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EXCLUSIVE: ReachMe TV, a multi-channel, multi-platform network that has reach to 100 million total viewers in hotels, airports and retail stores, is launching a dedicated sports division. ReachMe Sports will aim to go “beyond the game,” in the words of ReachMe founders Lynnwood Bibbens and Ron Bloom. The new division…

UPDATED: Today The Rich Eisen Show and Funny or Die released their first co-branded video as part of their partnership started last year. The bit, conceived by Eisen and written by Ben Wietmarschen, is Replay Guy: Fidelity on the Field, a mockumentary on the most important guy on the football field: the person in…

Dis-inter-media-what? The buzzword coming out of the Milken Global Conference this year is “disintermediation,” meaning that there is little need for a middle man anymore in an age when investors can cut out brokers, the media allows celebrities to engage their audiences one-on-one, content creators can go directly to…

EXCLUSIVE: UTA has signed broadcaster Rich Eisen, who has been a key player at NFL Network since being hired away from ESPN before the network launched. He is also the host of The Rich Eisen Show on DirecTV's Audience Network. That daily show, in its third season, bridges sports and pop culture, and Eisen has…

Are they about to take new clients at McKenzie, Brackman, Chaney and Kuzak? L.A. Law co-creator Steven Bochco said this morning that he and 20th Television are developing a new take on the Emmy-winning legal drama that aired from 1986-94 on NBC. Bochco spilled the news on The Rich Eisen Show. “Over the years we’ve…

The NFL Network’s main man has a new side job. Rich Eisen, poached from ESPN by the NFL Network to be its lead guy at launch in 2003, has signed to do a daily talk show on DirecTV’s Audience Network. The Rich Eisen Show will mix football analysis with pop culture and humor and interviews with big names in sports and…