sports media- Tilt Beats NHL
The inaugural season of ESPN’s “Tilt” averaged a combined 0.97 Nielsen cable rating for airings Sunday and Thursday from 9:00-10:00pm ET, up 28% over the 0.76 during the same period in Q1 ’04, “when ESPN mostly aired NHL games,” according to R. Thomas Umstead of Multichannel News.
Other media news:
Philadelphia Inquirer columnist and ESPN NBA analyst Stephen A. Smith has signed a multi-year deal to host a weekday radio show from noon-2:00pm ET on WEVD-AM in N.Y., an ESPN station. The show “will not air on other ESPN stations” and is expected to start in the next three weeks. Smith: “My intent is not to limit the radio show to just the N.Y. area.” Meanwhile, the debut of Smith’s ESPN, “Quite Frankly,” has “been delayed from June until early August.”
ESPN will air a six-part reality series on Heat Center Shaquille O’Neal, called “Shaq: 24/7,” beginning in May.
Other media news:
Philadelphia Inquirer columnist and ESPN NBA analyst Stephen A. Smith has signed a multi-year deal to host a weekday radio show from noon-2:00pm ET on WEVD-AM in N.Y., an ESPN station. The show “will not air on other ESPN stations” and is expected to start in the next three weeks. Smith: “My intent is not to limit the radio show to just the N.Y. area.” Meanwhile, the debut of Smith’s ESPN, “Quite Frankly,” has “been delayed from June until early August.”
ESPN will air a six-part reality series on Heat Center Shaquille O’Neal, called “Shaq: 24/7,” beginning in May.
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3/22/2005 04:15:00 PM
