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World Rugby and IMG have agreed to a long-term media rights partnership designed to further accelerate rugby’s growth in the U.S. and globally ahead of the men’s and women’s Rugby World Cups in 2031 and 2033 -- both of which will be hosted in the U.S. IMG will help World Rugby shape a media and mark...

Tubi today will premiere a new docuseries dubbed “Destination World Cup 2026″ that follows USMNT MF Weston McKennie, Wales MF Harry Wilson and Spain D Marc Cucurella as they prepared for the World Cup over the last year at both the club and national team level. The six-episode series, which will run...

On this week’s pod, SBJ media reporters Austin Karp and Josh Carpenter break down Disney’s decision not to spin off ESPN, as well as The CW landing on ESPN’s app. The NFL Draft’s opening round was surpisingly down on TV, and Caitlin Clark and the Fever set a record with 44 national broadcasts. Also,...

NFL reporter Ian Rapoport has signed a new multiyear deal with ESPN, the latest example of NFL Network coming under ESPN’s control. Rapoport, who has been with NFL Network since 2012, will join Adam Schefter as ESPN’s top NFL insiders. ESPN’s Pat McAfee, who on his show today announced Rapoport’s de...

It takes a small platoon to call a World Cup tournament and Wednesday -- with only 43 days remaining until the start of the 2026 edition -- Fox Sports announced the play-by-play announcers, match analysts, reporters and rules analysts who will front the English-language coverage in the U.S.

THE ATHLETIC’s Amos Morale III noted YouTube TV will now “allow users to customize their multiview.” Users can “use a builder with filters for different categories, including sports, news, shows, movies and other live content offered on the platform.” This means subscribers with NFL Sunday Ticket “c...

Comedy series “Running Point” returned to Netflix for its second season last Thursday, arriving at a “real-life inflection point” for Lakers Governor Jeanie Buss and the team, according to Emmanuel Morgan of the N.Y. TIMES. The Buss family owned the Lakers since Jeanie’s father, Jerry, bought them i...

Delta Air Lines has a new deal with the Fox One platform ahead of the World Cup games this summer. The deal, which starts this month, will give Delta SkyMiles members a 24-hour complimentary trial to Fox One via the Delta Sync service. It also means access to other sports programming on Fox like NAS...

The CW has found a solution for the streaming of its sports content, striking a four-year deal with ESPN that will see over 800 hours of content added to the ESPN Unlimited tier of the company’s app this summer. The deal means the CW’s coverage of the NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series, ACC, Pac-12, ...

UFL viewership is up 3% at the midpoint of the regular season, with games through Week 5 across Fox, ABC, ESPN, FS1 and NFL Network averaging 631,000 viewers. At the same point last season, without the benefit of Big Data increases, the UFL was averaging 611,000 viewers for games across Fox, ABC, ES...