Broadcast TV Ratings for Thursday, September 07, 2006 September 8, 2006 7:00 pm
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NBC’s first regular season presentation of ‘NFL Sunday Night Football’ bows strongly for the Peacock.
The return of the National Football League to NBC out-shined new FOX premieres to help bring NBC the win for the evening in both total households and adults 18-49. A record (for Thursday night season openers) 19.3 million viewers watched the game.
IBM has begun shipping chips for the Wii to Nintendo September 8, 2006 12:10 am
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“IBM Corp. says it has begun shipping processor chips for Nintendo Co. Ltd.’s forthcoming video game console, to be called Wii.
Many of the details are still shrouded in secrecy, but the deal gives IBM the triple crown in suppling the key brain chips for the latest versions of the three leading video game consoles: the Wii, Sony Corp.’s forthcoming PlayStation 3, Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox 360.”
IBM has really pulled off quite the trifecta in securing contracts for creating the CPU’s of all three console manufactures.
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