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NFL football games keep bringing in the viewers and last week’s playoff games were phenomenal for the league. Last Sunday’s Kansas Chiefs at Buffalo Bills game on CBS was the most-watched NFL Divisional Playoff Game ever and the first to surpass 50 million viewers, averaging 50.393 million viewers and up +10% vs. last year’s comparable game (Cowboys-49ers, 45.659 million viewers). The […]
ESPN and the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) have reached a new, eight-year agreement beginning Sept. 1, 2024, for NCAA championships media rights. The deal includes domestic rights to a record 40 NCAA championships – 21 women’s and 19 men’s events – and international rights to those same NCAA championships plus the Division I men’s […]
There are 43 college bowl games this postseason in Division I football and 40 are on ESPN networks or ABC. ESPN owns and operates 17 bowl games through its ESPN Events division with several games beginning Saturday. Bowl Season begins today, Dec. 16, with the Myrtle Beach Bowl (11 a.m., ESPN) in Conway, S.C., the […]
Former Syracuse men’s basketball coach Jim Boeheim, who retired in March after 47 years at his alma mater, is becoming a TV broadcaster. Boeheim has joined ESPN and will make his analyst debut this Saturday, Dec. 2, on ACC Network. Boeheim will call the Florida State at No. 17 North Carolina men’s college basketball game […]
For the first time since 2004, the National Hockey League (NHL) returns to ESPN with three exclusive national games this week starting with the season opener today at 7:30 p.m. ESPN has the primary broadcasting rights for the NHL after 17 years on NBC Sports and its cable networks.. Walt Disney, which owns ESPN, is […]
Long-time sportscaster Linda Cohn has signed a new contract with ESPN. Terms and length were not disclosed. Cohn has been with ESPN for more than 26 years and is the longest-tenured anchor for the network’s main news program SportsCenter. Cohn joined ESPN in 1992 and anchored her first SportsCenter on July 11, 1992. She was […]
College basketball analyst Dick Vitale, one of the most recognizable personalities in sports television, has signed a contract extension with ESPN through the 2020-21 season. Vitale, 78, will continue his work as a game analyst on key matchups each week during the regular season, as well as Champ Week. He will also remain a contributor […]
ESPN and the Ivy League have reached a comprehensive, 10-year deal for ESPN to become the exclusive national broadcaster for the prestigious conference. The Ivy League — known more for its academics than athletics — includes Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton and Yale. ESPN plans to carry more than 1,100 events annually from […]
Michael Kay, the lead broadcaster for the NY Yankees on YES Network, is also the top sports radio talk show host in the NY metro area. The Michael Kay Show on ESPN New York 98.7 FM led New York sports talk shows in the winter ratings book for the time slot shared with WFAN’s afternoon […]
ESPN is launching a new streaming service later this month called ESPN+. The new subscription service from Disney features ESPN branded content including NHL, MLB and college sports. It will launch on April 12 and offer fans a wide lineup of live sports, original content and on-demand programming for $4.99 per month. The service is […]