TUF 22 drew an average viewership of just 379,000 on FS1 Wednesday night per Sports TV Ratings. It’s the lowest live viewership of the season. TUF 22 just came back from a week’s hiatus due to the World Series. The NBA on ESPN featuring New York and Cleveland in game 1 drew 2.296 million viewers […]
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Hershman steps down as HBO president
Kevin Iole of Yahoo! Sports reports that HBO Sports President Ken Hershman is stepping down from his post. Despite the fact that ratings were up and there seem to be suitable replacements for Manny Pacquiao, Hershman resigned abruptly on Friday. Hershman replaced Ross Greenburg in 2012. There was no announcement of Hershman’s replacement although SI’s […]
Crawford and GGG replay draw 1.07M avg on HBO Saturday
ESPN’s Dan Rafael reports the ratings from Saturday night’s HBO event featuring Terrence Crawford. The replay which drew an average subscriber audience of 1.07M viewers also included the GGG-David Lemieux PPV replay. The overall event on HBO Saturday night from 9:30 to approximately midnight ET (first showing) peaked at 1.2M viewers. The replay of GGG-Lemieux […]
GLORY-SpikeTV part ways
MMA Fighting’s Luke Thomas reports that GLORY Kickboxing will no longer be seen on SpikeTV. The promotion’s run which started in November 2013, has come to an end. The decision to end the relationship was not sudden according to the report as the two sides had been in talks, but it appears that each has […]
Bellator 144 draws 555,000 viewers
Bellator 144 drew an average audience of 555,000 viewers on Spike TV Friday night according to Nielsen sources. It’s a decrease of 18% from Bellator 143 and the lowest TV rating since Scott Coker took over the helm for the organization. In the main event, Brandon Halsey went down (literally via leg kick) to Rafael […]