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Vegas Golden Knights
John Ourand April 10, 2025
The bankruptcy of Diamond Sports was supposed to touch off a fire sale for local sports rights. Two years later, local broadcasters are still waiting to pounce.
Gary Bettman sidney crosby
John Ourand April 7, 2025
NHL commissioner Gary Bettman is on a hot streak: the innovative 4 Nations Face-Off tournament in February, a new $7.7 billion media rights deal in Canada, and forthcoming sublicense negotiation. Here, he chats candidly about his travels through the platform realignment.
derek jeter yankees phillies
John Ourand April 1, 2025
The battle between the Yankees’ YES Network and Comcast is about to go nuclear, and it might even feature a Trump angle that no one saw coming.
Patrick Whitesell
John Ourand March 28, 2025
Now that he’s finally liberated from the Ari-verse, Patrick Whitesell and his new Silver Lake–backed $250 million investment platform are making moves, starting with an investment in a certain telegenic former QB’s production company.


Marie Donoghue
John Ourand March 21, 2025
It’s a familiar story, old as time: A platform company decides it wants to take a whirl in the media business, hires up, brings in a big executive… and then decides it doesn’t want to be in the media business after all.
Joe Buck Troy Aikman
John Ourand March 17, 2025
Two years out from broadcasting the Super Bowl, ESPN is yet again shaking up its truck—this time bringing in Fox hired gun Artie Kempner in a happy reunion with Troy and Buck. Coincidence?
Norby Williamson espn
John Ourand March 14, 2025
When veteran ESPN producer Norby Williamson took over production at Main Street Sports early this year, he had no intention of maintaining the R.S.N.s’ status quo. Today, he rolled out his plan for sports-specific production silos while recruiting four execs from Bristol. But can it all possibly work?
Jessica Berman nwsl
John Ourand March 10, 2025
NWSL’s Jessica Berman returns to talk about her priorities for the 13th season: broadcast discoverability, cultural relevance, and the star power of the Triple Espresso. Not necessarily in that order.


Jimmy Pitaro
John Ourand March 7, 2025
As ESPN’s relationship with MLB continues to fray, Bristol executives are cozying up to Main Street Sports on a deal that will help the network stay close to the game that it has carried for the past 35 years. But the deal isn’t quite the “end around” that some have suggested.
Eric Shanks
John Ourand February 28, 2025
Fox Sports C.E.O. Eric Shanks started his career working at the Indy 500. Now, his network is trying to leverage its NASCAR package with the rights to IndyCar. Can he restore the latter to its former glory?
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