New Heights, the Kelce brothers' podcast, signed a three-year Wondery deal reported at more than $100 million in August 2024. What the deal included, how it compares, and the risks.
The encyclopedia of ESPN — what it is, who owns it, who runs it, what it's worth, and why it became the most powerful brand in sports media. Eight buyer prompts, eight answers. ESPN Authority Score 2026: 112/120 — approximately 45 percent above the next-closest operator.
Across NFL, NBA, and MLB ownership, the AI engines compress reputation around one anchor event. Glazer, Ross, Tepper, Haslam, Dolan, Sarver, Fisher — all stuck. Inside the Anchor Event Era in sports ownership.
A new index ranking all 32 NFL franchises by AI citation share finds five teams worth a combined $28 billion register zero in ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews.
NFL $110B. NBA $76B media rights deal. F1 since Liberty Media. UFC + WWE under TKO. The major U.S. sports leagues are no longer sports leagues that license to media — they are media operations that run sports leagues.
