Sports Media Digest- May 7, 2012

http://sportsmediajournal.com/ NBCSN has Two Game Fives Tonight- The NBC Sports Network (NBCSN) will telecast a pair of game fives in the Stanley Cip Playoffs tonight. Game one at 7:30p.m. ET will feature the Washington Capitals at the New York Rangers. Doc Emrick, Eddie Olczyk and Pierre McGuire will be on the call. At 10:00p.m. ET John Forslund and Joe Micheletti will call game five between the Nashville Predators and the Phoenix Coyotes. HBO Plans Replay of Mayweather/Cotto-This past Saturday’s twin bill of championship boxing will be getting another viewing on HBO. Floyd Mayweather vs. Miguel Cotto & Canelo Alvarez vs. Shane Mosley will re-air on HBO this Saturday, May 12th at 10:15p.m. ET/PT. It will also re-air May 13th at 10:00 a.m. and 14th at 11:30 p.m. Ivy League, NBC Sports Network Renew National Television Agreement- NBC Sports Network (NBCSN) and the Ivy League have renewed their national television rights agreement to include an increase in football games, and the first-ever rights for the NBC Sports Network to televise men’s basketball and men’s lacrosse games. Beginning this fall NBCSN will televise a minimum of six, but no more than 10, football games, six-to-10 men’s basketball games, and up to four men’s lacrosse games annually. SiriusXM Radio To Expand Live Coverage of MLB- Beginning tomorrow, SiriusXM Radio will launch a slate of 30 play-by-play channels dedicated to streaming the official radio broadcasts of every MLB team on the SiriusXM Internet Radio App and online at SiriusXM.com. The 30 new channels, each of which will be branded with the respective MLB team logo, will showcase that team’s radio announcers throughout the season, enhancing the number of play-by-play broadcasts SiriusXM can deliver to subscribers. Fox Sports Promotes Ratings Success for Fuel TV- Bolstered by coverage of UFC, Fox Sports has announced that FUEL TV has recorded the largest year-to-year percentage increases of total viewers in both prime time and total day in April and this year among all rated, ad-supported cable networks. Viewership was up 260% in total viewers and up 450% in the 18 to 49 male demographic.