Fox Nabs Broadcast Rights for Premier Rugby Sevens Games This Fall
Premier Rugby Sevens (PR7s) now has a broadcast partner for its debut showcase in October after agreeing to a media rights deal with FOX. The new rugby league, led by…
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David Katz, Fox Sports Head of Digital, Set to Exit
David Katz, executive VP of digital at Fox Sports, will leave the Fox Corp. division this fall after three years, Variety reports. Katz is departing to “return to my…
Back in the USFL: Fox to Broadcast Revived 1980s Football League
The United States Football League—a 1980s gridiron experiment famous for Herschel Walker, Steve Young, Reggie White and, yes, Donald Trump—is being resurrected and will…
Rodgers Trade Talk Has NFL TV Partners Mulling Game Swaps
In doing his bit to help give departing ESPN anchor Kenny Mayne a proper sendoff, an exceptionally relaxed Aaron Rodgers may have sent more than a few execs in the Green…
Fox Sports Upfront Pitch Kicks Off Hottest Ad Market in a Decade
The rollout of the 2021 NFL schedule may have been delayed by nearly a month, but now that advertisers have a more complete sense of where best to place their money in…
Fox Sports Boosts Soccer Portfolio With Six-Year CONMEBOL Deal
The U.S. media market is in the midst of an international soccer boom, and Fox Sports is the latest player to bulk up its fútbol arsenal, having inked a six-year deal…
Amazon Prime Video Accelerates Thursday Night Football Takeover
Amazon Prime Video will be getting an early start on its stewardship of Thursday Night Football, upgrading a year ahead of schedule from its original 2023 kickoff…
FOX Sports Buys 25% of Horse Racing Gambling Platform in Expanded NYRA Deal
FOX Sports is expanding its relationship with the New York Racing Association, a two-part deal that includes a media rights extension and an equity stake in the horse…
Fox’s Daytona 500 Ratings Hit an All-Time Low as NASCAR Cup Series Sees Soggy Start
A five-and-a-half-hour weather delay effectively soaked the official start of the 2021 NASCAR Cup Series, as Fox’s broadcast of the Daytona 500 delivered the lowest…
‘It’s not an 8K camera, it’s an $8k camera’: Meet the Man Behind FOX’s Broadcast Sensation
The so-called “megalodon” camera rig returns Sunday, when the Sony-DSLR-on-a-Ronin-gimbal will get its biggest audience yet during the Packers and Buccaneers…
‘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 CFO Hints Company Could Drop ‘Thursday Night Football’
Fox Corporation is currently the only NFL media partner to carry two different football franchises. Depending on the future costs of those games, Fox may be content to…
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