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- CBS and Turner Sports officially announced the anticipated changes to their joint coverage of the NCAA tournament basketball tournament. Starting in the 2014 edition (and the following year in 2015), TBS will have coverage of the Final Four on the final Saturday of the tournament, while CBS retains prime time coverage of the National Championship game. In addition, TBS will share coverage of the Elite Eight finals. How those games will be distributed has not been announced. Then, beginning in the 2017 Tournament, TBS will be the home of the Final Four AND National Championship game, alternating every year with CBS through the end of their contract in 2024.
- Yesterday afternoon, NBC announced, country music star Carrie Underwood will sing the open of Sunday Night Football beginning this fall. She will replace country legend Faith Hill, who departed as the lead singer of the networks signature game earlier last month after six years. Underwood, a six-time Grammy winner rose to fame as the winner of FOX's American Idol behemoth in 2005. The Sunday Night Football theme, 'I've Been Waiting All Day for Sunday Night' is a parody of Rock Legend Joan Jett's 'I Hate Myself for Loving You.' Underwood's first appearance should be during the NFL Kickoff game on Thursday, September 5th.
- FOX Sports One continues to build an impressive roster of talent by announcing the signing of Canada's most popular news tandem. TSN's Sportscentre anchors Dan O'Toole and Jay Onrait have signed on to be the anchors of FS1's FOX Sports Live. The popular and irreverent tandem, have been the lead anchors at TSN since 2006 and will move to FOX in August. FOX Sports One have jumped into the game with other huge acquisitions, including the impending hiring of Charissa Thompson from ESPN (still under contract, so it has not been made official), the courting (no pun intended) of retired US Tennis star Andy Roddick, the legendary Regis Philben and successfully beating out NFL Network to retain NFL and UFC insider Jay Glazer, who will get his own program on the network.
- USA Today's prominent and respected media columnist Michael Heistand has accepted a buyout and will leave the paper this week.
- Emmy award winning writer Robert Lipsyte has been named the new ombudsman for ESPN. He is the fifth ombudsman for the WWL and will be taking over for the embattled Poynter Institute that ran its final column last November.
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