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Gentle Mates GC, on their Championship debut, beat Shopify Rebellion Gold 2-1 in the upper bracket final in São Paulo. The French-based side go into Sunday's best-of-five grand final with a two-map ban advantage, while Shopify Rebellion Gold must come through the lower final.
The following article "WNBA Finals nears Game 5 high, but viewership takes hit from competition" originally appeared on Sports Media Watch. Facing its toughest competition yet, the WNBA Finals viewership held up about as well as one could expect Monday night. Monday’s Dream-Valkyries WNBA Finals…
USA Sports’ first season covering the WNBA will end on the biggest stage possible. The broadcaster will present the first Game 7 in WNBA Finals history on Saturday, when the
The company aims to be ‘more horizontal and not vertical’ in managing sports rights and producing events GRUP MEDIAPRO has begun charting a new course that includes a new brand,
Ratings Roundup is a rundown of recent ratings news and is derived from press releases and reports around the industry. In this week’s edition, with the World Series, the NFL, college
TNT Sports will show England’s white-ball tour of Australia and March’s 150th Anniversary Test live and exclusively in the UK, after agreeing a broadcast deal with Cricket Australia. Channel 5 will reach a free-to-air audience with exclusive highlights of every match on England’s tour, shown on its…
A highlight clip goes to air after a person says yes. What would it take to say how often that yes had to be earned? A common design for automated
Karmine Corp swept CTBC Flying Oyster 2-0 at Worlds 2026, eliminating the LCP's last remaining team. The French-based side move to 2-2 in the Swiss Stage, leaving one best-of-three between them and the quarter-finals.
The United States Tennis Association (USTA) and technology giant IBM have agreed to a five-year extension of their long-standing commercial and technical partnership, ensuring IBM remains the Official Artificial Intelligence and Cloud Partner of the US Open Grand Slam tournament through 2031.
In this SVG New Sponsor Spotlight, Jake Blount, EVP, Sales, ICAT Logistics, discusses the company’s growing investment in sports, broadcast, and live-event logistics. Headquartered in Dallas, ICAT has 35 years
In-house local telecasts have added new camera angles, graphics package, and deeper NHL Edge data, and Steve Mayer says the shows are continuously improving One month into the 2026-27 season,
Gravity Media is marking its 25th year facilitating the host broadcast for the Melbourne Cup Carnival, continuing its relationship with the Victoria Racing Club (VRC). It will facilitate more than
The new experience folds into Burn's existing app, creating a wearable-friendly hub that lets members track workouts, nutrition and progress toward goals
Germany’s Bundesliga will produce a fully virtualised live version of this weekend’s Der Klassiker between Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund, styled in 3D as Playmobil toys. Children (and adults) may
Live event production company FOH Productions has built a portable camera switching and control flypack that uses Riedel’s MediorNet real-time media network for distributed video routing, with Riedel Artist digital
For decades, broadcasters have designed production around one rule: build for the biggest job that’s likely to be booked. Over-provisioning was the engineering answer to an unpredictable production calendar, and
TSN will launch Film Never Lies Grey Cup Playoffs Watchalong, an altcast hosted by TSN football analyst Luke Willson, for two CFL Grey Cup Playoffs games. Willson will host a
Health and fitness tracker Whoop has signed LeBron James as its newest global ambassador. It marks a full-circle moment for the brand and NBA star, who started wearing a Whoop in 2015 as one of its first 100 members, long before health wearables became ubiquitous. James will star in multimedia ad…
FloSports and the Pac-12 Conference have entered a media partnership that will bring all Pac-12 wrestling events to FloWrestling beginning with the 2026-27 season. The agreement makes FloWrestling the exclusive
Advanced Systems Group (ASG) has appointed Bob Daniel Storage and Workflow Solutions Architect within its Enterprise Storage team. Daniel has more than 30 years of experience designing and implementing storage
