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This originally appeared in Tuesday morning’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. The NFL’s media rights negotiations produced a flurry of news over the past week or…
After Disney told investors last week that ESPN and the NFL had not entered any discussions regarding an early media rights renewal, it appears Fox is on the same page. During an earnings call on Monday morning, Fox CEO Lachlan Murdoch told investors the network has not yet engaged the NFL in media rights negotiations,…
The idea of a streaming-only Super Bowl was unthinkable as recently as three years ago. Now, there are plenty of people who see it as a foregone conclusion, including a very high-ranking Amazon executive. Back in 2021, former ESPN and Meadowlark Media executive John Skipper predicted that a paywalled Super Bowl was in our future, but…
