Discovery has a 10-year, $650 million deal in place to be the new home of the French Open in the United States beginning in 2025, executives briefed on the agreement told The Athletic. TNT Sports already owns the European rights to the French Open as it operates Eurosport pay-TV Networks. TNT Sports recently made a deal with ESPN to sub-license …
One of the core aspects of basketball is trash talk. Discovery CEO David Zaslav’s diss track from 2022 is underpinning the sudden jump ball between Zaslav’s TNT Sports and NBC for the last NBA TV rights deal that is still up for grabs. Zaslav can either show fiscal restraint and lose the NBA to NBC, puncturing TNT Sports in the …
