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Fox Crew Helps Clear Snowy Road In WA

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5 years ago

November 30, 2018

If you watched the Apple Cup on TV last week, you were treated to the always beautiful scene of college football being played in the snow. If you were actually in Eastern Washington for the game though, the snow made for a considerably less serene environment.

The Athletic’s Bruce Feldman, who also serves as a sideline reporter for Fox, talked about trying to leave the stadium in Pullman, Washington on his podcast this week. He said the snowy conditions made the roads hazardous, and forced himself and his broadcast partners Brady Quinn and Joe Davis to play hero in assisting clear a backroad.

At the end of the night, we left the stadium to go to Spokane, which is usually about an hour and a half drive. It was driving in a blizzard. It was myself, Joe Davis, Brady Quinn, Joe’s Dad…and my sideline producer for the day, Rick. And so we’re driving on what feels like backroads. There’s barely anything that’s gotten…not plowed, but maybe there’s one care that’s gone down the road to lay tracks. And we’re going nowhere. We’re going 10, 15 miles per hour. We might get stuck. There’s cars pulled off to the side of the road.
At one point we’re going down this road and, all of a sudden we see a police car. And he’s got his flashers on and he’s outside and there’s a downed tree in the middle of the road. So we get out and we’re like, hey, let’s go lift the tree up. And we did. There were four of us and Joe documented the whole thing.

Here is the video of the incident Feldman talked about.

It’s true. Our @CFBONFOX crew moved a downed tree from the road somewhere in rural Washington after the Apple Cup. @BruceFeldmanCFB even helped @3rd_Goal and me. pic.twitter.com/eEyyIsjhE5
— Joe Davis (@Joe_Davis) November 29, 2018

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Lawlor said that Scripps Sports “already has deals in place with at least a couple of teams as a contingency in case Bally halts broadcasts before the end of the 2024 season.”

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With the writing on the wall that Diamond Sports Group will drop its regional sports contracts after next year, entities like Scripps Sports are bracing for additional opportunities to work with various teams.

Scripps Sports president Brian Lawlor recently said teams and leagues are already thinking ahead.

“There’s a lot of contingency planning by teams and leagues to have distribution options if the creditors pull the rug out early,” Lawlor told Cincinnati Business Courier. “It’s really messy right now.”

Lawlor added that Scripps has already been involved in contingency planning with those leagues and teams, with talks having gone on for months in some instances.

“(Scripps) already has deals in place with at least a couple of teams as a contingency in case Bally halts broadcasts before the end of the 2024 season.

Scripps Sports already stepped in to help provide a new TV home for both the Vegas Golden Knights and the Arizona Coyotes. Lawlor said returns with those teams, particularly in Vegas, have been great.

“We’ve been blown away by the Golden Knights over-the-air ratings and the number of people who have subscribed to direct-to-consumer,” he said.

Jordan Bondurant

Jordan Bondurant is a features reporter for Barrett Sports Media. He’s a multimedia journalist and communicator who works at the Virginia State Corporation Commission in Richmond. Jordan also contributes occasional coverage of the Washington Capitals for the blog NoVa Caps. His prior media experiences include working for the Richmond Times-Dispatch, the Danville Register & Bee, Virginia Lawyers Weekly, WRIC-TV 8News and Audacy Richmond. He can be reached by email at [email protected] or follow him on Twitter @J__Bondurant.

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Bob Iger: ESPN Could ‘Go It Alone’ and Not Take Financial Partners

“We are fully prepared to do that. It would be a little more challenging if we did.”

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As Disney continues to consider selling an ownership stake in ESPN, Disney CEO Bob Iger told employees he’s not ruling out the possibility of not bringing in new financial partners.

Front Office Sports reported Wednesday that Iger spoke at a Disney town hall on Tuesday and there’s no requirement in place that says Disney must seek out new investors to maintain ESPN’s financial future.

“We could go it alone,” he said. “We are fully prepared to do that. It would be a little more challenging if we did.”

Disney has already had some level of conversations with potential partners including pro sports leagues and big tech companies.

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NASCAR to Announce $1.1B Rights Deal with FOX, NBC, Prime Video, TNT

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A photo of the NASCAR Cup Series, FOX, Prime Video, TNT, and NBC Sports logos

NASCAR is on the verge of announcing a new TV rights deal that will see the racing organization bring in $1.1 billion annually from five TV partners.

The $1.1 billion figure represents a nearly 40% increase in what the organization receives from its current deals.

Beginning in 2025 and running through the 2031 season, NASCAR will air its first 14 Cup Series events with FOX and FS1. The next five events will air on Amazon Prime Video, making the first time a NASCAR event will be shown exclusively on a streaming service.

Following Amazon’s portion of the schedule, another five events will be broadcast on both TNT and the B/R Sports tier of the Max streaming service. The final 14 races of the year will be broadcast with NBC, USA Network, and Peacock, according to reporting from Sports Business Journal’s Adam Stern.

Previously, FOX Sports aired 18 races, while NBC aired 20, which includes two exhibition events.

In addition to its new deals with Amazon Prime Video and TNT for the Cup Series, NASCAR also has a previously announced new broadcast agreement with The CW to air each race of the Xfinity Series.

The upcoming announcement, which is expected either Wednesday or Thursday, comes on the heels of NASCAR President Steve Phelps admitting new TV partners would be entering the fray in the next contract.

“We are going to have an additional partner and we may have two additional partners,” Phelps told NBC Sports. “That’s kind of where we’re trying to figure out in these last few weeks — what that’s going to look like, but we already know we’re going to have more partners.”

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