by Joe Lucia | Aug 19, 2022 | Sports Media
On Thursday, it finally happened – the Big Ten announced their new round of media rights deals with CBS, Fox, and NBC. ESPN was notably boxed out in this round, ending a decades-long partnership between the network and the conference. And while the Big Ten’s rights...
by Mike Lowe | Aug 18, 2022 | College Basketball, College Football, General Sports, Sports Business, Sports Media
Today the Big Ten announced the completion of its long-awaited television rights deal that is set to go into effect at the start of the 2023-24 academic year. The deal runs for 7 years and is worth nearly $7.5 billion in total. Notably, it also contains escalators in...
by Joe Lucia | Aug 3, 2022 | Major League Baseball, Sports Media
The passing of Vin Scully on Tuesday sent the sports world into a collective state of mourning and remembrance of one of the greatest broadcasters that the universe has ever seen. Scully joined the Dodgers broadcast booth at the age of 22, became the team’s primary...
by Joe Lucia | Jul 22, 2022 | Major League Baseball, Sports Media
When I was a kid, I loved watching the MLB All-Star Game. There was something special about it. The Midsummer Classic was a rare opportunity to watch baseball’s biggest out-of-market stars playing a live game. In the months prior to, and following, the All-Star Game,...
by Joe Lucia | Apr 21, 2022 | Major League Baseball, Sports Media
Two weeks into the 2022 MLB season, one of the more popular punching bags among the league’s fans are its new streaming deals. This season, MLB inked a new deal with Apple that gives the company a Friday night doubleheader on Apple TV+ each week as well as a pact with...
by Milton Kent | Mar 31, 2022 | Sports Media
If you know anything about Bruce Cunningham, you should know that he’s a connoisseur of music from the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, through and through. So, a couple of weeks ago, he was chatting with a young reporter at WBFF-45 named Maxine Streicher and he happened to...
