The former Apple and Hulu Executive is tapped to lead the new joint venture from Disney, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery.
Fox O&O WNYW New York has been named the official TV partner of the New York Liberty. As the team’s new local television home for the 2024 WNBA regular season, […]
Gray Fox affiliate WXIX Cincinnati and the Cincinnati Bengals announced a new multi-year agreement to air Bengals pre-season games and exclusive team programming starting with the 2024 season. “This is […]
Deadspin has laid off its existing staff after G/O Media agreed to sell the sports news site to European startup Lineup Publishing. G/O Media CEO Jim Spanfeller revealed the update in a company-wide email on Monday.
The schedule of games, which will include matchups from the Big Ten, Big 12 and Mountain West conferences, is likely won’t be announced until late May or early June after conferences and the networks hold their selection meetings.
A mix of live sports, original sports programming and ancillary sports content will start appearing on TruTV next Monday, March 11, under the banner TNT Sports on TruTV. The block will start at 6 p.m. ET and run through latenight. The NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship, aka March Madness, gets under way the following week. WBD, which shares in March Madness rights with Paramount, often makes use of TruTV as a home for early-round tournament games.
The July bout between Tyson, the former world champion, and Paul, the influencer turned boxer, is part of Netflix’s push into “sports-adjacent” live events.
Charter Communications and the Walt Disney Co. today announced ESPN+ is now available to Spectrum TV Select Plus customers at no additional cost, as the two companies’ distribution agreement from […]
To complement National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) doubleheaders on Saturday nights on Ion, Scripps Sports will launch weekly NWSL on Ion Studio Shows starting March 16, including: 30-minute pre-match shows. […]
Marquee Sports Network and Weigel Broadcasting today announced that Marquee Sports Network’s broadcast of the Cubs vs. Brewers game on Tuesday night, March 12 (9:05 p.m. ET/8:05 CT) will be […]
In the span of a decade, Netflix has helped decimate linear TV, not only gobbling up series that once would have anchored a network lineup but also taking discarded network series — from You to Manifest— and making them hits. That’s left traditional TV clinging to live sports like a life raft: 98 of last year’s top-100 broadcasts were sports (overwhelmingly, NFL). Now Netflix appears to be coming for them, too.
The forthcoming sports streaming venture backed by Disney, Fox Corp. and Warner Bros. Discovery will reach 5 million subscribers in its first five years, according to a projection shared Monday by Fox CEO Lachlan Murdoch. Speaking at a conference hosted by Morgan Stanley, Murdoch cited the forecast in responding to questions about whether the new venture would threaten the company’s existing pay-TV business.
Cox Media Group and Action News Jax today launched Action Sports Jax 24/7, the first streaming sports channel of its kind in the market. Action Sports Jax 24/7 debuted on Action News […]
Gray Television, which will air a package of five Cleveland Cavalier basketball games on two Ohio stations this season, said it made deals with Nexstar Media Group, Cox Media Group and Tegna to put the games on additional stations in Ohio.
Mortensen announced in 2016 that he he had been diagnosed with throat cancer. Even while undergoing treatment, he was the first to confirm the retirement of Hall of Fame quarterback Peyton Manning.
“This is a very important process. We are sticking to our principles, to our guns,” David Gandler told analysts Friday.
Top station group executives see deeper fragmentation and more strain on the network-affiliate relationship as upshots of a new joint venture sports streaming service announced earlier this month by Fox Corp., Warner Bros. Discovery and Disney. This story is available to TVNewsCheck Plus subscribers only. Become a subscriber here.
The NFL isn’t just the most popular sports league in the U.S., it’s also the most valuable with the highest-rated programming and the priciest ad time. In 2021 the league signed an estimated $110 billion worth of media deals covering 11 years, which reportedly was nearly double the value of its previous contracts. With tech giants Alphabet and Amazon, along with NBCUniversal’s Peacock, snapping up digital rights to NFL games, and with the announcement this week that Disney’s ESPN, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery are launching a streaming service tailored to sports fans, it’s clear that streaming is poised to be the NFL’s next frontier, despite some backlash from fans.
Weigel & Morgan Murphy’s WISC To Bring Milwaukee Bucks Games Back To Free Over-The-Air TV In Madison
Ten games will be available on WISC’s 3.1 and 3.2 channels beginning Feb. 23.
Local broadcast station groups plummeted in value this week after Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery and Fox announced they will be launching a new joint venture focused on sports fans. However, according to EW Scripps CEO Adam Symson, says Wall Street is overestimating the new product’s popularity, saying investors appear to be pricing in that local ABC and Fox affiliates wouldn’t be part of the new skinnier bundle. They will be included, he said, citing assurances he’s been given in conversations with Disney executives. “Affiliates are going to be compensated for being carried along,” Symson said.
Dismissing Bally Sports’ big Amazon-fueled restructuring plan, Manfred told MLB owners this week that all he needs are the digital rights to 14 teams to make it happen.
One of the biggest moments for advertisers interested in the Super Bowl isn’t actually in the Super Bowl itself. FanDuel and YouTube are trying to make a big splash in the moments just before the Big Game, hoping that commercials in the last break before kick-off will help them make a marketing point before consumers get deluged with 30-second spots — along with celebrity cameos and pop-song surprises – once the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers start their struggling in earnest.
Ten games will be available on WQAD’s 8.3 subchannel beginning Feb. 23.
Florida Panthers, the NHL team based in the Greater Miami area, has transformed its production workflows with the adoption of storage systems and management tools from EditShare. The new system […]
NAGRAVISION, the digital TV division of the Kudelski Group, and the European Broadcasting Union, an alliance of public service media organizations, today announced a partnership to deliver and operate Eurovision Sport, a […]
Less than a month after Nick Saban retired from his post at Alabama, ESPN announced Wednesday the legendary football coach will be joining the network’s College GameDay cast as an analyst. He will also contribute to the company’s NFL Draft coverage and make appearances on SEC Network. (Kyusung Gong/AP)
Professional sports leagues including the National Football League and National Basketball Association were kept in the dark about the new sports-centric streaming service being launched by Disney, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery, people familiar with the matter said. The companies involved in the effort are media partners of both leagues. Pro basketball and football programming will be among the significant drivers of the new service.
Disney says the sports giant is targeting a fall 2025 launch for the platform.
Wall Street analysts break down the plan by Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery and Fox to launch a joint streaming venture that has rights to the NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, college football and NCAA March Madness basketball.
The announcement that ESPN, Fox and Warner Bros Discovery were forming a new sports streaming venture sent shares of sports-oriented Fubo spiraling downward. Fubo stock was down 25% to $1.88 a share in Wednesday morning trading.
The broadcaster’s Diamond Sports Group got tripped up by cord cutting, COVID and battles with MLB over streaming, leaving an opening for the tech giant.
The three companies will each share one-third ownership in the joint venture. A name for the service and pricing will be announced later. The platform will include games from the NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, WNBA, NASCAR and college sports, including the men’s and women’s NCAA Tournament, as well as golf, tennis and the FIFA World Cup.
Americans Will Lose If Streamers Monopolize Live Sports
Emily Barr: Yesterday, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce held a hearing on the future of sports media in the streaming era. This conversation could hardly be more urgent, coming just a few weeks after Comcast/NBC took the unprecedented step of putting an NFL playoff game behind a paywall on Peacock, its streaming platform.
The move into college-level and progressional sports is as part of a larger strategy shift for CW under owner Nexstar Media Group. The agreement calls for Range Sports, a unit of management-production startup Range Media Partners, to work with CW Sports and Nexstar brass on new sports-related programs and branded content as well as to advise on rights deals on the national level and in local markets for CW affiliates.
Fox’s Sunday broadcast is its biggest for the conference title matchup in more than a decade. (Alex Brandon/AP)