Monday, March 23, 2015
American Pride 2015 business
Purchased The Macaroni Grill's 146 units for $25M.
Signed to broadcast British Open, women's British, and amateur championship, as well as Walker and Calder Cup when at Royal Andrews course. Paid $85M per year from 2017-2029.
Will broadcast and finance Sesame Street, allow PBS to air six months later. Will join Reading Rainbow as signature SaL educational programming.
Will broadcast EPL games for six seasons, starting in the summer of 2016, $400M per season. All games will be available on SL1-4, or one of our partner channels, which will be announced soon.
Partnering with Time Warner, truTV, TBS, TNT most weeks, also HLN, CNN, TOON, TCM
--SL1-3 will remain mostly 24/7 sports, SL4 will remain mostly business/leisure/educational.
Will offer $1.51B per year for NFL Thursday package, except Opening night and Thanksgiving, with some SAT night games late, $78.95M per game, 1 playoff game (2016-17 wildcard weekend, 2017-8 divisional weekend)
Will offer $351M per year for Big Ten football/basketball package.
Signed Rachel Nichols to host a show and be a regular anchor/contributor on SportsEye or a like program. 5 years, begins early 2016.
Chuck Lorre "pot comedy" given 72 episode commitment, Matt Groening Netflix comedy given 48 episode commitment.
Over the air stations now covering 72% of USA population, broadcasting mostly SL1, some SL1/2.
Signed to broadcast British Open, women's British, and amateur championship, as well as Walker and Calder Cup when at Royal Andrews course. Paid $85M per year from 2017-2029.
Will broadcast and finance Sesame Street, allow PBS to air six months later. Will join Reading Rainbow as signature SaL educational programming.
Will broadcast EPL games for six seasons, starting in the summer of 2016, $400M per season. All games will be available on SL1-4, or one of our partner channels, which will be announced soon.
Partnering with Time Warner, truTV, TBS, TNT most weeks, also HLN, CNN, TOON, TCM
--SL1-3 will remain mostly 24/7 sports, SL4 will remain mostly business/leisure/educational.
Will offer $1.51B per year for NFL Thursday package, except Opening night and Thanksgiving, with some SAT night games late, $78.95M per game, 1 playoff game (2016-17 wildcard weekend, 2017-8 divisional weekend)
Will offer $351M per year for Big Ten football/basketball package.
Signed Rachel Nichols to host a show and be a regular anchor/contributor on SportsEye or a like program. 5 years, begins early 2016.
Chuck Lorre "pot comedy" given 72 episode commitment, Matt Groening Netflix comedy given 48 episode commitment.
Over the air stations now covering 72% of USA population, broadcasting mostly SL1, some SL1/2.
