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ESPN+ subscribers have largely leveled off after a period of marked acceleration, providing a window into how the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has battered many parts of the business of corporate parent The…
Esports
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The NBA 2K League has signed a multi-faceted rights deal with ESPN, which includes the first linear broadcasts of the National Basketball Association’s esports property in the US.
Baseball
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Live baseball is returning to US audiences following the completion of a new media rights deal between ESPN and the Eclat Media Group for rights to South Korea’s KBO League.
Basketball
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ESPN's highly-acclaimed Michael Jordan-themed documentary series The Last Dance maintained strong US television ratings in Week 3, as Episodes 5 and 6 averaged 5.5 million viewers across ESPN and ESPN2
Football
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Major League Soccer's Nashville SC has re-signed Fox 17, CW58, and MyTV30 as its official local broadcast partners, starting with the indefinitely-suspended 2020 season
Golf
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Rory McIlroy will headline a made-for-TV golf event on May 17 that will attempt to raise $4m for Covid-19 relief efforts
Football
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Major League Soccer's Inter Miami FC has announced that Univision Miami will serve as the team's official Spanish-language multi-platform broadcast partner.
Multi-sport
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Brian Roberts, Comcast chairman and chief executive, said the US cable industry giant is talking with various American pro sports leagues about possible rights fee relief that could ideally be passed on…
Tennis
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The IMG agency has united eight of its top tennis clients, including the Williams sisters and Naomi Osaka, with leading names from the world of sport, entertainment and fashion to launch a new virtual…
Multi-sport
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The United States Trade Representative office, the government organisation responsible for advising US trade policy, has kept Saudi Arabia on its priority watchlist for what it sees as a failure to address…
Multi-sport
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New York state attorney general Letitia James called on seven major US cable and satellite television companies to reduce the fees they are charging consumers that are attributable to live sports rights…
American Football
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The National Football League has struck a three-year contract extension with Amazon in which the ecommerce giant will continue to stream "Thursday Night Football" through the 2022 season
Basketball
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ESPN's highly-acclaimed Michael Jordan-themed documentary series The Last Dance maintained its impressive US television ratings for a second successive week, with Episodes 3 and 4 averaging 5.
American Football
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The National Football League continued its strong 2020 Draft viewership momentum, completing the three-day event with its highest average audience ever
Basketball
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The late Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant hired a documentary crew to record the final season of his storied National Basketball Association career in 2015-16, it has emerged
American Football
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With sports fans starved for live content amid the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, the first round of the 2020 National Football League Draft more than delivered on bullish expectations and set a new event…
Baseball
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ESPN's plans to acquire rights to the Korean Baseball Organisation's domestic league are reported to have stalled after the US-based sports broadcaster is said to have attempted to acquire the rights free…
Multi-sport
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US broadcaster Fox Sports has followed in the footsteps of ESPN by asking its top on-air talent to take temporary pay cuts as a result of the sports competition shutdown amid the global Covid-19 pandemic