For years, TruTV’s presence within the sports activities world has been “That channel it’s important to look as much as watch a few of the less-hyped March Insanity video games.”
That’s about to alter in a really massive manner.
TruTV’s father or mother firm, Warner Bros. Discovery, is planning for it to shift its primetime lineup to a brand new sports activities slate starting on March 11, in accordance with the Hollywood Reporter.
The channel, which beforehand centered on actuality and comedy reveals, will reportedly be was one thing of a secondary channel, with TBS and TNT nonetheless airing the bigger occasions. TruTV will get some unique reside video games, in addition to different broadcasts and simulcasts of NBA, MLB and NHL video games.
Mainly, think about ESPN establishing a channel for its overflow faculty soccer and NHL video games in addition to a house for the “Monday Night time Soccer with Peyton and Eli” and “Sunday Night time Baseball With KayRod.” The personality-based secondary broadcasts have turn out to be more and more in vogue over the previous couple of years and you may clearly anticipate to see extra right here.
Or, as the top of TNT Sports activities put it:
“We’re consistently striving to create and ship one of the best sports activities content material and experiences to sports activities followers wherever they’re, and that is an thrilling alternative to increase the attain of our premium TNT Sports activities programming with better consistency all year long,” stated Luis Silberwasser, chairman and CEO, TNT Sports activities. “By making a primetime block of sports activities programming on TruTV, along with our present premium reside sports activities on TNT and TBS, we are actually in a position to ship a extra complete sports activities providing for our followers, whereas producing further development alternatives for our sports activities division and strategic enterprise and league companions.”
TNT will even reportedly make investments extra airtime in sports activities with a 30-minute “TNT Sports activities Replace” present at 6 p.m., a sports activities betting present referred to as “The Line” at 6:30 and “Handles,” a late-night NBA-focused present.
In the meantime, “Impractical Jokers,” the present that covers nearly all of TruTV’s schedule, will reportedly transfer to TBS.
