Sports Business Daily (subscription required) reports that Saturday afternoon’s Premier Boxing Champions on CBS drew an overnight rating of 0.8 in the 4:00-6:00pm ET time slot. According to Sports Media Watch, 3 of the 4 PBC events on CBS have failed to earn at least a 1.0 overnight average. Saturday night’s fight on CBS featured […]
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PBC on ESPN debut draws 800,000 viewers
The debut of PBC on ESPN Saturday night drew an average viewership of 800,000 viewers from 9pm-11pm ET. It surpassed 2015’s Friday Night Fight telecasts which averaged just 381,000 viewers. The main event featuring Keith Thurman and Luis Collazo drew an average of 999,000 viewers with a peak at close to 1.2 million according to […]
Top Rank files suit against Al Haymon
Top Rank Boxing has sued Al Haymon and Waddell & Reed Financial in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California in Los Angeles. Similar to the lawsuit filed by Golden Boy in May of this year, it claims that Haymon and his business holdings violate antitrust law, the Muhammad Ali Act and […]
PBC adds FS1 to its stable of networks
With two network shows this past weekend, Premier Boxing Champions seems to be on every channel. You may now include Fox Sports as another network that has added PBC to its programming. Last week PBC replaced Golden Boy Promotions on FS1 as the network allowed its contract with Golden Boy end and signed a deal […]
PBC on NBC draws 1.86 overnight rating, 2.38M viewers
Sports TV ratings reports that last night’s PBC on NBC event Saturday night drew an overnight rating of 1.86. Per Television By Numbers, it drew 2.38M viewers and a 3 share. It is a 4% decrease from April’s prime time event on NBC and 26% down from the debut in March. The show increased every half […]