With Tiger power in full swing, CBS Sports’ final-round coverage of the 2018 PGA Championship on Sunday drew an average household metered market rating/share of 6.1/14, up 69% from last year’s 3.6/8 as Brooks Koepka held off Tiger Woods and Adam Scott to win his second major of the year. This year’s 6.1/14 marks the […]
Tyra Banks inked a first-look deal with Universal Television and Universal Television Alternative Studio. Under its terms, the producer/supermodel/actress will develop and produce scripted and unscripted programming under her Bankable Productions banner. The agreement will not affect Banks’ participation as host of America’s Got Talent.
After 35 years in syndication, Jeopardy! made its streaming debut on Hulu on Friday, via a deal between the streamer and Sony Pictures Television. To celebrate, Hulu curated 60 episodes of the game show’s flagship special events.
ESPN continues to beef up its international partnerships for ESPN+, picking up streaming rights to Australia’s Hyundai A-League and Westfield W-League as well as the Chinese Super League and the Dutch Eredivisie league for carriage in the US. For the Aussie matches, the deal will see ESPN+ carry up to 140 Hyundai A-League matches spanning […]
Turner Sports lined up a 66-game schedule for its 2018-19 NBA regular season on TNT that will include the return of Players Only telecasts on eight Tuesdays beginning in January. The network will 13 appearances each by the Lakers and Rockets with 12 appearances by both the Warriors and Celtics and 11 by the Thunder […]
Tribune Media terminated its $3.9 billion merger deal with Sinclair Broadcast Group and is suing for $1 billion in damages, contending Sinclair’s negotiations with regulators were “belligerent and unnecessarily protracted.” “Our merger cannot be completed within an acceptable timeframe, if ever,” said Tribune CEO Peter Kern. Tribune pulled the plug after a Wednesday deadline passed […]
Nicki Minaj will return to the MTV’s VMAs in a special performance, presented by Pepsi, from an iconic location in New York during the live show Monday, August 20 at 9p. MTV says it will be the first time a major awards show will televise a performance from the surprise location.
Sept. 11 will see ESPN serve up a new afternoon programming schedule, with a lineup that will include a live SportsCenter at noon, HIGH NOON converting to a half-hour format at 4p and the end of the line for SportsNation, which will cap its run on Aug. 24. ESPN host Cari Champion will now return […]
Turner Sports announced that Tim Howard and Stuart Holden have been added as analysts for B/R Football studio programming for Turner’s season-long coverage of the UEFA Champions League. Pre-match, halftime and post-match studio shows will be available on B/R Live and TNT, kicking off with the one-hour B/R Football Matchday, along withB/R Football Halftime, B/R […]
Brooklyn Nine-Nine will have “no substantive changes” after its move from Fox to NBC, said showrunner Dan Goor. “The mandate from NBC has been, ‘We know this show, we love this show, that’s why we picked up this show, please keep making the same show.’”