They now have their first news exec, with *Nightly News*' Meghan Rafferty becoming VP/news standards, cuz lord knows they're gonna need 'em in the face of *le gros orange*... https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/nbc-nightly-news-ep-meghan-rafferty-leaves-for-versant-1236331486/ (link) B
On Monday, July 28, 2025 at 12:29:56 PM UTC-4 [email protected] wrote: > If they had any sense of humor, they'd have called the spinoff "Kabletown" > or "Sheinhardt Wig Company". > On Thursday, July 24, 2025 at 1:26:01 PM UTC-4 Bob Jersey wrote: > >> They introduced their board early today (7/24)... noticeable by his >> absence, Kabletown czar Brian Roberts... chairing will be David Novak, once >> of fast food titans Yum!, who will not remain on CMCS' board... Mark >> Lazarus will be CEO: >> >> https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/versant-board-of-directors-comcast-spinoff-company-1236468998/ >> (link) >> B >> >> Mark Jeffries, May 8th: >> >> The dumping ground for Comcast's cable channels and websites (except >> Bravo), called tentatively Spinco, is now Versant, evoking strength and >> forward movement (yeah, that describes the cable business right >> now--not)--the company will be leaving 30 Rock within the next year, with >> MSNBC or whatever it's going to be called moving with it, CNBC is staying >> in Englewood Cliffs and both channels' Washington bureaus will move to >> another floor away from NBC News in the building they're in now: >> >> https://www.thewrap.com/comcast-spinoff-name-versant/ >> >> -- 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/07bbedce-031e-4709-8139-93c7456ba21dn%40googlegroups.com.
