NBC Sports Group has a combined 80 hours of live tournament and news coverage on tap for THE PLAYERS Championship from golf's greatest stadium, TPC Sawgrass, Monday-Sunday, May 6-12, which surpasses 2012 as the largest collection of live coverage hours in the history of the tournament.
The University of Notre Dame and the NBC Sports Group have renewed their historic football partnership for 10 years, through the 2025 season. The renewal extends the landmark partnership, which began in 1991, to 35 years.
Billed as Barbara Cook's Special 85th Birthday Concert, the Tony Award-winning soprano's one-woman concert of musical theatre songs, rare selections, and jazz standards at the Renee and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall in Costa Mesa was met with well-earned---and well-deserved---adoring cheers throughout the evening. And if the concert was Cook's master class in musical performance, her latter interview with ASCAP's Michael Kerker was a symposium on how to be the best entertainer one can be.
Dan Hicks, NBC Sports Group's longtime and critically-acclaimed golf and Olympic commentator, will join NBC Sports' Notre Dame Football coverage this season as its lead play-by-play voice. His first assignment comes this Saturday, April 20, when NBC Sports Network presents Notre Dame Football's 84th Annual Blue-Gold Game at 1 p.m. ET.
Pegi Young, Charlotte Church, Pascal Schumacher, Tecla Esposito, Bill Kirchen, NY Theremin Society, Abigail Washburn, Slavic Soul Party!, Aputumpu Festival 2013, Justin Vivian Bond, Kenyon Phillips, Scream Along with Billy and Jomama Jones are featured in the lineup at Joe's Pub at the Public this week, March 25-31, 2013.
Golf Channel and NBC Sports will celebrate the two-year anniversary of the companies joining forces this week at the World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play Championship with more on-site news and live tournament coverage than ever before, kicking off NBC Sports Group's seven consecutive weeks of coverage dedicated to the PGA TOUR leading up to the Masters in April.
Yoshi's San Francisco has announced newly-added shows fro March, April and June 2013, featuring Jeff Bradshaw, The Family Stone, DJ Afrika Bambaata, The Tubes feat. Fee Waybill, Dawn Richard, Freddie Jackson, Boca Do Rio, Marcus Johnson, Portland Cello Project Play Beck, Brubeck & Bach, Pharoah Sanders, Renaud Garcia-Fons, Dan Hicks and The Hot Licks and Catherine Russell. More details below.
NBC Sports kicks off its NFL postseason coverage with a Wild Card doubleheader on Saturday featuring the Cincinnati Bengals (10-6) at Houston Texans (12-4) at 4:30 p.m. ET and the Minnesota Vikings (10-6) at Green Bay Packers (11-5) at 8 p.m. ET. NBC's Wild Card coverage begins at 4 p.m. ET with a special 30-minute edition of Football Night in America.
NBC Sports Group will present comprehensive coverage of the kickoff of the 2013 PGA TOUR season this week with the Hyundai Tournament of Champions from Hawaii. Featuring a stellar field comprised only of 2012 tournament champions, the Hyundai Tournament of Champions, which is scheduled as a Friday through Monday tournament (Jan. 4-7), will be held at the Plantation Course in Kapalua, Maui. NBC's and Golf Channel's coverage features a combined 20 hours of live tournament action, including NBC's third-round lead-in coverage, which marks the first time the Hyundai Tournament of Champions has aired on broadcast television in 15 years. Golf Central, Golf Channel's signature news program, will complement live coverage throughout the week with shows hosted on-site in Kapalua.
Golf Channel will broadcast tournament action from five professional golf tours this week, featuring nearly 70 hours of tournament coverage Wednesday-Sunday and headlined by many of the game's biggest stars, including members of the U.S. and European Ryder Cup Teams and several of the biggest names in women's professional golf.
NBC Sports Group will present unprecedented, comprehensive Ryder Cup news coverage, tournament action, original themed programming and online digital coverage of the 39th Ryder Cup - with more than 60 hours in total of on-air content - today, Sept. 24-30.
NBC Sports Group will present unprecedented, comprehensive Ryder Cup news coverage, tournament action, original themed programming and online digital coverage of the 39th Ryder Cup - with more than 60 hours in total of on-air content - Sept. 24-30.
Bob Costas leads a record 115 NBC Olympic commentators as NBCUniversal will present an unprecedented 5,535 hours of London Olympic Games coverage across NBC, NBC Sports Network, MSNBC, CNBC, Bravo, Telemundo, NBCOlympics.com, two specialty channels, and the first-ever 3D platform, an unprecedented level that surpasses the coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympics by nearly 2,000 hours.
NBC Sports Group continues its coverage of the 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials with live diving, track and field, swimming and gymnastics trials beginning tomorrow.
Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks will perform at the Emelin Theatre on Sunday April 22 at 8 pm. Currently on a national tour, Dan Hicks will play songs from its most recent hit studio album, Tangled Tales (Surfdog Records). Dan will also debut a few brand new songs. Tickets are $39 and can be purchased at the box office at 153 Library Lane, Mamaroneck, NY 10543, (914) 698-0098, or by visiting emelin.org.