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Number of Employees 5,000
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NFL Network in talks with ESPN
- 2008-06-22
For years, they have circled and jabbed at each other like the heavyweights they are. In one corner, the NFL - considered the gold standard of American sports fare, where ad revenues are as eye-popping as the open-field hits. In the other, Comcast - the Philadelphia-based cable giant that had...
NFL Network, ESPN discuss a partnership
- 2008-06-21
NEW YORK AP -- The NFL Network and Walt Disney Co.'s ESPN are in talks about forming a partnership, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday. A deal could end a long standoff between the league and cable carriers, some of whom said the NFL was asking them to...
Black sportscasters up for Sports Emmy Awards
- 2008-03-31
[ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] Cable networks HBO and ESPN lead the pack of nominations by the National Television Academy for the 29th Annual Sports Emmy Awards. HBO received 31 nominations, including nods for the studio series "Inside the NFL," co-hosted by Cris Carter, Bob Costas, Cris Collinsworth and Dan Marino....
Clash of the Titans: Cable industry rebels against NFL's new channel
- 2007-08-22
As football season approaches, the cable industry is gang- tackling the fledgling NFL Network created by the powerful National Football League. Comcast subscribers in Utah and across the nation have had the NFL Network yanked from their homes as part of a bitter battle. The NFL tried to...
TBS Scores a Playoff Win.
- 2006-10-23
By R. Thomas Umstead TBS has hit a cable home run, connecting on a seven-year deal to televise one of Major League Baseball's two League Championship Series, sliding past ESPN and NFL Network in securing the rights. The...
The Reality of Monday Night Football
- 2006-08-28
Prime-time football on cable seems a cinch to grab ratings and revenue, unless the schedule and acrimony results in upsets. By Seth Arenstein The success of reality television has reduced the number of scripted series, but there's not been a similar diminution in the number of...
ESPN's Berman sadly gives up 'PrimeTime'
- 2005-12-30
While the spotlight early this week focused on the end of ABC's Monday Night Football after 36 years, two other TV streaks end Sunday. ESPN will say goodbye to Sunday night football after 19 years and 239 games. The arrival of live NFL games on ESPN in 1987 helped put...
ESPN Scrambles for Rights to NFL Highlights
- 2005-12-05
ESPN is huddling with National Football League management about keeping NFL Prime Time, one of cable's highest-rated fall series, alive in another time slot in fall 2006. The talks come as the popular pro football post-game hour, which draws between 4-5 million viewers an episode, exits...
ABC will stay in tune doing NFL swan song
- 2005-09-07
After much offseason hubbub about what will happen after Monday Night Football finishes its final season on ABC, that final season finally starts Thursday with Oakland playing at New England. "It's a big deal," says John Madden, who'll go to NBC Sunday night games as MNF moves to ESPN...
'NFL PrimeTime' will shift days
- 2005-08-31
The TV sports world will shift when Monday Night Football shifts to ESPN from ABC for the 2006 season. But one little-known casualty of that shift will be ESPN's NFLPrimeTime on Sunday nights, starring host Chris Berman and analyst Tom Jackson. Cable TV's highest-rated studio show is a must...
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