NBC Sports' Saturday coverage of the controversial 145th Kentucky Derby on NBC, followed immediately by the primetime Columbus Blue Jackets-Boston Bruins Stanley Cup Playoff Game 5, delivered multiple overnight ratings milestones, according to data provided by Nielsen. At the Kentucky Derby, heavy favorite…

The Peacock is losing one of its most colorful, popular and sometimes controversial broadcasters. Forty years after he joined NBC, Bob Costas confirmed today that he’ll no longer work there. "It's all settled quietly and happily for all concerned," Costas told The New York Post, which confirmed the news with the…

After being with NBC since 1979, Bob Costas is making a plan to bow out of NBC Sports. Costas has held discussions with his representatives and NBC to be let out of his contract that currently runs through 2021, according to USA Today. Deadline reached out to NBC, but the network declined to comment about Costas…

It’s official. Mike Tirico has been named the new studio host for NBC’s primetime Sunday pregame show Football Night in America. Tirico was reported to have been the leading candidate to succeed Dan Patrick, who told the New York Post in March that he turned down a new five-year contract to continue as host. “I didn't…

NBC Sports Group named Pete Bevacqua to the newly created position of president, where he’ll oversee programming, marketing, digital, the NBC Sports Regional Networks, and all golf businesses. Mark Lazarus, chairman of NBC Broadcasting and Sports, said Bevacqua’s hiring culminates seven years of expansion of the…

Telemundo Deportes’ digital presentation of today’s Mexico-Sweden match set a streaming record with more than one million concurrent livestreams across TelemundoDeportes.com, the Telemundo Deportes En Vivo app, and the NBC Sports app. It was the most for any event in NBC Sports Digital history, excluding Super Bowls…

The opening round of the NHL’s 2018 Stanley Cup Playoffs saw a pair of series sweeps and only one Game 7, but NBC Sports’ coverage still hit its best total-audience numbers in six years. And Wednesday night’s Game 7 of the Boston Bruins-Toronto Maple Leafs series was the most-watched first-round game ever on <a href="https://deadline.com/tag/nbcsn/" id="auto-tag_nbcsn"…

Johnny Weir, whose sartorial splendor sadly was missing from last weekend’s White House Correspondents Dinner, will return to NBC Sports’ coverage of the Kentucky Derby this year, wearing a Tweet-powered brooch, NBC Sports happily announced this morning. Weir has put his style to work for NBC Sports for the past two…

David Preschlack is playing for a new team. The longtime Disney/ESPN exec has been named President of NBC Sports Regional Networks and NBC Sports Group Platform and Content Strategy. He’ll suit up on February 1, reporting to NBC Sports Group Chairman Mark Lazarus. Preschlack — who had been EVP Affiliate Sales and…

It was back in March 2014 that then-Good Morning America host Josh Elliott accepted an offer to jump to NBC Sports. Today, he’s off the team. "Josh and NBC Sports mutually decided to part ways,” an NBC spokesperson told Deadline, “and we wish him the best of luck in the future.” Elliott was part of the GMA team that wr…

NBC Sports Group has pacted with golf’s British Open organizers the R&A on a long-term media partnership in the U.S. beginning with The Open, one of pro golf’s four major championships. Beginning in 2017 at Britain’s Royal Birkdale and spanning 12 years, the deal returns The Open and the Women’s British Open to…

NBC Sports announced its deploying its figure skating analysts Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski to NBC’s Super Bowl XLIX pre-game show to offer their “unique take on the big game and the events surrounding it.” NBCU unveiled the two as an on-air team during the Sochi Olympics in February 2014.  Following the Sochi…