Topic: Monday Night Football
If there was ever any doubt that television is merely a delivery system for the National Football League, the ratings through Week 6 of the 2011-12 campaign should put any…
Sports broadcaster ESPN pulled its signature song from Monday night’s NFL broadcast after country singer Hank Williams Jr. seemingly compared Barack Obama to Hitler during an interview earlier in the…
Almost two-thirds of U.S. adults say they watch NFL football—a quarter for as much as six to 10 hours a week. The latest Adweek/Harris poll finds that football fans tend…
A clutch of cable networks was in hot pursuit of a new eight-game NFL TV rights package, but the league has faked its suitors out of their jocks with a…
Any worries that the four-month NFL lockout may have put a damper on fan enthusiasm were dispelled this weekend, as the league’s four broadcast partners put up huge ratings in…
Dunkin’ Donuts is brewing up a multiseason pact with ESPN’s Monday Night Countdown, signing a deal that makes it the exclusive sponsor of the show’s “Field Pass” segments. Fresh off its…
After months of speculation, ESPN and the NFL on Wednesday announced they have reached an agreement to extend Bristol’s Monday Night Football rights package through 2021. While terms were not disclosed,…
If ESPN were to try its hand at the confectionary arts, one might naturally assume the network would lean toward a sports-themed candy bar. The Reggie! Bar comes to mind,…
