It’s time for the Scripps National Spelling Bee once again, marking ESPN’s 21st straight year of televising the event. Coverage will see more than 14 combined hours of live competition across ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPN3, starting today at 8a and concluding tomorrow at 10p. Throughout the competition, ESPN3 and WatchESPN will feature an enhanced “Play […]
Tennis Channel is branching out, launching Tennis Channel Plus, a 24-hour, television-based multimedia destination in time for the French Open. The platform can be accessed through the network’s Tennis Channel Everywhere app or through-www.tennischanneleverywhere.com for $59.99 for the season. The platform is designed to offer programming that includes 300 live matches from close to 40 […]
Good news on the MMA front as NBC Sports Group and World Series of Fighting reached a multi-year agreement the extends the media company’s exclusive rights to televise the Las Vegas-based mixed martial arts promotion’s events through 2017. The deal will see NBC Sports Group carry 14 live World Series of Fighting events this year, […]
NBC’s Sunday Night Football has now claimed the ratings crown for the 2013-14 television season, ranking as the top primetime show in household rating, viewership and the Adult 18-49 demographic, based on live plus same day data from Nielsen from September-May. That marks the third season in a row for the franchise, pulling a 12.8 […]
ESPN also released the full series of 33 international posters for the 2014 FIFA World Cup. The images were designed exclusively for ESPN by Brazilian artist and graphic designer Cristiano Siqueira. And created in collaboration with creative agency Wieden + Kennedy New York. The countries represented in the new posters include: Algeria, Australia, Bosnia and […]
CBS Sports elevated Tracy Wolfson to The NFL on CBS’s new lead game reporter. Wolfson has served as CBS Sports’ lead college football reporter for the Network’s coverage of the Southeastern Conference for the past 10 years, but will now become part of the Thursday Night Football crew, joining the lead announce team of Jim […]
The Women’s National Basketball Association has launched WNBA Pride presented by COVERGIRL, a new national platform designed to celebrate inclusion and equality and combat anti-LGBT bias. The campaign will see the league establish an “integrated marketing, media, grassroots and social responsibility program for the LGBT community” that includes a special site where league and team […]
It’s a return to a cold weather city for the NFL, which voted yesterday to bring Super Bowl LII to Minnesota, which hasn’t hosted since 1992, where it will be played in the new Vikings’ stadium. Owners also opted to not expand the playoffs this season, as the proposal was tabled and won’t be considered […]
As we prepare for Memorial Day, FOX Sports 1 will offer a pair of military-themed specials on Memorial Day evening, running documentary B.R.C. 2014: Best Ranger and a Golden Boy Live! title fight. The documentary special will run May 26 at 8p, chronicling the U.S. Military’s Best Ranger Competition. Shot over a three-day period and […]
As more news of AT&T’s acquisition of DirecTV comes to light, the NFL finds itself right at the center of the dealings. According to multiple reports, if DirecTV is not able to renew its NFL Sunday Ticket football package, the telephone company can pull out of the merger. According to Bloomberg, a regulatory filing related […]
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