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Good morning. It’s Tuesday April 7, 2015, and this is your first early morning Sports briefing.
The AVP will be playing on a new court this year, as the Pro Beach Volleyball Tour stuck a deal with NBC Sports Group for tournaments to be televised on NBC and NBCSN, as well as live streamed on NBC Sports Live Extra. The return to the NBC umbrella will see 17.5 hours of coverage this year with 10 on NBC and 7.5 on NBCSN and include the men’s and women’s finals of all seven regular-season tournaments. In addition, NBC and NBCSN will feature the finals and early-round coverage of an AVP-run tournament on the international FIVB Tour within the United States.
“We are very pleased to return the AVP Tour and its elite athletes to NBC Sports Group’s multiple platforms, and look forward to a long and mutually beneficial partnership that brings the unparalleled excitement of AVP tournaments into fans’ living rooms on Sunday afternoons throughout the summer,” said AVP Managing Partner Donald Sun. “As the 2016 Rio Games approach, this comprehensive new partnership gives us the perfect platform to further showcase beach volleyball to a national audience.”
MLB Opening Night on ESPN2 was a hit for the channel with viewership rising 47% over last year’s numbers. Boasting 3,354,000 viewers, the Cardinals/Cubs marked the biggest audience for an ESPN or ESPN2 MLB Opening Night since 2008, according Fast National figures from Nielsen, with a corresponding 2.0 rating, up 43% from 2014. On the digital front, the game had 163,000 unique viewers, for an uptick of 180% over last year, with 8.6 million minutes viewed.
Speaking of baseball, MLB formally announced on Monday that DC will play host to the 2018 All-Star game at Nationals Park. The city has previously host the Midsummer Classic four times, in 1937, 1956, 1962 and 1969.
Time for UConn and Notre Dame to square off in the NCAA National Championship game tonight, with ESPN carrying the game at 8:30p. The NCAA Women’s Championship Special Presented by Capital One will air ahead of time with an hour-long preview special at 7:30p and hosted by Kevin Negandhi, Kara Lawson and Rebecca Lobo. Meanwhile, a 90-minute College Basketball Live: Women’s National Championship Special airs on ESPNU at 5:30p.
Univision is boasting about its first quarter ratings results, airing 4 of the top 5 most-viewed soccer matches on television among both Total Viewers and Adults 18-49, regardless of language. UniMas’ broadcast of the Mexico/Ecuador international friendly on March 28 marked the most-viewed soccer match of 1Q15 with an average of 2.6 million Total Viewers and 1.5 million Adults 18-49. On Univision, viewership for Liga MX increased by 10% among both Total Viewers and Adults 18-49 vs. prior year.
Outside Television scored a deal with DISH Network, where the channel will join DISH’s Multi-Sport Pack. “We’ve partnered with Outside Television to take our customers directly into the action of extreme outdoor sports,” said Josh Clark, DISH vice president of programming. “We are expanding our lineup of active outdoor lifestyle programming and unconventional sports coverage from mountaineering to BASE jumping and kitesurfing.”
50 years of Gatorade branding has left its mark in sports lore. Join us at the annual Cynopsis Sports Media Awards Breakfast to hear Gatorade CMO Morgan Flatley showcase the brand’s iconic approach to marketing as she receives the GEM Award. The event takes place on Thursday, April 16 from 8-10:30a at the NYAC. Register you and your team here.
CBS Sports is set to carry three CBS Sport Spectacular golf specials on Saturday with The Masters: Substance of Style at 1p, Keys to the Masters at 1:30p and The Masters: When They Were Young at 2p.
Premier Boxing Champions has another outlet, striking a deal with SiriusXM with the first broadcast set to run April 11 with SiriusXM Sports Zone, channel 92. PBC on SiriusXM broadcasts will be produced by SiriusXM with the broadcast team set to include Randy Gordon as the blow-by-blow voice and former heavyweight contender Gerry Cooney as the analyst. Sway Calloway will be the ringside reporter.
FIFA presidential candidate Prince Ali bin Al-Hussein told ESPN FC that he was calling for an investigation into the sudden World Cup rights extension with FOX and Telemundo, which were awarded “without a tender process or any discussion with the FIFA executive committee.” FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke previously stated that the organization "did what it had to do” to prevent legal action from the broadcasters because the 2022 Qatar World Cup was shifted to the winter.
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The NFL saw its sponsorship revenue grow 7.8% to $1.15 billion for the league and its teams in the 2014 season, according to IEG Research. That number almost doubles the 4.2% rise in the overall sponsorship industry and 4.9% increase in the overall sports category last year, according to the company.
NASCAR unveiled “NASCAR with Mom,” a Mother’s Day initiative aimed at sharing and celebrating memorable NASCAR moments with Mom. Heading into Mother’s Day Weekend, fans are encouraged to share their most memorable NASCAR Mom photos on social media using the hashtag #NASCARwithMOM or by visiting nascar.com/NASCARwithMOM. Participants have the chance to win a once-in-a-lifetime NASCAR experience that includes a ride in the Goodyear Blimp and an all-inclusive VIP experience for two during the 2015 Ford Championship Weekend at Homestead-Miami Speedway, including tickets with VIP access.
The teams behind Floyd “Money” Mayweather and Manny “Pac-Man” Pacquiao released the commercial spot touting the upcoming PPV event. The spot was filmed with both prizefighters in a LA studio on March 11 and “highlights the anticipation and the great magnitude of this once-in-a-lifetime event.”
The White House Historical Association is entering a deal with the Washington Nationals via multi-year partnership that will expand the association’s efforts to educate the public on “the rich history of the White House and expand its mission of preserving White House history.” The partnership marks the White House Historical Association’s first partnership with a professional sports team and will include a President Coolidge bobblehead giveaway; signage on the Nationals’ left field garage honoring one of President Coolidge’s first pitches; and an in-game White House History Challenge.
Rabble.TV announced the launch of its community-driven, live audio streaming website and app designed to let fans find alternative audio options for their favorite sports and TV shows. Instead of listening to the canned network audio, users can hear games broadcast by actual fans or they can chose to broadcast the games themselves.
The Topps Company teamed up with MLS WORKS, the league’s community outreach initiative, to launch an interactive, online activity for kids and adults designed to promote the importance of living a healthy lifestyle. The Topps Healthy Habits Card allows users to make and share their very own personalized trading card and allows fans to select their favorite team’s jersey and create a customized card with their own image featuring healthy habits that highlight what each participant does to remain active and healthy. Fans can visit www.getactivewithmls.com/tradingcard to build their card.
NCAA Women’s Basketball Championship on ESPN at 8:30p.
ON THIS DAY in 1969: Ted Williams begins managing the Washington Senators.
In The Know: Which NFL franchise has had the first overall pick in the NFL Draft the most times? (Email [email protected] with your answer and be sure to include your name, company, city and time zone. Unofficial rules: Only the second four correct answers from each time zone will be mentioned; and once you’ve been mentioned in any of the Cynopsis editions, you can’t be mentioned again that calendar week.)
Answer to Our Last Sports Trivia Question: Which university was the only Ivy League team ever to make the Final Four? Answer: Actually there were two to participate in what is now known as the Final Four, Princeton in 1965 and Penn in 1979. Kudos: Doug Pirnie/NY; Brandon Bell-Goviva/NY; Robert Dudelson-Cross MediaWorks/NY; Michael O. Brown-Lagardere Unlimited/NY; John Miller-NBC Sports Group/Stamford; Peter Lasser-Lasser Productions/Atlanta; Tom Powers-Open Door Co./Toronto; Joe Guarnieri-ESPN/Bristol; Steve McNair-KUBE 57/Houston; Gretchen Brady-KDAF-TV CW33/Dallas; Greg Moloznik-GLM Media/Scottsdale; Matt Sautter-Imagine Communications/Denver; Linh Le-FOX Sports/LA; Jack Simmons-Fox Sports/LA; Jim Himmel-TCB Media/San Clemente; Steve Scheer-FOX Sports/LA.
Later — Chris
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