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MARCH Madness fans can expect to hear a different voice as a longtime host for CBS and Turner Sports is set to miss the tournament.

Greg Gumbel, 77, reportedly will miss the famous NCAA men’s college basketball tournament coverage due to “family health issues.”

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The NCAA tournament is the biggest event in college basketball, and with Gumbel out, the network had to shift for the major organizational change.

Richard Deitsch of The Athletic reports that TNT will extend the air time for Inside the NBA anchor Ernie Johnson.

“Look for Ernie Johnson to pick up more studio time,” Deitsch wrote.

Johnson has shared hosting duties with Gumbel…

CBS and TNT Sports have reportedly had to make a change to their usual March Madness broadcasting schedule.

TNT and Inside the NBA star host Ernie Johnson will be affected as a result of the broadcasting change.

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The NCAA Tournament will begin next week on March 19.

However, the college basketball tournament will be without one of its legendary broadcasters.

Studio host Greg Gumbel will reportedly not appear on CBS or TNT’s broadcast coverage of March Madness due to “family health issues,” per The Athletic’s Richard Deitsch.

The report added that Johnson is…

CBS News journalist Charles Osgood, the host of “CBS Sunday Morning” for more than two decades, died Tuesday at 91 years old. According to CBS News, Osgood was living with dementia for a period of time before his death.

Osgood spent 45 years at CBS News before retiring in 2016. During his tenure at “Sunday Morning”, the show reached some of its highest ratings levels in three decades, and earned the Daytime Emmy as Outstanding Morning Program on three different occasions. His tenure on “Sunday Morning” was in fact longer than the show’s original host, Charles Kuralt. Jane Pauley, who took over hosting duties of “Sunday Morning” after Osgood retired, shared: “Watching him at work was a masterclass in communicating. I’ll still think to myself, ‘How would Charlie…

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA:  The TV and film industry in Hollywood is currently getting upturned on its head every now and then. Not all is to be blamed on the double ongoing strikes that have seriously affected the future of the industry. 

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The executives have been struggling to keep up with the pace of trends and several networks have seen major structural changes in their positions of power. CNN had to recently let go of their former CEO Chris Licht, which led to even more unexpected modifications across the network.

Also Read: ‘He was so damn cool’: ‘CBS Mornings’ host Gayle King pays heartfelt tribute to Clarence Avant who died at 92

Fortunately for Gayle King and Charles Barkley, the collaboration talk show of the ‘CBS Mornings‘ host and former basketball player…

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — Social media network Parler, which had been offline for nearly a month following backlash over allegedly promoting violent language around the time of the U.S. Capitol riot, was back online as of Monday.

Data from the website showed that it is connected to a Cleveland, Ohio firm called CloudRoute and Los Angeles web hosting company SkySilk Cloud.

SkySilk Cloud released a statement on Twitter, saying “much of the online community is aware” of its partnership with Parler and that it “does not advocate nor condone hate.”

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— SkySilk Cloud (@SkySilkCloud) February 15, 2021

Parler was struggling to find its way back to the internet after being cut off by Amazon, Google and Apple, which stopped hosting Parler’s website on its…