by Joe Lucia | Mar 13, 2022 | NFL, Sports Media
Over the last month or so, despite the season coming to an end, the NFL has been a popular subject in sports media circles. This might seem surprising, with the NBA and NHL in full swing and March Madness on the horizon, but the reason for the NFL’s media superiority...
by Joe Lucia | Jan 10, 2022 | Sports Media
Last week, The Athletic was sold to the New York Times for a whopping $550 million. In a statement announcing the news, founders Alex Mather and Adam Hansmann told subscribers that nothing would change “at this time,” leaving the door open for future tweaks that could...
by Joe Lucia | Jul 17, 2021 | Olympics
Next Friday, NBC will broadcast the Opening Ceremony of the 2020 (just like Euro, they’re not rebranding the years) Summer Olympics from Tokyo. This is normally one of NBC’s tentpole events, and (to be fair) they’re still promoting the event and seemingly putting the...
by Joe Lucia | Mar 19, 2021 | NFL, Sports Business, Sports Media
On Thursday, the NFL announced their latest round of TV deals, a series of decade-plus long pacts with existing rightsholders CBS, ESPN, Fox, NBC, and Amazon, netting the league $10 billion in revenue per season. There is a lot to unpack in all of the TV deals, but...
by Joe Lucia | Jan 25, 2021 | Sports Media
Last Friday, news broke that NBC was planning on shutting down NBCSN sometime in 2021. The decision came as a shock to many, given NBCSN’s live properties, the network’s age (it actually launched a full year and a half before FS1, which got all the mainstream hype),...
