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2019-20 NLL Schedule Released; Every Game to be Distributed on B/R Live

The National Lacrosse League (NLL), the largest men’s professional lacrosse league, has released the schedule for the upcoming 2019-2020 regular season. The 2019-20 season will involve 13 teams including the expansion New York Riptide and Rochester Knighthawks, as well as the new market Halifax Thunderbirds. A total of 117 games ...

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Study: NFL Viewers Moving To Streaming Services And Apps

The market research team at Colling Media, a top-ranked national digital advertising and marketing agency, has conducted a nationwide survey to study the evolving adoption of streaming video services by viewers of NFL games. Key findings include: For viewers of NFL games, migration away from cable and satellite continues at a ...

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Wondery and The Athletic Launch ‘The Lead’ Podcast

Wondery, the largest independent podcast publisher in the world, is partnering with The Athletic, home to the best storytelling in sports, to create the first ever in-depth daily sports news podcast. The series, titled The Lead, will make its debut on September 16th, 2019. Every weekday morning, The Lead co-hosts ...

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Namath, Brees, Favre Featured In NFL: The Grind Week One

Premium television network EPIX® and NFL Films today announced its inaugural lineup for the weekly half-hour series NFL: The Grind, which premieres Wednesday, September 11 at 9pm eastern time. In addition to Rich Eisen’s final word on the week in football, the series premiere features “Broadway” Joe Namath as he ...

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SiriusXM Celebrates NFL’s 100th Season with New 20-Part Podcast Series

SiriusXM will celebrate the NFL’s 100th season with a new podcast series that will showcase the NFL’s greatest memories and will air on both SiriusXM and Pandora. The NFL 100 Greatest podcast is a specially-produced 20-episode series counting down the greatest NFL memories in five categories — Plays, Games, Characters, Game Changers and ...

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Yankee Global Enterprises with Strategic Partners Acquire YES Network from Disney

Yankee Global Enterprises, with strategic partners Sinclair Broadcast Group and Amazon, today announced the purchase of the YES Network (“YES”) from The Walt Disney Company, acquiring the 80 percent of the YES Network not already held by Yankee Global Enterprises at a total enterprise value of $3.47 billion. Additional equity ...

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U.S. Soccer Legend Jimmy Conrad To Host New Weekly English-Speaking LaLiga Show

LaLiga North America announced today its partnership with the former captain of the U.S. Men’s National Team and World Cup veteran Jimmy Conrad to host its first ever English-speaking anchor show. A new episode will air each week with Conrad discussing his analysis, top highlights, and personal opinions on LaLiga ...

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PrestoSports, SCAC Partner To Launch Digital Network

A lot of the talk this month has been about the launch of the ACC Network and its inclusion on cable and streaming services. But the beauty of the digital world is that conferences big and small can showcase student-athletes at their member schools through their own platforms. Case in ...

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U.S. Polo, Palm Beach County Team On ‘Women in Polo’ Show

USPA Global Licensing Inc. (USPAGL), the official licensing arm and broadcaster of the United States Polo Association (USPA), is proud to partner with the Palm Beach County Tourist Development Council (TDC) in sponsoring the new television and digital show “Women in Polo: The Palm Beaches,” a 30-minute in-depth look at ...

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NXT Moves To USA Network

WWE and USA Network today announced an agreement in principle to air WWE’s weekly Wednesday night show, NXT, live on USA Network at 8/7c starting September 18. Following NXT’s growth in popularity, the new two-hour weekly show will expand its reach on USA Network, the leader in cable entertainment, while staying in its ...

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