People | SportsNewser NBC Has Secured the Olympics, So What Happens Next? By Alex Weprin on Jun. 8, 2011 - 2:02 PM For the first time in many years, NBC was the underdog to secure the Olympics. The conventional wisdom was that ESPN would make a strong bid, while Fox Sports became the favorite late in the game. But when it was all said and done ...
SportsNewser Fox Splits Screen To Post Ads During NASCAR Race By Cam Martin on May. 17, 2011 - 8:49 AM In a first for Fox, the station split the screen during Sunday’s Dover race and ran advertisements in three quadrants of the screen—for Sprint, FedEx and Pizza Hut—while the NASCAR race continued airing in the fo ...