Tennis on TNT is a television program produced by the basic
cable television network
TNT that broadcasts the main professional
tennis tournaments in the United States. From
2000-
2002, TNT alongside
CNN Sports Illustrated (and
CNNfn[1] in 2002 due to the former shutting down operations earlier in the year) broadcast same day, weekday coverage (approximately 89 hours of programming with TNT covering about 61 hours[2] in
prime time) of
Wimbledon,[3] replacing sister network
HBO.[4]
TNT was ultimately replaced by
ESPN2 while
NBC still handled the American broadcast television portion of Wimbledon coverage.
ESPN would eventually gain exclusive rights to Wimbledon, starting with the
2012 tournament.