Ariel Helwani over at MMA Fanhouse is reporting that Showtime will be airing its hour long ‘Fight Camp 360’ program featuring both Fedor and Rogers in the week leading up to their scheduled November 7th tilt at the Sears Centre in Chicago. Despite the fact that the Brett Rogers vs. Fedor Emelianenko fight will not be airing on Showtime, the premium […]
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Bellator Announces New TV Deals
CHICAGO (October 20, 2009) — Bellator Fighting Championships will broadcast its second and third seasons on FOX Sports Net, NBC and Telemundo through a unique and landscape-altering alliance. Bellator’s first-of-its-kind, tournament-based mixed martial arts (MMA) promotion will be available nationwide for 24 weeks in 2010 to 112 million homes through NBC, 82 million homes through […]
SBJ: Comcast-DirecTV Fight Could Help Versus
John Ourand of the Sports Business Journal reports in this week’s issue that the on-going carriage battle between Comcast and DirecTV could actually help Versus get back onto the satellite provider in the next few months. Comcast and DirecTV are engaged in a series of RSN carriage battles that potentially could help the Comcast-owned Versus […]
CBS & M-1 Increasing November 7th Advertising
Last week CBS began to increase the amount of promotion surrounding its up-coming Strikeforce: Saturday Night Fight event that will feature Fedor Emelianenko vs. Brett Rogers on primetime television. In addition to the commercial below, M-1 has been teaming up with social networking website namedrop.com to purchase ad space on various websites including Sherdog.com to advertise […]
Network TV Important, Not “Be All, End All”
Bill King of The Sports Business Journal talks about the importance of network television in creating boxing stars with Bob Arum in his latest article in the jounral. Arum runs through the names, gushes with stories of their stature in foreign lands, and then ties them together. “The common thread is exposure,” said Arum, […]