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European Championship
/ 1147 days agoFOX on verge of acquiring European Championship rights
FOX is on the verge of acquiring the European Championship rights in the United States for the 2024 and 2028 competitions, according to Sports Business Journal. Currently, ESPN broadcasts the quadrennial event. In fact, ESPN broadcasted each Euros since 2008. Therefore, for ESPN, the rights package is something of a commodity. Moreover, the acquisition of […]
Diversity
/ 1148 days agoThe faces and voices of growing diversity in soccer coverage
Diversity is fluid. It is one of those things that is hard to define. But, simultaneously, you know when it exists. Soccer, like so many other sports, developed a stereotype for including only white men. That's no slight of the sport. It is merely a reflection of society and its progressive nature only over the […]
NBC Sports
/ 1169 days agoYouTube TV on verge of losing 14 NBC channels
Carriage disputes between cable/satellite providers and TV broadcasters seem to happen all the time. Generally, we associate those with Regional Sports Networks and the ability to watch local sports teams. However, the most recent dispute involves a streaming service and a major television broadcaster. This most recent disagreement involves YouTube TV and NBCUniversal. The two […]
General
/ 5956 days agoAnother Reason To Hate NBC's Olympic Soccer Coverage
Watching Brazil against Argentina in the semi-final of the Olympic games this morning, I felt like I was in a timewarp back to the late 1980's. That's because NBC, in their infinite stupidity, are breaking for TV commercials in the middle of the game. And just as it routinely happened in the late 1980's (including […]