Super Bowl Update

Turner Broadcasting, the television unit of Time Warner, is spending around $200 million to buy sports website Bleacher Report, Reuters reports.  Bleacher Report posts about 1,000 articles each day and was read by more than 10 million visitors in June, good for ninth on the list of U.S. sports websites.  The site will be operated by Turner Sports. [Reuters]

While it's been pilloried for its Olympic coverage this year, NBC has a special relationship with the sporting events it televises, and that's certainly true of the French Open tennis tournament, which it's carried since 1983.  Now the network has reached a new agreement with the French Tennis Federation to continue that relationship through 2024. [The Hollywood Reporter]

For every bit of good news NBC gets (see above), there's some bad.  Such is the case with America's Got Talent judge Sharon Osbourne, who is walking away from the show after the network cut ties with her son, Jack, following his recent diagnosis with multiple sclerosis.  This one's gonna be ugly before it's all said and done. [New York Post]