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Networks encourage fans to watch their competitors

Rachel Cohen · October 21, 2014 4:48 pm

Fans cheer as Kansas City Royals players celebrate after Eric Hosmer (35) hit a two-run home run against the Los Angeles Angels in the 11th inning of Game 2 of baseball's AL Division Series in Anaheim, Calif., Friday, Oct. 3, 2014. The Royals won 4-1. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi)

For MLB business, local TV viewership stays strong

Rachel Cohen · October 7, 2014 3:58 pm

ESPN President John Skipper, right, shakes hands with NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, second right, as David Levy, left, President of Turner Broadcasting System, and Ted Leonsis, second left, owner of the Washington Wizards, applaud after a deal was announced between the league and TV networks, Monday, Oct. 6, 2014 in New York. The NBA has extended its television deals with ESPN and TNT for nine years. The league announced Monday that the new contracts will run through the 2024-25 season. The previous eight-year agreements end after the 2015-16 season. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

NBA extends television deals with ESPN and TNT

Rachel Cohen · October 6, 2014 11:11 pm

FILE - In this Thursday, Dec. 12, 2013, file photo, San Diego Chargers linebacker Thomas Keiser (90) celebrates after intercepting a pass by Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning in the fourth quarter of an NFL football game in Denver. "The Big Bang Theory" is one of the few television shows that can approach the NFL in viewership. CBS executives still didn't hesitate to temporarily move TV's top-rated comedy to a different night to make room for football. Already dominating Thursdays in prime time, CBS outbid its competitors when the league offered up games that had aired on NFL Network. (AP Photo/Joe Mahoney, File)

NFL games taking over Thursday nights on CBS

Rachel Cohen · August 18, 2014 11:59 pm

FILE - In this Nov. 17, 2013, file photo, San Diego Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers (17) reviews plays on the sidelines during the first half of an NFL football game against the Miami Dolphins in Miami Gardens, Fla. NFL teams used to take Polaroid pictures of plays from atop the stadium during games then send them down to the field on a rope. Technology improved so that an automated camera could deliver the images to a printer on the sideline, creating that familiar sight of a quarterback staring at a sheet of paper to figure out what went wrong on an interception. That was still the case last season, when fans in the stands could watch highlights on their smartphones, but players and coaches were flipping through three-ring binders of black-and-white photos. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)

NFL sideline tech inches forward, still no video

Rachel Cohen · August 4, 2014 3:57 am

Meb Keflezighi, of San Diego, Calif., runs during the 118th Boston Marathon with the names of those killed in the 2013 bombings, and the MIT officer allegedly slain by the bombing suspects, on his bib, Monday, April 21, 2014, in Boston. Martin Richard, Krystle Campbell and Lu Lingzi, were killed in the bombings, while MIT officer Sean Collier was allegedly shot to death by the bombing suspects. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Keflezighi’s Boston win a boost for shoe sponsor

Rachel Cohen · April 23, 2014 12:23 pm

ESPN cutting workforce, ‘smartly managing costs’

ESPN cutting workforce, ‘smartly managing costs’

Rachel Cohen · May 21, 2013 7:24 pm

NCAA hoops semifinal games moving to cable in 2014

NCAA hoops semifinal games moving to cable in 2014

Rachel Cohen · May 7, 2013 3:52 pm

Prime-time coverage of Winter Games to start early

Prime-time coverage of Winter Games to start early

Rachel Cohen · February 5, 2013 8:57 pm

Alabama head coach Nick Saban speaks during a news conference for the BCS National Championship college football game Sunday, Jan. 6, 2013, in Miami. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Money for college athletes: not if, but how

Rachel Cohen, Ralph Russo · January 6, 2013 5:00 am

FILE - In this July 22, 2012, file photo, the outline of part of a football statue is visible on the wall after its removal in State College, Pa. The famed statue of former head coach Joe Paterno was taken down from outside the Penn State football stadium, eliminating a key piece of the iconography surrounding the once-sainted football coach accused of burying child sex abuse allegations against a retired assistant. The reverberations from the Penn State child sex abuse scandal was selected as the sports story of the year by United States editors and news directors in an annual vote conducted by The Associated Press, marking the first time that the same issue was selected in consecutive years since the AP began announcing a sports story of the year in 1990. (AP Photo/John Beale, File)

Penn State voted AP sports story of year again

Rachel Cohen · December 19, 2012 4:13 pm

ESPN College Game Day crews set up Thursday Nov. 15, 2012 in Eugene, Ore., for Saturday morning's show on the Memorial Quad on the University of Oregon campus. Oregon hosts Stanford on Saturday in an NCAA college football game. (AP Photo/The Register-Guard, Chris Pietsch)

ESPN to broadcast college football playoffs

Associated Press, Rachel Cohen · November 21, 2012 5:00 am