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ESPN near deal to keep Little League06 / 17 / 13ESPN is closing in on an eight-year extension with Little League Baseball that will continue a 50-year relationship that the youth sports organization began with ABC in 1963. The deal is not complete, but both sides have reached broad agreement on most terms that will see ESPN pick up all TV and ... Tags: Media |
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NASCAR to open talks with ESPN, Turner
NASCAR opens its exclusive negotiating windows with ESPN and Turner next month, jump-starting a process that will cement the sport’s media relationships for the next decade. The networks will open talks July 1 and have 45 to 60 days to negotiate exclusively for the rights to 23 Sprint Cup r ...
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Houston numbers affect carriage battles
Surprising subscriber numbers out of Houston suggest that CSN Houston’s much-watched carriage impasse is not likely to be resolved any time soon and, in fact, could start to shift the national debate over the carriage of local sports channels. Industry sources say that DirecTV and AT&T ...
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Networks cry foul at NFL-Verizon deal
NFL executives received an earful from their TV partners when the league informed them of the plan to sell Verizon the rights to stream all NFL games to their mobile phone users starting in 2014. Agitated media partners pushed them on how the league was further diluting the most popular programmi ...
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Mandalay TV show based on writer
Mandalay Sports Media is developing a TV comedy loosely based on the life of acerbic Los Angeles Times sports columnist T.J. Simers, one of several projects the 15-month-old sports production company has in the pipeline. Formed last March by Warriors co-owner Peter Guber and Hollywood producer/di ...
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NASCAR on Fox ratings level off
NASCAR posted its biggest year-over-year ratings increase for the Daytona 500 on Fox, but the sport failed to convert that momentum into an increase in ratings for the early part of the Sprint Cup season. Fox averaged a 4.8 Nielsen rating and 7.8 million viewers through the first 13 races of the ...
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FS1 Twitter feed to feature advertisers
When Fox Sports launches FS1 in August, advertisers will have the opportunity to buy into the network’s Twitter feeds, thanks to a deal Fox Sports signed with the social media company at the end of March. Fox Sports has been testing the system for several months and expects to start ramping ...
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NBC, Fox involved in MASN talks
Major League Baseball has had talks with NBC Sports Group and Fox Sports in recent weeks to try to craft a solution to its MASN dispute, according to several sources. MLB hired Steve Greenberg of Allen & Co. to try to broker such a deal, which could see NBC or Fox acquire all or part of the r ...
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ESPN, NBC on the clock for golf rights
The U.S. Golf Association started its exclusive negotiating window with incumbents ESPN and NBC Sports Group over the weekend, a year and a half before its current deal ends. NBC holds the broadcast rights to USGA’s biggest prize, the U.S. Open. NBC also televises the U.S. Women’s Ope ...
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ESPN signs radio deals with 5 NFL teams
ESPN is getting into the Sunday afternoon NFL business this season, thanks to deals ESPN Radio cut with five NFL teams. The Dolphins, Giants, Jets, Patriots and Steelers sold their out-of-market radio rights to ESPN, essentially allowing ESPN’s terrestrial radio network to carry those gam ...
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ESPN, USTA reach deal for U.S. Open
Surrounded by reporters after ESPN’s upfront advertising event in New York last week, ESPN President John Skipper was asked to comment on the SportsBusiness Daily report that he was close to doing a deal to bring the entire U.S. Open tennis tournament to cable. Skipper smiled and said, &ldq ...
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