sportsontheair.blogspot.com - 11/14/2008
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Costa Mesa, CA (Nov 13, 2008) - There were four news "events" this week related to the rights ownership of broadcast sports properties. First, you had what some called the "Heidi game" of NASCAR . The second was news that the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) is entertaining the thought of leaving ...
bizoffootball.com - 11/19/2008
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bizoffootball.com —
ESPN has reached an extensive agreement with the
Bowl Championship Series (BCS), granting exclusive TV, radio, digital,...
international and marketing rights for 15 BCS games from January 2011 through January 2014. It includes the Fiesta, Orange and Sugar Bowls each season and the BCS National ...
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ESPN and BCS Reach Four-Year Agreement
usatoday.com - 11/11/2008
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usatoday.com —
Conference commissioners and Barry Frank of IMG have
been meeting in Chicago since Sunday. Most of the...
commissioners left on Monday, but the ACC's John Swofford, this year's BCS coordinator, stayed behind to iron out details, according to several ...
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BCS discussing possible move from Fox to ESPN
sportsbusinessdaily.com - 11/12/2008
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sportsbusinessdaily.com —
John Ourand , Staff Writer The BCS is
considering a proposal from ESPN that would see all...
BCS bowl games, including the championship game, wind up on ESPN, sources familiar with the negotiations are saying. If the BCS ultimately accepts the bid, it ...
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BCS Considering ESPN Proposal That Would Put Games On Cable
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... a while. Guest blogging for Darren Rovell, CNBC sports producer Tom Rotunno writes that Justin Timberlake becomes the first non-golfer to endorse Callaway Golf products. Mike Reynolds of Multichannel News says the YES Network starts a series of sports business specials tonight. Larry Barrett of Multichannel writes that ESPN scored with the finale of the World Series of Poker. The great Christopher Byrne of the Eye on Sports Media blog looks at the migration of sports from network TV to cable. Thanks to Awful Announcing, ...
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... If you have not read Part I yet, I highly suggest you do so. Since I began blogging regularly last year, Chris has become a good friend and I can't stress enough the hard work he puts into his blog. ...
Sporting Events on ESPN Just Don't Feel "Special" (The Cablization of Television Sports Properties - Part III)
Eye On Sports Media —
... special, so that it stands head and shoulders above the crowd. And ESPN responded, providing great coverage worth watching. No scrolling scoreboards. No cross-marketing and cross-branding. Just the sport. If cable networks cannot do this consistently, not only have they robbed non-cable homes of the events, they are robbing their cable viewers who are paying the high fees that the ESPN family of networks demands from operators. Related Link(s) The Cablization of Television Sports Properties - Part I The ...
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