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Turner’s TBS has closed a new four-year deal with Conan O’Brien that keeps his latenight show on the basic cable network through 2022, continuing O’Brien’s reign as latenight television’s longest-serving host. But, the new deal also extends his Team Coco brand into digital content, podcasting, gaming, pay TV and live events.

The 2017 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament has brought in slightly more in national TV advertising dollars through the early rounds leading up to the Final Four this weekend. So far, it has pulled in $748.6 million for CBS, TBS, TNT and truTV, according to iSpot.tv — up 2% versus a year ago. There have been some 224 brands with 514 spots, airing 8,168 times.

Other big events have taken hits in 2017. But the NCAA men’s tourney is off to its best start in more than two decades. Credit close games on Sunday in part.

There’s nothing wrong with obsessing over the Big Dance. But maybe don’t stream games at work, the Defense Department tells employees, warning the department’s network could be overwhelmed.

Games on CBS and Turner Sports will feature breathtaking finishes and surprising winners as the field is culled to 32 teams over the next 48 hours. Get your bracket ready.

The tournament generated a record $1.24 billion in national ads in 2016, up 5% and a new record. Meanwhile, audiences for the final rounds have shrunk since moving to cable.

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Kantar Media says “March Madness” generated $1.24 billion in national TV advertising spending in 2016 airings on CBS and Turner networks (TBS, TNT and truTV), up 4.7% versus 2015. Kantar says these gains are in line with 2% to 5% annual gains — keeping pace with annual TV rights fees increases.

The annual White House Correspondents Association Dinner will go on as planned this year, says the WHCA’s president. But this year it’ll have some televised competition in the form of Samantha Bee‘s TBS special called Not the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

Conan O’Brien is one of comedy’s elder statesmen, with  the longest tenure of anyone currently working the late shift. He just doesn’t act like it.

TNT, TBS and CNN are the latest major additions to AT&T’s soon-to-launch virtual-MVPD service, DirecTV Now, following a comprehensive carriage renewal agreement signed between AT&T and Turner Networks.

Turner has landed exclusive basic cable rights to the Star Wars film franchise for TNT and TBS. The deal includes the network premieres of last year’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens and the upcoming Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, as well as five of the six original Star Wars films, as well as the network television premieres of three future installments.

Since its launch in February on TBS, Samantha Bee’s Full Frontal, the talk-and-satire series that is equal turns gut-splitting and outrageous, has already become an acclaimed part of TV’s latenight landscape.

Turner’s experiment with reduced ad loads of up to 50% on TNT’s new drama Animal Kingdom this summer has been so successful that the company is already planning on expanding its scope over the next two years.

If all goes as planned, ELeague on TBS will be TV created in the image of successful online e-sports, rather than the other way around.

Villanova’s last-second win over North Carolina on Monday night averaged a 10.6 rating across TBS, TNT and truTV in the first title game to air on cable. The 17.8 million viewers were down 37% from the 28.3 million for last season’s Duke-Wisconsin matchup on CBS, which drew the largest audience in 18 years. Viewership was down 16% from the 21.3 million for UConn-Kentucky in 2014.

On April 4, TBS will become the first cable channel to air the title game of March Madness, reflecting a broader trend in the media world of marquee events shifting from broadcast to cable networks.

The broadcast of the final game of the final game of the NCAA men’s college basketball tournament on TBS — the first cable network to air the event — could pay off for Time Warner, which has spent billions of dollars buying the rights to air NCAA, Major League Baseball and NBA games. But the company risks losing profits from sports over time if more people cut their cable cord.

  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Two basketball stars and a brainy sitcom actress will be among the judges for TBS’ tech-competition series, “America’s Greatest Makers.” The cable channel said Tuesday […]

Kevin Reilly is giving himself three years to reinvent TBS and TNT. He joined the networks as chief creative officer in late 2014 and spent much of last year quietly making changes. The Turner transformation kicked off last week with the Jan. 17 premiere of Rashida Jones’ new TBS comedy Angie Tribeca. Reilly shares what else is on tap.

Latenight TV satire has been a man’s world. You think that will stop this former star correspondent for The Daily Show? Think again.

NEW YORK (AP) — Late-night comic Conan O’Brien is hitting the road again — this time to Armenia. He’ll be the first American talk show host to do a show […]