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CBS's Champions League Today is the next great studio show
Awful Announcing
Spoke with coordinating producer Pete Radovich, host Kate Abdo and analyst Jamie Carragher about the studio show produced for the network's Champions League Today coverage, including its unique buzz as a soccer show for the American audience that's produced in the UK.
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Who are contenders for a standalone Women’s NCAA Tournament deal?
Sports Media Watch
New NCAA president Charlie Baker says that the women's edition of March Madness will have its own media rights package once the tournament's current arrangement with ESPN expires next year. Where it lands after 2024 is anyone's guess.
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Winners and losers in the WWE merger with Endeavor and UFC
Awful Announcing
In the biggest sports media deal of 2023 thus far, Endeavor brings one of the world's most popular entertainment companies into the fold. Networks beware - the price for WWE programming just went up again.
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Will NBC, FOX or CBS get into the NBA rights mix?
Sports Media Watch
A follow-up to the WBD/NBA article earlier in January, I weighed the pros and cons for NBC, FOX and CBS if they chose to make a play for the NBA after the 2024-25 season.
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Was Amazon's Thursday Night Football debut season a success?
Awful Announcing
Reaching out to industry professionals and fans, I examined how Prime Video's first season as the exclusive home of Thursday Night Football performed beyond ratings and access.
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Three questions for Warner Bros. Discovery on NBA rights
Sports Media Watch
While most media observers wondered how the NBA would manage if Warner Bros. Discovery declined to renew its broadcasting agreement with the league after the 2024-25 season ended, I looked in the other direction as the media company would have three significant questions to answer before making its decision.
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Scripps needs to rebuild ION Television for Scripps Sports to succeed
Awful Announcing
Shortly after E.W. Scripps announced a formation of a new division to handle sports television rights, I looked back on prior experiences with ION Television to explain how the network's programming has to be revamped to maximize its full potential with live sports.
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HBO Doesn’t Need to ‘Get Bigger’ for AT&T, But Here Are 3 Major Ways It Can Get Better
Decider
With AT&T's merger with what's now WarnerMedia, some fret that the new bosses would completely revamp premium cable channel, HBO. While those fears may not be totally realized, HBO could stand to make some programming improvements.
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Bubba Wallace and blazing his trail week after week
The Sports Fan Journal
Bubba Wallace came in second at the Daytona 500 - the best ever finish for an African-American driver at the event - and as people rightfully celebrated the moment, there was also an understanding that Wallace's impact on the sport takes time to build.
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NASCAR’s next and more diverse generation continues to change the guard
The Sports Fan Journal
During Daytona 500 weekend, I had an opportunity to talk to multiple drivers, pit crew members and company executives about NASCAR's diversity initiative.
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The NFL's 'Chicken Little' moment
The Week
A comparison of television viewership trends between the NBA, NHL and Major League Baseball, and what they meant for the NFL as observers foretell greater doom.
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The NFL’s 2017 ratings slide was mainly fueled by white viewers and younger viewers
Awful Announcing
A deep demographic analysis on the NFL's linear television viewership as the downward trend continued into the 2017 season.
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Bernard King shares the lessons he learned on and off the court in a new book
Dime Magazine
An interview with Basketball Hall of Fame forward Bernard King about his autobiography, including a discussion on how he observes both the current state of both the NCAA and NBA.
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Trevor Noah is leading 'The Daily Show' to unprecedented viewership gains amongst black viewers
Decider
A demographic analysis on how Comedy Central's 'The Daily Show' has fared since Trevor Noah took over as the show's host from the venerable Jon Stewart. (Nielsen data has shown that more black viewers are watching the show than at any point in the show's two-plus decade history.)
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