Bellator 145, the quarterly tentpole event for the organization, drew an average of 814,000 viewers Friday night on Spike TV per Sports TV Ratings. It was a slight increase over September tentpole event, Bellator: Dynamite 1. The event aired Friday night from 9:oopm-12:27am ET. It went up against the NBA on ESPN Friday night. In […]
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Spike TV to air “Breakfast with Fedor” on New Year’s Eve Day
Bellator MMA announced a New Year’s Eve TV event featuring Fedor Emelianenko. The 3 hour program will air on SpikeTV December 31st at 10am ET/PT. Spike will begin its coverage of the Rizin World Fighting Grand-Prix with Fedor fighting an unnamed opponent in the main event. In addition, King Mo Lawal will fight in an […]
TUF 22 Episode 7 draws lowest rating of season
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 […]
GLORY Kickboxing signs TV deal with ESPN
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 […]