Super Bowl just misses major-market TV-rating record
The New York Giants’ 21-17 win over the New England Patriots in Sunday night’s Super Bowl narrowly missed drawing the highest major-market television rating in National Football League history.
The New York Giants’ 21-17 win over the New England Patriots in Sunday night’s Super Bowl narrowly missed drawing the highest major-market television rating in National Football League history.
For all the pomp and excess of Madonna's Super Bowl halftime show, it is likely to be a single extended middle finger by guest singer M.I.A. that is most remembered.
Indianapolis’ shining moment in the Super Bowl spotlight came about four hours before kickoff, when NBC televised a short feature on 2012 host city.
Any company with its name attached to the Super Bowl is about to score one of its biggest marketing bounces of the year. And none will realize a bigger victory than California-based Lucas Oil Co.
The sports network originally considered broadcasting from Monument Circle, but chose the plaza because the location has Lucas Oil Stadium as an ideal backdrop.
Jenna Kooi, a former anchor for Fox59 previously known as Jenna Maloney, will co-anchor the 7 p.m. and 11 p.m. newscasts for WRTV, and Erika Flye has been promoted to co-anchor the 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. newscasts.
Deal with WRTV-Channel 6 will provide most extensive coverage in franchise history.
The NFL will announce its annual league awards, including Most Valuable Player, in a two-hour prime-time special, "NFL Honors," to air on NBC on Super Bowl eve, Feb. 4.
NBC has sold all the commercial airtime for the Feb. 5 game in Indianapolis and even has a waiting list of advertisers. The average cost for a 30-second spot this year was $3.5 million.
Local CBS affiliate WISH-TV has fired award-winning field reporter Brad Edwards, but General Manager Jeff White said the station will soon hire a replacement, plus two additional reporters to grow its staff.
The NFL’s new broadcast agreements with CBS, Fox and NBC will make the league by far the richest in terms of professional sports broadcast pacts. The Colts will get close to $218.8 million a year from the deals starting in 2014.
The performer, currently in the studio working on a new album, has a new film, "W.E.," which she directed, wrote and produced and will open nationally two days before the NFL's signature event.
Television station and newspaper owner The E.W. Scripps Co. said Monday that it will pay $212 million in cash for nine TV stations, including WRTV in Indianapolis, owned by The McGraw-Hill Cos.
Cable TV giant Comcast Corp. has notified the state of Indiana that it plans to eliminate 57 customer-retention employees in its Fishers office by the end of the year, but also plans to add 37 customer-service workers during the same time period.
WRTV-TV Channel 6 anchor Trisha Shepherd is leaving the station at the end of the month to take a position with the Riley Children's Foundation.
Ball State University’s Digital Policy Institute said there’s more behind the shrinkage in customers that cable TV companies have experienced than just a downturn in the economy.
Eddie Brochin, a lifelong outdoorsman who began leading hunting and fishing expeditions in the late 1990s, now chronicles his adventures in his own TV show, “Ultimate Outdoors with Eddie Brochin.”
Digital technology ushered in over the last five years allows television stations to squeeze four signals into the broadcast spectrum a single analog signal occupied.
Terms of the agreement call for the network to televise five races each year through 2018, including the Indianapolis 500.
The retired WRTV-TV anchor is one of only six to receive award in 42 years.