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Venu Sports, a streaming joint venture of Fox, Warner Bros. Discovery and Disney, has announced a number of executive hires across departments. The new hires join a team of more than 150 engineers and executives focused on Venu but working at Fox, some of whom are expected to join the venture down…

Fox Corp. saw revenue dip for its fiscal third quarter as advertising slid on tough comps with the Super Bowl broadcast the year earlier. Sales of $3.45B, in line with Wall Street expectations, compared with $4.1 billion. Net income for the March quarter soared to $704 million vs a $50 million loss…

Howie Schwab, a longtime ESPN producer and star of the ESPN trivia show Stump the Schwab, died today at 63, according to his family. No cause or location was given. Schwab began at ESPN in 1987 and worked there through 2013. He was a producer on multiple ESPN shows, but was best known as the final…

Fox saw revenue dip 8% last quarter to $4.23 billion on weaker advertising due in part to tough comps from the year before. The fiscal second-quarter numbers hit the day after Fox with Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery set a fall launch date for joint streaming sports venture with. There’s no name or…

Disney, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery are teaming up for a sports streaming venture set to launch this fall. Details (notably including the price) are still coming into focus about the outlet, which will pool the resources of three of the top owners of sports rights. The new venture is designed to…

Dwayne Johnson and Dany Garcia on Sunday unveiled plans for the United Football League, the new spring pro football league born from the merger of the XFL and USFL. During an appearance this morning on Fox’s NFL on Fox, the pair said the UFL’s debut season will begin March 30, 2024 with a game…

Taylor Swift is no Yoko Ono, claims a prominent ESPN sportscaster. Reacting to the chatter that has arrived as the Kansas City Chiefs are no longer dominating opponents, angry fans are pointing to Swift’s appearances at the Chiefs games as the cause of the team’s swoon. Swift is, of course…

The green flag has dropped on NASCAR’s next TV rights deals. The auto racing giant today revealed seven-year agreements with Fox Sports, NBC Sports and new partners Prime Video and TNT for live coverage of all 38 NASCAR Cup Series races from 2025-31. Terms were not…

UPDATED with Thompson apology: Fox Sports’ NFL Kickoff host Charissa Thompson is apologizing following an outcry of criticism from her peers after admitting that she “would make up” sideline reports at games. In an Instagram story, Charissa said she wanted to “address the elephant in the room.&#8221…

Fox President of Insight and Analytics Michael Mulvihill said the all-time low rating for the World Series this year is no cause for alarm for Major League Baseball or his network. “Obviously, it's more fun when ratings are up and the Series goes 6 or 7 games,” the exec wrote in a thread on…

The 2023 Women’s World Cup drew record viewership for Fox, despite challenging time zones and an early elimination for the U.S. team, ending with the most-watched non-USWNT final ever for English-language U.S. television. The accomplishment capped a decade-long career milestone for executive producer…

Fox CEO Lachlan Murdoch said linear television is still the best way to protect the company's sports programming, which, at the moment, “derives the most value from being behind a paywall, behind the traditional cable and satellite pay-TV universe." Related Stories …