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The Southeastern Conference will move its signature events in football and men’s basketball from CBS to ESPN/ABC starting in 2024–2025. The 10-year deal is reportedly worth nearly $300 million per year and will include up to 15 premier football games and the SEC Championship as well as eight top basketball matchups across ABC and ESPN. […]
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The American Kennel Club and ESPN have announced a three-year content agreement that will bring high-energy dog programming to the sports network and its affiliated channels, including digital rights for select events to stream live on the ESPN App. The agreement will also allow ABC to air the AKC National Championship Presented by Royal Canin […]
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While the fate of the college bowl season has been up in the air for months, ESPN has announced a broadcast schedule for 35 games that should help bring some clarity to the postseason and its events. The network has announced its broadcast plans, including 13 games owned and operated by ESPN Events as well […]
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BetMGM, the sports betting joint venture between MGM Resorts and GVC Holdings, has appointed former ESPN executive Ryan Spoon as its chief operating officer. Spoon most recently served as senior vice president of social and digital content at ESPN. Prior to that, he was senior vice president of digital product and design. In those roles […]
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With no live events to broadcast, sports leagues and their television partners are going to the next best thing—having esports take their place in sports from auto racing to basketball as fallout continues from the coronavirus pandemic. What started as replacement programming for a regional cable network has shifted to broadcast sports, as ESPN is […]
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The League of Legends Championship Series will air on ESPN2 with spring playoffs already underway, leading to the championship event on April 19. Each of the playoff series will be a best-of-five with the winner of the spring playoffs representing North America at the 2020 Mid-Season Invitational in July. “We’re excited to work with Riot […]
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While the coronavirus pandemic has disrupted life throughout the world, sports industry leaders remain optimistic that fans will flock to events once games on every level of action resume. During the Sports Business Journal’s CAA World Congress virtual event, taking the place of a scheduled in-person event in California disrupted by the coronavirus, a series […]
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Television ratings were up last year for the NCAA Women’s Final Four and this year, they may very well go up again. ESPN has announced that it will air the entirety of the 2020 Women’s Final Four in New Orleans on its flagship network. Those games will include not just the finals on April 5 […]
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ESPN and Special Olympics have agreed to an eight-year extension for global broadcasts of Special Olympics events and the network’s presenting sponsorship of Special Olympics Unified Sports. “The relationship between ESPN and Special Olympics spans nearly three and a half decades and has been built on a bedrock of shared belief in the power of […]
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The revived XFL has announced multiyear broadcast agreements with ESPN, ABC and Fox Sports to air games starting with the league’s inaugural season in 2020. XFL games will air weekly on ABC and Fox, with ESPN, ESPN2, FS1 and FS2 sharing broadcast duties throughout the season as well. The league will air back-to-back games starting Saturday afternoons at […]
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