{"id":625859,"date":"2026-05-06T00:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T00:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/625859\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T00:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T00:50:08","slug":"the-cw-eying-holiday-bowl-poinsettia-bowl-rights-but-fox-remains-in-the-mix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/625859\/","title":{"rendered":"The CW eying Holiday Bowl, Poinsettia Bowl rights but Fox remains in the mix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Holiday Bowl and the <a href=\"https:\/\/awfulannouncing.com\/college-football\/puerto-rico-bowl-poinsettia-2026-postseason-lineup.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">newly returned Poinsettia Bowl<\/a>, jointly operated by Sports San Diego, are both looking for a media partner, and The CW might just answer the call.<\/p>\n<p>Late last month, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Brett_McMurphy\/status\/2047323356702142864\" rel=\"nofollow\">college football insider Brett McMurphy of On3<\/a> reported that Fox Sports, which has televised the Holiday Bowl since 2017, <a href=\"https:\/\/awfulannouncing.com\/fox\/exits-holiday-bowl-espn-not-interested.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">would not bid on this year\u2019s game<\/a>. McMurphy also noted that ESPN, which\u00a0broadcasts most college football bowl games and was the home of the Holiday Bowl from 1986 to 2016, is not interested.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/05\/04\/sources-cw-interested-in-san-diego-bowl-games-while-door-not-shut-on-fox-reunion\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">According to Austin Karp at Sports Business Journal<\/a>, The CW has emerged as a potential suitor for both games, and Fox hasn\u2019t completely shut the door on the Holiday Bowl either.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-media\">\u201cWe have not had one group say they were not willing to take the call,\u201d Excelsior Sports and Entertainment\u2019s Tag Garson, who is assisting Sports San Diego in its media search for both bowl games, told SBJ. \u201cWhen Fox passed on our final offer, it allowed us to go into the marketplace, and we have been talking to everyone. \u2026 We\u2019re not leaving any stone unturned. \u2026 We\u2019ve only been in the marketplace for a couple of weeks, so this is very new.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The CW currently has <a href=\"https:\/\/awfulannouncing.com\/college-football\/the-cw-2024-arizona-bowl-snoop-dogg-gin-juice.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the rights to the Arizona Bowl<\/a> as well as <a href=\"https:\/\/awfulannouncing.com\/tag\/acc-on-the-cw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ACC<\/a>, Mountain West, and <a href=\"https:\/\/awfulannouncing.com\/college-football\/pac-12-the-cw-extension-as-part-new-media-rights-deal.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pac-12<\/a> regular-season games.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBased on the success of the bowl season last year and the Arizona Bowl, we\u2019re taking a look to add to those to potentially add to our college landscape,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/awfulannouncing.com\/the-cw\/add-more-college-football-bowl-games.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CW SVP\/Sports Mike Perman told Front Office Sports last March<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Karp says that sources told him there is no animosity between Fox and the bowl games, and Fox could end up submitting a bid for the Holiday Bowl \u201cunder the right financial circumstances.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Holiday Bowl and the newly returned Poinsettia Bowl, jointly operated by Sports San Diego, are both looking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[54565,399,262471,398,396,397,270949,99],"class_list":["post-625859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-cfb-on-the-cw","tag-football","tag-holiday-bowl","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-poinsettia-bowl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}