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By R. Thomas Umstead & Mike Reynolds Upstart and National Networks Face Crowded Field, Ratings Dip The upstart Big Ten Network will strap on its helmet next month and join [...]

By R. Thomas Umstead Cable Operators Not Rushing to Sign Up Just Yet The Big Ten Network is two weeks away from hiking the ball. But as of now, very [...]

By Staff Empereon Calls Up Coudersport Workers Staff New York - Call-center provider Empereon Marketing will serve up at least 450 new jobs over the next three years at The [...]

By R. Thomas Umstead In Demand's cable owners brought Major League Baseball's 'Extra Innings' package to cable's turf, but no other operators have joined them yet. Cable companies including Charter [...]

By R. Thomas Umstead Signals Crossed On Whether DirecTV Has Sewn Up Package Against the backdrop of pitchers and catchers reporting to baseball spring-training camps last week, Major League Baseball, [...]

By Ben Grossman Cable makes deeper strides in broadcast territory ESPN and Turner Sports, not to mention the National Football League, made bold moves this year, confirming beyond doubt that [...]

By R. Thomas Umstead Turner Network Television will turn to hip-hop star Jay-Z to tout its upcoming slate of exclusive Thursday night National Basketball Association games, and also turn some [...]

By Staff Going Fishin' Joel Brown The hunting and fishing trips on the Sportsman Channel take place nowhere near the concrete canyons of Manhattan. But the action that affected the [...]

By Ben Grossman Kornheiser, flex scheduling and NFL Network are this season's flashpoints As the NFL season prepares to kick off this week, TV rights to the games themselves are [...]

By Ben Grossman and John M. Higgins League's new network ignites a turf war with cable operators Like a rookie at the Super Bowl, the new NFL Network is center [...]

Upcoming digital network will cover tournaments, instruction, news of stars With an eye clearly on the recent sales of The Golf Channel and Speedvision, a group of ex-Viacom executives is [...]

TNN: The National Network, as it calls itself, will air the non-broadcast cable games of the XFL, as expected. The games of the XFL--the new football league started by the [...]

Sportvision will be producing extensive Web coverage of the 2000 Ironman Triathlon World Championship in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, on Oct. 14, in partnership with the World Triathlon Corporation (WTC). The live [...]

Showtime Event Television is hoping that a series of June heavyweight fights telecast on its sister pay TV network will spawn at least two pay-per-view boxing events later this year. [...]

Hendricks, MSOs Back Women's Soccer League Women's soccer has become the preferred sport of cable television. Hoping to capitalize on the popularity of the women's World Cup soccer team, Discovery [...]

Company seeks to bring boxing back to broadcast TV with syndicated 'Thunderbox' South Carolina-based Litton Syndications is looking to return toprank boxing to broadcast TV, with a 21st-century twist. Litton, [...]

For two weeks every four years, the Winter Olympics mesmerize millions of viewers. The nation goes crazy watching figure skaters, snowboarders, even curlers compete for the gold. NBC Universal kicks [...]

When one talks about documentaries on cable television, the image of The Discovery Channel's Walking With Dinosaurs, National Geographic Channel's National Geographic Explorer or even A&E Network's Biography series come [...]

Thanks to ruling in June by the U.S. Supreme Court voiding the network contracts with the National Collegiate Athletic Association for the rights to televise the football games of its [...]

ABC Sports will begin televising what it labels 'the biggest show in the history of television' less than three weeks from today, and all indications are that the network's presentation [...]

Fox Sports Net's domination of the regional-sports-network business is nearing completion, as the SportsChannel regional services prepare for a relaunching embodying the Fox Sports attitude. Fox and Rainbow Media Holdings [...]

According to confidential memo, service will cherry-pick some hockey and basketball games At looks like Dow Jones/ITT-owned WBIS(TV) New York (marketed as WBIS+) is going to shake up the region's [...]

WTBS conversion plan puts baseball deal at risk Turner Broadcasting's plan to convert WTBS(TV) Atlanta from a superstation to a more traditional cable network faces a major hurdle in gaining [...]

New ice skating circuit pondered; sports and entertainment will split ex-NFL slot Although ABC and NBC have locked up key figure skating events, CBS Sports is determined to cash in [...]

NEW YORK - Operators are looking forward to offering Showtime Event Television's 10-week package of pay-per-view college football games, even though some executives voiced concerns over distribution of the games [...]

Services considering additional revenue stream to help offset program costs With the increasing inability to pass on programing costs to cable operators, basic cable networks are looking to pay per [...]

Combine a country filled with sports fans and a cable universe filled with channels to program and a sports news channel would seem a likely result. Indeed, it is a [...]

Liberty, SC Plan New Sports Net Rainbow Programming Holdings Inc. and Liberty Media Corp. have agreed to launch a sports news service by the end of the year, according to [...]

Along with NBC's new 30-million deal with Notre Dame and the first season of Capital Cities/ABC's exclusive College Football Association package, the 1991-92 college football TV landscape will see changes [...]

MIAMI, DENVER: MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL RIGHTS ON DECK Pending American League approval, Miami (the nation's 15th largest television market) and Denver (the 19th market) will become Major League Baseball cities [...]

The efforts of NBC and Cablevision's pay-per-view Olympics to secure carriage for the three-channel event for nonaddressable cable homes has led Olympics executives to formally sit down with both the [...]

The NFL Takes Aim at Pay-Per-View in 1992 Several pay-per-view executives said they have had initial discussions with the National Football League about possible pay-per-view distribution of league games. But [...]

TT0052 With five weeks remaining before the start of the Major League Baseball season, several regional cable sports services that carried baseball for the first time in 1990 are still [...]

In an effort to increase distribution, SportsChannel America is offering operators a new rate card with incentives for carrying additional NBC/Cablevision services. It has also established theme night programing to [...]

CBS will delay the premiere of three series next fall until after the World Series, according to Jeff Sagansky, president, CBS Entertainment, who went before visiting television critics in Los [...]

Cable calls `time out' on football Plans to increase number of games on ESPN concern some MSO's who fear they will have to raise rates Some cable operators are throwing [...]

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL team owners have agreed to a league plan to launch a baseball cable network by fall 2005. It is unclear if the MLB-owned channel would program live [...]

Who's in charge? ESPN. It may look like the NFL called the shots on Playmakers, but looks are deceiving. 'If we were under the thumb of the NFL, we never [...]

The NFL will consider allowing a Syracuse station to broadcast Buffalo Bills games, even though a small part of the viewing area is within the blackout area. An extremely limited [...]

On the heels of its successful 'X Games' franchise, ESPN announced last week that it will create and debut the first ever 'Great Outdoor Games' in 2000. The Outdoor Games [...]

ATLANTA -- Six months alter its Summer Goodwill Games event A in New York, Turner Sports announced last week it will offer winter version of the sports competition sometime in [...]

New Line Television is developing a syndicated sports magazine show for next fall that is being pitched as the Entertainment Tonight of the sports industry. The yet-to-be-named project, which will [...]

With ABC falling behind Fox for some of the February sweeps, Wall Street wants to see action to bolster ratings. One plan Disney is considering: tying its successful ESPN sports [...]

CBS Chief Financial Officer Fred Reynolds has downplayed the company's chances of getting back into the business of televising National Football League games. In remarks at last week's Paine Webber [...]

ESPN has taken the offensive in its war with Fox/Liberty Sports by setting plans to launch a Los Angeles regional sports network next October. The move follows the alliance of [...]

NEW YORK - Showtime Event Television is hoping to spread the word about its Nov. 8 Evander Holyfield-Michael Moorer fight through an unprecedented amount of national broadcast and cable-network spots. [...]

In an effort to generate more operator carriage, ESPN has reworked its ESPN Full Court out-of-market pay-per-view package. Unlike the multilevel, split-laden package from a year ago, ESPN will provide [...]

Local operators complain Comcast/Spectacor wants too high a price Comcast/Spectacor says it will launch its regional sports channel for Philadelphia-area subscribers as a basic cable network, despite protests from some [...]

This Sunday will be a first for MediaOne and ESPN when the cable operator and network team up to promote the newly named Mediaone 200 auto race at the Brooklyn [...]

Several regional sports networks were hoping to capitalize on local rivalries as Major League Baseball's first-ever interleague games moved into full swing this past weekend. Unprecedented interstate matchups such as [...]