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Ohio lawmaker fed up with Cavaliers' streaming service shuffle demands legal solution
14+ hour, 51+ min ago (195+ words) Ohio state Sen. Bill De Mora has had enough. Watching the Cleveland Cavaliers in the first round of the playoffs this week required navigating Amazon Prime Video for Game 1, Peacock for Game 2, and back to Amazon for Game 3. And De…...
Kevin Burkhardt, Greg Olsen reuniting to call Fanatics Flag Football Classic on Fox
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (290+ words) Kevin Burkhardt and Greg Olsen are getting the band back together, at least for one afternoon. Fox announced on Monday that the network's No. 1 NFL broadcast team will reunite to call the Fanatics Flag Football Classic on Saturday at 4 p. m. ET…...
Brendan Carr questions if Sports Broadcasting Act's antitrust exemption applies to streaming
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (500+ words) The Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961 is front and center on multiple fronts in the world of sports business these days. Put simply, the longstanding federal legislation allows professional sports leagues to package their media rights together to sell to broadcasters…...
Sen. Mike Lee calls on DOJ, FTC to reexamine antitrust exemptions in Sports Broadcasting Act
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (277+ words) Scrutiny over how the federal government enforces the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961 is becoming louder by the day. The letter comes less than one week after FCC'Chairman Brendan Carr'opened an inquiry into fragmentation in sports broadcasting, which'singled out the legislation....
More streaming NFL games are coming and so is more whining about it
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (683+ words) The NFL wants more money. That means 2026 was already set to be an interesting year in the world of sports media. Now that Paramount Skydance is set to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, things could get even more interesting. Streaming exclusives…...
Michael Jordan's NBA on NBC tenure has been a massive letdown
3+ mon, 5+ day ago (430+ words) The return of the NBA on NBC has been widely met with appreciation by most basketball fans. But there is one area of NBC's NBA coverage that has fallen drastically short: the contributions of Michael Jordan. But with the NBA…...
Scripps rejects Sinclair's unsolicited takeover bid
4+ mon, 5+ day ago (305+ words) As seemed likely after Scripps took measures to dissuade Sinclair from acquiring more shares in its company, the Scripps board of directors unanimously rejected an unsolicited acquisition offer by Sinclair on Tuesday. The company issued a press release to announce…...
Mike Missanelli out again at 97. 5 The Fanatic
8+ mon, 1+ week ago (452+ words) Just a year after returning to Philadelphia's premier sports talk station, Mike Missanelli has been dismissed once more. According to multiple sources cited by Crossing Broad's Kevin Kinkead, the veteran host was let go on Friday afternoon, despite having a…...