NCAA March Madness (TV Program) - Wikipedia

Broadcasts of the NCAA men's basketball tournament by CBS Sports and TNT Sports For an overview of CBS Sports college basketball coverage, see College Basketball on CBS Sports. For an overview of TNT Sports college basketball coverage, see College Basketball on TNT Sports.

NCAA March Madness
Logo used since the 2018 tournament
Genre	College basketball telecasts
Opening theme	"CBS College Basketball Theme" (main theme, 2011–present)
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	13
Production
Production locations	Various NCAA tournament sites (game telecasts) Studio 43, CBS Broadcast Center, New York City Studio D, Techwood Studios, Atlanta, Georgia (pregame and postgame shows)
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	120 minutes and until game ends
Production companies	CBS Sports TNT Sports National Collegiate Athletic Association
Original release
Network	CBS TBS TNT truTV Paramount+ HBO Max CBS Sports Network (game re-airs)
Release	March 15, 2011 (2011-03-15) –present
Related
College Basketball on CBS Sports College Basketball on TNT Sports NBA on TNT

NCAA March Madness is the branding used for coverage of the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament that is jointly produced by CBS Sports, the sports division of the CBS television network, and TNT Sports, the national sports division of Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) in the United States. Through the agreement between CBS and WBD, which began with the 2011 tournament, games are televised on CBS, TNT, TBS and truTV with all games streaming on Paramount+ or HBO Max. CBS Sports Network has re-aired games from all networks.

Initially, CBS continued to provide coverage during most rounds, with the three WBD channels covering much of the early rounds up to the Second Round (with truTV covering the First Four and CBS/TBS airing the Sweet Sixteen and Elite Eight). Starting in 2016, the Final Four and national championship game began to alternate between CBS and TBS.[1][2] TBS holds the rights to the final two rounds in even-numbered years, with CBS getting the games in odd-numbered years.[1][3]

This joint tournament coverage is distinct from CBS and TNT Sports' regular-season coverage, which are produced independently through their sports divisions. March Madness games broadcast on all four networks use a variation of the longtime CBS College Basketball theme (which has been used since 1993) music composed by Bob Christianson.

Background and coverage breakdown

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On April 22, 2010, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) reached a 14-year agreement,[1][4] worth US$10.8 billion,[5] with CBS and the Turner Broadcasting System to receive joint broadcast rights to the Division I men's college basketball tournament. This came after speculation that ESPN would try to obtain the rights to future tournament games.[6] The NCAA took advantage of an opt-out clause in its 1999 deal with CBS (which ran through 2013, even though the NCAA had the option of ending the agreement after the 2010 championship) to announce its intention to sign a new contract with CBS and Turner Sports, a division of WarnerMedia, which later was absorbed into Warner Bros. Discovery. The new contract came amid serious consideration by the NCAA of expanding the tournament to 68 teams.

The agreement, which runs through 2032 (extended from 2024 in 2016), stipulates that all games are available nationally.[7] All First Four games air on truTV. During the first and second rounds, a featured game in each time "window" is broadcast terrestrially on CBS (15 games), while all other games are shown on TBS (12 games), TNT (12 games) or truTV (nine games). Sweet 16 (regional semifinal) and Elite 8 (regional finals) games are split between CBS and TBS. In 2014 and 2015, Turner channels had exclusive rights to the Final Four (with standard coverage airing on TBS), and CBS broadcast the championship game. Since 2016, rights to the Final Four and championship game alternate between Turner and CBS; the 2016 tournament marked the first time that the national championship game was not broadcast on over-the-air television.[8]

The same number of "windows" are provided to CBS as before, although unlike with the previous schedule where all games in a window started within 10 minutes of each other, resulting in the possibility of multiple close games ending at once, the start times of games are staggered,[5][9] with action lasting later in the night and fewer simultaneous games than in the previous format. As a result of the new deal, Mega March Madness, a pay-per-view out-of-market sports package covering games in the tournament exclusive to DirecTV, including a first and second round 'quad-box' channel showing all four games on one screen, was discontinued.[10]

March Madness On Demand (now called March Madness Live) remained unchanged, with Turner Interactive taking over management of both that service and NCAA.com at the start of 2011. The contract was expected to be signed after a review by the NCAA Board of Directors.[11] In 2012, the service was changed; only games televised by CBS are available for free. All other games are available to authenticated subscribers to the channels on participating television providers. The 2018 tournament, with TBS televising the national semifinals and final, is the first in which those particular games are subject to authentication restrictions.[12][13] In 2018, March Madness Live added a new "whiparound" stream during the early rounds known as Fast Break (similar in concept to NFL RedZone and ESPN Buzzer Beater), which features live look-ins, analysis, and highlights of simultaneous games.[14]

The CBS-WarnerMedia coverage formally begins with The Selection Show—in which the teams participating in the tournament are announced, which follows CBS's coverage of the final game on Selection Sunday. During the tournament itself, truTV broadcasts pre-game coverage, Infiniti NCAA Tip-Off, while TBS and TruTV also air the post-game show Inside March Madness. CBS also produces coverage of the Reese's College All-Star Game (held on the afternoon of the Final Four at its venue), and the Division II championship game, which are both aired as part of the March Madness package.

In 2016, CBS extended the selection show to a two-hour format; however, the new special was criticized by viewers for being too padded, while the full bracket was leaked online shortly into the broadcast.[15][16] In 2017, the selection show was shortened to a 90-minute format, promising to reveal the bracket in a more timely manner.[17] In 2018, the selection show aired for the first time on TBS, with a studio audience and in a two-hour format, in which the entire field of the tournament would be revealed within the first 10 minutes. However, this involved initially revealing the teams in alphabetical order, and not the bracket proper—a decision which proved unpopular among critics and viewers.[18][19][20] The show returned to an hour-long format on CBS the following year, and the 2020 edition was also expected to air on CBS.[21][22]

On April 16, 2016, the contract was extended to 2032 in an $8.8 billion deal. The current broadcasting arrangements, including alternating broadcasts of the semi-finals and final, will remain in force.[7]

WarnerMedia began the process of dissolving the Turner Broadcasting System in March 2019. The corporate reorganization will not outwardly affect coverage of NCAA March Madness, which remains on the same networks.[23]

The 2020 tournament was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. All technicians and utility staff who were expected to work the tournament were still paid,[24] while CBS aired classic Final Four games on the afternoons of March 21, 22 and 29 as replacement programming.[25]

The addition of NHL coverage affected coverage during the 2022 First Four on March 16. When the game between the Boston Bruins and the Minnesota Wild ran long, neither TBS (due to AEW Dynamite) nor truTV (due to continuing coverage of the Rutgers-Notre Dame First Four game) were available for the start of the Tampa Bay Lightning-Seattle Kraken NHL game. The start of the hockey game was moved to a fourth channel, HLN.

In 2024, Max made all non-CBS tournament games available to stream under its B/R Sports label.[26] Additionally, in addition to the Final Four and National Championship Game, truTV began simulcasting games aired on TBS from the second round on.

Team Streams

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Additionally, for 2014, truTV and TNT aired special "Teamcast" coverage of the Final Four alongside TBS's conventional coverage, which featured commentators and other guests representing the schools in each game.[27][28] While the consortium planned to tap local radio announcers from each team for the teamcasts, the majority refused due to commitments in calling the games for their local radio networks. However, Turner Sports' senior vice president of production, Craig Barry, did expect such difficulties, and planned accordingly with the possibility of using talent from outlets associated with the team, general region, or their conference (such as regional networks).[29][30] The Teamcast feeds returned for the 2015 tournament, now branded as Team Stream powered by Bleacher Report.[31][32] For 2016, they were also used on the National Championship game.[33]

Among the contributors to the team streams in 2018 were physician and medical analyst Sanjay Gupta (Michigan) and actor/comedian (and former contributor to Fox NFL Sunday) Rob Riggle (Kansas).

As CBS prefers having a singular broadcast feed, the Team Stream feature is not used during any year that CBS holds the rights to the Final Four.[34]

The Team Stream feature was also not used for the 2022 NCAA Final Four and that year's National Championship game as truTV and TNT instead simulcast TBS' respective games.

Other college basketball coverage from TNT Sports

[edit] Further information: College Basketball on TNT Sports

International coverage

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The same year that the CBS-Turner consortium took over, ESPN International acquired rights to the tournament for broadcast outside of the United States as part of a $500 million agreement with ESPN to hold the rights to most other NCAA Division I championships.[35][36]

While most of the coverage is simulcast from the main U.S. feeds, coverage of the Final Four and national championship game uses a separate world feed produced by the ESPN College Basketball staff; in 2013, the Final Four broadcasts on ESPN International were called by ESPN's lead commentators Dan Shulman and Dick Vitale (alternatively joined by Brad Nessler for the second semi-final game).[37] After Nessler left ESPN, Sean McDonough became the primary play-by-play host, joined by ESPN college basketball analysts Jay Bilas and Vitale.[38]

TUDN broadcasts the tournament in Mexico; CBS and Turner Sports also feature Spanish play-by-play in the United States via each network's second audio program.

Commentary

[edit] Main article: List of NCAA March Madness commentary crews for CBS/TNT Sports

CBS and TNT pool their resources for the tournament. While CBS's Jim Nantz remained the lead voice for the tournament until 2023, CBS's analysts are joined by those from TNT's college basketball coverage. TNT's lead play-by-play man Brian Anderson, who is also the #1 play-by-play announcer for TBS's baseball coverage, is provided by TNT. Former lead NBA on TNT voice Marv Albert did the same with Anderson, until he ended his association with CBS. (TNT's #2 college basketball voice, Spero Dedes, is already employed by CBS and does not require special arrangement to appear.) Former lead and #3 play-by-play guys Kevin Harlan and Ian Eagle are also utilized by both CBS and TNT, with Eagle leading coverage after Nantz stepped down.

After his retirement in April 2022 as Villanova head coach, Jay Wright joined CBS Sports as an analyst.

Coverage originates from the CBS Broadcast Center in New York City, and the TNT Sports studio in Atlanta, where many of the studio shows for the latter division's college basketball, as well as coverage of MLB, and the NHL emanate from.[39]

Inside the NBA host Ernie Johnson splits hosting duties in the New York studio with CBS's college basketball studio host Adam Zucker, while Adam Lefkoe hosts from Atlanta. Greg Gumbel had led studio hosting duties until 2024, when he took that year's tournament off due to family health issues. Gumbel later died on December 27, 2024. Until 2021 due to COVID-19, and again in 2023, Johnson and Gumbel both hosted from New York during the first week of the tournament, with Johnson hosting during the afternoon sessions and Gumbel hosting in primetime. Charles Barkley and Kenny Smith, both from Inside, join Johnson, Zucker, and CBS analysts Clark Kellogg and Wally Szczerbiak in the studio in New York City, while Lefkoe is joined by TNT Sports colleague Candace Parker, CBS analysts Seth Davis, and legendary Villanova head coach Jay Wright in Atlanta. Wright later joins the New York City crew during the Elite 8. NFL Network's Jamie Erdahl provides game updates from the first round through the Sweet 16.

With Nantz stepping down from calling the NCAA Tournament after 2023, Eagle was tapped to replace Nantz as the lead voice of the tournament beginning in 2024, while Johnson took over the trophy presentation.

Graphics

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2011–2015

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During the first five years of the television deal, all games used Turner Sports graphics, which reflect from Turner Sports' NBA coverage. Games on CBS simply used the CBS logo on Turner's graphics package, including the Final Four and National Championship Game.

2016–2019

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With CBS Sports unveiling a new branding look at Super Bowl 50 in February 2016, a new graphics package was unveiled. This time, the networks all used CBS's graphics. Despite this being the first year that the Final Four and National Championship aired on TBS (as part of an every-other-year arrangement), the 2016 CBS graphics are now used for all games, including those on TBS, TNT and truTV. However, the games use a slightly different version of the scoreboard that has the network logo in the middle, and in black, as opposed to the usual white logo on the left. For TBS/TNT/truTV games, the network logo simply replaces the CBS eye logo.

This tournament version of the scoreboard is anchored to the edges of the screen with shadows, which light up in team colors after a made basket, an effect not seen on CBS's graphics anywhere else. NBA on TNT and Major League Baseball on TBS also used this graphic package.

In 2018, CBS and Turner modified their logo for March Madness, by changing it to the logo introduced by the NCAA in 2016. However, despite the logo change, the in-game graphics remained unchanged.

2021–present

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Following CBS Sports' rebranding during the week of Super Bowl LV, as part of CBS' unified branding, CBS and WarnerMedia unveiled a new in-game graphics package for the tournament during the Selection Show. However, despite the graphics change, the logo, which was introduced in 2018, remains unchanged.

The tournament version of this scoreboard uses a similar layout of CBS's regular season graphics, with the CBS, TBS, TNT and truTV logos on the left side of the score bar, and an extra bar being added to the end displaying what round and which region each game is in (e.g. NCAA West 1st Round).

For the 2025 NCAA tournament, the windows scoreboard time and slots have changed, with the usual NCAA logo replaced with the NCAA March Madness logo that was presented in 2016 overlaying on the right side with no backing at all (except for the logo sponsors that’ll still have backings), with the lines for each window slot are now blue instead of white. Despite the change, the scoreboard in-game graphics layout with the logos on the left side which took effect in 2021, remains unchanged.

Theme music

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As previously mentioned, all four networks use a variation of the CBS College Basketball Theme during the tournament, arranged by Trevor Rabin, who scores the iconic NBA on TNT theme. CBS had continued to use the arrangement that had been in use since 2004 during its regular season coverage, but switched to the March Madness version during the 2021–22 season. Since 1987, CBS/TNT Sports's coverage of March Madness always concludes with "One Shining Moment", the current version performed by Luther Vandross.

During select intros and into commercial breaks in the 2016 coverage, all broadcasters used "Turn Up" by The Heavy as the bumper music.

For the 2017 tournament, all broadcasts used "Something Just Like This" by American EDM group The Chainsmokers and British group Coldplay, as its bumper music.

For 2018, CBS and Turner used Irish-Rock band U2's song "American Soul", from their new album Songs of Experience. They also used "Say Amen (Saturday Night)" by American rock band Panic! at The Disco during the Final Four on TBS.

2019 featured the return of The Black Keys to March Madness, with their comeback single Lo/Hi, off their comeback album Let's Rock, being used as the main song for CBS and Turner's coverage. CBS also used "Hey Look Ma, I Made It" by Panic! at the Disco for the Bracket Preview Show.

After three years of using alternative/rock artists, CBS and Turner were scheduled to use "Dance Again", by American pop singer Selena Gomez.

2021 continued the planned trend of using electronic dance music, with CBS and Turner using "Big Love" by American DJ duo Louis the Child and American hip hop duo EarthGang. CBS also used This Is Heaven by American pop singer Nick Jonas for the Final Four.

In 2022, CBS and Turner used "Freedom" by Jon Batiste, a jazz and R&B singer from New Orleans (coincidentally, the host city of that year's Final Four) who was the bandleader for CBS' The Late Show with Stephen Colbert at the time.

In 2023, CBS and WBD used "Take My Breath" by acclaimed Canadian singer The Weeknd.

In 2024, CBS and TNT used "Dance with Everybody" by Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors featuring The National Parks.[40]

In 2025, CBS and TNT used "Abracadabra" by acclaimed singer Lady Gaga.

References

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External links

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• NCAA March Madness Live - Official site
• NCAA Basketball on CBS - Official site
• NCAA March Madness — Turner Sports Media Archived April 5, 2023, at the Wayback Machine
  • NCAA Basketball on TBS - Official site Archived March 18, 2018, at the Wayback Machine
  • NCAA Basketball on TNT - Official site[permanent dead link]
  • NCAA Basketball on TruTV - Official site Archived March 17, 2018, at the Wayback Machine

v t e NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament
Tournaments	1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026
Structure	Selection process Venues First Four Elite Eight Final Four
Champions & awards	List of champions Most Outstanding Player
Media and culture	Blue bloods Bracketology Broadcasting Tournament Final Four Cutting down the nets March Madness pools "One Shining Moment"
Records and statistics	Teams Overall records Bids Seeds Consecutive appearances Final Four Teams Coaches Upsets
Related	Division I women's tournament Division II tournament men's women's Division III tournament men's women's

v t e CBS Sports
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Streaming affiliation	Paramount+
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Former sports programs	TNT Sunday Night Football College Football on TBS Alliance of American Football Braves on Peachtree TV Braves TBS Baseball NBA on TBS NBA on TNT (commentators) College Beach Volleyball Friday Night Knockout ONE on TNT Power Slap: Road to the Title ELeague 1991 Pan American Games Tennis on TNT Wimbledon Golf on TNT The Open Championship PGA Championship PGA Grand Slam of Golf Soccer on Turner Sports UEFA Champions League UEFA Europa League UEFA Super Cup Women's United Soccer Association 1990 FIFA World Cup Atlanta Chiefs TNT Olympic Broadcasts 1992 Winter Olympics 1994 1998
Former sports entertainment(professional wrestling) programs	Georgia Championship Wrestling World Wrestling Federation Championship Wrestling from Georgia Mid-South Wrestling Jim Crockett Promotions World Championship Wrestling Nitro Thunder Clash of the Champions Saturday Night WorldWide Power Hour Main Event Pro Prime All Nighter Best of Classics
Television channels	TNT TBS TruTV Turner South Peachtree TV
Streaming affiliations	HBO Max Discovery+
U.S. properties	Bleacher Report House of Highlights MLB Network (16.67%) Golf Digest
International properties	EMEA TNT Sports (United Kingdom) TNT Sports 1 TNT Sports 2 TNT Sports 3 TNT Sports 4 Eurosport Americas TNT Sports (Argentina) TNT Sports (Brazil) TNT Sports (Chile) TNT Sports Premium TNT Sports (Mexico)
Defunct or sold properties	NBA TV Venu Sports (33.33%)
Executives	Luis Silberwasser (U.S. chairman and CEO) Andrew Georgiou (International president)
See also	United States sports broadcasting lists Turner Broadcasting System (Warner Bros. Discovery)

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