CBS lose Peter Drury but gain Ray Hudson for Champions League

CBS Sports have announced their lineup of talent for coverage of the UEFA Champions League. Most of the faces will be familiar to viewers for the 2022/23 season. However, there are two major changes. Out goes Peter Drury, who is now exclusive to NBC Sports, the home of Premier League soccer in homes across the […]

As first reported by Gerry Smith at Bloomberg, CBS Sports (as CBS/Viacom/Paramount) renewed its English-language rights to broadcast the UEFA Champions League for the next six years. The deal also includes the rights to UEFA's other club competitions, the Europa League and Europa Conference League. The broadcaster fended off interest from Amazon. Amazon did secure […]

Real Madrid's victory against Liverpool is a record breaker. According to data tabulated by World Soccer Talk, it's the most-watched UEFA Champions League Final in US history, smashing previous records. On English-language television, CBS averaged 2.761 million viewers. Of equal importance, the match is 23 percent greater than last year's final between Chelsea and Manchester […]

English-language coverage of the 2021/22 UEFA Champions League Final on TV is available across CBS and Paramount+. Featuring Real Madrid against Liverpool, the match decides the true kings of Europe. Subsequently, Spanish-language coverage of the final is on Univision and TUDN. Champions League Final on TV: How to watch Kickoff time: 3PM ET / Noon […]

Growing up as a child in a Croatian immigrant family, life in Queens was a different experience for Pete Radovich Jr compared to other American kids. After all, not every family had a relative playing as a goalkeeper in the same team as Johan Cruyff. These days, if soccer fans don't know Pete Radovich Jr […]

The National Women’s Soccer League has announced its full telecast schedule ahead of the 2022 NWSL Challenge Cup. CBS Sports continues its partnership with NWSL. Therefore, Challenge Cup games air on CBS, CBS Sports Network and Paramount+. For those not based in the United States, games stream on Twitch, a platform traditionally used for video game streaming. […]

A recurring trend of European soccer is to look for games impacting the top-four and title races. However, this season, the major European leagues lack some of their prior vigor in terms of title races. The same cannot be said about fighting for Champions League qualification, but major leagues look all but secured. In the […]

Following his playing career, Charlie Davies now stars behind the desk for CBS Sports during the broadcaster's World Cup Qualifying studio shows. As a former player with the United States Men's National Team, the player-turned-pundit provides analysis on the current generation. Working with the likes of fellow USMNT alums Clint Dempsey, Oguchi Onyewu and Maurice […]

CBS Sports continue to gobble up as many soccer rights as possible. In its latest acquisition, the U.S. rights to Women's Super League moves to CBS Sports and Paramount+ beginning in the summer of 2022. The terms of the deal include CBS Sports now becoming the exclusive U.S. English-language rights holder of the Women’s Super […]

When it comes to the US broadcasters battling for Premier League rights, there is a lot for the league to consider. For instance, it is a critical period in the evolution of sports broadcasting. Does the Premier League need to double down on a quality streaming service? Or is it time to maximize the distribution […]

The Paramount+ original soccer documentary DESTINATION PORTO: THE UNIMAGINABLE JOURNEY makes its exclusive U.S. premiere today on the streaming service Paramount+. In DESTINATION PORTO: THE UNIMAGINABLE JOURNEY, award-winning soccer journalist and CBS Sports analyst Guillem Balagué provides an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at his months-long travels across a Europe struggling to contain a devastating pandemic, as […]