MLS and Liga MX to Create a New Club Level Tournament
Major League Soccer and Liga MX agreed to carve a one-month hole in their schedules to create a CONCACAF-sanctioned club tournament that would include all 47 teams…
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Super Bowl Producers Hope for Last Hurrah of Fake Fan Noise
Even with more than 20,000 fans expected at Super Bowl LV, the NFL will still provide artificial crowd noise for Sunday’s broadcast, as it has for every game this…
‘Frankenstein’ Camera Rig Steals the Show During Fox NFL Broadcast
It wasn’t Seahawks wideout DK Metcalf or Washington lineman Chase Young who broke out Sunday but a camera following them, one nicknamed “The Megalodon” by the Fox Sports…
WNBA Weathers 2020 With Expanded Coverage, Sponsorship and Activism
In 2019, the WNBA began a rebranding effort focused on both a refreshed image and revived cultural relevance. The mission made an impact from the start—last season’s…
Network Ratings and Ad Dollars Plummet in the Absence of Live Sports
Top-tier sports programming can’t come back soon enough for the U.S. television networks, which in the absence of the tube’s highest-rated programming are facing a…
Ratings Gaffe Has Network Execs Dreaming of a Post-Nielsen Future
Nielsen on Friday scrambled to placate network executives who‘d been bushwhacked by the company‘s decision to delay a long-awaited fall ratings upgrade, but ad sales…
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