AXS TV said it will be running a new series from Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship starting April 4 at 11 p.m. Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship will continue to appear in that time slot until April 18, which it will move to 10 p.m. With 13 hour-long episodes, the series will debut with a review of top matches from BKFC 38 and feature fighters including Dat Nguyen, Daniel Straus, Bostwick and Isaac Doolittle.
Darrell Ewalt, VP-executive producer of event programming and production at AXS TV, died Dec. 4. He was 58. The 15-year-veteran of the company was responsible for overseeing all of AXS […]
In addition to his Big Interviews on the AXS cable channel, Dan Rather has also signed on for reporting and analysis at the website Mashable, where his story urging people not to get too wound up about the early stages of the 2016 presidential campaign appeared this week.
Rather Takes Time Getting To Heart Of Stories
These days, Dan Rather is still chasing down stories, as he has since the early 1960s. The difference is, now, he’s taking his time to delve deeper into stories than when he was chasing breaking news. His thoughtful, smart, in-depth reports appear on AXS TV’s long-running Dan Rather Presents. His newer AXS TV show, The Big Interview, is lighter but with equally compelling stories, like his upcoming interview with former American Idol judge Simon Cowell (Saturday, 8 p.m. ET). Rather talks about coaxing out Simon Cowell’s insecurities, working for Mark Cuban and being patient.
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CBS Corp. is taking a minority stake in AXS TV, the nascent music-oriented cable channel owned by billionaire Mark Cuban and Los Angeles entertainment giant AEG. CBS will receive an undisclosed interest in the high-definition network in exchange for providing programming and marketing to the joint venture.
