The Hollywood Reporter among other outlets reports that Paramount has expanded its media deal with the UFC as it has added the streaming rights for Latin America and Australia. This past summer Paramount entered into a 7 year, $7.7 Billion deal for the UFC’s media rights in North America. Paramount sought additional international markets as […]
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Where is Zuffa Boxing media rights landing?
On Wednesday, Dana White posted on IG that he had a big announcement to make. He later retracted the statement saying he had jumped the gun. Could it have been about media rights for Zuffa Boxing? On Thursday, The Athletic’s Andrew Marchand reported that Netflix will stream MLB Opening Day matchup for the next three […]
41.4M viewers watched Canelo-Crawford
Netflix announced that this Saturday’s fight between Canelo Alvarez and Terence Crawford drew “over 41 million global viewers” per Deadline. This is based on its metric of average minute audience (AMA). The report states that the fight drew “about 20.3M” tuned in live + same-day views. With those numbers, it comes as no surprise that […]
Boxing Scene’s writer has credentials yanked
Longtime boxing writer Lance Pugmire had his media credential revoked two weeks prior to the Canelo-Crawford fight this past Saturday. Pugmire, a long fixture in boxing media having written for The Athletic and The Los Angeles Times is writing for Boxing Scene. Pugmire’s credentials were first accepted and then revoked two weeks prior to the […]
NBCU had right of first refusal in WWE deal
John Ourand of Puck reports that NBC Universal had the right of first refusal prior to ESPN’s successful bid for the media rights of WWE’s Premium Live Events. NBCU’s last bid was reported at $275M per year although the duration and content of the deal was not reported. ESPN’s bid was for $325M per year […]