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Despite blowout, record-low primetime broadcast overnight, Thursday Night Football still beats ALCS, NBA Opening Week

Despite a blowout, a matchup between two unappealing teams, *and* a record-low overnight rating for a primetime game, Thursday Night Football on Fox and NFL Network still came out as the top sports program on Thursday night. That comes in spite of strong competition from Game 5 of the ALCS on TBS, and an NBA Opening Week doubleheader on TNT.

Per Sports Media Watch, the TNF game between the Broncos and Cardinals drew a 6.6 overnight, down a whopping 33% from 2016’s fourth TNF simulcast (Broncos-Chargers) and 2017’s Week 7 TNF game (Chiefs-Raiders). The 6.6 is also the lowest overnight for a primetime game on a broadcast network, a mark that has stood since 2008 (Seahawks-Bucs, which drew a 7.2 on NBC’s Sunday Night Football).

But the NFL is a monster, and despite everything working against the league on Thursday night, it still dominated its nearest sports competition, which came not from ESPN or NBC, but from Turner. Game 5 of the Red Sox-Astros ALCS on TBS drew a 5.0 overnight, up 28% from Game 5 of the NLCS last year on TBS and marking the best LCS Game 5 overnight for TBS in a decade. However, nearly a third more people ended up watching the NFL than MLB on Thursday.

TNT’s NBA doubleheader also didn’t put up much of a fight. The network didn’t report overnights for the Bulls-76ers game in the early slot (and you can make of that what you will), but Lakers-Blazers in the late window (which competed with a chunk of the second half of TNF) drew a 2.6 overnight. That’s a 63% spike from the second half of last year’s Opening Week Thursday doubleheader (Lakers-Clippers), but a hell of a lot lower than the overnight TNF drew.
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LL Cool J and Ice Cube are joining forces -- but it ain't about music, it's about sports TV domination.

TMZ Sports has learned LL is now a part of a powerful group looking to bid on 22 regional sports channels -- including the YES Network -- that Disney is being forced to sell off by the Justice Dept.

Long story short ... Disney got the 22 stations as part of its $71 billion acquisition of 21st Century Fox. But, officials believe that since Disney is already the majority owner of ESPN, controlling the 22 sports stations would give them too much power in the sports TV landscape.

The 22 stations involved in the deal include everything from Fox Sports San Diego to Fox Sports Arizona, Fox Sports Detroit, Fox Sports Southwest and more.

But, the crown jewel is the YES Network -- based in New York -- they have the rights to broadcast Yankees games. Disney thinks YES alone is worth between $5 and $6 billion, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The deal for all 22 stations is expected to be anywhere from $15 to $25 billion.

Some of the potential bidders that have emerged are real heavy hitters -- from private equity titans like Apollo Global Management and Blackstone Group to the Sinclair Broadcast Group.

But, Ice Cube and LL ain't exactly lightweights either -- and they've got a powerful partner ... billionaire Alex and Ani jewelry founder Carolyn Rafaelian.

Sources tell us the group is also in talks with other sports and cultural icons who are interested in participating in the bid.

Initial bids are due Nov. 8.

Good luck!
 
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