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Kevin “Kimbo Slice” Ferguson – the star of the highest-rated season of “The Ultimate Fighter” in the show’s history – is making a return to the reality series. Sort of.
Ferguson will host Spike TV’s debut of “The Ultimate Fighter Fridays” on March 9 at 9 p.m. ET/PT.
The weekly three-hour specials counter-program new episodes of “The Ultimate Fighter 15,” which also debuts March 9 – on FX, the series’ new broadcast home.
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UFC on Fuel TV 1 earned an average of 217,000 viewers for its three-hour Wednesday night broadcast on the Fox-owned cable station.
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In its latest counter-programming move, Spike TV will air a Diego
Sanchez fight marathon opposite next week’s UFC on FUEL TV 1 event.
Sanchez headlines the Feb. 15 event, which airs live on FUEL TV, in a
welterweight bout with fast-rising contender Jake Ellenberger.
During the event time, Spike TV airs a five-hour “UFC Unleashed: Diego Sanchez” marathon featuring the fighter’s past UFC bouts.
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Spike TV’s two-hour slot of counter-programming for this past weekend’s UFC on FX 1 event averaged 699,500 viewers.
A 9 p.m. ET/PT “UFC Unleashed” episode averaged 648,000 viewers, and the 10 p.m. ET/PT one-hour episode averaged 751,000 viewers.
MMAjunkie.com today confirmed the ratings information with industry sources.
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In its latest counter-programming move, Spike TV will air a Melvin Guillard fight marathon opposite next week’s UFC on FX 1 event.
Guillard headlines the Jan. 20 event, which airs live on FX, in a lightweight bout with fellow contender Jim Miller.
During the event time, Spike TV airs a five-hour “UFC Unleashed: Melvin Guillard” marathon featuring the fighter’s past UFC bouts.
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The UFC and Spike TV’s final “UFC Prelims” special ended on a high note
and averaged a solid 1.8 million viewers, ranking it second all-time
among the 26 specials to date.
The latest one-hour special coincided with this past weekend’s UFC 141 event and featured Ross Pearson vs. Junior Assuncao and Danny Castillo vs. Anthony Njokuani.
MMAjunkie.com today confirmed the ratings information with industry sources.
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In what likely will result in intended marketplace confusion, Spike TV will take full advantage of its UFC library rights and will counter-program news episode of “The Ultimate Fighter” with past seasons of the reality series.
Spike TV today announced the plans, dubbed “The Ultimate Fighter Fridays.”
The weekly three-hour programming blocks will go head-to-head with new seasons of “TUF,” which soon debut on new broadcast partner FX.
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New UFC programming may be leaving Spike TV for Fox Networks in 2012, but the world’s largest promotion will continue to appear on Spike in the coming year.
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Spike TV announced a plan to counter-program the UFC in 2012 which may be more bold than smart.
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Spike TV today further clarified what we already knew: The gloves are off.
After counter-programming the first UFC on FOX event and scoring approximately 800,000 viewers, Spike TV also will counter-program the second one.
Spike TV will run a “UFC Unleashed” marathon featuring UFC on FOX 2
headliners Rashad Evans and Phil Davis on Jan. 28 to counter FOX’s live
event broadcast that same night.
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