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Keir Starmer is first and foremost an Arsenal fan, but he’s also Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. So, regardless of his rooting interest, he wants to make sure everyone gets to watch them potentially win the Champions League. Arsenal takes on Paris St-Germain in next weekend’s Champions League final and, for the first time…
SIR Keir Starmer has written to TV bosses urging them to show the Champions League final for free. The Arsenal fan said he was “saddened” the game will not be…
TNT Sports is giving John Isner and Venus Williams significantly more to do at this year’s Roland-Garros, the network announced Thursday. Isner and Williams are both taking on expanded roles for the 2026 tournament, which kicks off May 24 across TNT, truTV, and HBO Max. Williams, a seven-time Grand Slam singles champion who spent years…
TNT Sports’ Jackie Redmond interviewed Rob Gronkowski during Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Playoffs series between the Montreal Canadiens and Buffalo Sabres on Friday night, and Gronkowski didn’t hold back when talking about TNT analyst Paul Bissonnette. Gronkowski, a former NFL star tight end and current Fox Sports NFL analyst, told Redmond about Bissonnette,…
Once again, Golden State Warriors star Draymond Green will be chipping in as a guest analyst on Inside the NBA this postseason. The 36-year-old forward will make three guest appearances on the show during the playoffs, according to a report by Austin Karp in Sports Business Journal. Green will fill in for Kenny Smith on the…
TNT Sports is expanding its sublicense agreement with ESPN for the College Football Playoff. As the network previously announced, beginning this year, TNT Sports will air two quarterfinal games and one semifinal game in addition to the two first-round games it previously sublicensed from ESPN. And as it would turn out, the expanded sublicense agreement…
Michigan’s title win completes an emphatic run of audience increases.
March Madness capped off 2026 with a multiyear viewership record. Monday’s National Championship game between the UConn Huskies and Michigan Wolverines averaged 18.3 million viewers across TNT, TBS, and truTV, marking the most-watched title game since Virginia’s win over Texas Tech in 2019 (19.63 million viewers on CBS). Viewership for the game ticked up 1%…
Jamal Mashburn did not plan to return to broadcasting. He left ESPN in 2010 after three years as an NBA analyst, burned out from the travel grind of commuting from Miami to Bristol, and increasingly aware that his kids were growing up while he was somewhere on the road. His son was coming up through…
Usually, I like to open my column with some kind of flowery sentence to set the mood before I drop my thesis. I have been staring at my laptop for thirty minutes trying to come up with something clever, and it dawns on me that there is no need for prose here. CBS and TNT…
Ernie Johnson has spent more than four decades at Turner Sports covering everything from the NBA to the NFL to Wimbledon to the NCAA Tournament, and was inducted into the Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame in 2023. His colleagues have described him as the most prepared person in any room he walks into. That reputation…
After the current NHL season comes to a close, TNT Sports will be under contract with the league for just two more years. But the hope, at least according to CEO Luis Silberwasser, is for the relationship to extend beyond that. In a recent interview with Puck sports correspondent John Ourand, Silberwasser divulged that TNT…
Fans are noticing missing highlights during March Madness. NCAA media rights deals with Turner and CBS explain why schools can’t post their own content. Teams are now pushing back.
