{"id":3854,"date":"2012-09-13T14:29:10","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T19:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=3854"},"modified":"2012-09-13T14:29:10","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T19:29:10","slug":"cbs-showtime-teaming-for-60-minutes-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=3854","title":{"rendered":"CBS, Showtime Teaming For &#8220;60-Minutes Sports&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/cbseye.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3855\" title=\"cbseye\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/cbseye-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>NEW YORK (AP) &#8211; CBS is teaming with Showtime to create a monthly<br \/>\nversion of &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; devoted to sports stories.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &#8220;60 Minutes of Sports&#8221; will start airing in November. It will<br \/>\nfeature regular &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; correspondents as well as CBS Sports<br \/>\ncontributors like James Brown and Jim Nantz.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The telecast on the premium cable channel seems like a direct<br \/>\ncompetitor to HBO&#8217;s &#8220;Real Sports,&#8221; a monthly newsmagazine on<br \/>\nsports topics hosted by Bryant Gumbel.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 CBS News Chairman Jeff Fager said &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; has looked for<br \/>\nexpansion opportunities, particularly with the success of its &#8220;60<br \/>\nMinutes Overtime&#8221; webcast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) &#8211; CBS is teaming with Showtime to create a monthly version of &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; devoted to sports stories. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &#8220;60 Minutes of Sports&#8221; will start airing in November. It will feature regular &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; correspondents as well as CBS Sports contributors like James Brown and Jim Nantz. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3856,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3854\/revisions\/3856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}