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ESPN Snares Rights to Expanded College Football Playoff
Source: Variety · Published
ESPN secured rights to an expanded college-football playoff structure, lending ballast to the media-industry notion that you can’t have enough of this level of game play at this moment in the sector. Under terms of a new deal, the Disney sports-media giant will be the exclusive w
ESPN secured rights to an expanded college-football playoff structure, lending ballast to the media-industry notion that you can’t have enough of this level of game play at this moment in the sector. Under terms of a new deal, the Disney sports-media giant will be the exclusive worldwide rightsholder to an expanded 24-team College Football Playoff, […]
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