Category: Al Jazeera

Let’s do some linkage on this Monday. Sports Illustrated’s Richard Deitsch talks with TNT’s Charles Barkley about the next phase of his career. Michael Hiestand of USA Today notes that Saturday nights are becoming a sports TV bastion. Chris Chase...
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Just announced by the Al Jazeera-owned beIN Sport, the network that has rights to La Liga of Spain, Serie A of Italy and Ligue 1 of France, has been picked up by the Time Warner Cable/Bright House combo meaning it...
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Once again, the extremely connected John Ourand of Sports Business Journal has broken yet another story involving the sports television bidding process. He breaks news that the current rightsholders for the US rights for the English Premier League, Fox and...
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Before the day is through, let’s do some linkage for you. Steve Berkowitz from USA Today looks at the Pac-12′s TV contract which is the richest in college sports (for now). Speaking of USA Today, Ed Sherman of The Sherman...
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Let’s do some sports media thoughts for you on this back to work Monday. As usual, they’re in bullet form. Last week’s news that TBS would pick up the new single elimination MLB Wild Card Playoff games for this year...
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Let’s do some megalinks on this Friday. My apologies for the lack of posts yesterday. The site was swamped with people linking to my post on How to Avoid Paying the $3.99 Fee For March Madness Live and it was...
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