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SportsTVRating has the viewership numbers for Saturday's televised sports. The rating for the live Nathan's brpadcast on ESPN2 was 0.4 (highest of the day) and the audience was 1,129,000 (second to primetime NASCAR race). The combined audience for the 4 showings of the finals on July 4 ws 2.38 million.
Patrick Bertoletti attempted to consume 120 raw eggs on tonight's episode of America's Got Talent. update The Chicago Tribune has an article
Hot Dog 148th anniversary / “Little Arlene” photoshop
Today is the 48th anniversary of an event held at Nathan’s Famous Coney Island location on June 30, 1967 to commemorate the centennial of the invention of the hot dog in 1867. The UPI reported that Walter Paul ate 127 hot dogs in an hour at that celebration. This is the first Nathan’s hot dog eating contest that can be found in online news archives.
Research has not been able to turn up any more information about the competition, but a picture taken at that event of a bathing-suit clad model holding a plate of hot dogs has been circulating on social media. I have not been able to determine the name of the model or the original image source.
A modified version of this image was used in ESPN’s documentary about the St. Louis Spirits of the ABA to illustrate big-eating “Little Arlene”, a halftime performer for that franchise. (direct link to image in youtube video.) I doubt the woman was Arlene, but I have never seen a picture of her.
"Nacho Extreme", the competitive eater on Wahlburgers, is being sued for failing to deliver a script to Mark Wahlburg after he received $1000 to perform that service.
The 2015 broadcast schedule for the men's Nathan's finals is now available. The contest will be live on ESPN2 at noon and then rerun seven more times on July 4. It does not appear the women's contest will be televised.
ESPN SportsCenter will be broadcast from Coney Island the morning of July 4 on ESPN2 to promote the Nathan's finals.
The schedule for the ESPN family of channels is now available for July 4, 2015. The men's Nathan's contest will be live on ESPN2 starting at noon and be rerun at 1pm, 2pm and 4pm (on ESPN) that afternoon. For the fifth straight year, the women's contest will not be televised on a cable channel; it does not currently appear on the ESPN3.com July 4 streaming schedule. (The ESPN3 schedule does list Ultimate Disc League and cricket competitions).
Mary Bowers appeared on the lastest episode of The Josh Wolf Show on CMT and presided over a hot dog contest.
Carlene LeFevre appeared on yesterday's episode of MTV's Girl Code to offer some competitive eating tips and preside over a hot dot eating contest. (video)
TV Casting Plus has posted a request for big eaters in the UK for an upcoming competitive eating program. (via Beard Meats Food).
Sports Media Watch has this year's TV schedule for Wimbledon. ESPN will show tennis from 8am to 4pm Eastern, which will relegate the live broadcast of the Nathan's finals to ESPN2 or another network. (Since July 4 is a Saturday this year, the Nathan's finals could be shown on ABC without conflicting with local news or other weekday programming.)
Adam Richman participated in an Ask Me Anything interview session on reddit.com yesterday. He says his least favorite challenge (which was a mystery beforehand) was the hot wings at Munchies in Sarasota, FL and was also not fond of the 7 pound burrito at Jack and Grill in Denver (which he claims was actually 9.5 pounds yesterday).
Youtube has a mini-mockumentary about the Championship Eating Network. The fictional channel is used as an example of a minimally-viewed offering which is required to be included in cable packages and is part of Consumer Action's campaign against the practice of bundling. (via IBTimes.com)
A casting call has been placed by a Japanese program (probably "Battle of the Big Eaters 3") for UK competitive eaters to face off in a qualifier in July or August in London. Four competitors will be chosen to compete in the USA.
This weekend's episode of India's Got Talent will have a grass eating contest between a man and a bull.
2011 women's Nathan's finalist appeared on Wheel of Fortune Thursday and mentioned her competitive eating background.
On an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live in March, wrestler John Cena talked about how he saved money on food by doing pizza eating challenges while he worked as a bouncer.
Bill "El Wingador" Simmons is mentioned in Bill Simmons' latest grantland.com column in a section about people with the same name as famous sports figures. The "Sports Guy" does not think the connection works since he claims to have never used cocaine, and "El Wingador" went to prison for drug distribution.
KATU has a video about members of the Big Eaters Club faced off in a 7 pound burrito eating contest held at Koi Fusion in Portland yesterday.
ESPN has a blog entry about University of Virginia football players competing in the Munchin for Memory hot dog eating contest on Sunday to benefit Alzheimer's research. Fullback Vincent Croce was the runner up with 11 hot dogs.
CMT.com has a recap of last night's episode of Party Down South which had a hot dog eating contest.
Maine.eater.com has an interview with the owners of Hoss and Mary's about the move of their restaurant from Old Orchard Beach, ME to Key West, FL later this month. They do not say if the new location will have the "Manimal", the eating challenge in the Maine episode of Man vs. Food.
Steve "Pi Guy" Martin and Damien Boykin appeared on Fox 5 Atlanta this morning to promote Sunday's qualifier at the Atlanta Dogwood Festival. Ronnie Hartman and Crazy Legs Conti are also expected to compete.
The Independent has an interview with Adam Richman, who says that he has been a vegan for the past three month to prepare for his participation in the Soccer Aid charity game. The former host of Man vs. Food says he actually gained more weight doing the series that followed that program. In dismissing his status as a competitive eater, he makes the interesting claim that competitive eating is "unionized".
The Travel Channel will televise the debut episode of "Man Finds Food" tomorrow at 9pm EDT. The series was supposed to start in early July 2014, but was put on hiatus for almost nine months due to controversial social media comments by host Adam Richman.
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