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STATUS’ Natalie Korach noted after the Washington Post’s sweeping layoffs in February, it “brought on Bailey Johnson to cover the Capitals and Danielle Allentuck to cover the Nationals.” A Post spokesperson said that reporters are “not being hired back from the same roles they had before.” The spoke...

The NFL has “always wielded enormous power over the entertainment conglomerates,” but now that power “is dwarfing everything else in Hollywood,” according to Matthew Belloni of PUCK. The league’s current broadcast partners together “pay more than” $10B per year in rights deals that “rents the most c...

PHOENIX -- Whatever call puts a bow on this basketball season and the Women’s NCAA Tournament champion, rest assured, those words have been knocking around in Ryan Ruocco’s mind for a while.

TNT Sports “will merge with CBS Sports sometime in the third quarter” if “all goes according to plan” following Paramount’s pending purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery -- and CBS Sports President David Berson is “seen as the odds-on favorite to run the combined division.” In the meantime, TNT Sports ...

Bell Media and the Senators have agreed to a 12-year “extension of their English and French broadcast rights,” with the contract set to expire at the end of this season. Senators games will be regionally broadcast “in English on TSN and in French on RDS,” but the two sides also “confirmed that TSN 1...

On this week’s Sports Media Podcast, SBJ media reporter Austin Karp and SBJ special contributor Richard Deitsch break down ESPN’s decision to replace the popular Bird & Taurasi altcast with a new, more social‑media‑driven broadcast aimed at younger female viewers. They discuss the shift toward c...

NFL owners signed off on a series of changes to the league’s internet resolution and related policies that determine what teams can and cannot do in terms of distributing digital content and making money online.

Main Street Sports Group will officially wind down after the first round of the NHL playoffs, SBJ learned Thursday, while sources said Main Street’s 13 NBA teams were informed in a league call Wednesday that they will likely be reimbursed some portion of this year’s lost rights fee payments.

ESPN is “expected to change its No. 2 NFL game-calling team” of Chris Fowler, Dan Orlovsky and Louis Riddick following its NFL deal, according to sources cited by THE ATHLETIC. There is a “high likelihood” that the seven extra games included in the deal “will be international,” which would not allow...

On this week’s Sports Media Podcast, SBJ special contributor Richard Deitsch makes the case that the women’s tournament is actually the more interesting viewership story in 2026. Deitsch and SBJ media reporter Austin Karp discuss UConn, South Carolina, UCLA and Texas -- and how the post‑Caitlin Clar...