March 18, 2021 | 4:43 pm EDT by Joe Reedy
The league took in $5.9 billion a year in its current contracts. It will get $113 billion over the 11 seasons of the new deals that begin in 2023, an increase of 80% over the previous such period. Amazon has partnered with the league to stream Thursday night games since 2017, but it will take over the entire package from Fox, which has had it since 2018. Games will continue to air on CBS, Fox, NBC and ESPN, while ABC will have a limited schedule of games as well as returning to the Super Bowl rotation for the first time since the 2005 season. Above, CBS, with lead anchors Tony Romo (l) and Jim Nantz, will continue to carry its traditional package of games.
March 17, 2021 | 5:30 am EDT by Paige Albiniak
Facebook overwhelmingly is the most important social media platform for TV stations, say executives for CBS stations, E.W. Scripps, Nexstar, NBCU stations, Fox stations and Meredith. Broadcasters’ relationship with the platform once widely viewed as a “frenemy” continues to evolve, though the opacity of its all-important algorithm still frustrates.
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Khosla is the founder of Khosla Ventures, a top Silicon Valley venture capital firm known for backing some of tech s biggest hits, including Square, Okta and DoorDash. He is also the co-founder of Sun Microsystems and spent 18 years at Kleiner Perkins before launching his own fund. Khosla s tweet follows other prominent venture capitalist investors who are calling on each other to stop doing business deals with Jared Kushner, Trump s son-in-law.
Some of Cook s other followers were also quick to post pictures of Cook with the president, and articles with headlines that describe the cozy relationship that Apple has had with the administration. There was the time the Apple chief had dinner with the president at a golf club in New Jersey, for example, and another time when Cook and Trump spent the day touring a factory together in Austin, Texas.