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The Trail Blazers became the fourth NBA team to part with an RSN model, announcing today that their 2024-25 games will not air on Root Sports. Indications are the team is being pursued by as many as four local over-the-air stations -- with Gray-owned KPTV Channel...

TNT's Kenny Smith said the NBA's new media rights deal -- which is not set to include TNT parent company Warner Bros. Discovery -- gives him and his "Inside the NBA" co-hosts a "unique opportunity" to "have ownership in the property," according to Greg Rajan of the HOUSTON...

CBS Sports will get cash, local broadcast rights and promotional spots as part of its deal to produce Netflix’s two NFL Christmas Day games , CBS Sports President & CEO David Berson said today. Netflix’s entry into live games was the NFL...

European Professional Club Rugby has signed a three-year deal for Premier Sports to become the "exclusive broadcaster for the Champions Cup in the United Kingdom and Ireland." The cup had previously been without a mainstream television broadcaster ahead of the upcoming season with organizers unable to reach a deal...

Viewers sought out NBC's  Olympic coverage during afternoon hours more than ever before for a Summer Games, with the 2-5pm ET window (dubbed “Paris Primetime”) making up 38% of this year’s overall audience for NBC, which includes the normal U.S. primetime window on the East Coast. The 38%...

MSG Networks' Rangers TV play-by-play voice Sam Rosen said that he wanted to make his retirement announcement “well in advance of his last season ‘to give everyone a heads-up,’” according to Neil Best of NEWSDAY. Rosen said, “The network certainly wants to make this just a nice...

For the second straight week, the most recent “Hard Knocks” episode "was more family-friendly” than those of years past -- “perhaps a product of the Bears having the final cut,” according to Patrick Finley of the CHICAGO SUN-TIMES. Amazingly, there was “no cursing” in the last two weeks’ episodes...

SI’s Jimmy Traina wrote he is "looking forward to hearing" from CBS’ new NFL broadcast booth of Andrew Catalon, Jason McCourty and Tiki Barber. Traina: "Catalon is the most underrated NFL broadcaster on any network, and McCourty was a very good listen in his first season as an analyst...

Longhorn Network's “transition to the SEC is complete” as Texas AD Chris Del Conte helped open up the network's new streaming/broadcast studio yesterday morning, according to Caleb Yum of the AUSTIN AMERICAN-STATESMAN. Set inside Darrell K Royal Memorial Stadium, the space “features multiple booths powered by Dell Technology and...

Bears fans eager to stream the second episode of HBO's "Hard Knocks" last night "had to wait an extra hour" to access the show, as the episode release on streaming platform Max was "delayed after it was originally scheduled to post at" 9pm ET. It wasn't until "roughly an...