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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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Monumental to launch digital net
Monumental Sports and Entertainment Chairman Ted Leonsis will launch a full-fledged digital network this week in what is the first step toward setting up his own local TV channel. The broadband sports and entertainment channel will be called Monumental Network and will feature programming related ...
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DirecTV pushes back on sports
Floating above Sun Life Stadium during the BCS championship game this month, DirecTV’s blimp delivered a simple message to the 80,000 fans in attendance: True sports fans subscribe to DirecTV. As Alabama trounced Notre Dame on the field, the blimp rotated messages touting DirecTV& ...
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Competitors see an opening
DirecTV’s competitors have had their own battles over rising programming costs, but they believe they have some built-in advantages that allow them to weather these costs more efficiently. Cable and telecommunications companies offer broadband and telephone service, which can help them subs ...
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With 1 not done, Fox goes for 2
Even though Fox Sports has not formally announced its planned national cable channel Fox Sports 1 yet, the company already has moved forward with plans to flip Fuel into Fox Sports 2 this August. On Nov. 27, Fox filed a trademark application for a Fox Sports 2 logo with the U.S. Patent and Tradem ...
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ACC panel to study network
The ACC has formed a committee of athletic directors and hired Wasserman Media Group to explore the financial benefits of launching its own conference network. While its media rights are tied up with ESPN for the next 15 years, that hasn’t stopped the conference from beginning the process o ...
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Novenstern joining Tennis Channel
Tennis Channel hired veteran ad executive Larry Novenstern to a new role as vice president of integrated partnerships. Novenstern is based in New York and reports to Gary Herman, the network’s senior vice president of advertising. He started Dec. 10. “Being able to get back into spor ...
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Deal could make Yankees a fixture on Fox
Fox Sports will be able to carry as many as 18 regular-season games showing the popular New York Yankees on its national TV channels starting in 2014, which is significantly more than the 12 that ESPN will be allowed to produce. But Fox will be limited to only eight Boston Red Sox games. That& ...
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Lockout forces RSNs to return fees
Regional sports network executives are experiencing their own version of Groundhog Day, as games missed from a league work stoppage are starting to affect their bottom lines. Last year, it was the NBA that canceled early-season games through Christmas. This year, it’s the NHL that’s c ...
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NFL shifts Thursday landscape
On Nov. 1, NFL Network posted its lowest TV rating of the season, as 4.8 million viewers tuned in to watch the Chargers rout the Chiefs. Still, the game’s viewership more than doubled the audiences that tuned in to the NBA and college football that night. On TNT, 2.1 million viewe ...
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A candid chat with ESPN’s chief
A sk John Skipper to list his proudest accomplishment in the year that he’s been ESPN’s president, and he won’t mention the company’s billion-dollar rights deals or its industry-changing cable carriage agreements. Instead, he’ll talk about the smooth transition he ...
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