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Sports Media Watch found this 5/10/2008 on www.tvweek.com [flag]
The United States Tennis Association on Monday is expected to announce a deal to move cable rights for the U.S. Open to ESPN and the Tennis Channel beginning next year, according to a source familiar with the deal. USA Network has long televised early-round matches, but the network has been dropping its sports programming as it adds original series. USA also recently gave up its rights to the ... [link]

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U.S. Open/ESPN deal to be announced Monday.
Published 5/10/2008 by Paulsen (noreply@blogger.com) at Sports Media Watch
Starting next year, ESPN and The Tennis Channel will own the cable rights to all four Grand Slams. TVWeek reports that the USTA will officially announce a deal giving ESPN cable rights to the U.S. Open on Monday. ESPN will split rights to the event with The Tennis Channel, mimicking previous deals with the Australian Open, French Open and Wimbledon. ESPN and The Tennis Channel replace USA Network, which is getting out of the sports business. A USTA spokesman told Tennis Week that " ...

ESPN to add Hannah Storm, U.S. Open tennis
Published 5/12/2008 by Neil Best at Watchdog
... And TV Week reported back on Friday that ESPN and Tennis Channel now will share the cable rights to the U.S. Open tennis tournament, another step toward simplifying the complicated business of trying to figure out who covers which grand slam event. ...