EXCLUSIVE: While talk of direct-to-consumer streaming and the M&A climate is in the air at Allen & Co.’s annual retreat in Sun Valley, the actual day-by-day agenda includes sessions reaching far beyond the media racket. Cybersecurity, foreign affairs, education, Brexit and the human brain will all be explored in the…

A federal lawsuit alleges that NBCUniversal, the National Football League, and recording artist Carrie Underwood are among those who plagiarized a YouTube song to create the Sunday Night Football opening theme song "Game On" that precedes the athletic action. SNF is typically one of the primetime ratings leaders…

EXCLUSIVE: Former NFL wide receiver Terrell Owens has inked with ICM Partners across the board. Owens played in the NFL for 15 seasons and was a six-time Pro Bowl selection and five-time first-team All-Pro. After playing college football and basketball at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, he was selected in…

Bart Starr, the Green Bay Packers quarterback whose sneak dive into the end zone on the frozen tundra of Lambeau Field remains of the National Football League’s most iconic plays, has died. He was 85 and had been in failing health since 2014, when he suffered two strokes and a heart attack. Starr was one of the faces…

If ever there was an expedient excuse to cite the proverb "the more things change the more they stay the same," the broadcast networks’ 2019-2020 fall schedule is such an occasion now that the annual hoopla of the upfronts are over. Gotham is gone on Fox, but Gotham City is swinging back to the small screen with the…

Epix is ready for some football. The premium cable net is partnering with NFL Films for NFL: The Grind, a weekly series it bills as the final word on the week in football. The show will kick off at 9 p.m. ET September 11, after Week 1 of the league’s 100th anniversary season. A host has yet to be named for the series…

Fox’s broadcast of Super Bowl LIV in February will feature an extra 30-second ad in each break, but fewer breaks overall. The game will feature four fewer breaks than recent editions, going from five breaks per quarter to four. The net number of ads, though, will stay the same. It is the first significant shift of the…

For its upcoming 50th anniversary season, ESPN’s Monday Night Football will bring back play-by-play voice Joe Tessitore and analyst Booger McFarland in the booth. Lisa Salters will remain a sideline reporter, and John Parry joins as a new officiating analyst. Gone will be McFarland’s controversial 12-foot crane, from…

There are NO spoilers for Avengers: Endgame in this post. The Twitter nation is taking a dim view of the NFL superstar known as Shady. Running back LeSean McCoy may well end up in the NFL Hall of Fame once his stellar career concludes but the Buffalo Bills ballcarrier has already cemented his spot in the Spoiler Hall…

EXCLUSIVE: ACE Media, the content subsidiary of the NFL Players Association, has landed a strategic investment by entertainment, sports and lifestyle marketing agency Allied Global Marketing. The partnership provides ACE with additional capital, production capabilities, and sales and marketing resources that the union…

AT&T’s U-verse and DirecTV Now services have pulled the NFL Network and NFL Red Zone channels off the air as a deal with the NFL quietly expired, raising questions about whether the league will continue its exclusive long-running NFL Sunday Ticket offering with DirecTV. The channels remain on DirecTV — that deal…

The NFL is out with the schedule for its 100th-anniversary regular season. Check out the list of all 2019 primetime, Thanksgiving and international games below. The regular season again will kick off on a Thursday night. But in a departure from recent years, the defending Super Bowl champion won’t be playing in it…