NBC Sports Group and Time Inc. Sports Group are teaming up to produce a monthly TV show titled Sports Illustrated. The announcement was made today by Jon Miller, President of Programming, NBC Sports and NBC Sports Network and Time Inc. Sports Group President Mark Ford. The show will feature segments
, original reporting and commentary from SI’s journalists as well as spotlight stories from the past. The show, sponsored by Lexus, will premiere on the NBC Sports Network on July 24, just three days before the Opening Ceremony from the 2012 London Games. Subsequent new episodes with originate on either NBC Sports Network or NBC. Emmy Award-winning Red Line Films has been tapped to produce.


“Monthly TV show?” SI has already lost quite a bit of the relevance of its magazine due to being only weekly. They wisely set up a good website that gives news and analysis as it happens. Monthly scheduling just seems to move further away from how sports fans want their news.
Girls in bikinis, yes. Bob Costas, no.