...keep calling NFL games with Madden. He had hoped to keep working with CBS for other events like the Masters, but network executives saw it otherwise. At the time, Nantz said he was "very saddened" that Summerall didn't get to leave CBS under...
...Posted: 04/06/10 However the Tiger Woods saga plays out, CBS Sports will cover the story in its entirety, network executives said in a conference call Monday. Tiger Monday Posted: 04/06/10 Tiger Woods joined Fred Couples for a morning...
...used with the Ice Cube sitcom Are We There Yet? and on Tyler Perry's House of Payne and Meet the Browns.FX Networks executive vice president Chuck Saftler said he's confident the producers and cast will be able to produce the full order...
...off its biggest success in years, October's Steel Magnolias remake with Queen Latifah, which surprised even network executives with its potency.Its movies feature Mira Sorvino, Shelley Long, George Wendt and Lea Thompson. Wendt and Long...
...Emmy Award. In 1970, when CBS refused to air another of his specials, "An Essay on War," Rooney quit the network. Executives told him they thought the piece was too long, but they also may have been worried about the fact that it expressed...
...after the public loudly complained that going to 80 or 96 teams would water down the NCAA's marquee event, and network executives insisted they did not need more tourney games to make a profit on the next television contract.- The men's tennis...
...he was tired of wearing a toupee and just wanted to be his natural, bald self. NBC refused his request because network executives thought it would make Roberts look older than Lorne Greene , the actor who played his father. BLOG ALERT: My Our...
...about a horrific storm off the New England coast will air Oct. 30, the 18th anniversary of the actual storm. Network executives had been thinking about adding movies, and the timing proved too good to pass up, said Geoffrey Darby, the network's...
...Magnus, ESPN senior vice president for college sports programming, said Wednesday when he was joined by several network executives as SEC Media Days opened. That joint SEC-ESPN logo seen in the hallway will be seen on conference games on ESPN...
...series set at a sketch-comedy show in New York. She plays the show's head writer, coping with a meddlesome network executive (Alec Baldwin) and a fickle new cast member (Tracy Morgan). BASICS: Three-disc set has with the first 21...