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After a successful debut last season, Nickelodeon and CBS Sports are re-teaming with the NFL for another alternate broadcast of a playoff game. The wild-card game will be Sunday, January 16, at 4:30PM ET. A graphics- and kid-commentary-filled telecast will accompany the regular broadcast on CBS. Last year’s edition…

Selection Sunday, when the teams playing in the NCAA men’s basketball tournament are announced, returns to its usual CBS timeslot this weekend. A year ago, the sudden cancellation of the tournament left a yawning void in the sports and cultural calendar. The demise of March Madness in 2020 ranks as one of the most…

Irv Cross, a Pro Bowl cornerback who would become the first Black man to work as a full-time sports analyst on national television, died Sundday near his home in Roseville, MN. He was 81. His death was announced by both CBS Sports and the Philadelphia Eagles, his former NFL team. A cause was not disclosed. “Irv was a…

March Madness, the annual college basketball ritual that leads to the Final Four and national title game, will unfold on a traditional TV schedule, according to Turner Sports and CBS Sports. The broadcast partners confirmed plans for the tournament, which the NCAA said last month it would hold entirely in the state of…

CBS Sports and ViacomCBS sibling Nickelodeon have offered a preview of the custom telecast of an NFL wild-card playoff game the kids network will present next month. Bottom line: Viewers opting for that version instead of the regular CBS telecast should expect plenty of Snapchat-like filters, computer animation…

With the start of an NFL season like no other just days away, CBS Sports chairman Sean McManus said advertising sales are on pace with the 2019 season, with a sizable chunk of Super Bowl inventory sold out. On a Zoom call with the media lasting an hour and a half, McManus acknowledged that broadcasts will bear the…

CBS Sports scored a hole in one when it came to their coverage of the Charles Schwab Challenge. The network’s return to PGA Tour golf managed to deliver the tournament’s most-watched final round in 16 years. The final round averaged 3.09 million viewers which is an increase of +50% from last year. The national average…

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…