Bleav in The Media Guide

The NFL enters a new season with its first-ever U.S. sportsbook partnerships. For the league and its broadcasters, information and insights are more important than ever for fans taking advantage of this new frontier. Timely analysis and commentary are key to differentiating content from network to network. CBS Sports Chairman Sean McManus embraces that philosophy, and he shares his thoughts along...

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While several big names — including Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, and the Williams sisters — are out for the final tennis Grand Slam event of the year, Novak Djokovic has a chance to claim the first calendar-year Grand Slam by a male player in 52 years. Meanwhile, Naomi Osaka goes for her third U.S. Open crown after withdrawing from the French Open and not playing Wimbledon.

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The NBA’s 75th anniversary season tips off in less than two months with the reigning champion Milwaukee Bucks on TNT. NBA Commissioner Adam Silver says Milwaukee’s success and mobile viewing of games means winning, not market size, matters most to players. NBA TV’s Matt Winer previews the regular-season schedule with familiar faces in new places and rivalries returning to a full 82-game schedule.

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On Monday, August 16, the racing community gathered at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and remembered veteran broadcaster Bob Jenkins, who died last week after a bout with brain cancer. Hear the speedway’s tribute to the Indiana native. Last Friday, veteran reporter Robin Miller returned to the track for the first time since presenting his namesake award to Jenkins. A member of the Motorsports...

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This month, Major League Baseball marks a major media milestone a century in the making, the one-hundredth anniversary of the first radio broadcast of a baseball game. From Pittsburgh’s Forbes Field on KDKA, Harold Arlin became the National Pastime’s first play-by-play announcer that day, and he’s remembered by author Curt Smith in “Memories from the Microphone: A Century of Baseball Broadcasting.”...

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With three premier racing events this summer, Music City is back in motorsports. In June, NBCSN televised the first NASCAR Cup race in 37 years in the city at the Nashville Superspeedway. This weekend, the network will air an IndyCar street-course race. Last month, SRX held its season finale on CBS at the Nashville Fairgrounds. Three-time Indy 500 champion Dario Franchitti, who will serve as grand...

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On the 25th anniversary of Muhammad Ali lighting Atlanta’s Olympic cauldron, PBS and ESPN’s The Undefeated convened the panel “Ali on the World’s Stage” to promote “Muhammad Ali,” a film by Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, and David McMahon, premiering September 19 on PBS. Hear from Burns, Dr. Todd Boyd, professor of cinema and media studies at USC, Janet Evans, a five-time Olympic medalist...

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With no fans and families in the stands in Japan, NBCUniversal will share 7,000 hours across broadcast, cable, digital, and streaming platforms, including 17 consecutive primetime telecasts on the NBC Broadcast Network, beginning July 23. In her first Games as executive producer and president of NBC Olympics Production, Molly Solomon describes the creative ways her team created features on...

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Major League Baseball begins summer’s second half in Denver with the Home Run Derby on ESPN and the MLB All-Star Game on FOX. We’ll rewind to ESPN’s first live telecast of the long-ball spectacle won by Ken Griffey Jr. in 1998 as the event returns to Coors Field. On Wednesday, July 14, MLB Network Presents “Tatis: The Rise of El Nino,” featuring the Griffey of his day, Fernando Tatis Jr.

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As the NHL on NBC era ends, play-by-play announcer Kenny Albert, Inside the Glass analyst Brian Boucher, studio analyst Keith Jones, and coordinating producer John McGuinness remember their favorite moments from the last 15 seasons and discuss the impact the network had on the sport. Albert will become Turner’s lead play-by-player while Boucher will be an analyst at ESPN...

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