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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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Bidders angle for more MLB
News that Major League Baseball had reached a nearly $6 billion media deal with ESPN had not yet gone public when the league was again embroiled in round-the-clock negotiations for its next media package. Last Monday, Fox Sports’ top executives — co-presidents Randy Freer and Eric Sha ...
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People to know at the Open
From maintaining the grounds, to stringing rackets, to keeping the entertainment on schedule, many people will play key behind-the-scenes roles at this year’s event. Here are a few who will make their mark. Michael Fiur ...
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College football's most influential
College football is a commissioner- and TV-driven property, and recent years have made that message clear. The headlines have been dominated by massive conference realignment, through-the-roof media rights deals, and the landmark move to a four-team playoff starting with the 2014 season. Conferenc ...
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One year, 7 networks
By the time Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott and a dozen guests sat down for a celebratory dinner Aug. 15, the conference’s seven networks had been up and running for only a couple of hours. Around the table at a restaurant in San Francisco’s St. Regis hotel were some of the executives ...
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Fox Sports Net near deal with Big West
Fox Sports Net is close to a multiyear media deal with the Big West Conference, and while it’s certainly not the biggest college deal around, there are ancillary benefits for the media company that extend beyond conference programming. For Fox Sports, the deal is as much about trying to gai ...
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How Big East got its new commish
Big East Commissioner Mike Aresco Photo by: SHANA WITTENWYLER CBS Sports Chairman Sean McManus was at the PGA Championship in Kiawah Island, S.C., when Mike Aresco, one of his longest ...
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Announcement expected on new OU net
News of the University of Oklahoma’s planned sports channel first broke in the summer of 2010. Details surrounding the channel — which actually is more of an OU-branded programming block on Fox’s regional sports networks — were solidified in January. But after two years of ...
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Programming helped drive prime time
In U.S. media circles, the London Games will be known as the first truly digital Olympics. For the first time, NBC streamed every event live online, and NBC Sports Chairman Mark Lazarus believes the online effort helped drive interest around the Games and pumped up the network’s prime-time rat ...
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Inside the "new" NBC's Games
Comcast CEO Brian Roberts was standing at a crowded party at the Battersea Power Station in southwest London last Monday night, making small talk with a cable operator executive who was attending the Olympics as a client of NBC, which Comcast bought last year. ...
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Ebersol has time to enjoy Games
On the opening day of Olympic competition in London, Dick Ebersol went to the U.S.-France basketball game. The sight of him in line for concessions stopped one executive in his tracks. Ebersol at an Olympics event? It was something that hasn’t been seen in the last two decades — a str ...
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