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The Basketball Tournament (TBT) is retooling its format in Year 13, and has scored a new media rights deal with Fox to go with it. On Friday, TBT announced a two-year broadcast rights extension with Fox Sports that will see 20 games aired across Fox, FS1, and FS2. In total, three TBT games will air…
While the ACC might consider changing its name after expanding to the Pacific and Texas a couple of years ago, the decision to add California, Stanford, and SMU to the mix has clearly paid off from a revenue standpoint. According to a recent report by Brian Murphy of WRAL, the ACC notched a 16% increase…
12 NBA teams formerly tied to Main Street Sports Group, the now-defunct owner of the FanDuel Sports Networks, are still in the market for a local broadcaster next season. Many of those teams will consider following in the footsteps of the Phoenix Suns, the first NBA team to make the jump from a traditional regional…
Versant is a unique company in the sense that it has the ethos of a scrappy upstart, but it derives most of its revenue from legacy cable networks with almost no growth prospects. It’s why the company has been so focused on making acquisitions outside of linear television, and growing the non-TV assets it already…
We officially know what Netflix’s newly expanded NFL package will look like this upcoming season and beyond. The streamer formally announced on Wednesday that it would be adding three games to its NFL slate this season on top of its usual Christmas Day doubleheader, and has extended a media rights deal with the NFL through…
No matter how you feel about United States President Donald Trump, NFL fans are likely to agree with him on one major issue. Trump is sick of the league moving games off of television and onto various streaming services. In a recent sit-down interview, Trump expressed his displeasure with the league and explained how it could […] The post Donald Trump Slams NFL For ‘Killing The Golden Goose’ By Moving Games To Streaming Services appeared first on BroBible.
The NFL’s effort to renegotiate media rights deals early has only become more uncertain in recent weeks. The league, which earlier this year reportedly set out to ink new deals with all five of its current primary broadcast partners before the 2026-27 season begins in September, almost certainly will not meet that goal. The reasons…
The St. Louis Cardinals and San Diego Padres are in the middle of a four-game series at Petco Park this weekend. And, in a perfect sign of the times, all four games are on different television networks or streaming services. As the Padres’ X account showed ahead of the series, Thursday’s Game 1 was on…
Last month arrived the news that the Department of Justice is examining the NFL and MLB – and one might presume other sports leagues – for potential antitrust violations in how their teams collectively sell and structure media deals. This is the next logical step in the percolating frustration of many sports fans over their…
Mark your calendars. Or don’t, because the date might change. The NFL schedule release, which has landed in the second week of May for the past five or six years running, could come a week later than usual in 2026. NFL VP of broadcast planning Mike North appeared on the It’s Always Game Day in…
We are a week and a half into the NBA playoffs, and the league continues to see strong viewership numbers. Through 27 telecasts, the 2026 NBA playoffs are the most viewed since 1993. As of Sunday, the NBA is averaging 3.84 million viewers for first-round playoff games on ABC, NBC, ESPN, and Prime Video. That’s…
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As we approach the end of April, reports on the NFL’s ongoing negotiations for new media rights deals have slowed considerably. We’ve certainly gotten plenty of headlines about challenges the NFL might face from the federal government, or smaller rights deals the league might strike with the likes of YouTube. But when it comes to…
The 2025-2026 NBA regular season is complete, and the NBA Playoffs are underway. Pretty soon, we’ll crown this season’s championship team. Before that, you have the chance to crown the championship announcing team. We want your perspectives on how the various local TV broadcast booths did this season. It’s a particularly interesting year, as we’ve…
The WNBA is stepping into a new era in 2026, and the numbers back it up. The league announced a record-setting 216-game schedule, paired with its most expansive national broadcast lineup to date. This marks the first season under a newly structured media rights agreement, one designed to push the league’s visibility to new heights, […] The post WNBA unveils record 216-game schedule with massive TV reach appeared first on ClutchPoints.
Despite NBC president Jon Miller recently discussing interest his network fielded from streaming services looking to buy the upcoming Big Ten Championship game, it appears as if the network didn’t have much choice in the matter. According to a report by college football insider Brett McMurphy of On3, “NBC had no authority to keep Fox…
This season marks the first of the WNBA's new rights deal.
As the NFL faces bombardment from seemingly every corner of Washington over its migration of more games to streaming, the league made its first reported response last Friday. According to a report by Joe Flint in The Wall Street Journal, the NFL met with senior officials at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Friday to justify…
Just as politicians in Washington, D.C. are determining whether professional sports leagues like the NFL or MLB should be able to continue selling media rights collectively, many power brokers in college athletics are advocating for collegiate sports to receive the same special treatment as the pros. As it stands, the NFL, NBA, MLB, and NHL…
The next World Baseball Classic won’t be sold separately, according to Sports Media Watch. Rights to the 2028 tournament will be negotiated alongside MLB’s broader media rights talks. Every national contract the league currently holds — Fox, ESPN, NBC, Netflix, Apple, TBS — expires that same year, and rather than negotiate WBC rights separately, the…
This originally appeared in Friday’s edition of The A Block, Awful Announcing’s daily newsletter with the latest sports media news, commentary, and analysis. Sign up here and be the first to know everything going on in the sports media world. Lawmakers and appointed officials in our nation’s capital have kicked the anti-NFL sentiment into overdrive…
Brian Windhorst thinks the NBA's lucrative media rights deal is decaying the player popularity and star merit.
NASCAR got a 40% rights fee bump in its latest TV deal. The cost? Fewer people actually watching the races. The recent Cup Series race at Bristol on FS1 averaged just 1.945 million viewers. According to Braylon Breeze of RaceDay Report, that is the first time a Fox Sports race has averaged fewer than 2…
Mike Breen recently voiced his frustration over the new media rights deal, which stipulates that national networks will exclusively broadcast the first round of the playoffs
