PBR Holding First PPV Event Saturday

The PBR is producing its first-ever PPV event Saturday. The "Last Cowboy Standing" event in Las Vegas originally was supposed to be on Versus, but the Comcast-owned network ran into scheduling conflicts with the NHL playoffs. The event will feature the top 40 riders from the Built Ford Tough Se ...

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Fox, Big 12 Finalize Football Deal

Fox Sports and the Big 12 Conference have finalized a 13-year deal that will make Fox’ cable properties the conference’s exclusive cable home for football. Sources say Fox has agreed to pay $90M per year over 13 years. Fox had been paying $20M per year for the rights. In exchange for that fee, ...

TXNSports.com To Launch April 26

A group of high-profile former athletes is launching a broadband website in two weeks called TXNSports.com. Network broadcasters Cris Collinsworth , Boomer Esiason , Nick Faldo , Howie Long , Cal Ripken Jr. and Phil Simms are launching the site April 26, with 16W Marketing. Frank Vuono , a ...

Former Athletes Launching Broadband Website

A group of high-profile former athletes are launching a broadband website in two weeks called TXNSports.com. Network broadcasters Cris Collinsworth, Boomer Esiason, Nick Faldo, Howie Long, Cal Ripken Jr. and Phil Simms are launching the site April 26 with 16W Marketing. Frank Vuono, a partner wi ...

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"Frontline" To Examine High School Football

PBS' "Frontline" looks into high school football tonight at 10:00pm ET with "Football High." The show goes behind the scenes of Shiloh Christian, a small school in northwest Arkansas that saw one of its players succumb to a heat-stroke injury during a summer practice last season. The show asks, ...

SNY Launches Ant-Dish Network Ads

SportsNet N.Y. started an extensive multi-platform marketing campaign today to protest Dish Network’s decision to drop the channel from its line-up. Channel execs would not say how much they are investing in the campaign, which is hitting N.Y. and surrounding markets in newspapers, online and o ...

ESPN Files Suit Against C-USA

ESPN filed a lawsuit against Conference USA in Manhattan federal court today, alleging that the conference did not fulfill its contractual obligations to the network when it sold its TV rights to Fox in January. ESPN's suit alleges that the two sides reached an agreement in principle. ESPN also clai ...

EchoStar, SNY In Middle Of Carriage Dispute

EchoStar and SportsNet N.Y. are in the middle of a carriage dispute that could see Dish Network drop the channel prior to the Mets' season-opening game against the Marlins Friday. SNY's carriage deal with the satellite operator expires Thursday night. "We do not comment about on-going negotiations," ...

Screen Capital Forms RSN Partners

Beverly Hills-based finance company Screen Capital Int'l is forming an affiliate called RSN Partners that is being set up to help teams and properties launch and operate RSNs. RSN Partners is backed by the Boston-based Abry Partners. The group has retained Lee Berke 's LHB Sports to help identify ...

Bud Selig Speaks At WCOS

MLB Commissioner Bud Selig credited the current 15-year run of labor peace for the record revenue and attendance the league has recorded in recent years.