ESPN may move away from regular national MLB games on Mondays and Wednesdays in a new deal
A new MLB-ESPN contract might look different, especially when it comes to regular national Monday and Wednesday games.
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Fox is reportedly willing to pay up to $2 billion a year for Sunday NFL games, a giant increase
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 ESPN video podcast is the latest active athlete/media company collaboration. Should that trend raise concerns?
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 signs a rights deal with the Gulf South Conference through 2024
FloSports will show Gulf South Conference football and other conference championships through the 2023-24 season.
Network exec projects NFL could get $8-10 billion annually under new rights deals, with that framework expected by 2021
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
Mountain West reportedly reaches deals with Fox and CBS Sports Network, which could almost triple their per-school revenue
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.
What could an eight-team college football playoff add in rights fees and viewers?
Adding four quarterfinal games annually might be very lucrative indeed for college football.
Minor League Baseball hires Octagon to sell its media rights, and there are predictions its low-seven-figure deal “could easily double”
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.
With SEC on CBS package renewal negotiations ahead, SEC memo says they “do not believe that CBS has any first refusal rights”
“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.”
Twitter and Facebook execs say they now have no plans to bid big on live sports rights
“We’re not in this game to turn over any tables in the broadcast market.”
Formula 1 will stay on ESPN and ABC through 2022, with ESPN citing audience increases both year-over-year and over NBC in 2017
As per ESPN, F1 audiences are up 19 percent year over year and 24 percent over the NBC average from 2017.
DAZN is reportedly looking to raise $500 million for further rights deals
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 drops FloSports three days ahead of their final 2019 regular-season game, will broadcast that game for free on their website
D.C. United ended this partnership before it had even finished its first year. It was initially supposed to run four years.
