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CBS Sports Network Signs Multi-Year Deal With National Collegiate Hockey Conference

February 1, 2012 · 0 comments

CBS Sports Network has signed a multi-year agreement with the new National Collegiate Hockey Conference, beginning in the 2013-2014 season. CBS Sports Network will be the exclusive national television partner for the conference, which will feature eight of the nation’s top college hockey programs. The announcement was made by Dan Weinberg, Senior Vice President, Programming, [...]

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CBS Sports has announced the 2012 Golf coverage schedule. CBS Sports begins its 2012 golf coverage and continues to offer viewers the most comprehensive lineup in the history of network television. CBS Sports will broadcast 23 golf tournaments this year, totaling more than 155 hours of coverage, including the Masters?, PGA Championship, 20 PGA TOUR [...]

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CBS Sports’ coverage of the 2012 AFC CHAMPIONSHIP game featuring the New England Patriots defeating the Baltimore Ravens on Sunday, Jan. 22 (3:07-6:16 PM, ET) averaged 48.7 million viewers (Persons 2+), which is the highest viewer average for the early AFC Championship game in 30 years (1/10/1982; 51.6 million viewers; San Diego-Cincinnati: NBC). The 48.7 [...]

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CBS Sports’ coverage of the 2012 AFC Championship Game featuring the New England Patriots defeating the Baltimore Ravens, 23-20, on Sunday, Jan. 22 (3:00-6:15 PM, ET), earned an average overnight household rating/share of 29.1/51. This was the highest rating in the metered markets for an afternoon AFC Championship in 18 years (1/23/1994; 29.5/57; Kansas City-Buffalo; [...]

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Football fans across America continue to tune in to NFL games, resulting in the most-watched conference championship Sunday in 30 years. An average of 53.7 million viewers watched NFL games last weekend, the most for an NFL conference championship Sunday since January 1982 (game-by-game comparison below). The New York Giants-San Francisco 49ers NFC Championship Game [...]

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THE NFL ON CBS’s broadcasts of the AFC Wild Card and Divisional Playoff games on Sunday, Jan. 8 (Pittsburgh-Denver); Saturday, Jan. 14 (Denver-New England) and Sunday, Jan. 15 (Houston-Baltimore) are averaging 36.087 million viewers, the highest viewer overall average for the first three playoff games for the AFC television package in 25 years (CBS records [...]

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Through 17 weeks of the 2011 regular-season (September 8, 2011-January 1, 2012), THE NFL ON CBS regular-season games were seen by an estimated 161.0 million viewers, 9% higher than NBC’s 147.7 million viewers, 1% higher than FOX’s 159.3 million viewers, and 52% higher than ESPN’s 105.9 million. The cumulative audience is based on Total Viewers [...]

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THE NFL ON CBS’s broadcast of the AFC Wild Card game featuring the Denver Broncos defeating the Pittsburgh Steelers in overtime on Sunday, Jan. 8 (4:41-8:13 PM, ET) averaged 42.371 million viewers (Persons 2+), a 49% increase over 2011’s 28.384 million viewers, and was the most-watched Wild Card game on any network in 24 years [...]

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The Week 17 Chicago Bears at Minnesota Vikings game on Sunday, January 1 will be played at 1:00 PM ET on FOX, the NFL announced today. Following are the game time possibilities for the Week 17 Carolina Panthers-New Orleans Saints game to be determined based on tonight’s Atlanta-New Orleans game (ESPN, 8:30 PM ET): If [...]

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NFL has awarded CBS a new nine-year broadcast rights agreement that runs through the 2022 season. In the new deal, CBS Sports remains the broadcast home of the NFL’s American Football Conference (AFC). In addition, as part of the NFL’s expanded “flexible scheduling,” CBS will also broadcast games from the National Football Conference (NFC). This [...]

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