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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, the NFL’s return claims seven of
US college football arrives in London next week (Saturday 19 September), when the Kansas Jayhawks take on the Arizona State Sun Devils at Wembley Stadium for the inaugural Union Jack
Lions vs. Bills will also be the first regular-season game at new Highmark Stadium Prime Video may be the final national rightsholder to begin their 2026 NFL schedule, but they’ll
Creator Sports Network (CSN) and FAN.live have announced a partnership giving CSN’s network of more than 2,000 vetted creators access to live 3D NFL broadcasts rendered from official NFL data
The subscription streaming service posted an increase in global viewership.
For ESPN, the road to its first Super Bowl starts tonight in Kansas City. When the Denver Broncos visit the Kansas City Chiefs to open Monday Night Football’s 2026 season,
ESPN’s “Year of the Super Bowl” efforts that began right after Super Bowl LX are closing in on first and goal. And to give that campaign a fitting underscore, the
Production Anywhere Remote Kit (PARK) & AR-fueled Stage B are two key pieces to this year’s broadcast plan The NFL regular season’s weekly grind is unrelenting, and traveling from city
Producing an NFL game is complicated enough. Doing it from the other side of the world — with hundreds of crew members, a sprawling IP-based compound, studio programming tied back
Coming off a record-breaking season, CBS Sports is expanding HDR across its entire slate of weekly game productions. The move, which completes a transition that began with Super Bowl LVIII
The six-year-old venue is expanding capabilities for NFL action, Super Bowl LXI, 2028 Summer Olympics SoFi Stadium, as well as the surrounding area known as Hollywood Park, has nonstop activity
The NFL is launching its most expansive creator programming yet, bringing together dozens of digital creators, storytellers and cultural voices across football, food, fitness, fashion, lifestyle, gaming, comedy and more.
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,
ATN breaks down how NFL teams and players plan to use recovery technology this season, from compression and massage tools to sleep tech and wearables
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…
