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EXCLUSIVE: All Elite Wrestling, which bills itself as an “alternative” to the WWE, is making a pay-per-view event available as an exclusive on WarnerMedia digital brand Bleacher Report. Sunday night’s event at Chicago’s NOW Arena, dubbed AEW All Out, will cost $49.99. Viewers can sign up via the B/R app on Android or…

The big man has a big new deal. Basketball Hall of Famer Shaquille has inked a multiyear contract renewal with Turner Sports to continue on its NBA coverage. The 15-time All-Star who won three titles with Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers and another with the Miami Heat is expending his role to include TNT's…

EXCLUSIVE: WarnerMedia-owned Bleacher Report has renewed digital series Take it There with Taylor Rooks for a second season. The show, which streams on YouTube and on the Bleacher Report site and app, featured sit-downs with NBA players Jimmy Butler and Damian Lilllard and NFL running back Saquon Barkley. Season 2…

EXCLUSIVE: As it continues to build out its mid- and long-form content capabilities, WarnerMedia sports brand Bleacher Report has hired former Epix executive Rachel Brill as SVP and GM of the recently created B/R Studio. In the role, Brill will look to build a roster of projects targeting an estimated 200 million…

Bleacher Report, the digital sports brand acquired by Turner Sports in 2012, launched its own streaming service in March 2018. On Friday, though, the WarnerMedia unit is marking a different kind of milestone as Showtime airs Quiet Storm: The Ron Artest Story. Bleacher Report produced the documentary, which is its…

MTV has named former Bleacher Report president Rory Brown to the newly created position of Head of Digital and Social for MTV, VH1, CMT and Logo. In his new role, Brown will oversee a key part of MTV's effort to reclaim its birthright as a leading youth media brand. In addition to the legacy cable networks, the…

Bleacher Report, the digital sports brand under Turner’s umbrella at WarnerMedia, has hired movie studio and digital media veteran Sam Toles as Chief Content Officer. The New York-based executive will report to Howard Mittman, who was named CEO of Bleacher Report last month. Toles comes to Bleacher Report from MGM…

Turner Sports is promoting Bleacher Report’s Howard Mittman, a senior-level executive since 2017, to CEO of the digital brand as its founder, Dave Finocchio, moves closer to his planned exit. Mittman has been Chief Revenue Officer and Chief Marketing Officer of Bleacher Report since August 2017. He will report to…

Matching sports-media rival ESPN, Turner Sports has taken the wraps off B/R Live, a new OTT service named for its digital brand Bleacher Report that launches April 7. The service’s arrival will be timed to that of a new spring pro football league, whose player ranks include former college standout Johnny Manziel…

The co-founder of Time Warner’s Bleacher Report digital sports destination is returning to the line-up as CEO, the company says today. Dave Finocchio backed away from day-to-day responsibilities in late 2014.  Based in San Francisco,  he’ll now provide what the company refers to as “high-level direction of the brand&#8221…