Today Strikeforce announced that MMA is returning to primetime television on CBS with Fedor vs. Rogers: The CBS Television Network will return to the mixed martial arts (MMA) cage with STRIKEFORCE: FEDOR VS. ROGERS, to be broadcast Saturday, Nov. 7 (9:00 PM, live ET/delayed PT). SHOWTIME Sports® will produce the four-fight event with host Gus […]
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WEC Announces TV Agreement with Setanta Sports in Australia
Las Vegas, NV (USA) – World Extreme Cagefighting® announced today a television agreement with Setanta Sports in Australia. Beginning with the Oct. 10 card featuring an interim title fight between Donald Cerrone and Ben Henderson, Setanta Sports will now carry all WEC events live. The agreement gives over 80,000 viewers in Australia access to the […]
Iole: New UK TV Deal Could Have U.S. Implications
ESPN UK Listening, Growing with Long Term Focus
Bill Wilson of the BBC News has written an interesting piece detailing the exploits of ESPN’s Lynne Frank (Managing Director of Europe, Middle East, and Africa) in trying to build the ESPN UK channel line-up. And Ms Frank says that despite such a pressurised schedule, ESPN has made time to listen to feedback from its […]
MMA Business Week (8/31-9/4)
Recapping some of this week’s stories that we didn’t cover for one reason or another. Payout Perspective: There are two sides to every story and the latest on the DirecTV-Versus impasse indicates that it’s about more than just fees. DirecTV attempted to move Versus to another tier in its programming, which would have taken Versus off […]