SAN DIEGO (AP) — Paul Azinger has been selected as the lead golf analyst for Fox Sports as it enters the second year of televising the U.S. Open and […]
WKYC’s Jim Donovan To Receive Sports Award
The Denver Broncos’ down-to-the-wire win over the New England Patriots, in what could be the last meeting between Peyton Manning and Tom Brady, averaged 53.3 million viewers Sunday on CBS, the second-largest for an AFC Championship game.
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Once the domain of true crime series and procedural drama reruns, Saturday nights are suddenly getting a lot more competiteve on broadcast TV. This weekend, ABC tips off the first of eight Saturday night NBA telecasts, the first national prime-time package for the league on broadcast television.
The National Football League is flexing its muscles in negotiations with TV networks over the renewal of Thursday night telecasts, not only seeking a sizable rights fees increase but also pushing multiple broadcasters to split the package and agree to potentially onerous scheduling conditions.
Kevin Draper portrays ESPN as “hemorrhaging subscribers and money” as cords are cut and subscribers trade down to ESPN-free packages. “Faced with a declining revenue stream, there are two choices for most businesses: sell more of your product, or charge more for it,” Draper writes, but unfortunately for ESPN, it really isn’t in a position to do either. While the apocalypse isn’t here yet for the sports giant, it’s also caught in market dynamics that see its potential acceleration.
Major League Baseball has agreed to sell single-team streaming rights to fans across the country. The agreement came as part of a legal settlement on the day MLB was to stand trial for alleged antitrust violations.
A TVB analysis of 2015 Wild Card Playoffs and Thursday Night Football viewership shows viewers overwhelmingly prefer NFL on local stations versus cable.
Begun on the NFL Network and nurtured on CBS, the telecast is expected to bring the NFL $350 million to $400 million a year when a new one- or two-year contract is completed soon.
WGN-TV Sportscaster Rich King To Retire
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Greg Norman is no longer part of the golf team for Fox Sports, according to published reports. Golfweek Magazine and Golf.com reported Sunday night that the […]
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Former NFL coach Ted Marchibroda charmed players with his soft-spoken personality and his innovative concepts. Fans appreciated his down-to-earth descriptions and his ability to win games. On […]
ESPN is becoming a problem for Disney. In a note to clients today, Barclays analyst Kannan Venkateshwar downgraded shares of Disney to “Underweight” from “Equal Weight,” citing increasing investor attention around the struggles at ESPN.
For much of the past decade, most sports rights holders in the United States believed that their financial health was tied to cable television’s dual revenue stream of affiliate fees and advertising revenue. But as we begin 2016, a new trend has been identified: Media companies and leagues are putting more sports programming on broadcast TV.
A replay system will give viewers a 360-degree perspective and higher resolution than previously ever seen for the game. Thirty-six cameras strung around the upper deck of Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif., can freeze the moment and revolve around the play before continuing to show the scene. Viewers on Feb. 7 will be able to check out the quarterback’s view from the pocket to other players’ perspectives on the field, and it can be animated, too.
Jessica Mendoza wonders what she’d be doing during the upcoming Major League Baseball season if not for some events out of her control. The retired softball star was scheduled to […]
After a day of negotiations in Houston, the NFL team owners approved the St. Louis move 30-2, with a first option for San Diego to share the $1.8 billion stadium Rams owner Stan Kroenke is building in Inglewood, Calif. The decision ends the NFL’s 21-year absence from the nation’s second-largest media market.
The Jan. 9 and Jan. 10 playoff games averaged 32.6 million viewers and an 18.8 household rating, per Nielsen live-plus-same-day data, marking an 8% increase compared to last year’s 30.1 million viewers and an 11% improvement versus a 17.0 household rating.
The NFL has asked the broadcast networks in the running to submit bids for a partial package, potentially splitting the Thursday games across all of them.
ESPN may owe upwards of $20M in ad make-goods for ratings shortfalls for the two College Football Playoff semifinal games on New Year’s Eve, according to media buyers.
Probably to no one’s great surprise, the NFL is planning to live stream all three of its London games next season, and it’s talking with Apple and Google for the rights to do so (Yahoo was its partner on a live-streamed game earlier this season). It’s not yet clear if the NFL is offering the rights as a package or a la carte.
Sabres In Strong Negotiating Position For Media Rights
Regular-season football ratings have grown even as other sports see declines. “The NFL is the only consistent must-see TV these days,” says one media buyer. As the NFL playoffs get underway this weekend, the league has never been in a better position, and that will likely culminate in another record-breaking Super Bowl in February on CBS.
WWE’s “SmackDown” is trading the Cylons and ghost hunters of Syfy for a new tag-team partner, the USA Network. The only pro wrestling show named after a catchphrase, “SmackDown” moves […]
Major League Soccer’s Orlando City Lions today announced a multi-year local broadcast partnership with Cox Media’s independent WRDQ. The station will become the team’s exclusive English-language broadcast home. Financial terms […]
The 20-year NFL drought in Los Angeles may soon be over. On Monday, three teams — the San Diego Chargers, Oakland Raiders and St. Louis Rams — all filed to relocate to Los Angeles for the 2016 season.
