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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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NASCAR close to early renewal with Fox
NASCAR is close to finalizing a new TV deal with Fox for the first half of the Sprint Cup season, but a deal for the second half will not be wrapped up until next summer at the earliest, according to several sources. Fox started negotiations for its package earlier this spring and has agreed on t ...
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MLB wild card brings wild times
MLB is venturing into what it calls “uncharted territory” for its new wild card playoff round, as the single-game knockout contests set for Friday creates a dizzying array of logistical challenges. League and team officials, broadcaster Turner Sports and other business partners last w ...
$12 billion rights haul for MLB
Major League Baseball is poised to announce a stunning $12.4 billion worth of media deals this week as it completes negotiations on eight-year deals with Fox and Turner to go along with its earlier deal with ESPN. The total take from its three partners more than doubles the amount from its previo ...
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SEC, ESPN progress on net
The SEC’s negotiations with ESPN about a new channel are nearing their final stages, and a glimpse inside the talks reveals that three issues are close to being resolved before the channel’s expected launch in August 2014. The SEC needs the local TV rights back from the schools to giv ...
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How networks make their play for games
Network lobbying for the best NFL schedules has become as competitive and strategic as NFL games themselves, with the prime-time networks trying to convince the league why they should be the ones to produce Dallas Cowboys games, in particular. “We try to create schedules that are fair and e ...
Leonsis brings production work in-house
Ted Leonsis always has been a “content guy.” Now, the owner of the Washington Wizards and Capitals is creating an in-house production company to develop and control the content coming from his sports and entertainment assets. Leonsis’ company, Monumental Sports & Entertainme ...
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$7M for Sooners from TV deal
The University of Oklahoma’s block of branded programming on Fox Sports Net will result in upward of $7 million in new annual revenue from both Fox and the school’s multimedia rights holder, Learfield Sports. Oklahoma’s agreement to have branded content — including live ga ...
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NFL's Katz has prime-time power
E veryone has a theory for why NFL games are the highest-rated programs on TV today — from the exquisite HD productions to the fact that they’re DVR proof, from the popularity of fantasy to, yes, even the popularity of Peyton Manning and Tim Tebow. But ask David Hill, former chairman ...
MLB/ESPN talks moved quickly
On Saturday, Aug. 4, most of the sports world’s eyes were focused on London, where the Olympics were setting U.S. television viewership records for NBC. That was also the day that Major League Baseball started negotiating in earnest to extend its media rights deal with one of NBC Sports’ ...
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NBC Sports Radio preps for airwaves
NBC Sports Radio launches Tuesday with three overnight shows. But the executive overseeing the new outfit has much grander designs for the fledgling radio network. Rob Simmelkjaer, senior vice president of NBC Sports Ventures, expects to grow from three overnight shows to a full 24/7 network at s ...
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