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⚡ Hot Takes & Headlines
🎮 ESPN x Sony Beyond Sports deal doubles down on gaming-engine tech as the future of sports storytelling. [ESPN]
📺 DIRECTV for Business’s new licensing deal for the UEFA Champions League through Paramount+ signals premium-sports streaming is moving deeper into out-of-home platforms. [SVG]
🎞️ Warner Bros. Discovery's open-to-sale signal shifts power maps for everyone from Netflix and beyond. [LA Times]
🩰 Misty Copeland takes her final bow, turning her next act toward expanding diversity in dance. [MSNBC]
🏈 Morgan Stanley GSE and NBC Sports enter into new collab with Navy All-American Bowl. [NBC]
🗓️ Upcoming Events
Email Was Only the Beginning
Four years in the making. One event that will change everything.
On November 13, beehiiv is redefining what it means to create online with their first-ever virtual Winter Release Event.
This isn’t just an update or a new feature. It’s a revolution in how content is built, shared, and owned. You don’t want to miss this.
Across the Industry
AfroTech 2025 Conference | National Basketball Association
🗓️ Oct 28-31 | 📍Houston, TX | Register here →
The NBA returns to AfroTech 2025 celebrating the intersection of basketball, culture, and technology.
The Atlanta Creator Check In | Creator Tea Talk, Influential, C4MH
🗓️ Nov 4 |📍Atlanta, GA | Register here →
A social, community-building event with a mixer and panel on wellness and mental health for creators.
AB Show 2025 | Athletic Business
🗓️ Nov 5-8 |📍 San Diego, CA | Register here →
Major event for sports facility operations, event/experience professionals, venue & facility decision-makers.
3rd Annual HUSL Sports Business Conference | Harvard Undergraduate Sports Lab (HUSL)
🗓️ Nov 8 | 📍 Cambridge, MA | Register here →
A gathering of sports business professionals and students exploring innovation in sports partnerships and business.
American Film Market 2025 | American Film Market
🗓 Nov 11-16 |📍 Los Angeles, C | Register here →
A global film-industry market built for professionals, production companies, distributors, and financiers to network, acquire rights, and develop business.
Creative Storytelling and the Business of Sports and Film | American Black Film Festival
🗓️ Nov 15 | 📍Dallas, TX | Register here →
This fireside chat explores how athletes and entertainers use storytelling, film, and finance to build wealth, empower communities, and create lasting legacies.
Sports Creative Community NYC Meetup | Sports Creative Community
🗓️ Nov 18 | 📍New York, NY | Register here →
Join SCC for a night of connecting with sports creatives.
Media and Business Networking | Strive Networking
🗓️ Nov 19 | 📍San Diego, CA | Register here →
Connect with SD professionals in business and media to elevate your career.
2026 Sports Industry Networking & Career (SINC) Conference | SINC
🗓️ Feb 27-28 | 📍 Hybrid | Register here →
Networking and career-development event for professionals navigating the business side of sports.
💼 New Jobs This Week
🎞️ Paramount Pictures | Coordinator, Brand Marketing | Los Angeles, CA | $50k - $55k
📰 BBC | Senior Communications Coordinator | Los Angeles, CA | $70k - 75k
🎵 Universal Music Group | Coordinator, Brand Partnerships | Santa Monica, CA | $38.8k - $80.8k
🏅 FanDuel | Communications Associate | New York, NY | $73k - $91k
🏀 National Basketball Association (NBA) | Network Partnerships Analyst | New York, NY | $85k - $100k
🎟️ Another Planet Entertainment - The Independent | Talent Buyer | San Francisco, CA | $90k - $100k
🎵 Universal Music Group | Manager, Brand Partnerships | New York, NY | $64.4k - $107.9k
👕 SKIMS | Influencer Marketing Manager | Los Angeles, CA | $100k - $120k
⚾ Los Angeles Dodgers | Director of Community Relations | Los Angeles, CA | $125k - $140k
🎬 Netflix | Specialist, Corporate Events | Los Angeles, CA | $100k - $150k
🌟 Arena Member Spotlight
Karin Carriel is the Creator and Executive Producer of INICIO, a project spotlighting underrepresented voices in entertainment through visual storytelling.
With experience collaborating with internationally renowned recording artists, and producing brand partnerships and live events across major U.S. cities, she’s helped shape campaigns that define today’s multicultural entertainment landscape.
Karin thrives on transforming ideas into impact-driven projects and is passionate about building platforms that inspire, influence, and shift culture.
“With INICIO, I want to spotlight Latine creatives who carved their own paths. Their journeys remind us that passion and courage can redefine success, inspiring new narratives beyond traditional roles.”
👀 Behind the Scenes
We’ve been getting a lot of q’s lately about how Arena actually works, and more importantly, why it works. So this week, we’re pulling back the curtain. With our updated site, learn what really happens behind our curated intros and how pros across sports, media, and entertainment are already turning them into new opportunities.
If you work in sports, we’re about to kicked off the LinkedIn Sports Challenge for November - 30 days of prompts to help you build visibility, confidence, and consistency in your professional brand.
We’re also beginning to feature more members across our newsletter (18K subscribers) and LinkedIn (21K followers) to spotlight your wins and share stories that help others navigate their career journeys, too.
That’s it for this week In The Arena of sports, media & entertainment!
-Arena’s founders | Parul Khosla, Adriene Bueno & Olivia Schwartz.
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