And it should be emphasized that Roberts will still be running the new company, so that basically it's keeping the reduced profits from the cable networks from affecting everything else at NBCU and Kabletown. Nothing's being sold to another entity yet, and outside of Byron Allen, frankly who would?
Mark Jeffries On Wed, Nov 20, 2024 at 12:36 PM M-D November <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/3e3ef114-19e3-41cf-8141-066728220d63n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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/CAJ_uKi-sT_AngTuRiT09sJLxt_Nmnu3ud1mW_k%2BbQ4-6VC5%2BBA%40mail.gmail.com.
