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Michaela Zee editorEndeavor has set a deal to sell its Diamond Baseball Holdings company to private equity firm Silver Lake, which is the majority owner of Endeavor.Under Endeavor, DBH owned and operated select local Minor League Clubs associated with Major League Baseball. DBH has acquired 10 clubs to date, including Iowa Cubs (Triple-A affiliate of the Chicago Cubs); Memphis Redbirds (Triple-A affiliate of the St.

Endeavor has struck a deal to sell its professional development league business, Diamond Baseball Holdings, to investment firm Silver Lake, Endeavor’s major investor.

Vanity Fair profile, the host of “The Rachel Maddow Show” and her new team at Endeavor Talent Agency were actively seeking new opportunities for her career as recently as last year. Maddow and Endeavor president Mark Shapiro were reportedly taking meetings with the likes of Netflix, Amazon, Spotify, Showtime, CNN and others through summer 2021, ultimately turning down offers from the likes of CNN’s then-president Jeff Zucker and a lucrative opportunity with SiriusXM.Per Vanity Fair:There was a much bigger opportunity on the table: SiriusXM was poised to offer Maddow closer to $40 million plus a first-look deal, sources told me.

Endeavor announced Wednesday that it is merging talent agency IMG’s events division, IMG Events, with hospitality firm On Location. Paul Caine, who has led On Location since 2020, has been named president of the newly combined company.

William Earl Endeavor has combined the management of its On Location and IMG Events businesses into a single unit led by the On Location management team of president and Jon Lavallee as chief financial officer.Endeavor positioned the consolidation as a natural move given that the two units are involved in very similar operations. On Location provides luxury hospitality experiences around major sports events including the Super Bowl.

Sunday might be the last time Toronto Blue Jays fans hear the voice of play-by-play announcer Buck Martinez for some time as the baseball legend steps back to begin treatment for cancer.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterEndeavor has appointed Romola Ratnam as senior vice president and head of impact and inclusion, Variety has learned exclusively.Ratnam will oversee corporate social responsibility efforts, including DEI, at the global operation that owns talent agency WME. News of her hire comes on the heels of Alicin Reidy Williamson’s exit for a top post at Yahoo.

according to CNN.A representative for MSNBC did not immediately return a request for comment, but per CNN, this change will happen sometime next year.

The Wall Street Journal. The exact terms and duration of the new deal were not immediately clear.

Endeavor Group Holdings execs confirmed that talks are under way for the sale of a majority stake in production outfit Endeavor Content.

Rachel Maddow is considering the possibility of stepping down from her MSNBC when her contract ends next year, albeit negotiations on her future are continuing between her representatives and the network.

which first reported on Maddow’s contract talks Thursday, added that Maddow is considering leaving the network to start her own media platform. Rashida Jones took over as MCNBC president earlier this year.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorMore than two weeks after Ariel Emanuel stepped down as a Live Nation board member after 14 years, the Department of Justice announced that he and fellow top Endeavor officer Mark Shapiro resigned their board positions after the DOJ expressed antitrust concerns, according to a DOJ statement Monday (June 21). The DOJ’s concern was that Emanuel’s and Shapiro’s “positions on the Live Nation Board created an illegal interlocking directorate,” i.e.

Endeavor Group Holdings’ CEO Ari Emanuel and president Mark Shapiro have resigned from Live Nation’s board of directors after the Justice Department expressed antitrust concerns.

Endeavor CEO Ari Emanuel told investors that recent high-profile media mergers, including Discovery’s planned takeover of WarnerMedia and Amazon’s deal last week to acquire MGM, are proof that “content is in high demand and short supply” and that’s good for Endeavor.In Endeavor’s first earnings call since the company went public, Emanuel joined Endeavor president Mark Shapiro and CFO Jason Lublin in trumpeting what he called Endeavor’s ideal positioning to provide sports, live event and media

Cynthia Littleton Business EditorEndeavor is well positioned for future growth even in a fast-consolidating marketplace because it has a foothold in most of the major entertainment sectors that are roaring back to life, Endeavor CEO Ari Emanuel told investors Wednesday in his first earnings call as the head of publicly traded company.Emanuel, Endeavor president Mark Shapiro and CFO Jason Lublin fielded questions from top Wall Street media analysts for an hour as the company began the quarterly

SoEndeavor is a public company. Now what? The owner of WME, IMG and UFC raised more than half a billion dollars in an IPO this week, two years after it first embarked on a path to the public markets.

Cynthia Littleton Business EditorEndeavor has taken a bold step into the public equities markets. Now what?Endeavor president Mark Shapiro enthused on Thursday that the IPO, which launched the stock at $24, marks the beginning of a new chapter for the company that has been through a fair amount of turmoil and transition over the past few years.

WME says it’s in “substantive discussions” with the WGA to end their 21-month battle over packaging fees and the agency’s affiliation with a related production entity, Endeavor Content.

A high-profile SPAC with Hollywood ties, Brilliant Lights Acquisition Corp, has been priced and will begin trading on Nasdaq tomorrow, Jan. 7.

Endeavor is rolling out pay cuts as it deals with the economic impact of the pandemic, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. As with several other agencies that have taken similar measures, the pay reductions will proportionately increase according to base salary, from 5 to 30 percent, except for Endeavor president Mark Shapiro, who is cutting his compensation by half.

Endeavor is rolling out pay cuts as it deals with the economic impact of the pandemic, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.As with several other agencies that have taken similar measures, the pay reductions will proportionately increase according to base salary, from 5 to 30 percent, except for Endeavor president Mark Shapiro, who is cutting his compensation by half.

Endeavor has officially begun rolling out pay cuts as it grapples with the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic across the industry. Endeavor heads Ari Emanuel and chairman Patrick Whitesell are forgoing their salaries, with president Mark Shapiro cutting his in half.