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Feld looks to extend deal with Fox Sports for Monster Energy AMA Supercross Series races05 / 20 / 13Feld Motor Sports executives plan to meet with Fox Sports executives in the coming month to discuss an extension of their TV rights. Fox’s Speed network pays $1 million a year and shows 11 Monster Energy AMA Supercross Series races live. Despite replacing Speed, a motorsports channel, with ... 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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NBC Sports Radio rolling out apps
NBC Sports and radio partner Dial Global this week will relaunch the online home for NBC Sports Radio and release new mobile applications, highlighting the network’s increased emphasis on its radio programming and products. The enhanced Web page, at NBCSportsRadio.com, will include live str ...
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MLB clubs look to follow Dodgers
Call it the latest shot heard ’round the world. When word emerged in late January that the Los Angeles Dodgers had reached a new $8 billion TV contract with Time Warner Cable to create a Dodgers-focused regional sports network, it sent shock waves through the sports and television ...
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Deal joins Perform, Sporting News
Perform Group and American City Business Journals have struck a major joint venture to combine Perform’s U.S. sports assets, including its popular ePlayer sports video service, with ACBJ’s Sporting News brand. The new company, Perform Sporting News Limited, will operate under the bra ...
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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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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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Bellator, Spike fight for slice of MMA
Spike TV’s latest effort to rebuild its MMA franchise following the departure of the UFC is a reality show that aims to reproduce the network’s UFC success while cultivating a brand closely identified with the channel. Set to debut this summer, “Fight Master: Bellator MMA” ...
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Game Day with MLS on NBC
As part of Major League Soccer’s inaugural Rivalry Weekend, NBC Sports produced one game on its flagship network, plus two more matches and a whip-around show called “MLS Breakaway” with live look-ins and analysis of four other games on NBC Sports Network on March 17. SportsBusiness Journa ...
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The importance of second screen
T he biggest sports media story last week had nothing to do with Fox Sports 1 paying the new Big East hundreds of millions of dollars for its media rights, or ESPN paying the old Big East nine figures for its rights. The top story in my wor ...
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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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