Media

Most Valuable Promotions, co-founded by Jake Paul, has “signed a ‘landmark’ multi-year deal with ESPN to broadcast fights featuring women boxers promoted by MVP.” The deal runs through 2028. MVP is also “launching MVPW -- ‘a new global platform for women’s boxing.’” The first MVPW event, scheduled f...

The Angels have purchased Main Street Sports Group’s 50% share of FanDuel Sports Network West, sources told SBJ, and will soon announce their own L.A.-based RSN that will likely house the NHL’s Kings but not the NBA’s Clippers.

Fans’ frustration with the Cubs and White Sox spring training broadcasts is “evident on social media” as the two regional sports networks will broadcast “less than one-third of scheduled spring games,” according to Jeff Agrest of the CHICAGO SUN-TIMES. The Cubs’ Marquee Sports Network is scheduled t...

Apple hopes that many viewers from the “F1” film will “watch on their televisions and mobile devices when the season begins” this weekend with the Australian Grand Prix, as Apple TV begin its stint as F1’s U.S. broadcast partner, according to Joe Reedy of the AP. Apple reached a five-year deal with ...

Network execs “increasingly believe” that the NFL wants to have new media rights deals in place “before the new season starts in September,” according to John Ourand of PUCK. Any new contract would “take effect immediately and head off a 2029 opt-out in the current batch of deals.” Sources expect th...

On this week’s Sports Media Podcast, CAA’s Tom Young reveals how a Hollywood writer’s strike unexpectedly launched an entirely new era in sports broadcasting representation.

The NBA has informed teams that it may launch a streaming hub for local broadcasts as soon as next season -- a year earlier than expected -- as a result of Main Street Sports Group’s impending demise in April, multiple sources told SBJ.

For all the highly visible steps the NFL has taken to build fandom overseas, one of the most effective international development actions of the past year has been DAZN’s addition of fully localized NFL game coverage in the Spanish and Portuguese languages.

Paramount Skydance Chair & CEO David Ellison said the company anticipate its media rights partnership with the NFL “continuing for the foreseeable future” amid reports of the league reopening negotiations for the next contract before the end of the original deal. Ellison said the NFL is “one of ...

On this week’s Sports Media Podcast, CAA’s Matt Kramer and Tom Young explain the biggest change reshaping sports media: creators owning their own IP.