- CBS Sports, Army and Navy agreed to a 10-year extension of the network's multiplatform rights for the annual Army-Navy Game that will run through 2038, reports SBJ's Ben Portnoy. CBS Sports has been the exclusive home of Army-Navy since 1996, while the current deal was slated to expire in 2028.
- Advertisers benefited from the 41% viewership lift during Amazon’s second Black Friday NFL game, with the company reporting a 30% increase in brands using interactive ad formats compared to last year’s event.
- The Packers-Lions game last week helped deliver a record “Thursday Night Football” audience for Amazon’s Prime Video, as well as the best streaming audience yet for an NFL regular-season game, reports SBJ's Austin Karp.
- ESPN Chair Jimmy Pitaro said the company will provide access to about 100 live events per year for Disney+ subscribers who are not already ESPN+ subscribers, with content coming from college basketball, college football, the NBA, WNBA, MLB, NHL, tennis, golf and Little League World Series.
- Apple CEO Tim Cook was in Abu Dhabi over the weekend and posted about Sunday’s F1 season finale there, as the company’s films division wrapped up shooting around the racing property’s real-life grand prix, writes SBJ's Adam Stern.
- ESPN's Jesse Palmer has succeeded in trying to do it all, as SBJ's Terry Lefton writes in this week's magazine.
- In an op-ed for SBJ this week, consultants Ed Desser and John Kosner write that in 2024, dizzying tectonic changes and increasing fragmentation in sports media continued.
