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ESPN Digital & Social Sets New Global Sports Media Audience Record

"June alone drew 643.5 million unique global users — the largest monthly audience any sports media brand has ever recorded."

97.1 The Ticket’s Mike Valenti: J.J. Watt “Has The Personality Of A Brick”

"John Madden didn't cure cancer; he was just entertaining."

Jason Benetti Reportedly Set To Call NBA Games For NBC Sports This Season

"Benetti became NBC's lead Sunday Night Baseball voice this year while remaining the Detroit Tigers' play-by-play announcer."

JJ Hale Joins Seven Mountains Media as Programming Manager

"He leads programming operations across Seven Mountains Media's six-station Parkersburg-Marietta cluster."

Adam Silver: Younger NBA Audiences Don’t Subscribe to Cable, Aren’t Finding Our Games

“We recognize that, in some ways, the decline of cable has disproportionately impacted the NBA.”

Amazon Prime Video Strongly Considering NBA Package

The NBA is currently in an exclusive negotiating window with its current national TV rights partners, ESPN/ABC and TNT.

SiriusXM to Broadcast Every NBA Game During 2023-2024 Season

Additionally, the platform will provide coverage of all 67 games in the NBA's new in-season tournament.

ESPN, TNT Could Carry Fewer NBA Games in Next Media Rights Deal

Both companies are reportedly considering renewing their deals, but taking on smaller rights packages.

Meet The Podcasters: Chris Vernon, The Ringer & Grind City Media

"We have gotten emails in the mailbag for 35 different countries. The Internet makes the world a small place."

Shams Charania: I Send 500 Texts and Emails Per Day

Charania detailed his "day in the life of an NBA Insider" with The New Yorker.

Carlo Jiménez To Be Named New Radio Voice of the Los Angeles Clippers

Jimenez follows in his predecessor Noah Eagle’s footsteps by being hired right out of college to become the Clippers radio voice.

Jimmy Pitaro: ‘Quality Journalism Has Never Been More of a Priority at ESPN’

"It’s a huge part of our DNA, investigative reporting. We are not going to be pulling back there at all."

Minnesota Timberwolves Leaving WCCO for ‘Super Non-Traditional’ Radio Broadcast

"We appreciated our partnership with WCCO and the radio broadcast opportunities we were able to accomplish with them."

Mike Greenberg: NBA Players Don’t Think of Ratings Impact of Load Management

“It's not a criticism. It means these guys have grown up in a in a world in which the NBA has been as popular as almost anything could possibly be."

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97.1 The Ticket’s Mike Valenti: J.J. Watt “Has The Personality Of A Brick”

"John Madden didn't cure cancer; he was just entertaining."

Jason Benetti Reportedly Set To Call NBA Games For NBC Sports This Season

"Benetti became NBC's lead Sunday Night Baseball voice this year while remaining the Detroit Tigers' play-by-play announcer."

JJ Hale Joins Seven Mountains Media as Programming Manager

"He leads programming operations across Seven Mountains Media's six-station Parkersburg-Marietta cluster."

Cincinnati Bengals Expand On Programming Partnerships With FOX19, iHeartMedia

"FOX19 Sports Director Joe Danneman and iHeartMedia host Tony Pike join the broadcast lineup. Danneman becomes a Preseason TV Network sideline reporter and co-hosts the Pep Rally radio show. Pike adds a second radio analyst role and co-hosts the Bengals Line show."