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nba tip off
SPORTS December 2, 2024
As they play chicken with their valuable sports content, legacy media companies are projecting out customer behavior, the future of A.V.O.D.s, cash management, and the decline of cable. Michael Nathanson tries to game it all out.
Mike Tyson Jake Paul
SPORTS November 21, 2024
The broadcast guys are calling bullshit on Netflix’s Tyson-Paul ratings. But Nielsen isn’t unbiased, either. Alas, as streaming reorients the industry toward self-reported data, the only constant is that nobody’s numbers really add up.
TNT Sports chairman and C.E.O. Luis Silberwasser.
SPORTS November 18, 2024
A candid chat with TNT Sports chairman and C.E.O. Luis Silberwasser on losing the NBA, winning back some concessions in the afterbidding market, and the mediaco’s realistic expectations for their accumulating grab bag of new rights—Roland Garros, Mountain West football, NASCAR, etcetera.
nfl Tampa Bay Buccaneers Atlanta Falcons
SPORTS November 14, 2024
For the first time, a streaming service outdrew one of the NFL’s top TV partners in same-week viewership. Now, TV execs are grumbling that the NFL is setting up a future rights battle by giving streamers a taste of potential glory with the choicest matchups.


David Zaslav
SPORTS November 11, 2024
Media C.E.O.s are hoping against hope that Trump 2.0 will usher in a new M&A permission structure allowing them to, among other things, finally offload those linear TV assets they should have bailed on 10 years ago, like Rupert did. But, as LightShed Partners’ Rich Greenfield argues, nothing is easy and everything takes forever.
Jimmy Pitaro
SPORTS November 7, 2024
During his six years in Bristol, chairman Jimmy Pitaro has carefully pivoted ESPN away from a network that condones political expression to a business-friendly safe space for sports. And he’s not changing his tune now.
steve phelps
SPORTS October 31, 2024
How America’s homegrown motorsport is branching out: to new countries, new venues, and most importantly, more broadcast partners. NASCAR president Steve Phelps explains how they plan to grow without pissing off their faithful. (Michael Jordan is another story.)
jimmy pitaro
SPORTS October 28, 2024
TV distributors are struggling to play hardball with the likes of ESPN, Peacock, and Paramount+ as sports programmers move their best content to streaming. But distribution executives also realize how much ESPN needs affiliate fees to compete against the deep-pocketed tech streamers that are piling into this space. And they’ve got their own ideas for how to use that leverage to their advantage.


jason kelce
SPORTS October 24, 2024
As ESPN wrestles with attracting younger audiences away from YouTube and TikTok, and fortifying its forthcoming streamer, Jimmy Pitaro is talking to Jason Kelce about helming his own late night show—a decidedly last-decade solution to a very modern dilemma.
rob manfred
SPORTS October 21, 2024
A candid chat with the commish about Major League Baseball’s evolving local media predicament, its strategy of pooling games, and the challenges inherent in iterating a national pastime.
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