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World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: WWE) is looking to the past in an attempt to jumpstart its slumping TV ratings and attendance. WWE has announced Paul Heyman will take over as executive director for “Monday Night Raw” and Eric Bischoff will take over the same position for...

Stars Group Inc (NASDAQ: TSG) shares are down 54.4% in the past year, but a series of unusually large options trades Wednesday morning suggests at least one trader thinks the bottom may be near. The Trades On Wednesday morning at around 9:02 a.m., Benzinga Pro subscribers were alerted to a purchase...

In a show of how Americans are increasingly able to bet legally on sports, a big Heartland state became the second this year and the 10th overall to legalize sports betting. And two companies announced the biggest media investment yet in sports betting. The developments sum up the...

The XFL, the upstart spring football league, will have its games broadcast on TV networks ABC and Fox, and on cable on FOX Sports and the ESPN networks under an agreement announced Monday. ABC and ESPN are owned by Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS). The Fox broadcast and cable networks are owned by Fox...

The Heavyweights and Cruiserweights of World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: WWE) have helped strengthen the stock as an Overweight contender on the Street. WWE is up more than 130 percent year-to-date, but Morgan Stanley still considers it a buy. The Rating Analyst Benjamin Swinburne...

Shares of World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: WWE) gained more than 10 percent Wednesday morning after announcing new TV deals for its two flagship weekly events. What Happened WWE confirmed Tuesday afternoon it reached an agreement to extend its long-standing partnership with Comcast...

After a huge run last week, World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: WWE) stock spiked higher by more than 12 percent Monday after ESPN and other outlets reported that WWE has agreed in principle to a deal that would move “SmackDown” from Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ: CMCSA)'s USA...

World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: WWE) on Sunday brought WrestleMania back to New Orleans for the first time since 2014. Four years may not seem like a long time, but it likely seems like a lifetime for WWE investors, who have been on quite a ride since WrestleMania last came to the Big...

World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: WWE) stock jumped about 4 percent Wednesday after some VIPs were among the audience members at Tuesday night’s taping of “SmackDown Live.” What Happened According to a tweet by Sports Illustrated reporter Richard Deitsch, some high-...

Just when it seemed like radio-format shows were a dying form of communication, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) came along and added support for podcasts to iTunes, breathing new life into the lungs of this struggling genre. Apple didn't invent the concept of podcasts, but it made it mainstream....

Print is dead. Long live content. At a time when Internet news portals are exploiting all the video and graphic-driven gimmicks at their disposal, a startup called The Athletic is a local, subscription-based news service that - wait for it - focuses on quality reporting. With no ads. The Athletic...

It’s no secret that TV ratings have been on the decline in recent years. However, the ratings struggle for the NFL has caught sports fans and investors by surprise this year. Heading into this past weekend, Monday Night Football ratings were down 24 percent this year, Sunday Night...

Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) debuted its free live stream of Thursday Night Football's NFL games last week. The latest data from TickerTags indicate that the stream was a big hit among sports fans. TickerTags monitors social media sites to identify trends by searching for words or phrases that appear...

Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) and Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) have long competed with each other as two of the largest and most successful social media networks on the planet. Twitter shareholders are painfully aware of the fact that Twitter has often come out with the short end of the stick competing...

Fox Sports college football analyst Clay Travis believes World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: WWE) and Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) are a match made in heaven. In fact, according to Travis, who is a WWE shareholder, WWE and UFC could be a quick fix to Netflix’s one remaining...