ITV plans to take advantage of the BBC's cut-price coverage to win the battle of the broadcasters at this summer's World Cup.
Even the "Granddaddy of Them All" has a dad. That's the late and legendary ABC Sports announcer Keith Jackson, who coined that term for the Rose Bowl Game and it stuck. He clicked off his microphone for the last time precisely 20 years ago after Texas beat USC on this storied field. The game was a classic and so was Jackson, the Saturday evening soundtrack for generations of college football fans.
On Thursday night, you did a little whoopsie-poopsie and forgot about your microphone! Dumbass! It happened during a TV timeout in the third period. "We'll take [the timeout] as well," you said. But you did not! You were still on the air. There were no commercials playing while you did your little scat-singing: "Mmmm. Bap-a-dap-a-dap-a-dap-a-dap." In the background, we can hear the audio from the arena, and then ...
Wright and Woods were on air together covering the Lionesses, before Woods suddenly appeared to faint, with Wright needing to catch her and help her back to her feet before ITV cut to an ad break. Woods herself posted on social media later that evening to clarify that she was alright, and Wright himself has now also spoken about the incident. The Gunners legend explained on The Overlap that Woods messaged him to say she was fine, though he found the incident pretty worrying in the moment.
The Lions have played every Thanksgiving since 1934, with the exception of 1939-44, despite the fact they haven't been a good team most of those years. The Lions played their first season in Detroit in 1934 (before that, they were the Portsmouth Spartans). They struggled their first year in Detroit, as most sports fans there loved baseball's Detroit Tigers and didn't come out in droves to watch the Lions. So Lions owner George A. Richards had an idea: Why not play on Thanksgiving?
Tubi is best known for its free slate of Gen Z-friendly shows and nostalgia-inducing movies, but sports have played a small yet important role in its rise. The Fox-owned free streamer, which became profitable for the first time last quarter, made a name for itself in 2023 with a viral Super Bowl ad. That month, Tubi ranked on Nielsen's ratings chart for the first time. Tubi reintroduced itself to football fans in February by streaming the Super Bowl at no cost. At its peak, more than 15 million people tuned into Tubi's Super Bowl simulcast.
You know what they say. Never judge a pitch until both teams have batted really badly on it. You know what they say. Over here you bat long, bat hard, bat short, bat soft. You know what they say, the Ashes in Australia is all about a hybrid maverick production with a fan-first identity. Given the brilliance of the basic entertainment on day one in Perth,
Disney and YouTube TV reached a new deal to bring channels like ABC and ESPN back to the Google-owned livestreaming platform Friday, ending a blackout for customers that dragged on for over two weeks. "As part of the new deal, Disney's full suite of networks and stations - including ESPN and ABC - have already begun to be restored to YouTube TV subscribers," The Walt Disney Co. said in a statement.
"As part of the new deal, Disney's full suite of networks and stations -- including ESPN and ABC -- have already begun to be restored to YouTube TV subscribers," The Walt Disney Co. said in a statement. "We are pleased that our networks have been restored in time for fans to enjoy the many great programming options this weekend, including college football."
There has always been a strong note of pranking to Terry Bradshaw's work as a NFL studio analyst at Fox. Bradshaw's role is mostly that of a Vibes Guy, the most off-kilter and least self-serious participant in a show that is mostly some guys in suits going "haw haw haw" and saying "the National Football League" during breaks in Sunday's NFL programming, while an enormous animated football robot glowers or heaves or does The Dougie behind them.
My family and I have been watching post-season baseball, and I think I have to lie down. We've seen so many ads for drugs prescribed to treat plaque psoriasis, Crohn's disease, and ulcerative colitis that I'm sure I've developed a rash, nausea, joint pain and dizziness. Just by watching. iSpot, the TV ad news site, says drug companies bought 895.8 million dollars worth of ads in sports programming last year.
If you've read Defector over the past few years, you know that the NBA arm of this company long ago identified Eric Collins as the most grating local play-by-play guy in that league, if not the whole of human history. Being primarily a football fan, I rarely had to worry about encountering Collins's work out in the wild because I'm not a diehard Hornets fan (no one is), and because I foolishly assumed that Collins only plied his trade in basketball.
Over the previous six months for 162 games you know who will be calling your games when you tune in that night, by and large. Yes, you'll run into an occasional national TV game with a crew that lacks the day-in and day-out knowledge of your team, but you can get through one regular season game with a subpar announcing crew.
The first thing I do when I come to the ballpark, and I kid you not, is I gawk, Cosell told amNewYork. I pull in and I gawk at this ballpark, because the excitement is never wasted on me that my voice fills a major league ballpark. There are 30 of these on the planet, and only 30, and my voice fills one of them.
The following announcers will work alongside analyst Tim Ryan on 49ers outlets (KNBR-680 and 104.5 FM, KSAN 107.7 The Bone, KSFO-810 AM) when the regular season begins Sept. 7 on the road against the Seattle Seahawks. With announcers beholden to their own schedules with other duties, five were identified as fill-ins for the 2025 season: Guy Haberman: Served as the 49ers preseason television play-by-play with Ryan and was identified as the primary fill-in.
I told Jerry, 'If you'll have me back, I'll come,' Rooney said this week. 'I'll take off and come. That would mean a lot.' And sure enough, I got the invitation, and I'm so honored by that.
Our goal with this process was to find transformational partnerships for the new Pac-12, and throughout our discussions... it became clear that a partnership with CBS Sports would be just that.
RTÉ's introduction of a pay-per-view platform, in partnership with the GAA, has led to a significant decline in free-to-air matches, alienating many fans.
As the first female presenter of Sunday Sport, Jacqui Hurley reflects on her journey and the changes she's witnessed in sports broadcasting.
