Time Warner’s Profit Rises On Strength in Film Unit

The growth from movie and cable businesses helped fuel a 9 percent increase in revenue to $7.5 billion, from $6.9 billion during the same period a year ago.



TV Sports: With a Holler, Homers Make N.C.A.A. Broadcasts Fun

Alternative broadcasts of N.C.A.A. tournament games feature hometown announcers with a brash but entertaining subjectivity.

Final Four Games Get Local Accents, Sort Of

Turner and CBS scrambled to assemble announcing teams for Saturday’s Final Four teamcasts on TNT and truTV.

    



TV Sports: Local Voices Aren’t So Eager to Go National

Turner and CBS are approaching local radio announcers for alternative, hometown-style broadcasts of Final Four games, but loyalty and corporate obligations are keeping those announcers home.

    



N.C.A.A. Tournament Final Four Men’s Semifinals Moving to TBS

CBS will continue to carry the championship game in 2014 and 2015, and the two networks will also start splitting Round of 8 games in 2014, rather than in 2016.

    

Eddie Einhorn Seized on Broadcasting College Basketball Games in 1960

Long before office pools and hours of television coverage, Eddie Einhorn thought college basketball might have a future as a national sport. So he founded a TV network.

Sports Briefing | Television Sports: Turner May Broadcast 2014 Men’s Final Four

Turner Sports, CBS’s partner in carrying the N.C.A.A. men’s basketball tournament, could carry the Final Four and national championship game in 2014, instead of 2016 as originally envisioned.