CBS Sports and Turner Sports finally have their lineup for the NCAA Tournament. With the brackets locked in, TruTV tips off the action once again with the First Four, slated to take place tomorrow and Wednesday with eight teams in the mix. The first game will pit Manhattan/Hampton at 6:40p on the network, followed by […]
The Southeastern Conference named its heir, announcing that Greg Sankey would become the eighth commissioner of the conference. Replacing the retiring Mike Slive, who will be leaving in July, Sankey has served as Executive Associate Commissioner and Chief Operating Officer for the league office since 2012. “The universities of the SEC represent the greatest combination […]
Almost bracket time. Turner Sports and CBS Sports begin the road to the Final Four with the pairings announcement for the 2015 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship with the NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship Selection Show on Sunday at 6p on CBS. Greg Gumbel hosts and will be joined by Clark Kellogg, Doug Gottlieb and […]
NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman and Univision Deportes’ President Juan Carlos Rodriguez will be honored on April 16 at the Cynopsis Sports Media Awards. The sports leaders have been named the recipients of two the company’s annual accolades with Bettman receiving the 2015 Vision Award as League Executive of the Year. Juan Carlos Rodriguez will be […]
FOX Sports 1 pumped up its soccer viewership this week. The network reports that Sunday’s Liverpool/Blackburn match in FA Cup action notched 506,000 viewers according to Nielsen, making it the most-watched FA Cup match on English language cable since at least 2008. Later, the return of MLS to FOX Sports saw the Red Bulls/Sporting Kansas […]
CBS Sports and Turner Sports detailed programming plans for the upcoming NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship set to run across four national television networks – TBS, CBS, TNT and truTV – as well as NCAA March Madness Live. While CBS takes on the National Championship on April, 6, TBS will televise the NCAA Final […]
Big changes for the PGA Grand Slam of Golf, which will head to Trump National Golf Club in LA and Golf Channel on TV. The event takes place from Oct. 19-21 and is part of a multi-year agreement between the PGA of America and the Trump Organization. In addition, PGA Grand Slam week at Trump […]
The NFL is handing the keys to MP & Silva, locking in the agency to represent the league in 42 territories across Europe. The deal will see the company distribute television and select digital rights for the 2015 – 2019 NFL seasons for pre-season and regular season games, all playoff games, Pro Bowl, as well […]
FOX Sports and Pam Oliver are in for two more years. Sports Illustrated writes that the company asked her to return to the company’s fold following her shift last season that moved her away from top broadcast team Joe Buck and Troy Aikman and begin work with Kevin Burkhardt and John Lynch. Erin Andrews took […]
With last week’s announcement that the PGA TOUR would be launching its new iPad app, digital consulting firm Omnigon continues to bolster its slate of projects in the sports space. The company, along with POSSIBLE Mobile, unleashed the platform with features that include the use of real-time predictive statistics, both for individual players and the […]
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