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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…
While CBS Sports opens the college football season with the most significant leadership change its lead package has seen in a generation, the technical foundation driving the show is getting
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
The NFL and TikTok have announced a multi-year partnership renewal expanding the league’s presence on the platform. NFL posts on TikTok increased more than 32% during the past year. The
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.
The streaming giant’s full NFL slate will be shown in commercial establishments.
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
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.
If you’re a big NFL fan, then you’re probably familiar with the term “scorigami,” meaning a final score that has never happened before. Jon Bois of Secret Base invented the concept back in 2016 with a YouTube video, and fans quickly became fascinated with tracking in real time whether games with…
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
