Fox Breaks Up With U.S. Golf Association; NBC Sports Picks Up New Rights

Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerHockey analyst Jeremy Roenick filed suit Friday in Manhattan Supreme Court against NBC Sports, saying he was wrongfully dismissed for making a comment about a desired “threesome” with an on-air partner while other commentators said equally racy remarks and went unpunished.Roenick, age 50, said the network applied a different standard to his remarks than those by skating commentators Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski in a different video.

Lorraine Kelly was reduced to tears today as she hosted her final show before heading off on a summer break. The Scottish star became emotional when a montage was played of different moments from her show during the months of the coronavirus pandemic.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorRobert Irvine will add some new ingredients to Food Network as part of a new two-year deal with the Discovery-owned cable outlet.Irvine will lead new episodes of his series “Restaurant: Impossible” and develop mid- and short-form video segments for both linear and digital venues, including Food Network’s Kitchen app.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorMeghan McCain says one of the biggest lessons in her TV career came when she was working alongside Harris Faulkner in the run up to the 2016 election at Fox News Channel.A viewer had slipped into her direct messages on Twitter with an unpleasant remark, and McCain, who says she is prone to react to such things, learned a different strategy from Faulkner, with whom she appeared regularly on the  Fox News early-afternoon program “Outnumbered.”  The advice? “You’ve

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorNBC for seven years offered advertisers a novel proposition: Pay us money to put your products in our show and let the  series’ writers make fun of them.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorBari Weiss, a staff writer and editor for the New York Times’ increasingly heated Opinion section, is leaving her job, she announced in a letter to the publisher.“Twitter is not on the masthead of The New York Times. But Twitter has become its ultimate editor,” Weiss said in a statement posted on her personal site Tuesday.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorJimmy Fallon moved to take NBC’s “Tonight Show” from “at home” to “at large” by bringing the venerable program back to NBC’s New York studios after weeks of broadcasting the show from his house.“Normalcy, any type of normalcy feels great,” Fallon told viewers during Monday’s “Tonight” broadcast, dressed in casual clothes, with cameramen wearing facial masks and members of the show’s in-house Roots band scattered around the studio for proper social distancing.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorCNN in March gave a handful of advertisers and ad-agency personnel a sneak peek of its ambitious six-part documentary series on late night, just days before New York City was shut down by the coronavirus pandemic. The project hasn’t been seen in public since.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorAfter decades spent fighting TV’s never-ending battle for morning-news dominance, NBC’s “Today” is launching a salvo on another front: Hollywood’s streaming wars.NBC is set to debut “Today All Day,” a round-the-clock “feed” of material from its venerable A.M. program.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorTop executives at Fox News Media condemned remarks made in an online forum by a now-resigned member of the staff of primetime show “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” and said the network parted ways with him as soon as it learned of his behavior.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorThe coronavirus pandemic has scuttled production of TV shows, live sports programs and in-studio audiences for late-night hosts.

Bill Nye is keeping with the times and educating kids.

Also Read: Fox Sports Drops USGA TV Rights, Golf's US Open Moves to NBC Sports“This exclusive Premier League programming is an exciting addition to our live sports content on Peacock Premium, and we are thrilled to continue delivering our best-in-class Premier League coverage to NBCUniversal linear television customers as well as new Peacock subscribers,” said Rick Cordella, EVP and Chief Revenue Officer, Peacock.The Bournemouth-Crystal Palace Premier League match on June 20 marked the debut of

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorThe Osbournes, the heavy-metal family that wowed MTV viewers nearly two decades ago, are set to stage a partial reunion on Travel Channel.Ozzy Osbourne and Sharon Osbourne will join their son, Jack, for eight hour-long episodes of “The Osbournes Want To Believe,” a series that has Jack Osbourne trying to convince his parents of the veracity of shocking clips of purported paranormal activity.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorMartha Stewart has spent her career improving homes and hearths.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorMSNBC said it would give Joy Reid the 7 p.m.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorThe new head of NBCUniversal’s news operations pledged to make the workforce that staffs NBC News, MSNBC and CNBC more diverse, calling for the unit’s employee base to be 50% female and 50% people of color over an undefined period of time.“The demographics of America have been changing for decades… and that change is accelerating.  Women today make up nearly half of the American work force and already earn well over half of all bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral

New Jersey Globe. “I have changed my mind and better understood that that was the wrong vote at the time.”Kean made the comments during a virtual event with Roselle Park Councilman Joseph DeIorio and his husband, former Roselle Park Councilman Thos Shipley, gay Republicans who became the first married gay couple to serve together in public office in 2015.Kean is the presumptive favorite in the Republican primary for New Jersey’s 7th Congressional District in central New Jersey.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorFox News Channel, in an unorthodox maneuver, said it had terminated veteran anchor Ed Henry after investigating a complaint about “willful sexual misconduct in the workplace.”More to come…Want to read more articles like this one?

Also Read: NBA Sets TV Schedule for Season Restart at Disney World“We are thrilled to acquire the remainder of Fox Sports’ USGA agreement, and will carry the designated USGA events, including the U.S.