NCIS: Los Angeles and NCIS: New Orleans will return to CBS for the 2019-20 season, their 11th and sixth seasons, respectively. Series are the latest re-ups for CBS, which among recent renewals, picked up new seasons of Young Sheldon, Mom, Criminal Minds, Blue Bloods, FBI, God Friended Me, The Neighborhood and Magnum P.I. No word […]
The WNBA scored a big media deal that will see CBS Sports televise live WNBA games beginning with the upcoming 2019 season in a multi-year agreement. CBS Sports Network will now feature national coverage of 40 live WNBA games in primetime and on weekends, beginning May 25 at 8p with the Sky/Lynx. Defending WNBA Champion […]
ESPN Deportes unveiled a new marketing campaign for its coverage of the Lima 2019 XVIII Pan American Games, with promotion featuring Peruvian Latin Grammy recording artist Gian Marco performing “El Triunfo es mi destino.” The spot is now running across ESPN Deportes’ platforms. ESPN’s Sports Marketing, ESPN On-Air Promotions and Bonsai collaborated on the creative. […]
After a week in which each show hit a ratings low, NBC is swapping Tuesday timeslots for The Village and The Voice, moving the scripted show to 8p and the singing competition to 9p. New Amsterdam is staying put at 10p. The move takes into account the higher percentage of delayed viewing for The Village […]
Jimmy Kimmel will pay tribute to two classic sitcoms and their creator in a live, 90-minute prime-time event, Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear’s “All in the Family” and “The Jeffersons”. The late night host teams with Lear and executive producers Brent Miller, Will Ferrell, Adam McKay and Justin Theroux for the […]
Saturday night saw ESPN’s first PPV event under the Top Rank on ESPN umbrella, as Terence “Bud” Crawford scored a sixth-round knockout of Amir Khan at Madison Square Garden. Before the event, Top Rank on ESPN blow-by-blow commentator Joe Tessitore, and analysts Tim Bradley and Andre Ward spoke with media about the fight and ESPN’s […]
Major League Soccer is going event bigger, announcing plans to now expand to 30 teams, up from the previously announced line of 28 clubs that the league had previously sought. The decision was made by owners at Board of Governors meetings held in LA, with Sacramento and St. Louis seemingly in the front of the […]
Tim Allen is still standing. Fox renewed the actor’s comedy, Last Man Standing, which airs its 150th episode tonight. This will be the show’s second season on Fox and eighth overall, counting its time on ABC. The series ranks as Fox’s second most watched and third highest-rated scripted series this season in Live+7 Nielsens.
In a not-so-surprising move, Kevin Hunter was ousted as executive producer of The Wendy Williams Show. The news, which comes on the heels of Williams’ announcement that she plans to divorce her husband of 22 years, was announced by a spokesperson for the daytime talk show, produced by Lionsgate’s Debmar-Mercury. Hunter had been with the […]
Sportradar is partnering up with SportsGrid to launch the a free, 24-hour network dedicated to the sports betting audience. The partnership, according to the release, blends Sportradar’s ad tech, OTT technology and data with SportsGrid’s original programming with the partnership incorporating Sportradar’s release of ad:s, a service that provides bookmakers with a lineup of marketing […]