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In The Ever Expanding Sports Landscape
Paramount-WBD Merger Would Create Sports Superpower
Paramount Skydance is reportedly weighing a bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, which would include TNT Sports. If it is successful, it could create a sports juggernaut to rival even ESPN.
If a merger between Paramount and WBD eventually closed, their combined sports offerings would rival and perhaps even surpass ESPN for the most comprehensive collection in the industry.
Paramount and CBS have rights to the NFL, The Masters, PGA Championship, PGA Tour, Big Ten football and basketball, Champions League, and, as of next year, every UFC event. TNT has MLB rights that include two full playoff rounds, half of national NHL games (split with ESPN), some Big 12 football and basketball (sublicensed from ESPN), and College Football Playoff games (also sublicensed from ESPN, with an expansion happening next year). It also has packages in NASCAR, Unrivaled, the French Open, Big East basketball, and AEW.
Significantly, Paramount and WBD also share the full rights to the men’s basketball NCAA tournament.
The combined entities would have distribution on broadcast (via CBS), cable, and streaming (via HBO Max and Paramount+). They would essentially control or at least have their hands in all relevant American sports besides the NBA and SEC.
https://frontofficesports.com/paramount ... Superpower
Paramount Skydance is reportedly weighing a bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, which would include TNT Sports. If it is successful, it could create a sports juggernaut to rival even ESPN.
If a merger between Paramount and WBD eventually closed, their combined sports offerings would rival and perhaps even surpass ESPN for the most comprehensive collection in the industry.
Paramount and CBS have rights to the NFL, The Masters, PGA Championship, PGA Tour, Big Ten football and basketball, Champions League, and, as of next year, every UFC event. TNT has MLB rights that include two full playoff rounds, half of national NHL games (split with ESPN), some Big 12 football and basketball (sublicensed from ESPN), and College Football Playoff games (also sublicensed from ESPN, with an expansion happening next year). It also has packages in NASCAR, Unrivaled, the French Open, Big East basketball, and AEW.
Significantly, Paramount and WBD also share the full rights to the men’s basketball NCAA tournament.
The combined entities would have distribution on broadcast (via CBS), cable, and streaming (via HBO Max and Paramount+). They would essentially control or at least have their hands in all relevant American sports besides the NBA and SEC.
https://frontofficesports.com/paramount ... Superpower
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