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mlb rangers blue jays fight
John Ourand October 8, 2024
ESPN, understandably miffed by the league’s much cheaper deals with other platforms, wants it both ways—to decrease the cost of its current rights package and also get its mitts on local broadcasts to power its forthcoming streaming service. Can both sides coexist happily?
mlb miami marlins
John Ourand October 4, 2024
The latest news, notes, and twists in the Diamond Sports telenovela.
Gary Bettman
John Ourand September 30, 2024
Gary Bettman, now in his fourth decade running the NHL, has seen it all—labor headaches, expansion, media existentialism, and more. Here, he talks candidly about the league’s distribution strategy, the decaying R.S.N. picture, new markets, and technological changes. Thankfully, he doesn’t make any puck jokes.
charles barkley
John Ourand September 27, 2024
Sources tell me that Jeff Zucker is close to financing a new venture involving Charles Barkley’s production company—a move that would unite two third-act stars from different fields and add the latest piece to RedBird IMI’s evolving thesis.


Nebraska v Penn State big ten football
John Ourand September 24, 2024
As the Big Ten expanded, Fox tried to extend its successful noontime programming strategy to another traditionally uncompetitive dead zone: Friday nights. So far, it’s working.
nfl patrick mahomes joe burrow
John Ourand September 20, 2024
Early ratings suggest that, despite historical precedents, this election has zero hope of competing with the NFL for the hearts and minds of viewers. Welcome to America.
john malone
John Ourand September 17, 2024
Everyone in the industry seems to think that cable cowboy John Malone, a WBD board member whose parentco owns a large minority stake in Charter, engineered a tidy affiliate package between his two entities. But what if the reality is a little more complex?
Cathy Engelbert wnba
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.


nfl Tampa Bay Buccaneers baker mayfield
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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