Endeavor

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Industry Moves

Guillermo Santa Cruz and James Tree, two of IMG’s most senior executives in the Americas, are leaving the agency.
Bull Riding
Media

PBR's new domestic rights deals with CBS and Merit Street Media will create live weekend viewing slots akin to major league sports and allow the Endeavor-owned property to tap into an audience outside of its core following.
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Data

The merging of Endeavor’s OpenBet and IMG Arena has led to a high-profile casualty as Max Wright, who has been with IMG for 11 years, negotiating various betting rights deals with sports bodies, leaves the company.
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Finance & Law

Endeavor's Owned Sports Properties was the entertainment giant's sole business unit to show revenue growth in the first quarter of 2024, aided by last year's acquisition of WWE, as the wider group swung to a net loss.
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Finance & Law

Mark Shapiro, president and chief operating officer of Endeavor, has secured a salary increase to $7m (€6.4m) on the back of the agreement struck to take the sports and entertainment giant private.
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Finance & Law

Endeavor, the sports and entertainment giant that owns the IMG agency and Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) and World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) properties, is going private three years after listing on the New York Stock Exchange.
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Finance & Law

Endeavor, the sports and entertainment conglomerate, is continuing to explore "strategic alternatives” for its publicly listed stock, and as a result will provide no 2024 financial guidance it revealed today (Wednesday).
US College Sport
Media

The National Collegiate Athletic Association has agreed a new eight-year domestic and international rights deal with ESPN for 40 of its championships in an agreement worth $920m (€840m).
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Events

Sports and entertainment conglomerate Endeavor has positioned OpenBet and its wider betting operations as key revenue drivers for the group in 2024, but insists IMG Arena will remain "number three" in…
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Finance & Law

Endeavor, the company that owns the IMG agency, World Wrestling Entertainment and Ultimate Fighting Championship, has announced that it is exploring “strategic alternatives” for its publicly listed sto…
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Events

Endeavor has lost an appeal lodged in a Californian court against HDI Global Insurance over “commercial property” losses related to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Marketing

IMG has this morning unveiled sweeping changes to its branding at its inaugural IMG Summit event in Oxfordshire, UK, modernising its logo and retiring the Seven League brand entirely in an attempt to offer…
Mixed Martial Arts
Finance & Law

News this week of Saudi Arabian state investment in the Professional Fighters League (PFL) has caused shares in both World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and Ultimate Fighting Group (UFC) parent Endeavor…
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Events

Continued strong results at the Ultimate Fighting Championship, betting growth and recent broadcast production contract wins at IMG helped Endeavor to post a 9.5-per-cent increase in quarterly revenues
Mixed Martial Arts
Media

Foxtel’s Main Event channel will become the exclusive home of all pay-per-view UFC events from the start of 2024, bolstering the media group’s position as Australia’s pre-eminent sports broadcaster. P
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Events

Endeavor, owner of the IMG and WME agencies, is to pay a quarterly dividend for the first time, beginning later this year, following a strong start to 2023 for the sports and entertainment giant
Wrestling
Media

A combined streaming deal for the Ultimate Fighting Championship and World Wrestling Entertainment is a possibility following Endeavor’s takeover agreement for the wrestling promotion.
Wrestling
Finance & Law

Sports and entertainment group Endeavor has acquired a majority interest in a new company that will combine World Wrestling Entertainment with the Ultimate Fighting Championship, forming what the two parties…