Friday May 14, 2021 The Walt Disney Company, ESPN and Major League Baseball struck a long-term, wide-ranging rights extension with the seven-year agreement starting in 2022 and running through the 2028 season. The agreement sees ESPN exclusively televise 30 regular-season games annually, including 25 editions of Sunday Night Baseball, the national MLB game […]
Thursday May 13, 2021 Good morning! This is your weekly Esports Brief. FaZe Clan’s escalating embrace of lifestyle business continues with the hiring of Kai Henry as Chief Strategy Officer of the group, where he will help push the expansion and steering of the creative hub within FaZe Clan and serve as the […]
Wednesday May 12, 2021 Networks are shoring up plans for their NFL schedule reveal. ESPN serves up three primetime specials, all beginning at 8p across six platforms tonight with the unveiling of the Monday Night Football and entire NFL season. The primetime programming will provide a bookend to the day, which will begin […]
Monday May 10, 2021 FOX Sports gave The Spring League its first taste of broadcast television over the weekend, with the sport hitting season five this year. The league, while saw rival football leagues grab headlines in recent years, only to struggle out of season one, was founded by Brian Woods in 2017. […]
Friday May 7, 2021 NBC Olympics is tapping Twitch to produce and deliver live content that will live on a new NBC Olympics Twitch channel for the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, delivering “unique programming tailored to the Twitch community,” including highlight studio shows, game-ified pre-Olympic activations, Olympic athlete interviews and Olympic-themed gaming competitions. […]
Thursday May 6, 2021 Good morning! This is your weekly Esports Brief. Riot Games flooded the ecosystem with a bevy of news on Wednesday, announcing plans and sponsors for its entire lineup of esports titles, spanning Wild rift to TFT to Valorant to League of Legends. Highlights from the media events include: · […]
Wednesday May 5, 2021 FOX Sports landed a long-term agreement with South American Football Federation CONMEBOL, the continental governing body of all South American football associations. The new deal begins with the South American tournament CONMEBOL Copa América 2021, and included FIFA World Cup and Olympic qualifiers. FOX Sports will offer more than 1,500 hours […]
Monday May 3, 2021 Last week’s announcement that the secondary package of the NHL would be heading to Turner Sports in a seven-year agreement shook up the landscape, with the league heading to WarnerMedia platforms beginning with the 2021-22 season. The deal includes the Stanley Cup Final as well as the Stanley Cup […]
Friday April 30, 2021 Marshawn Lynch is becoming an owner of the Professional Fighters League with the Super Bowl champion and former All-Pro running back Marshawn Lynch investing in the league. The league will announce the “BeastMode MMA Fighter of the Night, while an anticipated apparel collection between the former Pro Bowler and […]
Thursday April 29, 2021 Good morning! This is your weekly Esports Brief. ESL Gaming is renewing vows with Intel, with the new deal kicking in 2022 with the brands investing over $100 million in esports over three years up to and including IEM Katowice 2025. The deal marks 20 years of collaboration between […]
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