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NFL
First Monday Night Football TV broadcastCopyright © -
the first via internet T.V. program
29th Jan, 1995 First Webcast The first Television program delivered via the internet -
NFL and direct TV
DirecTV and the NFL offer first subscriber
based pay-per-view programming
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MLB ont the internet
Major League Baseball broadcasts the World
Series on the Internet -
film improvment
Over 75 percent of movies in the top 50 all-time highest-grossing films (before inflation) were released after the year 2000. -
MLB on the radio
XM radio’s deal for MLB broadcast rights was signed in 2005 for $650 million -
music stats
While digital music sales were up in 2008, the total number of downloads was dwarfed by the scale of illegal downloads -
attendance record
For the 2008-09 campaign, NHL attendance was 21,475,223, which broke the league’s attendance record for the fourth consecutive season -
winter games
In March of 2009, ESPN, CANAL + Events and Tignes Ski & Snowboard Resort (in France) will launch the first Winter X Games to be held outside the United States, providing yet another example of the global growth and expansion of sports, entertainment and events -
time records
In 2010, NBC broadcast more than 835 hours of Olympic Winter Games coverage, Coverage will total 835 hours, the most ever for a Winter Games telecast and more than the past two Winter Olympics combined. -
international games
The NFL and NBA have scheduled regular season games in London, England in 2010 with the NFL’s San Francisco 49ers playing the Denver Broncos at Wembley Stadium on Halloween and the NBA’s Toronto Raptors and New Jersey Nets squaring off in March. -
ESPN stats
ESPN’s “State of Sports 2007” survey found that a whopping 90% of male respondents claimed to be sports fans on some level