Bowl advertisers Audi AG and General Motors Co. may end up getting a bargain for 30-second spots costing a record $3 million or more, if the audience for the Fox telecast reaches new highs as forecast.
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The San Francisco 49ers’ last-minute win against the New Orleans Saints grabbed a bigger share of the television audience than the New England Patriots’ 45-10 primetime rout of the Denver Broncos.
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Preliminary television ratings for the Daytona 500 were 17 percent higher than a year ago as Trevor Bayne won stock-car racing’s marquee event one day after his 20th birthday.
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The “ World Series of Poker ” on ESPN and “World Poker Tour” on Fox Sports Net will air as scheduled following the indictments of gambling websites that spent almost $27 million on TV ads last year.
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Tim Tebow and the Denver Broncos’ one-play overtime win over the Pittsburgh Steelers drew the best preliminary television rating for a National Football League wild-card playoff game in 24 years.
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The Los Angeles Dodgers’ new $3 billion broadcast agreement with News Corp. ’s Fox may need the approval of Major League Baseball’s yet-to-be-named trustee for the team, according to a former CBS Sports executive.
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The World Series will have just ended as a judicial Fall Classic may determine whether Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig has complete power over the sport he has controlled for almost two decades.
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The Green Bay Packers’ win over the Pittsburgh Steelers in last night’s Super Bowl averaged 111 million viewers, the biggest audience in U.S. television history.
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