Doing it ‘Wimbledon-style’: ESPN, USTA reach 11-year, $825M deal for U.S. Open
Surrounded 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.
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