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Coco Gauff's French Open victory over Aryna Sabalenka was the most-watched women's final at Roland Garros since 2016.
TNT hit it out of the park in its inaugural year covering the French Open. Buoyed by spectacular victories this past weekend by Coco Gauff and Carlos Alcaraz, TNT Sports announced record-breaking audience and engagement numbers across TNT,
Warner Bros. Discovery doesn’t have a name for its planned stand-alone TV-centric biz, but it does have a proposed CEO: Gunnar Wiedenfels, WBD’s iron-fisted money manager. As CFO at Warner Bros. Discovery,
Power brokers at TNT Sports, England’s principal rugby broadcaster, have dismissed the emergence of a proposed breakaway league, called R360, branding it “delusional” and “commercially unsustainable”.
TNT Sports is expected to expand its College Football Playoff rights by airing one semifinal game annually from 2026 to 2028 in a deal with ESPN, people briefed on the decision told The Athletic. While ESPN owns the broadcast rights to the CFP through the 2031 season,
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The popular basketball show ended its run on TNT after the Game 6 of the Eastern Conference finals between the Knicks and Pacers on Saturday. The show, which has aired on TNT since 1989, will be shown on ESPN next season, as Warner Bros. Discovery lost the rights to broadcast NBA games.
A top TNT Sports executive has suggested that proposals for a new breakaway rugby competition are “delusional” and “commercially unsustainable”, and have little chance of getting off the ground.
TNT treated NBA viewers like adults, even while having a great time delivering a truly distinctive brand of league coverage.
Getting to call a Stanley Cup Final for the third time on national television would qualify as the top moment of the year for most announcers. For TNT's Kenny Albert, it is another accomplishment in a year that has been filled with many,
Much has been made recently about the lack of state taxes in certain NHL cities and whether that gives those teams an advantage in attracting players.