TNT is playing the long game with its NHL studio team, inking multiyear contract extensions for Wayne Gretzky, Paul Bissonnette, Anson Carter and Henrik Lundqvist weeks before the 2023-24 season faces off.
The Warner Bros Discovery-owned network also said today that veteran broadcaster and 13-year NHL goalie Brian Boucher is joining as an ice-level analyst, working alongside A-team announcers Kenny Albert and Eddie Olczyk.
All-time NHL points leader Gretzky and ex-NHLers Bissonnette and Carter have been with the NHL on TNT since it began in 2021, and newly minted Hockey Hall of Fame goalie Lundquist joined last year. They all will be teamed again with studio host Liam McHugh.
N̶E̶W̶S̶ ̶T̶E̶A̶M̶ Studio, Assemble...
The Warner Bros Discovery-owned network also said today that veteran broadcaster and 13-year NHL goalie Brian Boucher is joining as an ice-level analyst, working alongside A-team announcers Kenny Albert and Eddie Olczyk.
All-time NHL points leader Gretzky and ex-NHLers Bissonnette and Carter have been with the NHL on TNT since it began in 2021, and newly minted Hockey Hall of Fame goalie Lundquist joined last year. They all will be teamed again with studio host Liam McHugh.
N̶E̶W̶S̶ ̶T̶E̶A̶M̶ Studio, Assemble...
- 9/21/2023
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
The world of football paid its respects to John Madden on the first Sunday following the NFL icon’s death. Both Fox and CBS aired separate tribute video packages honoring the Super Bowl-winning coach turned legendary broadcaster. Meanwhile, stadiums across the country observed a moment of silence before Sunday’s NFL games kicked off. “All around the league, we mourn the loss of the iconic John Madden: coach, broadcaster, and so much more, whose legacy will live forever,” announcer Kenny Albert said on Fox’s broadcast of the Las Vegas Raiders-Indianapolis Colts game (via People). CBS’s tribute included a section from Madden’s speech at the 2006 Pro Football Hall of Fame induction ceremony. “Some of us think maybe we will be immortal, that we’ll live forever. But when you really think about it, we’re not going to be,” Madden says in the clip. “But I...
- 1/3/2022
- TV Insider
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