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NBA Playoffs’ streaming debut draws mixed reaction
The experience streaming the NBA Playoffs has “been pretty great,” with this season the first for games on Prime Video and Peacock, according to Tony Maglio of the HOLLYWOOD REPORTER. However, Maglio wrote if there is “one streaming video service worth paying for, it is Amazon’s.” The NBA has “made ...
Excel Sports, WIN Sports to collab on media/talent
Excel Sports Management and WIN Sports Group are formally creating a new partnership centered around increasing broadcast and production representation. The new collaboration will be spearheaded by WIN Sports’ Josh Pyatt alongside Excel SVP/Media Talent Kevin Hopkins and Head of Digital Media Talent...
YES Net, OTT Advisors extend streaming deal into sixth year
YES Network and OTT Advisors are extending their relationship around streaming to a sixth season. OTT Advisors’ tech helped shift the YES App into what’s now the Gotham App. Streaming viewership of Yankees games on Gotham grew 91% last season. OTT Advisors has helped YES Network not just with its st...
TNT taps Marty Smith to host NASCAR studio show
Marty Smith is headed back to cover NASCAR as part of a new side deal with TNT Sports for studio work during its upcoming slate of five Cup Series races. Smith, who just signed an extension with ESPN last month, will shift into the host role for TNT’s studio show when the network begins its slate on...
Netflix claims a global audience of over 12 million viewers for Rousey-Carano card
Netflix’s debut MMA card headlined by Ronda Rousey-Gina Carano “pulled in an estimated audience of roughly 12 million viewers,” according to non-Nielsen numbers. Netflix and Most Valuable Promotion assert that 12.4 million viewers watched the match, per data cobbled together by VideoAmp, G&G Clo...
‘Full Swing’ creator eyes fifth season
The creator of Netflix’s “Full Swing” says he hopes the golf series will return for a fifth season in 2027. Chad Mumm, who launched the show in 2023 alongside Box to Box Films and Vox Media, said at the PGA Championship that a fifth season would be at the “top of the list” of potential projects in 2...
Charania defends breaking NBA MVP news after criticism on social media
ESPN’s Shams Charania has faced some pushback after breaking the news on Sunday morning that Thunder G Shai Gilgeous-Alexander would be named NBA MVP honors. Charania’s report came hours before the official announcement was made on Prime Video. Charania appeared Monday on “The Pat McAfee Show,” wher...
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In Boston, Jon Couture wrote the Revolution will have seven of their remaining MLS matches this season “aired as late-night replays on Fox 25.” The first of eight replays was carried Monday night. While live broadcasts of the team’s games will remain on Apple TV, Fox 25 “will re-air a selection of t...
NBC Sports hires Dave Flemming for play-by-play
After bringing in Jason Benetti as its lead broadcaster for its MLB game inventory, NBC Sports is adding another accomplished MLB play by play voice to its roster.
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When we’re going to a stadium or arena, there’s so much that’s already at our fingertips that we can tap into, including shore power, back-of-house infrastructure ... ushers and venue security -- all of that doesn’t exist here. So we’re really truly building this facility from the ground up.UFC Chief Content Officer Craig Borsari, on one of the challenges of building up the White House temporary venue.
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