Sports Media
Warner Bros. Discovery, the parent company of TNT Sports, is seeking a judgment that it matched Amazon Prime Video’s offer and an order seeking to delay the new media rights deal from taking effect beginning with the 2025-26 season.
After years of fighting it off, being featured on the series has turned out to be a non-factor in training camp so far.
The ceremony starts at 12:30 p.m. Chicago time and is expected to last more than three hours. It will air on NBC-5 and stream on Peacock.
This coming season will end a nearly four-decade run of games on TNT.
It was the third-most-viewed WNBA event ever and the largest audience for the league since its first two nationally televised games in 1997.
Prickly as always, the polarizing former Reds star looks back at his career over four episodes of the HBO docuseries.
Parent company Warner Bros. Discovery informed the league Monday that it will match the $1.8 billion-per-year offer by Amazon Prime Video. Turner has had an NBA package since 1984, and games have been on TNT since the network launched in 1988.
This week, the sports-media website Awful Announcing published its rankings of local MLB broadcast teams based on fan voting. The most beloved booth belongs to the Mets. The most disliked booth belongs to the Sox.
Olympian opens up about her sadness after the 2020 Games and her marriage to the Bears’ Jonathan Owens.
That doesn’t mean he’s going Hollywood anytime soon, if ever. But Parkins’ experience on “The Herd,” as grandiose as it was, certainly left an impression.
The team behind last year’s ‘Quarterback’ makes the most of its amazing access to the NFL’s Deebo Samuel, George Kittle, Davante Adams, Justin Jefferson and Amon-Ra St. Brown.
The event’s debut last year was marred by torrential rain that canceled concerts and cut short the Xfinity and Cup Series races. This year, NBC expects to put on the full show it was unable to then.
Harris arrived in July 2021 from CBS affiliate KOVR in Sacramento, California. He replaced Baker, who had moved to co-host morning news in September 2019.
The network didn’t help itself with a confusing interface on its nascent streaming service, Peacock. It further angered viewers by putting men’s basketball games behind the streamer’s paywall.
“There’s an understanding that while we certainly don’t want to make anything personal, when you see what’s going on, you can’t sugarcoat it,” show producer Jason Schwartz said.
Chip Caray, the Cardinals’ TV voice, will call the Cards-Cubs game Sunday with Cubs analyst Jim Deshaies and Marquee Sports Network field reporter Elise Menaker. First pitch is scheduled for 12:05 p.m.
New voice Rick Ball isn’t replacing Pat Foley. He’s replacing the guy whom fans didn’t widely accept. Ball gives the Hawks a do-over — though they should’ve had nothing to redo with Foley and Eddie Olczyk in the booth.
Word circulated earlier this week that the Hawks were speaking with announcers’ agents. When the Sun-Times reached out to the Hawks, the team didn’t respond until shortly before their announcement.
Where we’ll find the network is still in the works. CHSN plans to announce distribution agreements and other news through the summer. But who has the patience to wait that long? Let’s examine three ways things could go this fall.
Losing has “been absolutely hard,” Sox radio voice Len Kasper said, but he and partner Darrin Jackson are hitting stride through it all.