Media

NBCUniversal today is showing off new features for the Peacock mobile app, including extending its capabilities with vertical video after first introducing vertical clips early last year. The Peacock app will now allow for AI-enabled, real-time cropping of live events on mobile, and it will launch i...

Allie LaForce is signing a multiyear extension with TNT Sports that will keep her doing reporting work around the network’s marquee properties, including March Madness, Big 12 football, Unrivaled and others. LaForce, who is repped by CAA’s David Koonin, has been exclusively with TNT since 2018 after...

On this week’s Sports Media Podcast, SBJ’s Austin Karp breaks down the resurgence of NCAA basketball viewership, the momentum around March Madness, and what’s driving fan interest -- from conference tournaments to powerhouse matchups.

The CW is getting NASCAR involved with one of its scripted series for the first time since their media rights deal started last year, with JR Motorsports driver Justin Allgaier making his acting debut in the drama series “Wild Cards.” The Nexstar Media Group-owned channel is now in the second season...

On this week’s Sports Media Podcast, ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips discusses his recent visit to the White House for President Trump’s summit on college sports. He breaks down what leaders in Washington are hearing, what’s working, what isn’t, and what actions he hopes the administration will take t...

March Madness still does something almost nothing else in sports can do. It makes the entire country care about basketball, all at once.

ESPN had its best men’s college basketball regular season since 2014-15 and its best women’s season since 2008-09.

A Hollywood film writer has been meeting with some NASCAR teams and drivers to help develop a plot for a “Days of Thunder” sequel, according to people familiar with the matter, in one of the most tangible signs yet the film is being seriously pursued.

The ACC drew rave reviews last season when it first allowed ESPN viewers to listen in on officials replay reviews in college football, and Commissioner Jim Phillips said the conference is “going to enhance” the effort this coming season. “We’re going to make an announcement in the spring about that,...

The PWHL will get its first national TV broadcast in the U.S. on March 28, as Ally Financial is helping underwrite a game on Scripps Sports-owned ION between the New York Sirens and Montréal Victoire. The game, part of the PWHL Takeover Tour, will be at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit. The league wi...