NEW YORK (AP) — TNT will use broadcast teams featuring only former players and no traditional play-by-play men during five NBA doubleheaders later this season. The “Players Only” schedule runs […]
HOUSTON (AP) — Craig Sager never once thought about giving up as he battled cancer for more than two years. “Man, life is too beautiful, too wonderful, there’s just too […]
Exclusives
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.
TNT’s crime-fighting duo, Rizzoli & Isles, solved their final murder mystery last Monday, capping a successful seven-season run. Turner execs retired the show because it wasn’t connecting with throngs of younger viewers. Canceling a beloved TV show is just one of several surprising steps Turner has taken to stand out in an increasingly crowded market. Turner has slashed the number of commercials in its original dramas on TNT — an almost unheard of move in the TV industry — as well as switched to more provocative fare.
HOUSTON (AP) — The chemotherapy has diminished Craig Sager’s once lustrous chestnut hair to a few unruly strands, and on this day of hope a simple green T-shirt and blue […]
HOUSTON (AP) — The son of TNT basketball broadcaster Craig Sager says his father is set to undergo a third bone marrow and stem cell transplant Wednesday as he continues his cancer […]
TNT is adding a Monday night doubleheader package to its NBA coverage, starting with an NBA Finals rematch on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The Cleveland Cavaliers will visit the […]
Turner To Continue TNT’s Reduced Ad Loads
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.
NBA’s networks TNT, ESPN and ABC all witnessed higher national advertising revenues so far through three rounds of the NBA playoff season.
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.
NEW YORK (AP) — Veteran announcer Marv Albert has agreed to a multiyear contract extension with TNT to call NBA games. Albert will no longer work the NCAA Tournament […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Sports Illustrated is turning the unveiling of its 2016 top swimsuit model into a television special. TNT will air a special on Feb. 13 that builds […]
Kevin Reilly On Transforming TBS And TNT
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.
All of the new dramas airing on TNT in 2016, including Animal Kingdom, Good Behavior and Tales from the Crypt, will run 8 to 10 fewer minutes of advertising per hour. TNT ran around 17 minutes and 47 seconds of programming breaks per hour during the third quarter on 2015, including national and local ads as well as promo time, a network representative said.
