Tribune-owned CW affiliate WGN Chicago will provide live coverage of the 58th running of the Illinois Derby from Hawthorne Race Course on Saturday, April 18, from 5 to 6 p.m. […]
Sports Spark Ad Spending In New York City
With 11 pro teams in the area, advertisers are eager to get on games, which they know will be watched live. Auto and telecom are hot. TV inventory has gotten tighter.
The movement to compensate college athletes took a twist recently when a group of 10 collegiate football and basketball players sued not just athletic conferences, but ESPN and the broadcasters that reap a growing windfall from televising their games. A key hearing is scheduled in a federal court in Nashville on April 13, when a judge will hear arguments on whether to dismiss the class action suit brought by the athletes, or to allow the case to proceed.
Exclusives
“Hot” Rod Hundley, a former NBA player who broadcast Jazz games in New Orleans and Utah for 35 years, died March 27 at his home near Phoenix. He was 80. […]
ESPN networks and NBC Sports led the industry with 57 and 42 Sports Emmy Award nominations, respectively, as the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences unveiled the 36th annual list of nominees. In terms of specific networks, ESPN led the way with 37 nods, while NBC earned 33. NBC Sports Group’s coverage of the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi was also a big winner, earning 15 nominations — the most of any program.
Time Warner Cable is expected to shoulder the burden of its bad deal to acquire TV rights to Los Angeles Dodgers games by writing down the value of the asset by up to $1 billion, sources say. Time Warner Cable and Dodgers fans are facing a second season of silence from West Coast TV distributors who, so far, are balking at the price for carrying Time Warner Cable’s SportsNet LA, which carries the Dodgers games exclusively.
The NFL announced a grand experiment on Monday, saying it would put a mid-season football game on a national digital platform, not on national television — opening up an important new door for the sports media industry. The league acknowledged that the trial effort is designed to understand the market for digital rights.
WISH-WNDY To Carry Cubs, White Sox
Media General-owned CW affiliate WISH Indianapolis (DMA 27) and co-owned independent WNDY will be that market’s new homes of the Chicago Cubs and the Chicago White Sox, beginning in April. […]
America’s Greatest Race On Sportsman Channel
Journal Broadcast Group-owned ABC affiliate KTNV Las Vegas (DMA 41) has hired national sports reporter Jon Saraceno as exclusive analyst for coverage leading up to what’s being billed as “The […]
Ad revenue is up and viewership should be as well, with Kentucky aiming to become the first undefeated champion in decades. Either way, Turner and CBS win.
And to think that just a few months ago, few people over 30 ever heard of Snapchat. Now the ephemeral messaging app has set its sights on live sports, making deals with the NCAA and Turner. The goal is to include live sports in its “Our Story” feature, which will begin with coverage of the NCAA’s Final Four.
Meredith-owned CBS affiliate WGCL Atlanta (DMA 9) announced Tueesday that veteran Atlanta sportscaster Fred Kalil has been named sports anchor at the station. Kalil begins his new assignment on March […]
Sports Reporter Joe Buscaglia Set To Join WKBW
WFAA Sportscaster Goes Beyond Just Scores
WISH Extends Soccer Partnership Through 2016
Today, Media General’s CW affiliate WISH Indianapolis (DMA 27) announced it would broadcast all Indy Eleven Professional Soccer regular season home games during the 2015 season. The “Boys in Blue” […]
NBC Universo, the cable network formerly known as mun2, will air a Spanish-language telecast of the Super Bowl on Sunday with play-by-play man Rene Giraldo, analyst Edgar Lopez and sideline reporter Veronica Contreras. The game will be hyped throughout the day on English-language NBC, and that will also be the case on NBC Universo.
As Super Bowl audiences demand more second-screen content and as online ad opportunities expand, brands are aggressively growing their presence beyond merely multimillion-dollar TV spots. It’s about so much more than simply posting longer versions of an ad online, with marketers investing heavily in full-blown digital campaigns that run during the Big Game.
Hockey in HD – Hurray
The NFL has protected its video as fiercely as any league, pushing most users to its website or to its broadcast partners. Today, the league and YouTube announced a partnership between two of the most powerful brands in the marketplace, creating an official NFL channel on the video website. Clips will also be directly viewable through simple Google searches.
Footage from GoPro cameras on players, referees and placed around the rink will be shown as part of the live broadcast of this weekend’s All-Star events. It’s the company’s first such deal with a major professional sports league. While GoPro would not comment on whether other partnerships are in the works, they would make sense.
John A. Walsh, a fixture at ESPN since 1988, will retire Feb. 1, sources there confirm. No reason was given for the move by the EVP and executive editor. A veteran sports journalist, Walsh is chairman of ESPN’s editorial board and helped launched ESPN The Magazine and ESPN Radio.
Sports cable channels are expected to continue to weigh down the bulk of cable channel costs for pay TV providers — climbing at a faster rate than virtually all other cable channels over the next few years. On average, SNL Kagan says pay TV providers spent $1.03 per month per subscriber for sports channels in 2013, which will soar to $1.37 by 2018 — a five year compounded annual growth rate of 7.3%.
In a multi-year deal with the YES Network, Tribune’s New York CW affiliate will air approximately 20 games this season.
Students at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism are diving into coverage of Super Bowl XLIX, working side by side with the media now descending upon Phoenix. The Cronkite School will host the event’s Social Media Command Center, and students are producing content on all media and for news orgs inlcuding Sports Illustrated, NFL.com and AZCentral.
Lawmakers said Wednesday the New England Patriots should be able to play in the Super Bowl on Feb. 1 despite an investigation that found the team significantly deflated their footballs in last Sunday’s conference championship. Even Baltimore Ravens and Seattle Seahawks fans in Congress said the game should go on after the Patriots beat the Indianapolis Colts in the semi-final.
