Comcast Signals Sports-TV Rebates Are Coming

Joe Otterson TV ReporterFox Sports Films is set to air “Tua,” a documentary about Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa, Variety has learned exclusively.“Tua is a beloved young star with an incredible story,” said Charlie Dixon, Executive Vice President of Content at Fox Sports. “We like to say, ‘Fox is Football’, and since it’s in our DNA, that means providing the deepest insight into the sport both on and off the field.

John Swinney has signaled a U-turn on the SQA exams scandal. Swinney, who faces a no-confidence vote in the Scottish Parliament, is set to make a statement on Tuesday after pupils and teachers raised concerns about the crisis.Pupils who are unhappy with their exam results will be able to appeal them for free.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorNick Khan, a behind-the-scenes power in the world of sports representation, is moving to professional-wrestling powerhouse WWE, where he will take on the role of president and chief revenue officer.Khan replaces George Barrios and Michelle Wilson, two longtime senior WWE executives who left Vince McMahon’s entrepreneurial professional-wrestling operation abruptly in a shake-up of management in January.More to come…

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorWhen it comes to sports broadcasts, NBCUniversal has a singular goal: The company wants to push even those advertisers who might not typically rush to football, hockey or Nascar to get into the game.The Comcast-owned company is about to make the rounds of media buyers and advertisers with a study of the attitudes of sports-deprived consumers in May – in the depths of the nation’s coronavirus shutdown – in the hopes of demonstrating how eager these people are to

Naman Ramachandran Comcast-backed specialty channel Sky Arts is set to go free-to-air from September, after years of speculation around the delivery of the U.K. arts offering.“It is really timely in a way, particularly because the arts and culture sector is in crisis in many ways,” Philip Edgar-Jones, director of Sky Arts, told Variety.

The Hollywood scene used to be filled with Joe Rogans — free spirits who spoke their minds. Sure, liberals dominated the world of entertainment, but non-liberals, at least those who had already made it or who possessed a certain level of moral courage, could, and did, speak out.  The era of free speech has come to a close in the stultifying conformity of wokeness.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorThe nation’s local news veterans are launching a bid to take on a few successful upstarts making a market in national sports.An alliance of local-media companies, the Local Media Consortium, will launch “The Matchup,“ a new online sports news effort that aims to give fans of specific teams more news about them from a wider range of outlets than just those covering it locally The group’s first effort will make more headlines about a team available to a reader, so

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorSinclair Broadcasting, one of the nation’s largest operators of local TV stations, said on Saturday it intended to present a weekend news report featuring commentators offering discredited conspiracy theories about the nation’s coronavirus pandemic, despite scrutiny and pushback that have erupted since CNN called attention to the program late Friday.“We’re a supporter of free speech and a marketplace of ideas and viewpoints, even if incredibly controversial,” the

Also Read: Fox Sports to Put 'Virtual Fans' in the Stands for MLB Games (Video)The current round of cuts comes a month after Sports Business Journal reported in June that 20 Fox Sports talent and producers on low-rated boxing, WWE and soccer programs had been laid off by the company.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorFox Sports has laid off between 50 and 100 staffers, according to a person familiar with the matter, part of a bid to realign the Fox Corp. unit after it shed its regional-sports networks as part of the company’s massive asset sale to Walt Disney Co.

Dade Hayes Finance EditorJust in time for the Chicago Cubs’ regular season opener, Comcast and Sinclair Broadcast Group renewed their carriage agreement, which includes the Cubs’ new TV home, Marquee Sports Network.The multi-year deal covers retransmission consent of 78 Sinclair TV stations in 51 markets across Comcast’s cable footprint.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorESPN is moving deeper into the increasingly popular game of talking about big topics in smaller chunks of content.The Walt Disney-owned sports-media giant will today start rolling out “ESPN Stories,” a new series of quick-hit content compilations that its executives believe represent a new way of talking about sports to a generation of fans that love seeing not only great plays and highlights, commentator hot takes, stats and player interviews but humorous

Meghan McCain, like the rest of us, has some questions after seeing President Donald Trump wish Ghislaine Maxwell “well” on national television. Maxwell was arrested recently for allegedly helping Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse and traffic teenage girls, and Trump said during a July 21 press conference that “I haven’t really been following it too much. I just wish her well, frankly.” Meghan wanted to know more about what that meant — was he “signaling something” to his former friend?

New Labour/Cool Britannia love-in.It pulled in stars other titles could only dream of snaring: Q was the magazine where George Michael gave his first interview after his 1998 arrest for “public lewdness”, and where Radiohead made an exception to their post-Kid A media blackout. It also became immersed in 100 Best lists: the 100 Best Albums, the 100 Best British Albums, the 100 Richest Stars in Rock, the 100 Greatest Singles of All Time.

Police were called after six distress flares were falsely sent out over Aberdeen Harbour forcing rescue teams out at night. The city’s RNLI lifeboats were dispatched to sea at 9.35pm last night after the UK Coastguard confirmed sightings of distress signals.

@londonsymphony and others. So pleased to make progress to Stage 4 of our road map for culture.

Two And A Half Men actor Conchata Ferrell has been moved to a care facility following a heart attack, it is being reported.Best known for playing sharp-tongued housekeeper Berta in the long-running sitcom, Ferrell’s husband Arnie Anderson has said that the actor has been in intensive care for the past four weeks after suffering a cardiac arrest.He told TMZ: “It’s going to be a while before there’s any recovery. It’s all neurological.