- NFL SVP/Communications Katie Hill, the league’s top day-to-day PR executive for the past five years, will leave her role for a similar position at the N.Y. Times, the Times and the league confirmed.
- Disney CFO Hugh Johnston on a call with Wall Street investors Wednesday morning said that ESPN and Disney “haven’t yet engaged” with the NFL on early renewal conversations surrounding ESPN’s “Monday Night Football” deal, which runs through the end of the 2030 season, writes my SBJ colleague Austin Karp.
- Sources also tell Karp that a key issue in the carriage stalemate between Disney and Comcast Xfinity over NFL Network has to do with the question of whether seven games will continue to be on the cable network beyond this coming season.
- The David & Nicole Tepper Foundation, the Panthers owner’s charitable organization, donated $1 million Thursday to fund girls flag football programs in North Carolina and South Carolina, a day after N.C.’s state high school athletics sanctioning body approved girls flag football as a varsity sport. Also this week, New Jersey sanctioned flag as a girls varsity sport, making it 22 states now to have taken that step.
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