Kevin Iole of Yahoo! Sports points out that the UFC’s new television deal with FIVE in the U.K. could have implications for the UFC on television in the United States: The deal is good news for fight fans not only in the U.K., but in the U.S. and around the world. You can be assured […]
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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 […]
Bellator Season 2 Delay to be Costly?
In an interview with MMAFanhouse this week, Bellator CEO Bjorn Rebney took the time to discuss the delay of Bellator’s next season and his plans for a third season set to follow later in 2010: Payout Perspective: The delay between Season 1 and Season 2 sort of begs the question, might Bellator lose some of […]