MSNBC.com and NBCSports.com today announced they would team up to provide sports content on a single, unified platform – and will also pool ad sales efforts. “The multiyear agreement makes NBCSports.com the official sports channel of MSNBC.com and NBC Sports,” according to the release. Before the launch of NBCSports last year, that URL pointed to MSNBC.com’s sports section. NBCSports.com is already doing some linking to MSNBC.com and vice versa – but MediaWeek says a relaunch of the combined sites will come before the Super Bowl in January. NBC Sports is a unit of NBC Universal, while MSNBC.com is a joint venture of NBCU and Microsoft.
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