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Byline: Rob Owen Nov. 16Q: In a TV spot, WTAE general manager Mr. Wolfertz said Channel 4 will carry four Penguins games this year, but he didn't say which ones [...]

Byline: Chris Adamski Nov. 8At 2-6, the Pittsburgh Steelers are no longer primetime. Long one of the NFL's most marketable franchises coveted by television networks, the Steelers were actively passed [...]

Byline: Chuck Culpepper and Ben Strauss BROOKLINE, Mass. - In an age when pro golfers have grown increasingly distant from their audiences, two-time major winner Justin Thomas took listeners right [...]

CBS's decision to expand the announcement of the N.C.A.A. men's basketball tournament field to a two-hour program backfired on Sunday when the full field was leaked and circulated online early [...]

When the United States Tennis Championships became the U.S. Open in 1968, CBS Sports televised the tournament from the Forest Hills section of Queens, with Bud Collins and Jack Kramer [...]

NBC's moneyed grip on the Olympics means that it has traveled a technological path that no other network has. It has shown the Games entirely on broadcast television. It has [...]

CBS decided that carrying Sunday afternoon N.F.L. games, playoff matchups and, every third year, a Super Bowl was not enough. So it announced Wednesday that it would carry eight Thursday [...]

The N.H.L., once ambivalent about breaking up its 2013-14 season to enable players to participate in the 2014 Sochi Olympics, has come to embrace the break in its schedule. The [...]

ST. PAUL -- Information about American college hockey was scarce in British Columbia when Curtis Gedig, a senior defenseman at Ohio State, grew up and played junior hockey there. Local [...]

Byline: Paul Myerberg, @PaulMyerberg, USA TODAY Sports Saturday's game between No. 1 Alabama and No. 7 Texas A&M will mark the debut of a new camera shot, one devoted solely [...]

Byline: Michael Hiestand, @byhiestand, USA TODAY Sports An iron law of media is that Super Bowl TV hubbub must increase every year. Still, this is pretty elaborate: CBS, for coverage [...]

Show of the day CBS and Showtime are creating a monthly version of 60 Minutes devoted to sports. In November, 60 Minutes of Sports will start airing, featuring 60 Minutes [...]

Byline: Michael Hiestand NBC's London prime-time Olympic coverage will follow the traditional formula, with lots of up-close-and-personals and events, led by swimming and gymnastics, that are big U.S. TV draws. [...]

Byline: Michael Hiestand Don't get the wrong idea about crashed ice, says Charlie Wasley, who coached the U.S. team in the sport's recent world championship. 'It's an intense sport, but [...]

Byline: Michael Hiestand a notion NBC Sports will flog with heavy cross-promotion for its cable TV cousin. Plans for what to offer viewers sampling the rebranded channel include: Talk. A [...]

Byline: Michael Hiestand Versus becomes a footnote in TV sports history as it's redubbed NBC Sports Network at 4p.m. ET Monday. To give the rebranded cable TV channel a sort [...]

Byline: Michael Hiestand Sports shows on big holidays must, according to federal law, include uplifting features. But NBC's NFL studio show Sunday has an offbeat one: the story of a [...]

The NBC Sports Group's overhaul of the Versus network will continue next year with Bob Costas hosting a monthly interview show and quarterly town hall meetings similar to the ones [...]

Byline: Michael Hiestand In schedule rejiggering involving at least four channels, CBS will move its Nov. 5 showdown of top-ranked LSU vs. second-ranked Alabama into prime timeùanother step in trying [...]

Byline: Michael Hiestand NFL Network executive producer Eric Weinberger summed up NFLN moves that will be formally announced today: 'More is more.' NFLN will install at-home cameras for eight of [...]

The pledge offered by NBC on Tuesday was that in 2014 it will carry the Olympics live. These words, historic for a network that tape-delays Grand Slam tennis, came from [...]

The NBC Sports group will broadcast all three legs of horse racing's Triple Crown, unifying the spring races on one network for the first time since 2005. NBC renewed its [...]

Byline: Michael Hiestand Mike, you cannot be serious. CBS' old NCAA men's basketball tournament coverage, especially its early-round regionalized coverage, put the network in an impossible situation. It was designed [...]

Byline: Michael Hiestand Saturday, NBC will have a whopping 10 hours of Ryder Cup coverage, which it understandably has hyped heavily since it includes golf's stars and lets viewers burst [...]

Byline: Kelly Whiteside; Gene Farris Eye-opener SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- For Notre Dame, and NBC, a quick-strike offense this season means quick-strike breaks. When Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly ran [...]

Byline: Sports on TV The NFL draft, the biggest sports event in which nobody moves much, has come to this: prime time red-carpet shows on two channels. With the first [...]

Byline: Michael Hiestand TV watch As the NBA playoffs begin this weekend with eight games on TNT and ESPN/ABC, TNT's Charles Barkley suggests there's not much suspense. Since the Cleveland [...]

Byline: Michael Hiestand Hiestand on TV Inside the industry Imagine the moon was colonized a few years after humans first landed. That's sort of what has happened to Olympic TV. [...]

IRL IndyCar Series *What: Kansas RoadRunner Turbo Indy 300 *When: Sunday, 5p.m. ET, ESPN2 *Where: Kansas Speedway, Kansas City, Kan. *2007 winner: Dan Wheldon *Quick hit: Danica Patrick is coming [...]

If Fox expands its NASCAR prerace show to an hour next season, as its producer Bill Richards hopes, he says it will probably add a comedian -- 'we're looking into [...]

Byline: Michael Hiestand Erin Andrews' stats are amazing. To pick one randomly: YouTube offers 71 entries on her, such as 'Random photos of ABC/ESPN sideline reporter Erin Andrews' -- that's [...]

Byline: WILLIAM HOUSTON The CBC's move to establish its own all-sport channel represents a bombshell development in the sports television business. The CBC confirmed yesterday it will apply to the [...]

Byline: RACHEL COHEN; The Associated Press NEW YORK -- NBC has pestered the NHL to let it air a hockey game, which might seem strange considering the Stanley Cup finals [...]

TODAY AUTO RACING NASCAR Busch, Camping World 200, TSN, ABC, 3 p.m. IRL, Richmond IndyCar Challenge, TSN, 7:30 p.m. BASEBALL MLB, New York Mets at Philadelphia Phillies, Fox, 3:30 p.m. [...]