Media

Sportsnet analyst Joe Siddall will “slide into the chair vacated” by the retiring Buck Martinez on Blue Jays broadcasts this season, according to a source cited by Rob Longley of the TORONTO SUN. Siddall, who split time between the studio and game telecasts last season as he filled in for Martinez w...

Apple’s “F1″ won the Academy Award for Best Sound Sunday night. The film, which F1 driver Lewis Hamilton co-produced and cameoed in, was nominated for four awards, including Best Picture and Visual Effects. It triumphed in Best Sound -- with Hamilton “given a shout-out in the acceptance speech.” Ham...

When I wrote in SBJ last March about why sports fans could finally move on from legacy TV, the landscape felt more straightforward. Streaming promised lower costs, greater control and the flexibility fans had long wanted. For a moment, it seemed as if sports audiences had found an escape hatch from ...

The NFL and Paramount Skydance’s renewal talks for the league’s media rights are “beginning to take shape.” Sources said that execs from both sides are “negotiating a price increase, with a bid-ask spread midpoint around 50% or 60%.” CBS currently “pays around” $2.1B a year, on average, for its Sund...

A Looper Insights survey of top media-tech execs suggests that Amazon, Google, Netflix and “other big tech companies might control the latest ‘feeding frenzy’ for sports rights, not the leagues,” according to Frankel & Bloom of NEXT TMT. The NFL reportedly wants to renegotiate its contracts with...

There is “concern” in Japan that MLB’s partnership with Netflix to exclusively air World Baseball Classic games there will “ultimately lead to a major dip in how many people watch the tournament,” according to Sam Blum of THE ATHLETIC. Reports stated that nearly 100 of the 125 million people in the ...

Apple is “bullish on what it has seen so far” in its deal with F1 after last week’s Australian Grand Prix, according to Alex Weprin of the HOLLYWOOD REPORTER. The company “declined to give any specific numbers.” However, Apple SVP/Services Eddy Cue said the deal is “off to a strong start, with fans ...

In Dallas, Evan Grant reported Texas Rangers field reporter Emily Jones will “not have a spot” on the Rangers’ TV broadcasts this year. Rangers Sports Network officially unveiled their broadcast team for 2026 on Thursday and it does “not include Jones,” who first began working as pre- and post-game ...

Sunday’s final round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational was the PGA Tour event’s best figure since 2021 with an average of 3.3 million viewers.

Fox Sports has been a partner with NASCAR for 25 years, broadcasting the last 23 Daytona 500s, and its deal is scheduled to run through 2031. The partnership is the rare, long-term match between network and sport.