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John Ourand July 29, 2024
A prelude to the epic carriage fee showdown between Comcast and an NBA-less TNT.
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John Ourand July 26, 2024
The inside story of testy dealmaking and re-trading: the missed signals, the Spulu trigger, the Zaz-Silberwasser good-cop-bad-cop routine, and all the slights that now point to a litigious endgame.
david zaslav
John Ourand July 23, 2024
Unsurprisingly, Warner Bros Discovery C.E.O. David Zaslav has had his lawyers and dealmakers attempt to match Amazon’s $1.8 billion ‘C’ package bid for NBA rights—even if the league appears eager to jettison cable for streaming.
rob manfred
John Ourand July 19, 2024
MLB commissioner Rob Manfred expounds on the pitch-clock, the multiplatform problem, and the challenge of getting Gen Z to love the game.


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John Ourand July 15, 2024
Warner Bros. Discovery is dead serious about matching Amazon’s $1.8 Billion NBA rights “C” package. But it will have to pull it off without YouTube TV, despite the latter’s courtship.
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John Ourand July 12, 2024
News and notes on the Diamond Sports crying rooms.
jeff shell
John Ourand July 9, 2024
CBS Sports executives are optimistic about the new Ellison-RedBird deal for Paramount. Not only is the endless deal process finally over, but president Jeff Shell “has a history of using sports content as a way to drive the core business,” as one person put it.
nfl bryce young
John Ourand & Eriq Gardner July 2, 2024
Alas, the league’s $15 billion antitrust bill is just the beginning for a sports media rights reckoning a decade in the making.


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John Ourand June 28, 2024
The inside story of how NBC and WBD negotiated with Fox to land Big East basketball. In the modern sports media business, one company’s “nice-to-have” content is another’s “need to have” package.
stephen a. smith
John Ourand June 25, 2024
ESPN’s biggest star doesn’t simply covet McAfeebucks—he also wants a McAfee-style deal structure that would pay him out like he’s running his own production company. What should Pitaro do?
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