Idle notes.

Posted by Paulsen | 06/25/2007 at 3:45 pm

As of yet, the NBA has not announced a new television deal. The NBA and Disney are nearing a deal “that has the entertainment giant buying a minority stake in the league’s nascent NBA China entity,” though that has “nothing to do” with the eight-year television deal being negotiated between the league, Disney and Turner.
The Tennis Channel will join ESPN and NBC in televising Wimbledon starting next year. Tennis Channel now has the rights to three of the four Grand Slams.
On June 26, ESPN will present a special “Live Free or Die Hard” edition of SportsCenter, in which “[c]ommercial breaks will be replaced by interstitial vignettes featuring [Bruce] Willis, the Philadelphia Eagles’ Donovan McNabb and ESPN’s Mike & Mike. There will also be exclusive sneak peaks of ‘Live Free or Die Hard,’ which Twentieth Century Fox releases everywhere June 27.”