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Report: NBA, Prime Video have framework deal for broadcast rights

Weekend Rap - 04/28/2024

The NBA and Amazon's Prime Video have the “framework of a deal that will make the streaming service one of the main homes for the league’s games,” in what will be a “landmark move in sports media history,” according to sources cited by Andrew Marchand of THE ATHLETIC. It...

Report: Paramount Global set to fire CEO

Weekend Rap - 04/28/2024

Paramount Global’s board is “preparing to fire” CEO Bob Bakish “as soon as Monday morning,” according to sources. Paramount Global reports its quarterly earnings Monday and Bakish “won’t be on the call.” The board is “expected to lean on company division heads in lieu of a CEO...

Flames, Sportsnet renew regional deal through '35

Closing Bell - 04/26/2024

The Flames have signed an 11-year extension with Sportsnet to continue as the team’s exclusive regional broadcast partner in a deal that runs through to 2035. Sportsnet has been home to Flames' regional broadcasts since 1998 and "those in the C of Red won’t be switching channels anytime soon." Sportsnet is...

Golf+ adds Quail Hollow in time for Wells Fargo Championship

Unpacks Newsletter - 04/26/2024

Golf+, the official VR game of the PGA Tour, has added Quail Hollow Club to its roster of courses. This comes just as Quail Hollow preps to host the Wells Fargo Championship, which starts on May 6 in Charlotte, N.C. It’s the eighth PGA Tour...

Report: ESPN, NBA 'essentially' agree to new media rights package

Daily - 04/26/2024 | Daily - 04/26/2024

ESPN and the NBA have “essentially come to terms on a package” for a new media rights deal, according to John Ourand of PUCK. Nothing "is signed yet," but Ourand noted that the two sides agreed to the broad framework of a deal that "would keep the league’s 'A...

Iconic NHL voice Bob Cole passes away at 90

Daily - 04/26/2024 | Daily - 04/26/2024

Longtime NHL broadcaster and play-by-play announcer for “Hockey Night in Canada” for decades BOB COLE has died at age 90, according to Mark Colley of the TORONTO STAR. Cole spent a half-century behind the microphone “becoming the national voice of the Canadian pastime and narrating...

Bill Belichick draws high praise for performance on Draft simulcast

Daily - 04/26/2024 | Morning Buzz - 04/26/2024 | Daily - 04/26/2024

There were only "good things” to say about Bill Belichick’s performance on “The Pat McAfee Show Draft Spectacular” that streamed Thursday night on ESPN platforms, according to Chris Bumbaca of USA TODAY. It quickly was clear how “natural Belichick looked and sounded behind the desk,” and he offered perspective “only...

Rogers, Prime Video aim to broaden NHL audience with new Canadian deal

Daily - 04/26/2024

Rogers Communications' exclusive rights deal to broadcast Monday NHL games on Amazon’s Prime Video over the next two seasons is an attempt to "broaden its audience by partnering with a leading streaming platform," according to Andrew Willis of the GLOBE & MAIL. Rogers CEO Tony Staffieri said that striking...

Many possibilities for NBA rights as market opens

Unpacks Newsletter - 04/26/2024 | Unpacks Lite Newsletter - 04/26/2024 | CU Professor News - 04/25/2024

The NBA media rights negotiations were always going to careen into the open market, no matter how much money incumbents Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery offered up. So it was hardly news this week when the exclusive negotiating window closed without a deal. Rather, it was the...

ESPN's Tim Reed reflects on 'massive production' that the NFL Draft has become

Football Newsletter - 04/25/2024

This year marks the 10th NFL Draft to be on the road since leaving Manhattan, and ESPN VP/Programming and Acquisitions Tim Reed joined me on this week’s SBJ Sports Media Podcast to talk about the “massive production” that the event has become. “It just takes over the whole...

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Report: NBA, Prime Video have framework deal for broadcast rights

Report: Paramount Global set to fire CEO

Flames, Sportsnet renew regional deal through '35

Golf+ adds Quail Hollow in time for Wells Fargo Championship

Report: ESPN, NBA 'essentially' agree to new media rights package

Iconic NHL voice Bob Cole passes away at 90

Bill Belichick draws high praise for performance on Draft simulcast

Rogers, Prime Video aim to broaden NHL audience with new Canadian deal

Many possibilities for NBA rights as market opens

ESPN's Tim Reed reflects on 'massive production' that the NFL Draft has become

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