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TNT Sports Reaches 5-Year Deal With ESPN To Exclusively Air Select College Football Playoff Games
ESPN and TNT Sports have reached a sublicensing deal that will see the Warner Bros. Discovery subsidiary carry select College Football Playoff games.
The playoff, which began a decade ago as a replacement for the longtime system of polls and disputed championships, has been a ratings magnet and moneymaker for universities and conferences. The company has carried NBA games for nearly four decades but is reported to potentially be on the outside looking in as Disney-ESPN, Amazon and NBCUniversal look to finalize rights deals. The company is “pleased to sublicense to TNT Sports a select number of early round games of the College Football Playoff, an event we’ve helped to grow – alongside the CFP – into one of the preeminent championships,” said Rosalyn Durant, ESPN EVP, programming & acquisitions.
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