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The avatars of actual athletes have populated video-sports gaming for years. Platforms like NBA 2K26, EA Sports Madden NFL, EA Sports FC, and MLB The Show use real-world athlete likenesses,
NBC Sports opens its 21st season of Sunday Night Football tonight with the 2026 NFL Kickoff Game from Lumen Field in Seattle, where the Seahawks raise their Super Bowl LX
With the USTA taking over the host broadcast operations at this year’s US Open, ESPN has been able to dedicate more production resources that ever before to its domestic and
NFL Films has announced the second season of Inside the NFL on X as an X Original, premiering Wednesday, September 9. The series marks Inside the NFL’s 50th anniversary. The
Omaha Productions has released ManningCast: Heist, a short film featuring Peyton and Eli Manning attempting to break into NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell’s office to change their schedule, as the season
Roku and the NFL have announced the international expansion of the NFL Zone, a centralized hub within the Roku Sports experience. The NFL Zone is now available in Canada, Mexico,
Now that the NFL, the richest sports league in the world, sits unchallenged atop American sports, that lofty perch raises its own questions: How can you sustain growth and popularity without falling prey to complacency—or greed? How do you further grow a successful league while fending off platform…
Now that the NFL, the richest sports league in the world, sits unchallenged atop American sports, that lofty perch raises its own questions: How can you sustain growth and popularity without falling prey to complacency—or greed? How do you further grow a successful league while fending off platform…
ESPN is opening the 2026 college-football season with a decidedly new look behind the desk. In Bristol, CT, the company has completely rebuilt flagship Studio W, a 148-million-pixel production environment
Twenty-five years ago this week, Andy Freedman landed one of his first gigs in the sports television industry. There was just one catch: he didn’t have a place to sleep.
One of sports television’s all-time great properties hits a milestone this weekend as the college football season gets underway. This weekend in Baton Rouge, College GameDay will mark its 500th
Facility becomes permanent home of NFL Live on Sept. 9; centerpiece studio for college football, NHL In what the network is calling its “most technologically advanced studio ever built,” Studio
Year 2 of Big 12 coverage opens Saturday at West Virginia with a larger technical complement, centralized graphics workflow, and SMT integration College football is becoming a bigger part of
College football has long represented one of the largest and most complicated weekly production undertakings at ESPN. In 2026, that sprawling operation is getting another technological lift. Across its college-football
EverPass Media has announced a multi-year commercial distribution agreement with Netflix, expanding on an existing partnership that has delivered NFL Christmas Day games and Netflix-exclusive boxing events to bars and
EverPass Media has secured an expanded multi-year distribution agreement with Netflix to deliver the streaming giant's complete National Football League content slate to commercial establishments across the United States.
As Big Ten Network opens its 20th season of college-football coverage, its production team is putting a little more emphasis on making viewers feel like they are inside the stadium.
ESPN and Disney+ are launching College Football Saturdays, adding two college football games per week to Disney+ for U.S. subscribers as part of their existing subscription. The offering also includes
DAZN is significantly expanding its presence in the U.S. sports media market with the acquisition of EverPass Media, strengthening its position in the fast-growing commercial sports streaming sector. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. As part of the deal, the NFL, TKO and…
Behind The Mic provides a roundup of recent news regarding on-air talent, including new deals, departures, and assignments compiled from press releases and reports around the industry. In this week’s
