After this link to Deitsch's latest power ratings, which is very heavy on last week's "Costas Now" show, and this link to The Big Lead's interview with Buzz Bissinger (one of several the Buzzman has done in the past week for damage control, and which, by the way, parents, contains a number of naughty words), I am officially done with this subject.
The huge winner was HBO, which exists more to generate buzz (and thus subscribers) than for ratings.
On the other hand . . . Does anyone outside the Sports Media Navel Gazing Society care about this stuff?
When Deitsch asked HBO Sports boss Ross Greenburg after the show whom he envisioned as the audience for it, he cracked that it probably was mostly members of the media.