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Comcast NBCUniversal has announced plans to launch SportsTech, a global accelerator for sports technology startups, this summer. SportsTech will unite three of the company’s sports brands — NBC Sports, Sky Sports and Golf Channel — with NASCAR, U.S. Ski & Snowboard and USA Swimming. Venture capital division Comcast Ven…

NBC's broadcast of the San Francisco 49ers' 27-10 victory over the Minnesota Vikings Saturday in the NFC Divisional Playoff averaged 29.3 million TV-only viewers – ranking as the most-watched late Saturday NFL Divisional Playoff game since the Chiefs-Patriots tilt in 2016. In addition, Vikings-49ers averaged a Total…

Outspoken pro hockey commentator Jeremy Roenick is in NBC Sports’ penalty box. The studio analyst and former NHL player was suspended Monday over his inappropriate comments involving a colleague. In a recent edition of the “Spittin’ Chiclets” podcast, Roenick made a series of remarks about fellow hockey commentator…

EXCLUSIVE: NBC Sports has acquired and set a premiere date for The Russian Five, a feature documentary about the first five Russians to play hockey together in the NHL. The film will air on November 6, following NBCSN’s Wednesday Night Hockey game between the Detroit Red Wings and New York Rangers. The Russian Five…

NBC Sports' Saturday coverage of the controversial 145th Kentucky Derby on NBC, followed immediately by the primetime Columbus Blue Jackets-Boston Bruins Stanley Cup Playoff Game 5, delivered multiple overnight ratings milestones, according to data provided by Nielsen. At the Kentucky Derby, heavy favorite…

The Peacock is losing one of its most colorful, popular and sometimes controversial broadcasters. Forty years after he joined NBC, Bob Costas confirmed today that he’ll no longer work there. "It's all settled quietly and happily for all concerned," Costas told The New York Post, which confirmed the news with the…

After being with NBC since 1979, Bob Costas is making a plan to bow out of NBC Sports. Costas has held discussions with his representatives and NBC to be let out of his contract that currently runs through 2021, according to USA Today. Deadline reached out to NBC, but the network declined to comment about Costas…

It’s official. Mike Tirico has been named the new studio host for NBC’s primetime Sunday pregame show Football Night in America. Tirico was reported to have been the leading candidate to succeed Dan Patrick, who told the New York Post in March that he turned down a new five-year contract to continue as host. “I didn't…

NBC Sports Group named Pete Bevacqua to the newly created position of president, where he’ll oversee programming, marketing, digital, the NBC Sports Regional Networks, and all golf businesses. Mark Lazarus, chairman of NBC Broadcasting and Sports, said Bevacqua’s hiring culminates seven years of expansion of the…

Telemundo Deportes’ digital presentation of today’s Mexico-Sweden match set a streaming record with more than one million concurrent livestreams across TelemundoDeportes.com, the Telemundo Deportes En Vivo app, and the NBC Sports app. It was the most for any event in NBC Sports Digital history, excluding Super Bowls…

The opening round of the NHL’s 2018 Stanley Cup Playoffs saw a pair of series sweeps and only one Game 7, but NBC Sports’ coverage still hit its best total-audience numbers in six years. And Wednesday night’s Game 7 of the Boston Bruins-Toronto Maple Leafs series was the most-watched first-round game ever on <a href="https://deadline.com/tag/nbcsn/" id="auto-tag_nbcsn"…

Johnny Weir, whose sartorial splendor sadly was missing from last weekend’s White House Correspondents Dinner, will return to NBC Sports’ coverage of the Kentucky Derby this year, wearing a Tweet-powered brooch, NBC Sports happily announced this morning. Weir has put his style to work for NBC Sports for the past two…