Like its big-media peers, ViacomCBS is coping with myriad questions about the road to recovery through COVID-19, but its message to advertisers this week included a particularly bullish statement from CBS Sports.
“The absence of sports is something we certainly miss dearly,” James Brown, host of studio show The NFL Tod…
Tony Romo has connected on yet another big score. After weeks of speculation on whether a move to ESPN would happen, Romo is now set to remain with CBS Sports for the 2020 NFL season and beyond in a reported $17 million per year deal.
Romo joined CBS Sports in April 2017 as the lead game analyst for The NFL on CBS…
Pioneering sportscaster Lesley Visser will make history in the spring when she becomes the first woman to receive the Sports Lifetime Achievement Award from the Sports Emmy Awards.
The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences said today that she will be honored at the 41st annual ceremony on April 28 at Jazz at…
The Buffalo Bills and Dallas Cowboys broadcast on Thursday was the most-watched Thanksgiving Day game on CBS Sports in 27 years, and the most-watched regular season game on any network in three years.
The game, which ran from 4:32 PM to 7:48 PM ET, featured a surging young Bills team against a Cowboys franchise…
CBS Sports announcer Gary Danielson was blasted on social media for laughing after a female photographer was run over on the sidelines of the Georgia-Auburn game on Saturday.
Danielson made his remarks in the second quarter of the game when Georgia running back Brian Herrien, listed at 6’0 and 210 pounds, ran out of…
CBS Sports' coverage of the SEC game between No. 3 Georgia vs. No. 7 Notre Dame on Saturday evening was the highest-rated college football game on any network this season, earning an average household metered market rating/share of 6.2/13.
Notre Dame's first trip to Sanford Stadium in Athens, Ga. ended with a 23-17…
Jack Whitaker, a sportscaster for CBS and ABC who called Super Bowl I and Secretariat’s Triple Crown triumph, has died. He passed Sunday morning in his sleep in Devon, Pennsylvania of natural causes at age 95.
Starting his career in the late 1950s at Philadelphia’s WCAU-TV after graduating from St. Joseph’s…
CBS Sports chief Sean McManus kicked off the network’s NFL media day Tuesday by acknowledging the obsession of many in the room: the company’s long-expected merger with Viacom that was finalized today.
“Anything going on at CBS?” he joked, hours before the deal became official. “There’s nothing going on corporately…
CBS Sports and Big3, the professional 3-on-3 basketball league founded by Ice Cube and Jeff Kwatinetz, have agreed to an exclusive deal for live broadcasts of Big3’s 2019 season.
Games will be shown on CBS and CBS Sports Network, with more than 20 hours throughout the season on the former and more than 25 hours on the…
The Professional Bull Riders, a presence on CBS Sports platforms since 2012, may not have the mass appeal of the Final Four, NFL or the Masters. Still, its growth pattern and concentrated appeal to its core fan base will keep it in the CBS fold through 2028.
An extended rights agreement between the parties will see…
A little more than a week after taking the reins at Turner Sports and adding it to his oversight of CNN and other news holdings at WarnerMedia, Jeff Zucker said his restructured mandate won’t change his approach to programming.
“I actually think news and sports are very much the same,” the executive said during a…
