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• Networks take bold steps to offer new vantage points

  - 2007-07-11

  Over the last two nights, we've seen Fox contributor Eric Byrnes and ESPN's Kenny Mayne paddle around McCovey Cove in kayaks in search of home run balls at Major League Baseball's Home Run Derby and 78th All-Star Game from San Francisco. In the future, ESPN would...

  Tags: camera, ESPN, MLB, NASCAR, NBC Universal Inc., network, NETWORKING, NFL, TVs

• Lots of networks want a piece of NASCAR: with new NFL contract, will NBC punt on the popular sport?(NASCAR SPECIAL REPORT)

  - 2005-09-26

  As the NASCAR season enters its last lap with the Chase for the Nextel Cup playoff series, the competition to see who televises the growing sport after 2006 is also heating up. The current $2.4 billion television contract expires after next ...

  Tags: NASCAR, NBC Universal Inc., ESPN, Nextel Communications Inc., network, NFL

• NBC's TV coverage of the Presidents Cup runneth over

  - 2005-09-21

  The Presidents Cup, which starts Thursday, was created in 1994 partly to create something similar to the Ryder Cup's odd appeal -- fervently nationalistic golf. The Ryder Cup, contested since 1927, pits Europeans vs. Americans. The Presidents Cup pits Americans against golfers from outside Europe. And while that gives...

  Tags: ABC Inc., ESPN, NASCAR, NBC Universal Inc., president, team, TVs

• NBC gears up for NASCAR by switching announcers

  - 2005-06-29

  As NBC inherits NASCAR coverage from Fox on Saturday, it will have a change prompted by hockey. Last year NBC race announcer Allen Bestwick missed two races after being injured playing recreational hockey. NBC analyst Wally Dallenbach offered an on-air tribute to the convalescing Bestwick: "I told Allen those...

  Tags: Allen, ESPN, Games, NASCAR, NBC Universal Inc., TVs

• ESPN primed to bring us more on draft, more Kiper

  - 2005-04-22

  The first three rounds of Saturday's NFL draft will draw about 5 million visitors to nfl.com, attract its first satellite radio coverage on Sirius and get an hourlong predraft show on the NFL Network before ESPN/ESPN2 begin 17 hours of weekend coverage at noon ET. So what that nobody...

  Tags: camera, ESPN, Games, MARKETING, MLB, NASCAR, NBC Universal Inc., NFL, TVs

• Networks say no to NBC's delay tactic in spite of curse not foiled on ESPN

  - 2004-10-11

  The silence was deafening when network executives were asked if they would follow NBC's decision to put a five-second delay on sports telecasts. NBC's decision came after Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s profanity in an interview after a NASCAR race. Officials from Fox, CBS, ESPN and NBC's NASCAR partner, TNT,...

  Tags: CBS Corp., ESPN, FCC, Games, Government, NASCAR, NBC Universal Inc., network

• NASCAR: No wheels of fortune yet

  - 2004-02-13

  Through most TV lenses, the NASCAR picture looks terrific as NBC begins its fourth season with Sunday's Daytona 500. * Viewership has jumped 40% since NBC/TNT and Fox took over the sport in 2001. * NASCAR's 5.3 average broadcast network rating is second only to the NFL's 10.0...

  Tags: ABC Inc., Cable, Comcast Corp., Disney Corp., ESPN, NASCAR, NBA, NBC Universal Inc., network, NFL, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, TVs

• 1999 Ad

  - 1999-12-20

  Stern locks up the runner-up spot with a cost-effective and fan-friendly resolution of the NBA lockout FAN'S MOST POWERFUL PERSON Who ranks as this year's most powerful person in sports? Users of sportingnews.com and yahoo.com got a chance to vote for their candidates. The list of the top five,...

  Tags: Cablevision Systems Corp., ESPN, International Olympic Committee, NASCAR, NBA, NBC Universal Inc., NFL

• Fox, NBC-TBS Win NASCAR Race.

  - 1999-11-15

  NEW YORK -- In the latest pricey sports-rights deal, Fox, NBC and the latter's cable partner, Turner Sports, have wrested NASCAR auto racing away from CBS Corp. and ESPN. But while the amount paid for the popular programming will skyrocket, t...

  Tags: NASCAR, cable, ESPN, NBC Universal Inc., programming

• Nascar shifts into media high gear.(National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing's contracts with media companies)(Brief Article)

  - 1999-09-20

  NEW YORK One of the country's most well-informed men about the convergence of media, showbiz and sports is an unassuming executive named Bray Cary, VP of programming for Nascar. Based in Charlotte, N.C., Cary is the point person in negotiating a ...

  Tags: CBS Corp., ESPN, NASCAR, National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, NBC Universal Inc., NFL