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ESPN and the College Football Playoff have agreed a six-year, $7.8bn (€7.3bn) extension as the new era of the college football postseason begins.
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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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US college athletes competing in the Big Ten Conference are to be given the chance to build their personal brands and explore commercial opportunities via the use of digital media clips featuring them…

UK pay-television broadcaster Sky has stepped in to show US college football and basketball in the UK for the remainder of the 2023-24 season and the whole of 2024-25, ensuring that NCAA Division I football and basketball will receive coverage after almost three months without a deal.
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The Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) today (Friday) voted to add three schools to its league, including two more from the beleaguered rival Pac-12 which looks destined to fold in 2024
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A number of Disney channels, including sports broadcaster ESPN, went dark yesterday (Thursday) for Charter Spectrum subscribers amid a dispute over the terms of a carriage agreement.
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Nascar has furthered its presence in college athletics with a new deal with Learfield for the University of South Carolina while extending last year's agreement with the University of Alabama
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The Pac-12, one of the Power Five conferences, has been left with just four teams after a series of re-alignments in college sports
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The Pac-12 Conference is considering a streaming-centered media-rights deal with Apple amid a number of departures from the conference
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The entertainment-focused CW Network has acquired exclusive rights to a slate of college football and basketball games from the Atlantic Coast Conference
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Pete Bevacqua is to quit his role as chairman of NBC Sports Group to become athletic director at Notre Dame, the prestigious US university
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Sportradar has agreed a renewal through the 2024-25 college athletics season with the Big Ten Network to run its streaming service, B1G+
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The audiences for the NCAA men's basketball tournament Final Four and national championship in Houston saw declines, with the championship game averaging 14
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The championship game of the NCAA women's basketball tournament has broken viewership records on ESPN platforms, with 9

Pay-TV broadcaster beIN Sports France has renewed its agreement with ESPN for rights to National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) tournaments
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The NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament on ESPN has set multiple records, including total minutes watched, average viewers per game, and the single-game viewership record
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Viewership of the men's NCAA Division I Basketball Tournament has been steady compared to the 2022 tournament's first two rounds on CBS and Warner Bros
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Disney Advertising has sold out of in-game sponsorship for the 2023 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship, which airs exclusively on ESPN platforms between March 15-April 2 this year