Alli Sports is an organizer of extreme sports events operated as a division of NBC Sports. The group was formed in 2008 as a joint venture between NBC and MTV Networks when the latter bought a stake in an extreme sports tour NBC had been operating, the Dew Tour. While MTV has since sold its share in the venture, it still operates as a part of NBC.
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Alli was formed in 2008 after NBC sold a stake in the extreme sports tour it had run in partnership with Live Nation, the Dew Tour, to MTV Networks. NBC Sports' chairman Dick Ebersol believed that the Tour needed a secondary broadcast partner, and NBC staff believed that access to MTV's cable channels would help provide exposure to the tour to its target demographic. The partnership adopted the brand Alli, established a new online operation for the group, and added MTV2 as a new broadcast partner for the Dew Tour. Under MTV's ownership, Alli also expanded its operations with several new tours, such as the Winter Dew Tour, Gatorade Free Flow Tour, and the AMA Motocross Championship series.[1]
In June 2011, MTV announced it would sell its share in the partnership back to NBC, as plans were made to drop sports programming from MTV2 and develop more scripted programs instead. NBC Sports Group's senior vice president Kevin Monagha felt that in the wake of its merger with Comcast, it now had enough resources that could be leveraged to help continue Alli's growth. After the return to NBC ownership, Alli events began to be shifted away from non-NBC networks — coverage of the AMA Motocross Championship previously aired by Fuel TV and Speed respectively would move to the Alli website and NBC Sports Network for its 2012 season, and the Summer Dew Tour (previously aired by USA Network and MTV2) will be migrated to Comcast SportsNet and NBC Sports Network in 2012.[2]
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