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A year after returning to the US Open with an onsite studio show for the first time in five years, Tennis Channel is back in the same spot on Fountain
ESPN is taking one of its biggest steps yet toward making 4K HDR a regular part of the sports-viewing experience. The sports network announced that, beginning this week, ESPN and
The Palio di Siena is the name for two historical horse races that take place in the centre of Siena, Tuscany, Italy every year. The first race of the Palio
The next Paralympic Games will be held in Los Angeles from 15 to 27 August 2028, and the media rights sales process is now underway. The LA28 Organising Committee is
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…
For a show built to drop itself into the middle of a college campus and turn Saturday morning into an event, FOX Sports isn’t interested in change simply for change’s
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.
World Team Tennis (WTT) has announced a broadcast partnership with USA Sports, the sports division of Versant. USA Sports will air all six of WTT’s live matches exclusively on CNBC
Pac-12 Enterprises will produce all broadcasts in the 22-game schedule It’s time to buckle up, folks: Pac-12 Football is headed to USA Sports. After announcing a five-year partnership back in
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
With another academic year underway, college athletic departments across the country are once again firing up control rooms and producing hundreds of live events for broadcast, streaming, in-venue presentation, and
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
Yahoo Sports and Apple TV have announced a partnership to deliver alternate broadcasts of select Friday Night Baseball and MLS games on the Yahoo Sports website and app, featuring commentary
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 Orlando Magic announced today that DAZN will serve as the Magic’s exclusive direct-to-consumer streaming partner for the 2026-27 season. All Magic regular season games, excluding national exclusives, will stream
Fujifilm North America Corporation’s Optical Devices Division has announced the FUJINON UA94x8.7BESM (UA94x8.7), a box zoom lens for 2/3-inch sensor broadcast cameras. Initial orders are expected to ship by mid-October
ESPN has renewed its media rights agreement for the Secretaries’ Cup rivalry between the United States Merchant Marine Academy and the United States Coast Guard Academy through 2030. The five-year
