Nick Khan sees ESPN gaining more NBA rights with TNT potentially losing some in next rights deal
"The beneficiary of that? NBA…"
"The beneficiary of that? NBA…"
"I’m very confident we can get twice as big as we are without sports."
"You can’t beat the spectacle that is the Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest. It’s a sports calendar and Fourth of July staple, one of those classic, timeless events we know fans look forward to every year."
Comments from executives on upcoming rights deals often don't pan out. We'll see what happens with these ones from Zaslav.
The Big 12 is set to make much more money in media rights beginning in 2025-26.
"It will take a couple of steps, but we’re going to take a step towards closing that gap. Then we’re going to be looking at expansion. We’re going to be looking at schools that make sense for us."
This comes a year and a half ahead of the contractually-mandated window for extension talks in February 2024.
"I think it was the right decision for us, mostly because of what was available, what was on offer to us to buy, which is not what we were hoping for."
Ross Dellenger of Sports Illustrated reports that "The Big Ten’s deal will be arranged in a way to allow CBS to fulfill its SEC duties in the first year of the contract."
"FloSports has been a fantastic platform to showcase our women’s basketball and Olympic Sports programs, as well as the original content our outstanding in-house digital team creates throughout the year."
"We enter these discussions understanding that we can’t get everything and that we’re going to proceed with both discipline and thoughtfulness. So I can’t tell you how this is going to play out. We are very much in it right now."
In the end, the Premier League stuck with NBC. But NBC will be paying a lot more this time.