For years, TruTV’s presence within the sports activities international has been “That channel you have to look up to watch some of the less-hyped March Madness games.”
This is about to modify in an excessively weighty approach.
TruTV’s mum or dad corporate, Warner Bros. Discovery, is making plans for it to shift its primetime lineup to a fresh sports activities slate starting on March 11, in line with the Hollywood Reporter.
The channel, which in the past involved in fact and comedy displays, will reportedly be became one thing of a secondary channel, with TBS and TNT nonetheless airing the bigger occasions. TruTV gets some unique reside video games, in addition to additional declares and simulcasts of NBA, MLB and NHL video games.
Mainly, believe ESPN putting in place a channel for its flooding school soccer and NHL video games in addition to a house for the “Monday Night Football with Peyton and Eli” and “Sunday Night Baseball With KayRod.” The personality-based secondary declares have transform an increasing number of in style over the extreme few years and you’ll obviously be expecting to look extra right here.
Or, as the top of TNT Sports activities put it:
“We are constantly striving to create and deliver the best sports content and experiences to sports fans wherever they are, and this is an exciting opportunity to expand the reach of our premium TNT Sports programming with greater consistency throughout the year,” mentioned Luis Silberwasser, chairman and CEO, TNT Sports activities. “By creating a primetime block of sports programming on TruTV, in addition to our existing premium live sports on TNT and TBS, we are now able to deliver a more comprehensive sports offering for our fans, while generating additional growth opportunities for our sports division and strategic business and league partners.”
TNT will also reportedly invest more airtime in sports with a 30-minute “TNT Sports activities Replace” show at 6 p.m., a sports betting show called “The Series” at 6:30 and “Handles,” a late-night NBA-focused show.
Meanwhile, “Impractical Jokers,” the display that covers the vast majority of TruTV’s agenda, will reportedly progress to TBS.
