Due to the pandemic and the presence of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers playing in their home venue, the ticket resale market for Super Bowl LV is experiencing a series of unprecedented anomalies. US Editor Eric Fisher reports.
Super Bowl LV organizers celebrate Buccaneers reaching historic “home” NFL showpiece game
The Tampa Bay Super Bowl LV Host Committee has hailed the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for becoming the first National Football League team to secure a Super Bowl berth in their home stadium
Comcast executives show changing sentiment toward new NFL rights deal
US-based media giant Comcast, which less than two months ago warned that signing a new NFL rights deal would lead to "tough decisions" elsewhere for the company, now wants to use its renewal with the league as a template for building its sports portfolio. US Editor Eric Fisher reports.
NBC Sports virtually sold out of Super Bowl LVI ads
Network reaches record pricing for recent sales of inventory
Saints’ opener moved to Jacksonville in wake of Hurricane Ida
The New Orleans Saints' regular season opener against the Green Bay Packers on September 12 will be held at TIAA Bank Field in Jacksonville, Florida, while the city of New Orleans continues to recover …
Seven German cities ‘express interest’ in hosting NFL games
Seven cities in Germany have expressed an interest in hosting regular-season NFL games after the American football league recently initiated a formal request-for-proposal process for future fixtures in…
NBCUniversal says Super Bowl LVI ads are 85 per cent sold
Current sales pacing for NFL title game running far ahead of industry norms
Francini: PE poses threat to agencies, but it won’t make them irrelevant
Ioris Francini, the former co-president of WME IMG, current chairman of IMG Media and now specialist commercial advisor to the sports industry, gives his take on the shifting dynamics in rights brokerage and distribution and the spate of private equity deals sweeping through sport. Ben Cronin reports.
Jaguars look to use Lawrence effect to transform fortunes on and off field
Thanks to the arrival of superstar quarterback Trevor Lawrence and the approval of a $120m football performance center, there is a renewed sense of excitement and optimism surrounding the Jacksonville Jaguars, as team president Mark Lamping tells SportBusiness.
Mediapro fights back after Ligue 1, Serie A setbacks and Covid
In his first major interview since the collapse of the media rights deals for France’s Ligue 1 and Italy’s Serie A, Mediapro founder Jaume Roures strongly defends the company’s approach in both markets and insists that neither deal fell through on concerns about Mediapro guarantees.
Sportradar looks ahead to accelerating future despite rocky IPO day
Shares in global sports data provider Sportradar fell more than 7 per cent in their first day of trading in the United States. But company officials remain resolute in their long-term growth prospects. US editor Eric Fisher reports.