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Former Reds radio broadcaster Marty Brennaman will be “immortalized with a statue” outside Great American Ballpark at 4pm ET Saturday. The bronze statue “depicts the broadcaster behind the radio microphone” as he was for 46 years with the club. The statue, the team’s ninth outside the ballpark, will...

The NFL “could be approaching critical mass” for digital-only broadcasts, as 20 games this season will be “exclusive to streaming services” for most of the U.S., according to Liam Griffin of the WASHINGTON TIMES. Peacock will have an “exclusive offering” in late December. Once again, a pair of Chris...

YouTube is “pulling out all the bells and whistles” for today’s Chiefs-Chargers broadcast in Brazil, the “first time YouTube has hosted such a high-caliber US sports event in front of the paywall,” according to Janko Roettgers of THE VERGE. There will “be drones” and “over 50 cameras.” Karol G “will...

The HOLLYWOOD REPORTER’s Alex Weprin wrote “Inside the NFL” will return for the 2025-26 season, but will be getting “a wholesale reboot, changing formats, and moving to a new home: X.” The first episode will debut on Sept. 8, with plans to “release at least 10 short-form episodes each week.” NFL Fil...

The Big 12’s official account on the social media platform X is a conference-operated account that is “not like the others,” according to Jon Wilner of the San Jose MERCURY NEWS. The social account, @Big12Conference, is “never nasty. It never gets personal. But it’s always poignant, creative and und...

On this week’s Sports Media Podcast, ESPN’s Seth Wickersham digs into the growth of flag football and the evolution of the quarterback position.

Roku users in the U.S. beginning Friday will be able to stream games via YouTube TV in the Roku Sports experience, including NFL Sunday Ticket. YouTube TV joins existing Roku partners like DAZN Live Sports, Fox One, Frndly TV, Spectrum TV and Xfinity Stream. The addition of YouTube TV builds on the ...

Major League Table Tennis is launching an owned and operated streaming service called “Table Tennis TV” ahead of the start of its third season of play. The service, priced at $9.99 per month or $99.99 per year (after a two-week free period), will be the exclusive live home of 90 MLTT matches during ...

College football helped ABC, ESPN and ESPN2 to the company’s second-best Labor Day Weekend audience in at least 30 years (records go back to 1995) and most watched since 2016. That now includes Monday’s TCU-North Carolina game on ESPN, which drew 6.6 million viewers even with the Horned Frogs’ blowo...

On this week’s Sports Media Podcast, ESPN’s Seth Wickersham talks about the media’s relationship with former NFLer Eli Manning during his playing days with the Giants.