USA Today reports that Claressa Shields will be the first female boxer to headline an event on premium network television as she will be the main feature on Showtime’s ShoBox series on March 10th. Shields was featured in the WSJ last November where they drew comparisons to her and boxing as Ronda Rousey was to […]
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Spike TV to rebrand to Paramount TV
The Hollywood Reporter reports that Spike TV will be rebranded as the Paramount Network. A formal announcement will happen on Thursday during Viacom’s quarterly earnings call. Kevin Kay, the SpikeTV head is expected to stay on with the rebranding according to the report. Rebranding could begin as early as 2018. The network’s target demo has […]
UFC Fight Night 104 draws 1.158M viewers, Prelims 834,000
UFC Fight Night 104 drew 1.158 million viewers on Saturday night on FS1 per Sports TV Ratings. The prelims which preceded the main card drew another 834,000 on FS1. Sports TV Ratings indicates that the main card (airing from 10pm-12:59am ET) which featured the return of The Korean Zombie as he KO’d Dennis Bermudez drew […]
Bellator 171 peaked at 1.1M viewers on Friday
Bellator 171 this past Friday drew 795,000 viewers and peaked at 1.1 million during the Rickels-Derrow fight per Nielsen. The event was ranked #3 overall in all of cable live sports programming. The DVR+3 number increases the overnight rating of 720,000 reported two days ago. The increase is on par with Bellator events. Bellator 2017 […]
Bellator 171 draws 720,000
Bellator 171 drew 720,000 viewers on Spike TV Friday night per Sports TV Ratings. The event also drew 310,000 viewers in the adult 18-49 category. In the main event, Chidi Njokuani defeated Melvin Guillard via unanimous decision. Also of note, David Rickels did a pretty cool Mannequin Challenge in which the fans assisted for his […]