SSP News & Events

Scripps Sports entered into a comprehensive multi-year broadcast partnership with Professional Bull Riders to bring Premier Women's Rodeo exclusively to Scripps' national television networks ION and Grit beginning in May. The partnership will launch with ION and Grit carrying the highly anticipated 2026 PWR Championship, broadcast from Fort Worth, Texas, on Sunday, May 17, at 1 p.m. ET. Building on this foundation, the collaboration will expand significantly in 2027 to include the original series "PWR: Road to the Championship" on Grit, offering all-inclusive coverage of the PWR season's most compelling storylines and competitions, culminating with the 2027 PWR Championship airing across both ION and Grit. It will culminate with the 2027 PWR Championship airing across both ION and Grit. In 2027, ION and Grit will broadcast a minimum of 18 hours of women's rodeo programming over 16 broadcasts.

Scripps Sports has entered into a comprehensive multi-year broadcast partnership with Professional Bull Riders to bring Premier Women's Rodeo exclusively to Scripps' national television networks ION and Grit beginning in May.

The Nashville Predators and Scripps Sports have announced a "landmark" multi-year media rights agreement that brings free, over-the-air access to the Predators' National Hockey League games to fans across Middle Tennessee and beyond beginning with the 2026-27 NHL season. "This new agreement allows The E.W. Scripps Company to produce and distribute all local preseason, regular season and first-round playoff Predators games that are not allocated exclusively to national broadcasts. Scripps Sports will also broadcast live 30-minute pre-game and post-game shows for every locally broadcast Predators game. Scripps, which owns WTVF NewsChannel 5 in Nashville, plans to use its second full-power local station in the Middle Tennessee area, WNPX-TV," the company and team announced.