see also Paley Center to host 'CBS This Morning' event Go figure.)        Testing locations Mike Thomas, who oversaw the sports station’s immediate and prolonged success from its inception in 2009, announced in October that he was leaving to become market manager at ESPN 1000 in Chicago, where his family has roots. It will be available Mondays through Thursdays before 10 a.m. on the usual podcast platforms and is already available for subscription on Spotify. Follow her on Twitter @leung.

The biggest of which is a midseason tournament, an idea which NBA commissioner Adam Silver has reportedly been floating for several years. The opening night game between the Lakers and Clippers on TNT competed directly with game 1 of the World Series, while ESPN competed with games 2, 3 and 7 later in October, after only competing with game 2 of the 2018 Major League Baseball event. Catching up on some sports media odds and ends while wondering what Patriots fans will make of the unfamiliar Andrew Catalon/James Lofton/Amanda Balionis broadcast team calling Sunday’s game . Coronavirus “I am going to give them a lot of credit,” Ellis said of WHDH. Shirley Leung is a Globe columnist. Ratings are up year-over-year, meaning from the same point last season. This will be a make or break year for NBC10. With Channel 7 flooding the market with more commercial time slots, prices have been driven down. Where NBC10 hopes to make a mark is by staffing the Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, with on-air coverage from J.C. Monahan, Brian Shactman, and Audrey Asistio, including a half-hour special. There are habits in the community that are maybe difficult to break,” St. Peter said.
Now comes the tough part: explaining to his basic demographic of Archie Bunker clones what a podcast is and how to find the darn thing. Ellis was among a trio of recovering TV news executives I corralled last year to binge-watch newscasts and offer feedback on the new NBC station.
The most controversial absence has been that of Kawhi Leonard, the freshly-minted Los Angeles Clipper who almost singlehandedly led the Toronto Raptors to an unlikely championship victory last year.

This is a tremendous opportunity.”. Thursday night’s 76ers-Celtics game earned a 4.03 household rating for NBC Sports Boston, its fourth-highest-rated game of the season. 5 has not named a sports director since Mike Lynch retired in August. Mercy. He will be replaced by Rick Radzik, who has been the assistant program director at the station since the start. Before its launch, NBC10 poached well-known meteorologist Pete Bouchard from WHDH and later brought in Monahan as an anchorwoman after she left WCVB. So far this season, 63% of games on ESPN and TNT (or 22 games out of 35) were missing one or more stars missing due to injury. Last fall, WEEI’s morning program, featuring Gerry Callahan and Mike Mutnansky, had a 10.2 (8.4 before streaming/WVEI was added). Boston Cable & TV News . ■ Locally, it’s been a good year for NBC Sports Boston and its Celtics ratings. NBC10 Boston News at 6:00pm 6:00 pm NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt 6:30 pm NBC10 Boston News at 7:00pm 7:00 pm Access Hollywood 7:30 pm Stanley Cup Playoff 8:00 pm NBC10 Boston News at 11 PM 11:00 pm The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon 11:35 pm: WBTS Cozi TV 15.2 “There are more options.”. Bragging rights to Biden over Trump in television ratings. To help you research each market, we've listed other stations in the market, without ratings, on the bottom of each market page. Another low Friday. ■ NBA ratings are down 15 percent nationally this season, and the search for reasons is a broad one. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary live+same day key advertiser demographics (adult 18-34, 18-49 and 25-54 ratings), audience skews (women 18-49, men 18-49 and adults 50+ shares) and total viewership (thousands of people over the age of 2). In the coveted 25- to 54-year-old demographic, WHDH was second only to local leader WCVB-TV (Channel 5) in 2017 in the key time slots of 6 a.m. and 6 p.m., according to Nielsen ratings … The evening anchor team consists of lesser-known talent Shannon Mulaire and Phil Lipof at 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. On Monday, NBC10 made more changes to its lineup, bringing over longtime NECN anchor Latoyia Edwards to helm the newscasts from 4 a.m. to 7 a.m.