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John Ourand September 12, 2024
A candid conversation with WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert on the league’s renaissance season and once-unthinkable $200 million per year media rights deal.
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John Ourand September 10, 2024
After enraging the sports media community last year by attempting to integrate Amazon’s numbers into its data, Nielsen will use some first-party data in its calculations for the NFL this season. But the devil is in the details.
nfl buffalo bills gabe davis
John Ourand September 6, 2024
The league’s three-year attempt to unload the entity, which controls the NFL Network and RedZone, is the latest casualty of the declining cable business.
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John Ourand September 4, 2024
News and notes on the existential fears—both real and imagined—of distribution executives as the future of the Venu sports streamer appears increasingly tenuous.


ESPN President Jimmy Pitaro warms up before catching a ceremonial first pitch before a game between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees at Fenway Park in Boston
John Ourand August 29, 2024
I’m told that several of the world’s biggest media and technology companies—Amazon, Apple, Google/YouTube, and NBCUniversal—are checking in with MLB on a regular basis about the possibility of getting local rights as they come available.
jessica berman
John Ourand August 27, 2024
National Women’s Soccer League commissioner Jessica Berman opens up about the league’s new partnerships, the soaring value of Angel City FC, expansion, and her long-term labor peace.
edgar bronfman jr
John Ourand August 23, 2024
A close reading of Edgar Bronfman Jr.’s leaked pitch deck for investors in his long-shot bid for Paramount Global.
david zaslav and venu
John Ourand August 19, 2024
Unscrambling the legal quagmire over the service formerly known as Spulu.


paris olympics surfing 2024
John Ourand August 16, 2024
Amid the backdrop of historic cable asset write-downs, the flipside of NBC’s staggering Olympics ratings success is that people watched less of the Games on cable. Sound like a familiar story?
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John Ourand August 13, 2024
After being rebuffed by numerous TV networks to produce their hard-won pair of Christmas Day NFL games, Netflix finally found a dance partner in CBS. Of course, there were several key concessions…
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