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Doing it ‘Wimbledon-style’: ESPN, USTA reach 11-year, $825M deal for U.S. Open05 / 20 / 13Surrounded 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... Tags: Media |
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Young Ebersol finds his place in TV
Most of the people in the cabin of the chartered plane carrying Dick Ebersol’s family passed out from the G-forces when it began its fatal plunge shortly after takeoff in 2004. But Ebersol’s son Charlie remained awake the entire time and has never shaken the memory of how he felt in t ...
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NHL launches marketing around playoffs
Editor's note: This story is revised from the print edition. Buoyed by strong attendance and TV ratings for a lockout-shortened regular season that cost each team 34 games, or 41 percent of its usual 82-game schedule, the NHL is launching a postseason marketing campaign this week. The Stanley ...
What drove the new WNBA deal
A few months ago, NBA Deputy Commissioner Adam Silver and WNBA President Laurel Richie approached ESPN President John Skipper with a plan. Even though the WNBA was under contract to ESPN for another four years, the league’s executives wanted ESPN to open its deal and renegotiate new terms. ...
NHL sees RSN ratings increases
Editor's note: This story is updated from the print edition. Just as the NBA’s ratings shot up during its shortened season last year, the NHL is seeing similar gains across its U.S. networks — both national and local. Twenty-one of the 22 U.S.-based teams for which Sp ...
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MotoGP, Fox Sports extend deal
MotoGP — the international motorcycle racing circuit — launched on Speed in 1997. This August, the day after Speed officially morphs into Fox Sports 1, a MotoGP race from Indianapolis will fill up the rebranded channel’s Sunday afternoon schedule. ...
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MLB Net faces first carriage renewals
Expect MLB Network executives to spend a lot of time in Philadelphia; El Segundo, Calif.; and Manhattan’s Time Warner Center during the next nine months. That’s because the 4-year-old network’s affiliate deals with nearly every major distributor expire over the next two years. T ...
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TBS poised to get Final Four early
TBS appears likely to carry the Final Four and two Elite Eight games next year, two years earlier than planned, thanks to an option in the agreement that CBS and Turner signed when they jointly acquired the NCAA’s media rights more than two years ago. When the two networks won the NCAA&rsqu ...
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Fox Sports 1 won’t push rates up yet
While Fox Sports trumpeted its plans for Fox Sports 1 in New York City last week, anxious distributors were waiting to hear what a new high-priced sports channel would mean for their business. The early line is that not much will change, at least for most cable and satellite operators. Instead, s ...
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What’s behind Fox-ESPN alliance?
It started with a surprising partnership around the Big 12 Conference and continues with this week’s planned announcement around the Catholic 7. The amount of collaboration between ESPN and Fox Sports over the past two years has resulted in a partnership that is unprecedented in sports media a ...
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Rolodex helps Perlman build firm
Editor's note: This story is revised from the print edition. Doug Perlman recalls taking an early morning train from his Connecticut home to New York City in September 2008. It started as a regular day commuting to work, but he vividly remembers how it ended up having a dramatic impact on his ...
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