NBCUniversal

Basketball
Media

Warner Bros. Discovery has settled its lawsuit against the National Basketball Association, bringing an end to the legal saga spurred by the league’s new domestic broadcast deals.
Multiple Sports
Media

Comcast has reported a near $2bn uplift in quarterly total revenue, year-on-year, aided by what chairman and CEO, Brian Roberts, described as an “incredibly successful Paris Summer Olympics”
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Industry Moves

Telemundo, the Spanish-language network of USA's NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises, has announced a leadership change at the helm of its sports division
Multi-sport
Media

Viewership of NBCUniversal’s coverage of Paris 2024 was up considerably on Tokyo 2020 as the US broadcaster provided its most extensive Olympic coverage to date.
Wrestling
Media

World Wrestling Entertainment's showpiece Friday Night Smackdown programming is to move from Fox back to USA Network after a five-year exclusive rights deal was struck with NBCUniversal
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Media

NBCUniversal has announced a multi-year deal with media distribution business EverPass Media for the exclusive rights to distribute Peacock's sports content to commercial establishments
Multi-sport
Sponsorship & Marketing

Eli Lilly, the global pharmaceutical company, has renewed its sponsorship deal with the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) and struck a partnership for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic and…
Golf
Media

NBC Sports has cut its commercial breaks by 30 per cent during live US Open coverage to reduce interruptions following complaints from viewers last year, while offering a record number of linear hours…
Horse Racing
Media

The HBA Media agency has added more events to its international horse racing portfolio with deals to distribute the rights to the Hong Kong International Races and the Triple Crown, the US thoroughbred…
Olympic Games
Media

US media group NBCUniversal has announced that its Peacock streaming service will provide live coverage of every sport and event during next year’s Olympics in Paris, a first for a summer Games.
Multi-sport
Fan Engagement

Social media platform Twitter has announced the extension and expansion of its Olympic Games content deal with US rights-holder NBCUniversal (NBCU)
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Finance & Law

US cable giant Comcast's revenue decreased 4.3 per cent year-over-year to $29.7bn (€26.7
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Industry Moves

Jeff Shell, chief executive of NBCUniversal (NBCU), the Olympic Games rightsholder in the United States, has left the media giant after admitting to an “inappropriate relationship” with a female work col…
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Sports Betting

Top American sports leagues and broadcasters NBCUniversal and Fox have formed an alliance to promote responsible approaches toward sports betting advertising
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Media

MultiChoice, the pay-TV broadcaster operating in sub-Saharan Africa, has announced plans to significantly overhaul its streaming service, Showmax, through a new agreement with Comcast’s NBCUniversal (…
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Sports Betting

Global sports betting company PointsBet is extending its five-year agreement with United States media giant NBCUniversal by two years but is also amending the terms of the pact to reduce its annual marketing …
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Media

Comcast NBCUniversal has announced that streaming service Peacock added five million paying subscribers in its fourth quarter of 2022, bringing the total subscriber base to 20 million
Football
Media

Comcast-owned entity eyes sizable gains from extensive event coverage plans that include live streaming of every 2022 Fifa World Cup match in the United States. Bob Williams reports.