Media Notes
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(l to r) Jackson, Breen And Van Gundy To Be ESPN's
Lead Broadcast Team For Upcoming NBA Season |
Dagmar Brandenstein, who has been tapped by German media tycoon Leo Kirch to oversee rights sales for Sirius, Kirch's company that inked a US$4.2B deal to handle the rights to the German Bundesliga from ’09-2015, is "contractually blocked from working for a competing company " until June, “too late for her to head Bundesliga sales for Sirius." Brandenstein, Managing Dir of ARD and ZDF’s joint sports rights company Sport A, landed rights for those companies to the ’06, 2010 and 2014 World Cups (DAILY VARIETY, 10/17)....Former NBA coach Jeff Van Gundy has joined ESPN as part of the lead broadcast team, serving as an analyst alongside play-by-play commentator Mike Breen and analyst Mark Jackson (ESPN)....CNBC Asia Pacific has secured rights to broadcast delayed telecasts of games and programs from the NFL and will broadcast two games a week on a delayed basis (NFL.com, 10/16).
TURNER: SPORTSBUSINESS JOURNAL’s Lombardo & Fisher report the AFL “is expected to sign a deal to sell a digital rights package to Turner Sports New Media.” Turner would operate the league and all team Web sites, “as well as likely stream highlights and other video elements, while handling e-commerce services.” Turner currently has digital agreements with the PGA Tour and NASCAR (SPORTSBUSINESS JOURNAL, 10/15 issue). Meanwhile, Turner “continues to pursue” the NBA’s 24-hour NBA-TV channel and “is currently talking to the league” about rights to the channel as well as the “NBA League Pass” out-of-market passage and accompanying broadband service. Turner Sports President David Levy said, “It’s more than NBA TV -- it’s a combination of assets, including additional digital rights, NBA League Pass, many other attributes surrounding the package. We’re trying to find a model that works for both of us so that conversations are continuing” (R. Thomas Umstead, MULTICHANNEL NEWS, 10/15).
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