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The NCAA’s men’s basketball tournament, one of the nation’s most-watched TV sporting events, will be played this year in mostly empty arenas out of concerns for the widening coronavirus pandemic. “The NCAA continues to assess the impact of COVID-19 in consultation with public health officials and our COVID-19 advisory…

Turner Sports said its coverage of Sunday’s NBA All-Star Game, simulcast live on TNT and TBS from Chicago’s United Center, drew an average of 7.3 million viewers, an 8% increase over last year’s game. That made it the night’s most-watched program on all of cable TV. The annual midseason showcase, capping a full…

Major League Baseball teams returned to the field this week for the start of spring training. Grapefruit and Cactus league play has been an annual ritual for more than a century ahead of the spring start of the regular season, but this year there are as many existential questions as fastballs flying through the…

Ron Darling, a former starting pitcher on the New York Mets 1986 World Series team who has been a broadcaster for several years with New York-area cable network SNY as well as Turner Sports, revealed he has thyroid cancer. Despite the diagnosis, Darling said he is aiming to return to the air in about a month. He had…

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…

The restructuring upheavals at AT&T-owned WarnerMedia will reportedly see CNN Worldwide President Jeff Zucker assume oversight on Turner Sports, according to a report. Turner is a sports powerhouse, with broadcasting contracts with Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association, the PGA Championship, the…

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…

Twitter will live stream portions of 20 NBA games, giving viewers the opportunity to watch the the on-court action from the perspective of a single player. The National Basketball Association and Turner Sports announced a partnership with Twitter today at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, describing it as an…

UPDATED, 10:20 AM: WarnerMedia has read the break and set a $19.99 price point for its PPV showdown between golf greats Tiger Wood and Phil Mickelson. The company also has set its distribution partners for The Match: Tiger vs. Phil, which will be available on pay-per-view through Turner's B/R Live, AT&T's DirectTV and…

ESPN has joined CBS and the PGA of America in an 11-year, multi-platform rights deal for the PGA Championship, one of golf’s four majors and a likely bigger draw for viewers when it moves to May from August next spring. The pact, which takes effect with the 2020 edition of the PGA at Harding Park in San Francisco…

In the first marquee example of the former Time Warner properties’ integration into AT&T, WarnerMedia said it plans a synergistic effort centered on an 18-hole golf match between Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson. The company has secured worldwide media distribution rights to what is being billed as "The Match," a…

UPDATED with comment from Hulu, 1:36 PM: Hulu has borrowed a promotional page from YouTube, announcing it will sponsor the NBA playoff games on TNT to promote its live TV service. Under its partnership with Turner Sports, Hulu’s name will be displayed during TNT's first round, Conference Semifinals and Western…