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Range Media unveils growth capital funding round

Unpacks Newsletter - 04/23/2024 | Morning Buzz - 04/23/2024

Range Media Partners will today announce a new growth capital investment round led by Forest Road Asset Management with investments from telecom giant Liberty Global and David Bonderman ’s Wildcat Capital Management, among others. Financial details of the transaction were not available. The company previously...

Disney, ManU in discussions over possible documentary deal

Daily - 04/23/2024 | Daily - 04/23/2024

Premier League club Manchester United is “in discussions” with Disney with a view to “striking a multi-million-dollar deal to create documentaries about the club,” according to Adam Crafton of THE ATHLETIC. Sources said that the production would "focus on the club’s era of success" under coach Alex...

FIFA, Apple close to worldwide TV rights deal for new Club World Cup

Daily - 04/23/2024 | Daily - 04/23/2024

FIFA is “close to an agreement” with Apple that would give them “worldwide television rights for a major new tournament, a monthlong, World Cup-style competition” for top teams that will be played for the first time in the U.S. next summer that "could be announced as soon...

Audacy launches dedicated sports brand

Morning Buzz - 04/23/2024

Audio entertainment giant Audacy is launching Audacy Sports, a new umbrella brand intended to consolidate its sports offerings for advertisers. Lee Davis , Audacy’s SVP/Sports Monetization, said the new Audacy Sports banner allows the company to provide potential advertisers with an aggregated menu of offerings that...

How the Dallas Stars are using AI-based tools to brainstorm the creation of playoff marketing assets

Power Up Newsletter - 04/23/2024

The Dallas Stars are using artificial intelligence-based tools across multiple facets of their business, driving incremental revenue in ticket sales ( profiled in the SBJ Tech newsletter last week ) and creativity in marketing. Stars VP of marketing Joanne Lovato recalled a serendipitous beginning to the latter...

Sports media execs heap praise on CBS' Sean McManus as he retires

Media Newsletter - 04/22/2024

Sean McManus is going out on top, retiring from CBS Sports after a nearly 28-year tenure leading the company, as I wrote in a profile of McManus for this week's magazine . In the final days of his stellar career, colleagues and peers are quick to heap praise...

Fever to air 17 games on local OTA channels

Closing Bell - 04/22/2024

Capitulating to the popularity of Caitlin Clark , the Indiana Fever are putting 17 of their games on free, over-the-air television this coming season after striking a deal with Tegna’s NBC and MeTV affiliates in Indianapolis. While 36 of the Fever’s 40 regular season games were already slated...

Mike Tyson appointed brand ambassador for boxing social network Ready to Fight

Ready to Fight, the blockchain-backed social app for boxing, has named Mike Tyson a brand ambassador. Founded by reigning heavyweight world champion Oleksandr Usyk and a partner of the World Boxing Council and the Saudi Arabia Boxing Federation, Ready to Fight is intended to help...

Netflix set to air roast of Tom Brady live

Closing Bell - 04/22/2024

Netflix's roast of former NFLer Tom Brady, "The Greatest Roast of All Time," will be broadcast live on the streaming service on May 5, the streaming service announced today. The event will be hosted by Kevin Hart and feature "an all-star lineup of athletes and comedians" including comedian Jeff...

PGA Tour continues facing TV viewership headwinds with weather, lack of star winners

Daily - 04/23/2024 | Unpacks Newsletter - 04/23/2024 | Media Newsletter - 04/22/2024

Golf’s great divide continues to make its impact felt, with the PGA Tour’s linear TV numbers taking a notable hit year-to-date. Through the Valero Texas Open, the final PGA Tour event before the Masters, all three of the tour’s main TV partners were seeing viewership declines from 2023. ...

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Range Media unveils growth capital funding round

Disney, ManU in discussions over possible documentary deal

FIFA, Apple close to worldwide TV rights deal for new Club World Cup

Audacy launches dedicated sports brand

How the Dallas Stars are using AI-based tools to brainstorm the creation of playoff marketing assets

Sports media execs heap praise on CBS' Sean McManus as he retires

Fever to air 17 games on local OTA channels

Mike Tyson appointed brand ambassador for boxing social network Ready to Fight

Netflix set to air roast of Tom Brady live

PGA Tour continues facing TV viewership headwinds with weather, lack of star winners

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