Thoughts: - Presumably there's a lot of cross-pollination between the NBC News and MSNBC newsrooms. I'm curious to see what this does to both news organizations - will there still be some form of collaboration, or will there be a true firewall? And will MSNBC and CNBC have to change their names, now that they're not affiliated with the mothership? - This feels strangely like the Viacom/CBS split from a few years back, and I'm wondering how long it lasts until Kabletown reabsorbs the spinoff. - Re: Greg's point about the WWE deal - one could make the argument that, if the international transition to Netflix goes well, the writing is ultimately on the wall for all domestic WWE programming, but I know there's still some time left on the Peacock deal, plus they just signed a new rights agreement for Smackdown and 4x specials a year on NBC, so nothing's going to happen right away. Plus, WWE and the USA Network have been joined at the hip for such a long time (save for a cup of coffee in the 'aughts) that I have a hard time believing that TKO would ever pull all programming from USA, but as they say, anything can happen in the WWE.
On Tuesday, November 19, 2024 at 11:13:25 PM UTC-5 Greg Diener wrote: > So if USA is being sold off, it's safe to say WWE will be moving their > catalog in the US from Peacock to Netflix like it will be everywhere else > once the Peacock contract runs out. > > Greg > > On Tuesday, November 19, 2024 at 9:57:26 PM UTC-5 Kevin M. wrote: > >> All the other cable nets to be spun off into a separate failing business. >> >> Interestingly, NBC News and MSNBC would no longer share the same bad >> journalists, as they’d no longer be bought and paid for by the same rich >> white men. Comcast plans to keep NBC, Peacock, and Bravo… everything else >> goes bye bye. >> >> >> https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/comcast-cable-networks-msnbc-spinoff-1236066871/?utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin >> >> >> Kevin M. (RPCV) >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/3e3ef114-19e3-41cf-8141-066728220d63n%40googlegroups.com.
