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NEW YORK The XFL, two weeks away from kickoff, is almost certain to charge onto the field with -- in television terms -- the best opening day in the history […]

NEW YORK The National Basketball Assn. has set a November launch for a 24-hour network called NBA.com TV. Programmed by NBA Entertainment, the web, bowing officially on Nov. 2, will [...]

Folks in the TV biz began readjusting their calendars Monday thanks to CBS' announcement that the 61st annual Primetime Emmy Awards will be moving one week earlier to Sept. 13. [...]

The feathers will fly--or at least, that's what producers Eddie October and Al Berman are hoping. Less than a month after ESPN agreed to air the Rock Paper Scissors League [...]

As baseball's postseason kicks off today, and fans start debates about dream matchups, Fox has a firm idea who it hopes is standing when the American League faces the National [...]

The country's premier collegehoops tournament has led to a basketball battle between CBS and ESPN. Fight for eyeballs and ad revenues during NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament is always [...]

John Madden, the dean of pro-football analysts, has signed a six-year deal with NBC Sports to do color on the premiere season of 'NBC's Sunday Night Football,' beginning in October [...]

FOR THOSE WHO WEREN'T keeping score, viewers were treated to a staggering 20 college bowl games before baby 2005 arrived. That's pretty remarkable, since even as a fan I'm damned […]

The announcement came seven months ago, but the TV industry is still suffering the after-effects of a financial body blow the whopping $17.6 billion that ABC/ESPN, Fox and CBS, combined, […]

As Fox revs up its revamped cable sports networks in a bid to chase down ESPN, two competitors are staying in their lanes. NBC Sports Network and CBS Sports Network [...]

Looking to build on the momentum for its docu division, ESPN will present a second edition of films in its '30 for 30' documentary showcase in October. Among the titles [...]

Speed TV will air Audi's docu 'Truth in 24 II: Every Second Counts' Saturday before releasing pic about the grueling 24-hour Le Mans race on Apple's iTunes for free. Doc, [...]

While fans nervously follow professional sports' labor wars, there is another jittery group on the sidelines equally glued to news updates--broadcasters. That's because sports have been very good to them [...]

India's victory over co-host Sri Lanka in the championship match of the Intl. Cricket Council's quadrennial World Cup sparked an all-night celebration across the winning country that felt like the [...]

MEXICO CITY Televisa, the world's largest producer of Spanish-language content, is readying an aggressive online campaign to transmit 30 soccer games from World Cup 2010 across much of Latin America [...]

BERLIN -- The U.S. Olympic Committee is postponing plans to launch its own TV channel in the face of objections from international Olympic officials. USOC chairman Larry Probst said Sunday [...]

NBC Universal's Spanish-language web Telemundo is hoping to spin a crucial Aug. 12 World Cup soccer qualifying match between the U.S. and Mexico into a ratings bonanza--and a major visibility [...]

It's no Super Bowl, but for studios looking to pitch summer pics to the young male demo, this year's NCAA hoops tournament was a well-timed opportunity. While the NFL's big [...]

Talk about kicking them while they're down. One year after losing German Bundesliga soccer rights to upstart rival Arena, digital paybox Premiere is still smarting. And the league is rubbing […]

Mark Burnett is kicking 'The Contender' franchise into a whole new sport. He's launching skein's first international spinoff, featuring the kickboxing discipline of Muay Thai in Thailand, in partner ship [...]

The NBA is going global for some of its exhibition season: Four teams will conduct their training camps in Europe for the first time, and 10 exhibition games will be [...]

German horrormeister Uwe Boll has done his bit to prove that the pen is not so mighty. The director of 'BloodRayne,' 'Alone in the Dark' and other videogame-based fare that [...]

NBC is going back to high school to tubthump its new teen football skein 'Friday Night Lights.' Marketing campaign, a partnership with Toyota, will target high school students in 50 [...]

'NBC Sunday Night Football' has two unlikely new partners: composer and music director John Williams and recording artist Pink. Williams has composed the theme music for 'NBC Sunday Night Football' [...]

ESPN has renewed its deal with the Big East for another six years, through the 2012-13 season, promising for the first time to cover every intra-conference basketball game on at [...]

The Tennis Channel, hell-bent on harvesting more subscribers than its current, paltry 10 million, has engineered the biggest deal in its history, a nine-year contract for exclusive cable rights to [...]

The NFL Network will stay on the cable systems Time Warner has taken over from Adelphia and Comcast thanks to an FCC decision Monday--a ruling that could exacerbate the tensions [...]

It's a Sci Fi Smackdown! Grappling with ways to goose ratings, USN/Sci Fi Channel prexy Bonnie Hammer has struck a deal with Vince McMahon's camp to introduce Extreme Wrestling Championship […]

CBS has ignited March Madness for NCAA basketball, but ESPN, ESPN2 and ABC are preparing to unleash June/July jubilation this year by sharing the coverage of all 64 World Cup [...]

National Basketball Assn. fans in Brazil have become the first in the world to have access to live games via broadband Internet. About 10,000 fans saw the Dallas Mavericks beat [...]

BETWEEN TIVO, the new video iPod, DVD sales of TV programs and just-minted video-on-demand deals, it would be natural to assume the notion of a "TV schedule"--a big board with […]

HOLLYWOOD -- Comedy Central is infusing some 'Daily Show' spirit into the world of sports. Cabler recently wrapped production in Los Angeles on a pilot, tentatively titled 'Sports Central' that [...]

NBC and its local affiliates are planning a half-hour show, 'The Olympic Zone,' to air after the evening news but before primetime during the Winter Games. Show, described as a [...]

Hell-bent on filling a Sunday-afternoon vacuum during the summer, NBC Sports has ramped up its carriage of the AVP Pro Beach Volleyball Tour. Linking up with Nissan, NBC will broadcast [...]

KOLKATA Ten Sports TV, owned by Middle East mogul Sheikh Abdur Rahman Bukhatir, has spread its footprint from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and the Maldives to include western Asia. […]

NBC nabbed rights to the 2010 and 2012 Olympic Games with a $2.2 billion overall bid and an assist from parent company General Electric. NBC will pay $820 million for […]

If baseball players, embroiled in protracted talks with the owners, go on strike later this season, the Fox Network would hate to lose the World Series. Fox will not get [...]

GOOD MORNING: Sports notes: Wimbledon winner Serena Williams heads to Hollywood Wednesday to present the first Best Sports Movie kudo at the ESPY awards. The event, live on ESPN, emanates [...]