John Ourand

John Ourand has covered all things media for Sports Business Journal since 2006. Before then, he spent 12 years reporting on the media industry in the U.S. and Europe, reporting for International Cable magazine and serving as editor for such outlets as Cable World and CableFAX Daily. His journalism career started in 1990 as a reporter for a Washington Post-owned weekly newspaper based in Montgomery County, Md.

The final days of Speed

Journal - 08/05/2013

In late July, Speed...

Two channels will carry Speed name

Journal - 08/05/2013

Speed is sticking around...

Fox' New Deal For NASCAR Extends To '24, Includes First Half Of Nationwide Series

Daily - 08/02/2013

Fox Sports and NASCAR closed a new $3.8B TV rights agreement that adds three Sprint Cup races, 14 Nationwide Series races and two years to the deal the broadcaster cut with NASCAR last fall. The $3.8B price tag is $1.4B greater than the eight-year deal Fox signed with NASCAR...

Fox Sports, NASCAR Finalize Rights Deal Through '24 Worth $3.8B

Closing Bell - 08/01/2013

Fox Sports and NASCAR closed a new $3.8B TV rights agreement that adds three Sprint Cup races, 14 Nationwide series races and two years to the deal the broadcaster cut with NASCAR last fall. The $3.8B price tag is $1.4B higher than Fox had agreed to pay through '22....

SportsNet N.Y. Inks Deal To Carry Cosmos Home Games This Season

Morning Buzz - 08/01/2013

SportsNet N.Y. has signed a deal to carry all seven NASL N.Y. Cosmos home games this season, starting with tomorrow's match against the Ft. Lauderdale Strikers. SNY's broadcast booth will feature JP Dellacamera on play-by-play and Janusz Michallik as the analyst. As part of the...

Columbia Capital, Rho Ventures Invest In Mandalay Sports Media

Morning Buzz - 07/31/2013

Private equity firms Columbia Capital and Rho Ventures completed an undisclosed investment in Mandalay Sports Media that will allow the year-old company to grow its content business and acquire some sports media entities – including programming or companies – and invest in others. As part of the investment, Columbia Capital...

Mandalay Sports Media Hopes Investment Helps It Grow Its Content Business

Daily - 07/31/2013

Private equity firms Columbia Capital and Rho Ventures completed an undisclosed investment in Mandalay Sports Media that will allow the year-old company to grow its content business and allow it to acquire some sports media entities -- including programming or companies -- and invest in others. "Having financial capital...

As FS1 talks go on, rebrand of Fuel to FS2 quietly readied

Journal - 07/29/2013

Cable and satellite operators are preparing for Fox Sports to launch Fox Sports 2 next month even though the media company still has not announced anything official yet. Earlier this month, cable systems in the Northeast sent notifications to their subscribers announcing plans to flip Fuel into...

NBC steps up, lands NASCAR

Journal - 07/29/2013

During the week of July 7, NASCAR officials started to realize that the sport’s long-standing, multi-decade relationships with ESPN and Turner were coming to an end. Soon after the July 4 holiday, Turner’s David Levy called NASCAR’s Steve Herbst to say that Turner wasn’t going...

Experts: Market is ready for FS1

Journal - 07/29/2013

The addition of another sports channel next month does not concern executives in the ad buying community, who say the demand for sports programming is so strong now that the market easily can handle multiple networks. ...

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