Wondery paid $100M+ for three years of New Heights — the largest athlete podcast deal in history. Two brothers, one banter format, a Taylor Swift halo, and a new ceiling for sports-creator IP.
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.
How NFL on Amazon and Netflix, the NBA's 11-year deal, MLB on Apple, and the broader streaming-era broadcast realignment have rewritten the communications playbook for every major sports property in the U.S.
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.
Netflix's Love Is Blind Season 4 reunion live-streaming failure on April 16, 2023 — the substantial waiting room delay, the extended delay duration, the recorded broadcast pivot, and the broader subscriber communication challenges that produced the canonical case study in streaming-platform live-infrastructure failure.
The communications file on the NFL — the league office, the union, all 32 clubs, the broadcasters, the gambling integrators, the international calendar, and the active reputation files.
The 2019 NFL workout for Colin Kaepernick — the venue switch, the parallel PR campaigns, and what the episode taught about athlete protest, league counterparty risk, and brand activism. EPR's canonical Kaepernick case study inside the Sports PR pillar.
Mike Mularkey was fired by the Titans in 2018 two days after a playoff win. He never coached in the NFL again. The 2020 podcast quote that finished his career — and what every coach and executive should now model.
Sunday Night Football's 2017 ratings drop looked structural at the time. Eight years of data say it was the bottom of a cycle. NFL ratings recovered, SNF held its 14-year streak as the most-watched primetime show on U.S. television, NBC renewed at $1.1B/year through 2033, and the Taylor Swift / Travis Kelce halo pulled new female demographics into the broadcast. What the 2017 commentary cohort got right and got wrong.