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Networks beginning to reveal early season college football schedule
We’re still months away from the 2023 college football season, but networks are beginning to roll out broadcast assignments and start times for various games. Last weekend, NBC announced that their Big...
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Early season college football schedules emphasize changes in new Big Ten...
On Wednesday, CBS, ESPN, Fox, and NBC revealed their early college football schedules for the 2023 season. Glancing over the schedules, it’s clear how much the college football world has changed over...
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Here are TV and radio calls of the Denver Nuggets winning their first NBA title
The Denver Nuggets have finally reached the mountaintop. Led by back-to-back league MVP Nikola Jokić, the Nuggets beat the Miami Heat 94-89 in Game 5 of the NBA Finals on Monday night to win the first...
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NCAA Women’s Volleyball Championship will air on ABC in December
On Thursday, ESPN and the NCAA announced that the 2023 NCAA Women’s Volleyball Championship would be moving from cable to broadcast. Per a release, the championship match will air on ABC rather than...
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Bob Iger says ABC ‘may not be core’ to Disney, which could have major ESPN...
One day after receiving a contract extension through 2026, Disney CEO Bob Iger went on CNBC with anchor David Faber and made a lot of news. Iger addressed a wide range of topics, including the ongoing...
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Whoopi Goldberg’s detailed pool sex discussion saw The View quickly go to...
ABC’s The View has often featured discussions of sex, but the one they got into Wednesday was particularly detailed. And co-host Whoopi Goldberg’s in-depth discussion of her disdain for sex on the...
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Dish, Hearst embroiled in carriage dispute
Nearly 30 markets have had Hearst-owned networks dropped by Dish as another carriage dispute plagues the industry. Per Cord Cutters News, the networks went dark on Dish Friday. The networks include...
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Charter-Disney deal gives both sides something, but may not fix ‘broken’ system
The Disney-Charter carriage dispute was set up as potentially apocalyptic for both sides. Charter, which provides cable services under the Spectrum brand and had almost 15 million subscribers there...
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Byron Allen makes $10 billion offer to Disney for ABC, Nexstar also...
The idea of Disney actually selling off ABC seems to be gaining some traction. That had occasionally been mentioned over the past five years or so, but generally only by a few analysts and generally as...
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ABC will simulcast ‘Monday Night Football’ all season due to WGA, SAG-AFTRA...
Due to the pair of strikes ongoing in Hollywood, ABC is adding Monday Night Football to its primetime schedule all season. Per Variety, an extra ten Monday Night Football games will be simulcast on ABC...
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Arizona Coyotes agree to Diamond exit, sign new broadcast TV deal with...
One of the strangest parts of the ongoing Diamond Sports (parent of the Bally Sports regional sports networks) bankruptcies has come around the NHL’s Arizona Coyotes. The Coyotes had their games...
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Disney CEO Bob Iger walks back ABC sale talk, surprised ‘everybody would run...
Some of the strangest stories in the sports media world involve remarkable comments, weeks and weeks to months of follow-up reporting and clarifications, and then an ultimate return to the status quo...
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The 2023 Awfulies: The biggest & most overblown sports media stories of the year
This week, we’re celebrating the highs, the lows, the best, and the worst of the year with The Awfulies. We introduced our end-of-year awards last year, and we’ve expanded the categories even further...
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ESPN8: The Ocho is now live as ESPN’s first FAST channel
To close out 2023, ESPN has launched its first free ad-supported television (FAST) channel. It’s not a channel of live SportsCenter or NFL highlights, though; it’s ESPN8: The Ocho. "It's a bold...
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Disney Advertising president Rita Ferro: ‘We know the importance of linear.’
One of the big discussions around ESPN and ABC owner The Walt Disney Company has been how they value the linear broadcasting components of those companies at a time when they’re placing a lot of their...
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