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Dec 14, 2007 8:05 AM
Patriots-Ravens NFL broadcast gets cable’s biggest audience ever
With its undefeated season on the line, the recent New England Patriots 27-24 victory against the Baltimore Ravens attracted one of the largest household audiences in cable television history and broke the record for most viewers. ESPN said the game also made the network one of the most-watched — cable or broadcast — that night.
ESPN’s “Monday Night Football” telecast averaged 12,529,000 homes (based on a 13.0 rating), breaking the record for household audience set last year when the network averaged 11,807,000 households for the New York Giants at Dallas Cowboys. The game was seen by an average of 17,522,000 viewers, breaking the record set by Disney Channel’s “High School Musical 2,” which averaged 17,241,000 million viewers on Aug. 17 this year.
ESPN’s previous best rating and biggest audience this year was a 10.5 (10,163,000 homes) on Oct. 29 (Green Bay at Denver, won by the Packers 19-13 on the first play of overtime).
Also, NFL content on ESPN.com, including “Monday Night Surround,” accessed via computers and mobile devices, generated more than 40 million page views, a 38 percent increase over the same period last year, according to Web measurement tool HitBox.
SportsMEDIA Technology settles patent infringement suit with Sportvision
Sportvision and SportsMEDIA Technology announced that the companies have resolved the lawsuit pending between them.
Under the terms of the settlement agreement, SportsMEDIA will license Sportvision’s patents in the virtual insertion technology area. As a result, the patent infringement case has now been dismissed between the companies.
For more information, visit http://www.sportvision.com/ and http://www.sportsmedia.com/.
Holland's largest telco gets Leader waveform monitor for IP-based production truck
KPN, one of the largest telecommunications service companies in Holland, is using a Leader LV5100D component digital waveform monitor onboard a newly upgraded Internet-streaming mobile production truck.
From its base in Utrecht, the vehicle provides live video coverage of a variety of events, which are then streamed online to audiences using standard IP-connected Web browsers. The LV5100D purchase was negotiated through elQuip BV, distributor for Leader Electronics in Europe.
KPN provides telephone, Internet and TV services to customers through its fixed network in the Netherlands.
For more information, visit http://www.elquip.com/.
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