Media

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...

Michigan’s Fab Five are back, as TNT Sports and CBS Sports are bringing the famed squad from the 1991 recruiting class back together for an alt-cast around Saturday night’s men’s Final Four game against Arizona. TruTV and HBO Max will air the alt-cast featuring Chris Webber, Jalen Rose, Juwan Howard...

MLB TV viewership is starting off on a hot streak, as the first week of the 2026 season saw notable increases on both a local and national level. For Opening Day games, 15 of 29 U.S.-based MLB teams saw local viewership increases compared to 2025. Among those with big gains were the Angels, who took...

Jake Paul’s Most Valuable Promotions is naming the on-air talent for its new all-female MVPW platform and will have well-known announcer Crystina Poncher deliver the blow-by-blow action. The new product from MVP comes after it spent the past couple years signing a significant amount of the top names...

In Chicago, Paul Sullivan noted MLB on Friday will “produce a new version of ‘This Week in Baseball,’ making it into a ‘short-form episode’ of 5-10 minutes and posting it every week on MLB’s X account” in effort to come up with a new way to market the game to Gen Z. Naturally, the solution was to “b...

The N.Y. Racing Association has announced plans to “expand its horse racing broadcast efforts” in the wake of the March 27 news that FanDuel TV will begin phasing out its linear network, according to Chelsea Hackbarth of the PAULICK REPORT. NYRA CRO Tony Allevato said that the horse racing associati...

SNY, the regional home of the Mets, had been “exploring its options in the last year,” and the network had earlier “put itself up for sale,” according to sources cited by Lillian Rizzo of CNBC SPORT. While no deal was ever reached, sources said that Mets owner Steve Cohen was “part of the discussion...