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Peacock will become the exclusive home of The Rich Eisen Show this fall as part of a planned push into sports talk by the NBCUniversal streaming service. The three-hour daily talker has already been in the NBCUniversal family. Returning from a summer break on August 17, it will air for a few weeks on NBCSN before…

Outspoken pro hockey commentator Jeremy Roenick is in NBC Sports’ penalty box. The studio analyst and former NHL player was suspended Monday over his inappropriate comments involving a colleague. In a recent edition of the “Spittin’ Chiclets” podcast, Roenick made a series of remarks about fellow hockey commentator…

EXCLUSIVE: NBC Sports has acquired and set a premiere date for The Russian Five, a feature documentary about the first five Russians to play hockey together in the NHL. The film will air on November 6, following NBCSN’s Wednesday Night Hockey game between the Detroit Red Wings and New York Rangers. The Russian Five…

EXCLUSIVE: Horse racing docuseries All In: The Road to the Classic, produced by celebrity chef and horse racing aficionado Bobby Flay’s Rock Shrimp Productions, is returning for a sophomore season. Watch the first trailer above. The show offers a behind-the-scenes look at the elite thoroughbred racing teams competing…

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_4"…

As football season approaches, NBC Sports Group has been busy tying up its rights to that other kind of football. The company has re-upped its exclusive with the English Premier League to air its matches in the U.S. through the 2021-22 season. The six-year extension keeps all 380 annual EPL soccer games in the…

The Boston Bruins beat the Philadelphia Flyers 2-1 in the NHL season opener last night, but the other winner was NBCSN. The Comcast-owned sports network scored an overnight rating of 0.79 from the Wednesday Night Rivalry game. While nowhere near the kind of numbers you see during the playoffs, that's NBCSN’s best…

The LA Kings’ thrilling win over the Chicago Blackhawks last night was the most-watched NHL game ever on NBC's cable sports outlet, but the numbers reflect the sport's continued niche status in Los Angeles. Game 7 of a for-the-ages Western Conference Final – in which the Kings ousted the defending champions 5-4 with a…

Friday’s Team USA vs. Canada Olympics men’s hockey semifinals scored a win for NBC as the Sochi Games near their finish, drawing record-high numbers and becoming the highest-rated hockey game in NBCSN history. The Friday morning PT/noon ET airing scored a 2.7/8 with an average of 3.9 million viewers leading an all…

NEW YORK – The Sochi 2014 and Rio 2016 Paralympic Games will receive an unprecedented 116 combined hours of coverage in the United States, the International Paralympic Committee announced today, as NBC Olympics and the United States Olympic Committee have partnered to acquire the U.S. media rights to the next two…

NBC Sports Network was known as Versus until the beginning of last year, and is about to adopt a new name: NBCSN. It will be a gradual transition, with new graphics and references phased in leading up to the 2014 Sochi Olympics in February. But the company says that it will “significantly increase” the effort…