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Just over a year ago, newly combined Paramount and Skydance shocked the sports media business by securing exclusive rights to all UFC fights for the next seven years in a deal that pays the MMA promotion more than $1 billion annually. But before freshly minted Paramount chief David Ellison swooped in with deep pockets, the…
UEFA, the governing body over European football competitions including the Champions League, is closing in on broadcast agreements across 19 territories in Europe, South America, Central America, Mexico, and Canada, that will approach $6 billion in annual revenue. According to a report by David Hellier in Bloomberg, UEFA’s new broadcast deals in 19 global markets,…
As the NFL and Paramount Skydance actively hammer out a new media rights agreement, it seems the league is happy to deepen its partnership with one part of the company. The NFL and Skydance Sports, the film studio which is now part of the greater Paramount ecosystem after David Ellison’s Skydance purchased Paramount last summer,…
Paramount is in the beginning stages of their massive billion dollar deal with UFC. While it’s still too early to tell whether the deal will ultimately be a success or a failure, one prominent MMA personality believes that there is no path to profitability for the media company. Longtime MMA voice Luke Thomas was a…
The tides are slowly shifting in what is sure to be the most consequential sports media story of 2026. The NFL has officially began an effort to renegotiate its media rights deals several years prior to its contractual opt-out options at the end of the decade. Paramount is first up to bat on account of Read more... The post John Ourand: Network execs may ‘hold off’ on early NFL renewals appeared first on Awful Announcing.
