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Warner Bros. Discovery sees lower Q4 results amid competing takeover bids
Warner Bros. Discovery reported lower Q4 sales and earnings, “underscoring the challenges the media giant is confronting as it weighs competing takeover bids” from Paramount Skydance and Netflix. Revenue during Q4 declined 6% to $9.46B. Adjusted EBITDA “shrank to” $2.22B. Still, both “were better th...
Apple unveils wide-ranging F1 coverage plan as rights deals starts
Apple previewed its F1 viewing experience on Thursday, promising 4K video, new multi-view features and integrations across all its apps. The F1 season -- and Apple’s tenure as its U.S. broadcast partner -- begins on March 7 in Australia. Races will be streamed to all Apple TV subscribers, with addit...
Sports Media Pod: The NHL’s return to the Olympics
On this week’s Sports Media Podcast, NHL Business President Keith Wachtel lays out why the league views major global events as a cornerstone of its long‑term plan to expand hockey’s international reach.
Law firm investigating alleged leak of UFC-Paramount deal details
An outside law firm is investigating allegations that Paramount Skydance President Jeff Shell “improperly disclosed specific details about the timing, cost and structure” of the company’s $7.7B media rights deal with the UFC “almost a month before its August 2025 announcement,” according to Gary Bau...
Doc on Mark Few era at Gonzaga set for March premiere on Tubi
A feature-length documentary capturing Gonzaga men’s basketball’s “historic run under longtime coach Mark Few will premiere on streaming platform Tubi starting March 6,” according to Theo Lawson of the Spokane SPOKESMAN-REVIEW. The 74-minute documentary, titled “Gonzaga: The Slipper Still Fits,” has...
The Athletic expands editorial team hiring former Washington Post staffers
The Athletic has hired several former Washington Post journalists to expand its coverage of the Commanders, launch a new Nationals beat and add to its growing roster of tennis, opinion and investigative reporters. Barry Svrluga joins as a Commanders reporter who will also weigh in on stories in the ...
NBC’s Milan Olympic audience: 59% watched in primetime, 41% live during daytime
The Milan Cortina Games were the most-watched Winter Olympics since Sochi in 2014, with an average of 23.5 million viewers this year across NBC, USA Network, CNBC and Peacock. That almost doubles the audience seen during the Beijing Winter Games in 2022. Back in 2014, the figure for similar windows ...
Fox Sports gives IndyCar a bandwidth boost for better broadcast tools
In its second season of broadcasting IndyCar -- and first since taking a one-third stake in the property -- Fox Sports is investing in an upgraded viewer experience that began with a significant infrastructure upgrade.
ESPN Unlimited authentication live for Xfinity subscribers
Xfinity subscribers can authenticate on the ESPN app at the Unlimited level starting today, which will give them access in time for Saturday’s Elimination Chamber, WWE’s second premium live event of the year. Authentication access for Comcast and YouTube TV subscribers has been delayed due to linger...
NHL estimates U.S.-Canada could have pulled 35 million with better start time
The NHL estimates that Sunday’s U.S.-Canada men’s hockey gold medal game could have reached 35 million viewers with a more favorable start time. NBC’s figure for the 8am ET game was 18.6 million viewers (20.7 with the USA Network replay later in the day). While that was good enough to be the most-wa...
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This is where we really think we could augment the judges. Because if you, as a judge, are putting in a score and immediately saw this deviation, you might be like, ‘Okay, let me see, Is there something there?’ And maybe notate that anomaly.-- Owl AI CEO Josh Gwyther, on why Olympic judges should use Owl's officiating and scoring tech to help determine podium scores.
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