NBC Sports will debut the first ever second-screen broadcast targeted specifically for sports bettors. The new show, NBC Sports Edge BetCast, will broadcast live from the Waste Management Open exclusively on Peacock Premium, hosted by Golf Channel’s Steve Burkowski and George Savaricas. The production will run alongside the regular NBC Sports telecast on Golf Channel and …
Players’ Salaries Could Average $1 Million NBC Sports agreed yesterday on a four-year, $600 million contract to televise NBA games beginning next season, snatching the package from longtime carrier CBS and continuing the recent vast escalation in sports rights fees. The $150-million-a-year price tag marks about a 340 percent increase over …
They finally pulled the plug on me. First the cable goons came by and said I hadn’t paid the bill; guilty as charged—I pointed out that there never was anything on cable worth paying for. Then my old college lit professor came by and said I hadn’t read a book since Super Bowl …
“I don’t think we’ll see pay-per-view, at least while I’m the commissioner, unless I stay 30 years like Pete Rozelle, which I don’t think I’ll do.” — Paul Tagliabue on ABC Monday night. Sooner or later—maybe even while Paul Tagliabue is commissioner—the NFL will embrace pay-per-view. It will be …
“Kill the ump!” they once shouted at baseball stadiums everywhere. “Kill the announcer!” they now shout in baseball living rooms everywhere. When it comes to broadcasting the national pastime’s postseason, there’s a lot of anger out there. Just ask Al Michaels, who begins another journey through the turbulent airwaves Saturday as ABC’s World Series …
Recently the networks asked if I would rate their play-by-play broadcasters, because I’m a regular guy. They said they would pay me $25. I said I would do it for free. I compared the major broadcasters (excluding those who have been doing network play-by-play for less than two years). Announcers were …
Gerald Riggs fumbled a bit past 4:15 EDT Sunday. Through the magic of television, he fumbled again on CBS at 4:17, twice at 4:18 and at 4:19. Later that evening, he kept fumbling, nearly two dozen times on Channels 4, 5, 7 and 9. He fumbled on all of the Baltimore news stations, …
Major League Baseball broadcast rights holders, meeting here yesterday to discuss the movement of games from free to cable TV, will seek the elimination of broadcasting restrictions on Wednesday and Sunday nights in ESPN’s four-year contract with baseball to begin in 1990. John Serrao, chairman of the board for the Association …
What does it take to join the new NBC Sports? Its NFL coverage now includes O.J. Simpson (the running back of the ‘70s), Bobby Beathard (the executive of the ‘80s) and Bill Walsh (the coach of the ‘80s). Not exactly broadcast journalists by trade, but Executive Producer Terry O’Neil figures they’re the fresh …
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Baseball’s storied “Game of the Week” is dead after Saturday. It will not be missed. Baseball’s “Game of the Night” begins in 1990 on ESPN. It will be a can’t-miss hit. For the past 33 years, the “Game of the Week” has been a Saturday afternoon fixture on network …
