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• Posted Saturday 11/18/17 at 12:32AM EST

  NFL’s first video game-like broadcast divided viewers

  Some found NBC's exclusive use of the Madden-esque Skycam angle on Thursday Night Football nauseating.

• Posted Wednesday 11/15/17 at 1:33PM EST

  Sports Illustrated is launching a subscription TV service

  Sports Illustrated TV will cost $4.

• Posted Tuesday 11/14/17 at 10:11PM EST

  ESPN president gets a contract extension weeks before mass layoffs at his network

  John Skipper, who has led ESPN since 2012, will continue leading the sports network as it copes with lost revenue...

• Posted Tuesday 11/14/17 at 10:11PM EST

  ESPN’s SportsCenter on Snapchat doesn’t have NFL replay rights, so it used paper cut outs to reenact highlights

  The Snapchat SportsCenter is doing what blogs have done for years in getting around restrictions on replay rights.

• Posted Monday 11/13/17 at 7:57AM EST

  SportsCenter is launching a Snapchat version, with Katie Nolan hosting the first episode

  The former Fox Sports personality will kick off the 3-5 minute show at 5 p.

• Posted Friday 11/10/17 at 2:47AM EST

  NBC will use the SkyCam as its primary camera for next week’s Thursday Night Football game

  “We are excited to present a game with the majority of live-action coverage coming from SkyCam,” says Fred Gaudelli, who...

• Posted Thursday 11/09/17 at 6:08PM EST

  ESPN is getting an ESPN Plus streaming service

  Disney CEO Bob Iger promises a “one-of-a-kind product” with ESPN Plus, which will have ESPN programming plus access to thousands...

• Posted Thursday 11/09/17 at 2:25PM EST

  Amazon to go behind the scenes of Manchester City for a soccer docuseries

  The upcoming series will follow the current 2017-18 season.

• Posted Wednesday 11/08/17 at 12:00AM EST

  ESPN’s 30 For 30 on Nature Boy would be so much better if Ric Flair wasn’t so cagey about wrestling being fake

  “The subject’s caginess about fakery gets in the way of what’s most interesting about his story,” says Noel Murray.

• Posted Tuesday 11/07/17 at 10:17AM EST

  NFL broadcasters' ad prices decline 6.7%

  Of all the networks that carry NFL games, only NBC has seen its prices for commercials rise this season.

• Posted Monday 11/06/17 at 4:12PM EST

  USA is using NASCAR to promote new series Damnation

  NASCAR driver Clint Bowyer’s car will carry the Damnation paint scheme when he drives this weekend.

• Posted Saturday 11/04/17 at 1:58AM EDT

  ESPN’s Around the Horn turns 15

  “15th Anniversary of @aroundthehorn!’ tweeted Tony Reali, longtime host of the game show-style sports debate show.

• Posted Friday 11/03/17 at 2:43AM EDT

  World Series Game 7 was down 27% from last year’s Game 7

  About 40 million watched the Chicago Cubs end their World Series drought last year.

• Posted Friday 11/03/17 at 2:43AM EDT

  Ranking the NFL primetime opening songs

  Who has the better intro, Monday Night Football’s Hank Williams Jr.

• Posted Thursday 11/02/17 at 4:50PM EDT

  TV executives blame overexposure, not National Anthem protests, for declining ratings

  “Media executives are rallying around an explanation for the National Football League’s declining TV ratings: too much football available in...