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The Super Bowl Has Generated $3.6 Billion-Plus in Ad Revenue in the Past 10 Years
Average price for a 30-second spot last year was $4.5 million
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David Stern, Former NBA Commissioner, Dies at 77
Longest-tenured commissioner oversaw the league’s popularity explosion in the 1990s
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Fox and CBS Score Best NFL Sunday Viewership Since 2016
All of the league’s broadcast partners have posted multi-year highs
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NBC’s ‘Sunday Night Football’ Wraps Up With Most-Watched Season in 4 Years
TV’s No. 1 primetime show tops 20 million viewers per game
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Ratings: Jenna Dewan’s ‘Flirty Dancing’ Flirts With a Decent Debut
But final Sunday of NFL Regular Season is dominated by football
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Carley McCord, New Orleans-Based Sports Reporter, Dies in Plane Crash at 30
Sideline reporter was on her way to the Peach Bowl when the plane went down shortly after takeoff
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ESPN’s ‘Monday Night Football’ Hits 4-Year Viewership High
Cable network’s “MNF” is up 8% in total viewers for the second straight year
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Ratings: ABC’s Christmas Day NBA Game Falls From Last Year – Still Dunks on the Rest of Primetime
Preliminary numbers for Wednesday’s Clippers-Lakers matchup are down from 2018’s holiday Lakers-Warriors game
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‘The Last Dance’ Trailer: Barack Obama, Justin Timberlake Reflect on Legend of Michael Jordan and ’90s Chicago Bulls (Video)
ESPN’s 10-part documentary can be seen now on ESPN
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NBC Sports Suspends Jeremy Roenick for Inappropriate Comments About Co-Worker
Former NHL All-Star joked about having threesomes with his on-air colleague
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Fox Sports Films Investigates Super Bowl LI Jersey Theft in ‘The Great Brady Heist’ (Video)
Documentary is produced by NFL Films in association with Gotham Chopra’s Religion of Sports
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The Key to Fox’s ‘The Simpsons’ Success? Football
“Sundays, specifically, enjoy substantial bumps in viewership after double-headers, beginning with ‘The Simpsons,’” Fox Entertainment’s Will Somers tells TheWrap
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WWE’s ‘NXT’ Beats AEW’s ‘All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite’ in Key Demo Ratings for First Time Ever
USA Network show also tops TNT’s wrestling series in total viewers again
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Why the 2020 Election Will (Briefly) Stem the Tide of Television’s Declining Ad Revenue
Political ad spending could surpass $10 billion in 2020
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SB Nation Drops ‘Most’ of Its California Freelancers Due to New State Labor Law
“That’s probably the most heart-breaking thing of all of it: It really feels like a loss of community,” one impacted freelancer told TheWrap