Reported by Awful Announcing last week and arguably the biggest hire in its history, the Bleacher Report and Turner Sports have announced that they have lured Mike Freeman away from CBSSports.com. He’ll officially join Bleacher Report next Monday as the...
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For the 23rd straight year, Turner Sports will air coverage of the PGA Championship with this year’s tournament taking place at the Oak Hill County Club’s East Course in Rochester, NY. TNT will have extensive coverage of the first two...
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Well, here’s some big news on a Tuesday in a month of big news. Tripp Mickle and John Ourand report in Sports Business Daily that NBC has won the the rights to the second half of the NASCAR Sprint Cup...
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Let’s go over the entire list of those who won hardware in the 34th Annual Sports Emmy Awards. The awards were handed out at Frederick P. Rose Hall at Lincoln Center in New York. Overall, NBC Sports Group has reason...
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This coming from the CBS/Turner Sports NCAA Tournament consortium. Starting next year, TBS will get a bigger role in March Madness. It will split the Regional Finals with CBS and for the next two years, air the National Semifinal games...
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I haven’t done a sports media thoughts post in quite some time. You’re owed some, so lets not waste any time. Two thoughts today with a promise I’ll provide more with some regularity down the road. They’re in bullet form...
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CBS/Turner Sports is certainly happy about this year’s NCAA Tournament. The average rating for the 67 games on CBS/TBS/TNT/tru TV was 6.7 with a 14 share. That’s up 10% from 2012′s 6.1/13. It’s the highest average rating for the tournament...
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After three weeks of increased ratings for the NCAA Tournament and the Final Four, the Championship Game gave CBS/Turner a very nice cherry on top of the cake with a big overnight rating. Thanks to a game that was compelling,...
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After a great game between Michigan and Louisville, won by the Cardinals, we always wait for CBS’ annual version of “One Shining Moment.” This year was no disappointment. Glad that it’s available early. Normally, I’ve waited in the neighborhood of...
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CBS/Turner Sports has a reason to crow as this year’s NCAA Tournament has become a ratings bonanza. And thanks to two compelling games last night, the ratings for the Men’s Final Four® received an average rating of 9.4 with an...
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CBS Sports continues its college basketball coverage on Sunday with live coverage of the NCAA Division II Men’s Championship live from Philips Arena in Atlanta. Metro State takes on Drury. Tim Brando and Dan Bonner will have the call with...
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For the second time this year, CNN will have a live sports special. This will be hosted by Rachel Nichols and Reggie Miller on Saturday, live from the Turner Sports studios at CNN Center in Atlanta. Here’s the blurb from...
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CBS and Turner Sports go into their third year producing the NCAA Men’s Final Four® for America’s viewing pleasure. For the 32nd straight (and possibly last) year, CBS will air the Final Four on broadcast television. CBS begins its coverage...
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Last month, I gave you my College Basketball TV Awards for the 2012-13 regular season. As promised, I’ll provide you with the NCAA Tournament Edition featuring my picks for Final Four, Regional Final and First Week levels. Those not worthy...
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There weren’t too many surprises in the NCAA Tournament on Sunday as Michigan and Louisville took their games with relative ease. However, the big surprise may have been the overnight ratings for the South and Midwest Regional Finals. Both games...
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Here are the tip times for the Final Four®. Wichita State-Louisville tips off first and that will be followed by Michigan-Syracuse. 2013 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Final Four Tips Off Saturday, April 6, on CBS Turner Sports and CBS...
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I hope you’re having a good Easter. The CBS/Turner combo tells us that Saturday’s Elite Eight Regional Finals were up slightly from last year. This despite some ugly basketball especially in the first game between Syracuse and Marquette. Saturday’s two...
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Another press release from CBS/Turner Sports must mean good news for the NCAA Tournament and it does. Friday’s Sweet 16 action which included an exciting overtime Kansas-Michigan game which ended in a Wolverines win, scored in the ratings and in...
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From the CBS Sports/Turner Sports consortium, we have Friday’s overnight ratings for the Regional Semifinal action and thanks to a Kansas-Michigan game that went to overtime on TBS, the NCAA Tournament posted the highest overnight ratings for that night since...
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Tip times are set for Sunday’s Elite Eight. The South Regional Final will tip on CBS at 2:20 p.m. ET. That will be followed by the Midwest Regional Final, also on CBS, at 5:05 p.m. Details are below. TURNER SPORTS...
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Thanks to the fine people at the CBS Sports and Turner Sports PR departments, we learn that viewership for the 2013 NCAA Tournament is up 8% from 2012. Even with the amount of blowouts we’ve seen, interest in the tournament...
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This from CBS/Turner, overnight ratings for Thursday’s NCAA Tournament Regional Semifinal games are up 4% from 2012. The games on CBS and TBS averaged a 7.3 and a 14 share, up from last year’s 7.0/12. Ratings were up despite the...
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It occurred early in CBS’ coverage of the NCAA Tournament Sweet 16. As host Greg Gumbel introduced Doug Gottlieb to the studio joining Greg Anthony, Charles Barkley and Kenny “The Jet” Smith, Gottlieb tried to make a diversity joke and...
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This in from CBS and Turner Sports. The tip times for the first half East and West Regional Finals have been set. Both games will be on CBS Sports. The East Regional in Washington, DC will take place at 4:30...
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The ratings and viewership for the NCAA Tournament continue to set records. CBS/Turner Sports note that the average 8.9 million combined viewers for the first week of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament on CBS, TBS, TNT and truTV are the most...
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I’m out and about today. CBS/Turner are happy about Sunday’s overnight numbers. The day averaged a 7.6 rating with a 15 share, up a whopping 19% from last year, the highest for the first Sunday of the NCAA Tournament since...
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Here we go for the tip times and announcing assignments for the Regional Semifinals on Thursday and Friday for the 2013 NCAA Tournament. CBS and TBS will share the games. Verne Lundquist, Bill Raftery and Rachel Nichols are assigned to...
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Saturday, March 23 Pregame & Studio Shows NCAA March Madness 360 — CBS Sports Network, 2 p.m. NCAA Tip-Off — TNT, 5 p.m. College GameDay Scoreboard — ESPN2, midnight Inside March Madness — TBS, midnight NCAA March Madness Bracket Breakdown...
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Ok, the tip times are in for the final day of the opening weekend of the 75th NCAA Tournament. CBS SPORTS AND TURNER SPORTS ANNOUNCE TIP TIMES AND MATCH-UPS FOR THIRD ROUND GAMES ON SUNDAY, MARCH 24 Turner Sports and...
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This from CBS/Turner Sports. The final ratings are in for the first Thursday of the 2013 NCAA Tournament and they are good. This CBS/TBS/TNT/truTV combination combined for an overall 5.5 household rating with a 12 share. That is up 4%...
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