Tag: Sports Television

"How high up NFL Network's ladder did it go? NFL Network may have some liability here if Michael Irvin chooses to pursue it."

“You’ve probably heard about headwinds in the advertising community and spending being a little softer. That is not the case in the sports marketplace.”

"Alex Sherman of CNBC reports that WWE bosses have discussed the possibility with regulators in Michigan and Colorado."

"The conference signed a 12-year, $500 million deal with FOX Sports in 2013."

"Pitaro received the title of Chairman when ESPN was reorganized into its own division of the Walt Disney Company last month."

"Week 3 action in the XFL averaged 571,000 viewers. That is a 13% drop from Week 2. It is also a significant drop from the initial attempt to reboot the XFL in 2020."

"The year I left coaching at Providence, they decided to put Providence women’s college basketball on radio. That was literally my first foray into this business."

"It just blows my mind that I have no opportunity to defend myself. I don't even know what I'm defending."

"Our strategy on sports may be slightly different, we don’t have a sports network, per se, so we need to be disciplined and very choiceful about the things that we agree to do and want to do. But once we do, once that becomes part of our portfolio, we go all in.”

"Viewers streamed 2 billion minutes of women's college hoops this season. That figure is the most on record for ESPN and up 35% compared to last season."