FOX Sports rolled out its college football broadcast plans for the upcoming season, with games coverage opening at 11a on Saturdays with a brand-new pregame show on the FOX broadcast network, analysts Urban Meyer, Reggie Bush, Matt Leinart and Brady Quinn, led by host Rob Stone, and games set to start at noon. FOX Sports’ […]
MLS, Liga MX fill Leagues Cup
Major League Soccer and Liga MX are teaming up to launch Leagues Cup, an annual competition between the two top soccer leagues in North America that will debut this July with the support of Concacaf. The debut event will feature four teams from each league, with MLS represented by the Chicago Fire, Houston Dynamo, LA […]
CBS unrolls SEC plans
CBS Sports mapped out its college football plans, including the SEC on CBS, this year, unveiling broadcast windows and select games with 16 games overall in the cards. This year’s schedule kicks off Sept. 14 with reigning Alabama visiting South Carolina at Williams-Brice Stadium. In addition to the traditional Saturday SEC Game of the Week […]
Blues/Bruins boost NBC
Game 1 of the 2019 Stanley Cup Final between the Blues and Bruins on NBC saw the network reel in an average Total Audience Delivery of 5.380 million viewers, making it the most-watched Game 1 in four years and NBC Sports’ third-most watched Game 1 since it began broadcasting the Stanley Cup Final in 2006, […]
SI’s new home
Meredith agreed to sell the iconic Sports Illustrated to Authentic Brands Group for $110 million, and sees Authentic Brands picking up the intellectual property of the iconic magazine that will comprise of Sports Illustrated, Sports Illustrated Kids, Sportsperson of the Year, Sports Illustrated Swimsuit, SI and SI TV, the companies said in a statement. The […]
Indy 500 gasses NBC’s numbers
NBC Sports’ maiden voyage with the Indianapolis 500 proved fruitful as the broadcast network drew a Total Audience Delivery of 5.446 million viewers, up 11% in viewership over last year’s race and marking the event’s top draw in three years, according to Nielsen and Adobe Analytics as Team Penske’s Simon Pagenaud edged out Andretti Autosports’ […]
ESPN maps NBA Finals plans
With the Warriors and Raptors emerging as conference champions, the NBA Finals open on Thursday at 9p on ABC, with NBA Countdown preceding coverage for weeknight games at 8:30p. Mike Breen, Jeff Van Gundy, Mark Jackson and Doris Burke return to call this year’s event. In addition to the game broadcasts, ESPN will have its […]
NBC’s Indy symphony
Ahead of NBC Sports’ first-ever broadcast of the Indianapolis 500 on Sunday, NBCUniversal is flicking the switch on its “Symphony” marketing program to promote the event across its broadcast, cable, regional, digital, social, radio and theme park assets with programs such as TODAY, NBC Nightly News, and Golf Channel’s Morning Drive, among others, featuring related […]
ESPN kicks off bowl slate
ESPN laid out its college football bowl season plans for 2019-20 with a 35-game slate on 14 dates across a two-and-a-half week stretch, and will include the College Football Playoff Semifinals and the entire New Year’s Six, as well as The College Football Playoff National Championship from the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans. This year […]
NASCAR fuels ISC deal
NASCAR announced a $2 billion merger with International Speedway Corp., picking up ownership of 12 tracks that host NASCAR races, including Daytona International Speedway, Talladega Superspeedway, Darlington Raceway and Homestead-Miami Speedway. ”We are pleased with the progress that the negotiation and execution of the merger agreement between NASCAR and ISC represents,” NASCAR said in a […]
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