HBO Sports is in advanced talks to broadcast an early March tennis special at Madison Square Garden featuring what the channel hopes will be the previous four female Grand Slam winners, tennis and media sources told Sports Business Journal. HBO, the sources said, expects the exhibition to be the start of an annual tradition of televising a tennis event at MSG in early March. The network will pay a license fee for the event and is considering signing a deal that wraps up the rights for up to four years, the journal said.
—Tom Gilbert