Awful Announcing
Fox currently pays around $1.08 billion annually for its Sunday NFL package. A new Bloomberg report suggests that figure might almost double in the next rights deal.
Russell Wilson's new "DangerTalk" podcast on ESPN is just the latest in a growing trend of content deals media companies have signed with active athletes. And the history and implications of that trend are worth some consideration.
FloSports will show Gulf South Conference football and other conference championships through the 2023-24 season.
All signs point to the NFL making a lot more in the next round of rights deals. The league currently brings in about $5.7 billion annually from
The 10 Mountain West schools other than Hawaii and Boise State made $1.1 million per year per school under the current deals with CBSSN and ESPN. They could hit $3 million or more under these new deals.
Adding four quarterfinal games annually might be very lucrative indeed for college football.
MiLB currently has about 6,700 games annually, plus shoulder programming. And there's a good chance they could get paid more for the rights to those games in today's media landscape.
“We believe that we have a good faith obligation to offer to enter into an exclusive negotiation period with CBS, but do not believe that CBS has any first refusal rights for reasons that can best be addressed by our legal counsel.”
“We’re not in this game to turn over any tables in the broadcast market.”
As per ESPN, F1 audiences are up 19 percent year over year and 24 percent over the NBC average from 2017.
While DAZN owner Len Blavatnik is worth an estimated $25.5 billion, he's looking to outside investors for further money for DAZN, likely in an effort to expand its rights portfolio.
D.C. United ended this partnership before it had even finished its first year. It was initially supposed to run four years.
"You wouldn't want to try this without a strategic partner like ESPN, and because they've been the ACC's partner for so long, it was just a natural fit."
