After announcing its slate of games for opening week and Christmas, the NBA fleshed out its TV lineup, locking in broadcast schedules for TNT, ESPN and NBA TV. In a new feature, the NBA is “labeling its schedule by week to enhance the ability of fans to follow the 1,230-game season. Starting with Week 1 […]
Just a year ago, YES Network experienced a season that not only saw the network dropped from the Comcast lineup, but also struggle with a Yankees franchise that would go on to finish fourth in the American League East, spelling a rough outing for the staple RSN. Flash forward a year, and new network President […]
The 2017 PGA Championship opened play with a bump for TNT, notching a .8 household rating with 1.1 million total viewers on Thursday, according to Nielsen fat nationals. That marks an uptick of 14% and 9% over last year’s comparable coverage. op rated local markets for Thursday’s telecast include Orlando, Oklahoma City and Fort Myers, […]
The launch of Watch on Facebook will be heavy on the sports front, as social platform detailed plans for a lineup of sports-themed shows as part of the service designed to serve as a central place on Facebook to find and watch the programs. On the sports front, live sports events, such as MLB, Liga […]
The NBA formally unveiled its national TV schedule for the opening week of the 2017-18 season as well as its lineup of five Christmas Day games, including a record three games on ABC on Dec. 25. The first four days of the season (Oct. 17-20) will see 14 different teams in the spotlight across eight […]
The NBA is reportedly set to unveil a schedule for the new season designed to reduce the stresses of travel and give players a chance to recover, according to ESPN. The upcoming slate is designed to protect key national television matchups in a move to ensure that teams (and their star players) aren’t playing on […]
ESPN Fantasy Football launched its 22nd season with new content and game play features on the ESPN Fantasy App and ESPN.com, with improvements to navigation designed to make it easier to search for players, add free agents and share team moves and draft picks. The app will also continue to provide fantasy analysis and access […]
The Walt Disney Company is going all in on BAMTech, announcing plans to acquire majority ownership the streaming service that will anchor the launch of an ESPN-branded multi-sport video streaming service in early 2018, with an additional new Disney-branded direct-to-consumer streaming service in 2019. Disney will pay $1.58 billion to acquire an additional 42% stake […]
The PGA of America and the PGA TOUR are changing up their schedules, announcing plans that – starting in 2019 – the PGA Championship will be played in the month of May while THE PLAYERS Championship will take place March at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach. From May 16-19, 2019, Bethpage Black in Farmington, […]
Octagon is getting into the global media rights consulting practice launching a new division to provide “strategic consultation to major domestic and international rights holders, broadcasters, emerging distribution platforms and the sports investment community” by leveraging the Octagon network and the analytics of IPG’s Futures Sport & Entertainment to advise clients on the valuation and […]
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