“Our mission at HBO Sports is to elevate the brand. We look for television projects that are high-profile, high-access, and highly ambitious in the stories they seek to tell and the quality of ...
After 45 years as the broadcaster for most of the biggest fights in boxing, as the platform that created modern pay-per-view and as the launching pad for most of the sport's biggest stars for decades, ...
Jim Lampley is pulling no punches as he gets ready to make his ringside comeback. The 76-year-old broadcasting legend is adamant, like most boxing purists, that HBO made a big mistake in abandoning ...
HBO was never the only home of big time boxing. They did a hell of a job branding it that way. In 1986, Showtime secured the rights to Marvin Hagler-John Mugabi to make themselves a player and, for ...
Exactly five years ago, HBO pulled out of the boxing business, which was a shock to the sport. “I had heard about it before I read about it,” recalled Seth Abraham, the former head of HBO Sports on ...
Larry Merchant often described boxing as “the theater of the unexpected.” When he was center stage, working with Jim Lampley and George Foreman on HBO Sports’ World Championship Boxing, the three ...
Tubi CEO Anjali Sud, the former chief exec of Vimeo who started at the Fox Corp.-owned free TV streaming service last year, has tapped her former lieutenant at Vimeo, Courtney Sanchez. Sanchez, who ...
Longtime boxing commentator Larry Merchant was rushed to a hospital in Los Angeles last night and is in the critical care unit, according to a report. The 92-year-old broadcaster, best known for his ...
Jim Lampley is pulling no punches as he gets ready to make his ringside comeback. The 76-year-old broadcasting legend is adamant, like most boxing purists, that HBO made a big mistake in abandoning ...