The movie is to debut on HBO at 8 p.m. Saturday, with five more play dates after that. Lakers, Lakers, Lakers There is a reason we keep seeing the Los Angeles Lakers almost all the time on NBC and Turner Sports during the National Basketball Association season. They deliver the best ratings. The highest-rated games for NBC, TNT and TBS this season were four Lakers games against the Portland Trail Blazers, the Lakers' biggest rival. Blowout City' Turner Sports vice president Mike Pearl underscored in a comment the other day how damaging lopsided victories can be to ratings of live sports events.
Uncompetitive games can kill.
Turner's initial round of NBA playoff games ended with double-digit victories. There's not much we can do about it, and there's not much the league can do about it. Ratings were down for those games. You have to admit when you don't have compelling programming on. Journal Sentinel Inc. All rights reserved.