Turner Sports and CBS Sports hit year seven of the 2017 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship with some tweaks to its programming as well as streaming coverage that will now hit 15 platforms. Programming includes all 67 games across TBS, CBS, TNT and truTV, with all games streamed on NCAA March Madness Live. This year’s selection show will now run at 90 minutes on Sunday starting at 5:30p. Greg Gumbel hosts and will be joined by analysts Clark Kellogg and Seth Davis from the CBS Broadcast Center in New York City, with Ernie Johnson, Charles Barkley and Kenny Smith providing commentary from Turner Studios in Atlanta. CBS carries the NCAA Final Four National Semifinals on April 1, as well as the National Championship on April 3. Overall, Turner will air 43 game telecasts across its three networks with CBS on deck for 24 games. Studio shows will include The Road to the Final Four and Infiniti NCAA Tip-Off pre-game shows, AT&T at the Half, Capital One Tournament Central and the Inside March Madness presented by Buick post-game show.
As for NCAA March Madness Live, the exclusive live streaming suite of products developed by Turner Sports in partnership with CBS and the NCAA, the platform will now feature content that extends to a record 15 platforms this year, including Amazon Alexa and Xbox. For the first time, Turner’s iStreamPlanet will provide the live streaming infrastructure for all games made available through NCAA March Madness Live. New features this year include the Apple TV Interactive Bracket, March Madness Alexa Skill, Capital One NCAA March Madness Bracket Challenge, an enhanced Desktop Experience and expanded highlights and alerts.