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The (arguably) greatest NHL player of all time will be the centerpiece of new coverage for Turner Sports next season. What Happened: Wayne Gretzky, who played 21 seasons in the NHL, is joining Turner Sports in a multi-year deal to provide studio analysis for NHL games starting in 2021-2022. Turner...

At last season’s close, NBA broadcasters sulked to the bus, heads down, defeated. Across Walt Disney Co (NYSE: DIS)’s ABC and ESPN, NBA TV and Time Warner Inc (NYSE: TWX)’s TNT, the league’s regular-season average viewership had fallen 6 percent year-over-year. TNT, in...

Turner does it again. The broadcasting company, which owns TNT and TBS, struck a deal with Walt Disney Co (NYSE: DIS) for rights to show a total of 10 "Star Wars" movies. Movies include three to-be-released films, five of the six past films, the recent "Star Wars: The Force Awakes," which just...

Albert Fried & Company’s Rich Tullo reiterated Time Warner Inc (NASDAQ: TWX) at Overweight with a $90.00 price target. The reiteration came after Financial Times reported Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Time Warner held preliminary talks “that did not rise to the level of the CFO...

The NCAA tournament is staying put – for a long (long) time to come. Just over a week after Villanova was crowned this year's winner of March Madness, the network that aired the game and its partner have extended their deal for broadcast rights to the tournament through 2032. Turner Networks...

History was made Monday night as the NCAA Final Four Championship game aired on cable…and people tuned into watch. The game, which literally came down to the buzzer, was viewed by 17.8 million people across three of Turner's (Time Warner Inc (NYSE: TWX)) cable networks – TNT, TBS and TruTV....

Conan O'Brien's new late-night neighbor got off to a warm welcome Monday night, as Samantha Bee's "Full Frontal" saw solid viewership in its debut outing. The new weekly series, in the same vein as Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" and HBO's "Last Week Tonight," saw about 2 million viewers check in...

The National Basketball Association on Monday announced it signed a deal with ESPN and TNT, owned by The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) and Time Warner Inc (NYSE: TWX), respectively, to extend its television deal through the 2024-2025 season. The $24-billion deal breaks down, on average, to $2...

As March Madness fires up this week, office managers all over the country will on guard, to catch employees watching NCAA games or checking their brackets instead of doing their jobs. Lost productivity at basketball tournament time could cost companies up to $1.2 billion, according to...

Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) is rumored to be developing a set-top box that will incorporate streaming video and traditional pay-TV services. TechCrunch has an interesting rundown on the concept, adding to the previous reports from Reuters and The Wall Street Journal. The most interesting feature of the...

More than 10 million people tune into Hawaii Five-O each week. We know this because the show's viewers are reported weekly by Nielsen. But did you know that Hawaii Five-O gains another three million viewers online? “That's an incremental audience online,” said David Poltrack, the Chief Research...