Turner Sports and CBS Sports will celebrate nine years as partners for this year’s 2019 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship tournament, serving up live coverage of all 67 games once again across four national television networks – TBS, CBS, TNT and truTV – with all games streamed on NCAA March Madness Live. This year […]
The Drone Racing League has a new home, announcing a new streaming partnership with Twitter and broadcast agreement with NBC Sports to carry the 2019 DRL Allianz World Championship Season. Competition debuts on Aug. 11 at 2p on NBC and Twitter. For the first time ever, DRL will feature pro drone racing content concurrently on […]
FOX Sports opened the doors to its new college football pregame show, blending new talent with current staples for a lineup that includes host Rob Stone and analysts Urban Meyer, Reggie Bush, Matt Leinart and Brady Quinn.The one-hour show will run each Saturday during the college football season on the FOX broadcast network beginning Week […]
Ahead of this year’s run for the2019 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship, NCAA March Madness Live – the live streaming suite of products managed by Turner Sports in partnership with CBS and the NCAA – announced plans to carry more offerings than ever before, running across 17 platforms this year, including Android TV and […]
There are very few collections done for leadership best practices in sports business and media, maybe because those in the know like to keep their great ideas close to the vest. Veteran sports media executive Rick Horrow, along with two other sports media lifers, Rick Burton and Myles Schrag, spent several years trying to cajole […]
Gennady Golovkin, aka GGG, finally found a new home, with the former unified middleweight world champion inking a three-year, six-fight contract with DAZN. The first fight of the agreement will take place on either June 8 or 15 with an opponent and site to be determined. The deal sees Golovkin set to fight twice per […]
ATP Executive Chairman & President Chris Kermode is ending his run at the organization, announcing that he will not extend beyond his current term which expires at the end 2019. Kermode became ATP Executive Chairman & President at the beginning of 2014 and, according to ATP, has a tenure that includes record prize money and […]
Speaking of tennis, World TeamTennis and CBS Sports signed a multi-year television partnership spanning both broadcast and cable that will bring World TeamTennis back to television. The deal will start this summer, highlighted by CBS Television Network broadcasting the Philadelphia Freedoms facing the Vegas Rollers on July 21. CBS Sports Network will televise 15 WTT […]
Indycar will open the 2019 season flush with new deals that will bring racing action to around 100 countries. Driven by Indycar Media, nations reaching agreements to broadcast INDYCAR content in 2019 include Canada, the United Kingdom, Japan, Spain, Sweden, France, New Zealand and Brazil. Canada’s deal with Sportsnet will see fans now able to […]
ESPN announced that it is “strengthening its commitment” to Baseball Tonight as it returns for season 30 of MLB coverage, offering more shows, a deeper roster and added daily segments within SportsCenter. Baseball Tonight will increase its number of roadshows this season as it airs live episodes from events that include the Boston Red Sox […]
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