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NBC Sports Lacing Up For NHL Postseason

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday April 29, 2013 @ 8:17am PDTTags: NBC Sports Group, NHL

The coverage of every game in this year’s NHL Stanley Cup playoffs begins tomorrow with three games — including the defending Stanley Cup champion Los Angeles Kings at St. Louis on CNBC — and will feature as many as as 105 playoff games and possibly more than 260 hours of programming depending on how long each series last,  the NBC Sports Group said today. It marks the second consecutive year the NBC networks will televise every game, taking fans into June. NBC, NBC Sports Network, CNBC, and NHL Network will pitch in. In addition, more games will be live-streamed than ever before: Besides TV Everywhere, NBC Sports Live Extra — the NBC Sports Group’s product for desktops, mobile devices, and tablets — will stream games that air on NBC, NBC Sports Network, and CNBC, including the Stanley Cup Final for the first time. NBC and NBC Sports Network will share duties for the Stanley Cup Final series, with the broadcast network showing Game 1, Game 4, and Games 5-7 (if necessary), and NBC Sports Network televising Games 2-3.

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NBC Sports Group & Notre Dame Renew Football Partnership

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday April 18, 2013 @ 7:01pm PDTTags: NBC Sports Group

NEW YORK – April 18, 2013 – The University of Notre Dame and the NBC Sports Group have renewed their historic football partnership for 10 years, through the 2025 season. The renewal extends the landmark partnership, which

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NBC Sports, ESPN, Turner Lead Sports Emmys Nominations

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday March 20, 2013 @ 2:40pm PDTTags: ESPN, NBC Sports Group, Sports Emmys, Turner Sports

The networks of the NBC Sports Group, which aired the London Olympics over the summer, drew a leading 48 nominations for the 34th annual Sports Emmy Awards, which … Read More »

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NBCU Wins Premiere League Rights

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Sunday October 28, 2012 @ 5:21pm PDTTags: English Premier League, NBC Sports Group

NBCUniversal‘s NBC Sports Group has acquired exclusive U.S. media rights to English Premier League soccer matches through a multiyear agreement that begins with the 2013-14 season. NBCUniversal becomes the exclusive English- and Spanish-language media rights holder to all … Read More »

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Fox Retains NASCAR, Formula One To NBC

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday October 15, 2012 @ 12:22pm PDTTags: Formula One, Fox, NASCAR, NBC Sports Group

Fox’s deal announced today extends its current pact with NASCAR by eight years to 2022 and is worth $2.4 billion, the first fee increase for these racing rights in a decade. The network will pay about $300 million annually beginning in 2015 and keep its Daytona 500 , add TV Everywhere digital rights that had resided within the racing series previously, and air the first third of the Sprint Cup Series. The contract was worked out two years before the old one expired as part of an exclusive negotiating window. ESPN and Turner are next up for non-exclusive talks, which won’t begin until next summer. NASCAR’s current TV package is worth about $4.48 billion. Read More »

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NBC Sports Network To Launch ‘Sports Illustrated’ Magazine Show

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday July 2, 2012 @ 3:29pm PDTTags: NBC Sports Group, NBC Sports Network

NBC Sports Group and Time Inc. Sports Group are teaming up to produce a monthly TV show titled Sports Illustrated. The announcement was made today by Jon Miller, President of Programming, NBC Sports and … Read More »

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NBC Sports Network Renews ‘Fight Night’

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Monday July 2, 2012 @ 8:29am PDTTags: NBC Sports Group, NBC Sports Network

You’ll like this news if you enjoy seeing men try to give each other brain trauma. NBC’s cable sports channel says this morning that it has renewed its Fight Night series of Saturday matches for a second season, … Read More »

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NBC Sports Group Extends Rights Deal For Tour De France

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday June 26, 2012 @ 11:13am PDTTags: Big Deals TV, NBC Sports Group, Tour De France

The new multiplatform agreement goes into effect next year and gives NBC Sports Group the U.S. television, digital and mobile rights to the famed bike race through 2023. The tour was the marquee event on Comcast‘s Versus channel, … Read More »

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NBC Teams With Dial Global To Create NBC Sports Radio Network

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday June 11, 2012 @ 7:20am PDTTags: NBC Sports Group

NEW YORK, NY, June 11, 2012 – The NBC Sports Group and Dial Global (NASDAQ: DIAL) announced a partnership today to create the NBC Sports Radio Network. Beginning in September, the network will be distributed to radio stations nationwide by Dial Global.

The network’s content will include hourly sports news updates, daily features as well as full-length shows.

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NBC Sports Group Ups Princell Hair To SVP News And Talent

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday March 22, 2012 @ 10:15am PDTTags: NBC Sports Group

NBC Sports Princell HairNEW YORK – March 22, 2012 – Princell Hair has been promoted to Senior Vice President, News and Talent, for the NBC Sports Group. Hair, who was previously Senior Vice President, News Operations, Comcast Sports Group,

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Colonial Athletic Assoc and NBC Sports Group Reach 5-Year Pacts for National Basketball & Football Rights

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday February 13, 2012 @ 12:07pm PSTTags: NBC Sports Group

RICHMOND, Va. (February 13, 2012) – The Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) has reached five-year agreements with the NBC Sports Group that will provide the most extensive and comprehensive exposure of the conference in its history with coverage on NBC Sports Network and across the group’s regional sports networks.

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Ex-HBO Sports Head Ross Greenburg Lands At NBC Sports Group

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday November 10, 2011 @ 10:09pm PSTTags: Golf Channel, HBO Sports, NBC, NBC Sports Group, NBC Sports Network, Ross Greenburg, VERSUS

Ross Greenburg, who in July departed as president of HBO Sports, has been tapped to produce documentaries for the newly formed NBC Sports Group, which includes the NBC Sports Network, Golf Channel and NBC. He also will produce Costas … Read More »

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NBC Sports Group Adds Exec, CFO

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday September 12, 2011 @ 11:04am PDTTags: Mark Lazarus, NBC Sports Group

Mark Lazarus has bolstered his executive team at NBC Sports Group, hiring former ESPN executive Rob Simmelkjaer at SVP of NBC Sports Ventures, a unit that comprises NBC-owned businesses like the Alliance of Action Sports, the American Century Golf … Read More »

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Weekly NFL Series To Launch On Versus

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday August 22, 2011 @ 8:18am PDTTags: Comcast, NBC Sports Group, NBCUniversal, NFL, VERSUS
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Thanks to the merger of its parent company Comcast with NBCUniversal, which has had a deal with the NFL, sports cable channel Versus is getting in on the NFL action. NFL Films and the NBC Sports Group will … Read More »

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NBC Sports Sweep: Dick Ebersol’s No. 2 Ken Schanzer Leaves Too

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday May 26, 2011 @ 10:20am PDTTags: Dick Ebersol, Ken Schanzer, NBC, NBC Sports, NBC Sports Group
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After the shocking exit of NBC Sports chairman Dick Ebersol last week, a not-so-shocking aftershock: His loyal deputy, NBC Sports president Ken Schanzer, today announced he is retiring after 30 years at NBC. He will stay through the summer, a … Read More »

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Post-Merger NBC Sports Group Unveils Executive Team

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday February 2, 2011 @ 8:49am PSTTags: Comcast-NBCU Merger, Dick Ebersol, Golf Channel, Ken Schanzer, Mark Lazarus, NBC Sports, NBC Sports Group, NBC Universal, NBCUniversal, VERSUS
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With Comcast’s acquisition of NBC Universal completed, the newly formed NBC Sports Group – which consists of NBC Sports, Golf Channel, VERSUS and 11 Comcast regional sports networks – this morning unveiled its executive structure under chairman Dick Ebersol. Turner veteran Mark Lazarus, who has long been rumored to take run the new group’s cable properties, is the only outsider on the team, while NBC Sports execs are being given the reins of Comcast’s Versus and Golf Channel. Here is a rundown of the new exec hierarchy: Read More »

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