Wednesday’s episode of The Ultimate Fighter: heavyweights – the 10th of the season – scored a 1.76 HH rating for an average audience of 2.4 million viewers. The show also tallied a 2.9 in M18-34 and 2.5 in M18-49. Episode 10 actually represents a slight increase in the ratings from the previous, and bucks the […]
Machida-Shogun II in Montreal, May 2010
Many sources including Yahoo! Sports and the Canadian Press Press are reporting that Machida-Shogun II will be held at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada on May 1st, 2010. Long-term, the UFC will be fine. White will have Silva and St. Pierre return in 2010. He said Lyoto Machida will give a rematch for […]
WEC 44 Impressions
World Extreme Cagefighting held its 44th event last night at the Pearl at the Palms in Las Vegas, Nevada featuring a featherweight championship bout between Mike Brown and Jose Aldo. Attendance: TBA Gate: TBA Ratings: TBA Payout Perspective: Jose Aldo is the new 145 lbs champion. He demonstrated an outright SCARY take-down defense, which allowed him […]
UFC 105 Ratings
Major Networks to Charge Cable Operators
John Ourand of the Sports Business Journal talks about the idea of major networks charging distributors for their programming in his latest piece: But as the economy has wreaked havoc on the TV advertising market, these disputes have taken on a new urgency for broadcasters. They need new revenue streams. It’s pretty simple: Broadcasters don’t […]