MMA Weekly reports that UFC 138 held on Saturday night on Spike TV garnered an average of 1.8 million viewers. The tape delayed broadcast finished first in its key demographics of men 18-34 and 18-49. Overall, UFC 138’s household rating was a 1.2. Via MMA Weekly: The UFC’s last trip to England, which was also tape-delayed, […]
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MMAterial Facts (11/04/11) : UFC 138 Unloved, The U.K. Market, & Undisputed 3 Coverage
Welcome to this week’s edition of MMAterial Facts, where we feature articles from around the MMA community. *** This week’s MMAterial Facts: – UFC Hopes for Two Shows in UK in 2012 (MMA Fighting) “Since making the UK market a priority a few years ago, the UFC visited the country eight times between 2007 […]
No Blackout: Direct TV-Fox settle its dispute
The NY Times reports that the Direct TV-Fox carriage dispute was resolved a day prior to a blackout of Fox regional sports networks, FX, Fuel and other Fox-owned cable channels. The new deal between DTV and News Corp. (Fox) includes Fox and Fox News Channel. Direct TV was concerned with losing popular FX shows, “Sons […]
Jay Glazer to host new UFC show on Fuel TV
Update on Fox-Direct TV contract dispute
John Ourand of the Sports Business Daily/Journal has followed up a report on the Fox-Direct TV contract dispute. The two parties have now drawn lines in the sand which has Direct TV threatening to pull Fox channels on November 1. Late Thursday night Fox released the following statement (obtained via John Ourand’s twitter) Despite Fox […]