Sports Media Digest- June 7, 2012

http://sportsmediajournal.com/page/2/ Heat Celtics Game Six Tonight on ESPN- The Boston Celtics can advance to the NBA Finals with a win tonight in Game Six of the Eastern Conference Finals. ESPN has coverage beginning at 7:30p.m. ET with Kia NBA Countdown with Magic Johnson, Jon Barry, Michael Wilbon and Chris Broussard. Mike Breen, Jeff Van Gundy and Doris Burke have the call of the game at 8:30p.m.. TNT Sees Solid Ratings for Western Conference Finals- The concluded six game NBA Western Conference Finals on TNT had an average rating of 5.0 and an average audience of 7.8 million viewers, up 16% and 13% respectively over coverage of the Western Conference Finals from 2011. The Game Six finale last night had a rating of 6.0 and an audience of 9.4 million viewers up 30% and 16% from the network’s last Game Six of the conference finals in 2010. French Open Championship Weekend on NBC- NBC will begin its coverage of the championship rounds of the French Open beginning tomorrow. From 11:00a.m. to 2:00p.m. ET tomorrow NBC will have live coverage of the Men’s Semifinals. Coverage of the Women’s and Men’s Finals begin at 9:00a.m. ET Saturday and Sunday. Ted Robinson anchors NBC’s coverage, joined by analysts John McEnroe and Mary Carillo. SiriusXM Radio Has Live Coverage of Euro 2012- SiriusXM Radio is the radio home of the 2012 UEFA European Football Championship. SiriusXM will broadcast every match live, both in English and Spanish taking the feeds from ESPN Radio and ESPN Deportes Radio. English-language broadcasts will air on Sirius channel 92 and XM channel 207. When two matches are being played simultaneously, the second game will air on ESPN Xtra, SiriusXM channel 85. Listeners will get Spanish-language broadcasts of most matches. Those games can be heard on ESPN Deportes Radio, SiriusXM channel 149. Coverage begins tomorrow. SportsCenter and espnW to Continue its Look at the Top 40 Female Athletes- ESPN’s SportsCenter and espnW will continue to count down the Top 40 Female Athletes of the past 40 years. Next week #10 through 6 will be revealed beginning next Monday during the 11:00 p.m. ET edition of SportsCenter. Athletes to be profiled (in alphabetical order) are: Bonnie Blair, Nadia Comaneci, Chris Evert, Steffi Graf, and Serena Williams. NCAA Track and Field Championships on ESPNU- This Saturday ESPNU will have live coverage of the 2012 NCAA Track and Field Championships. ESPN3 will have six hours of live, exclusive coverage from Day 2 and 3: Today, June 7, beginning at 6:15 p.m. ET and Friday, June 8, beginning at 6:30 p.m. ET.