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NBC Fall Schedule Punctuated By 'Night Court'-Led Tuesday Night Comedy Block, 'La Brea' Pushed to Mid-Season and Big Ten Football on Saturday Nights
By Daniel Frankel published
Network offsets strike volatility with game show 'The Wall' and 'Dateline' anchoring Fridays and live football on back-to-back weekend nights

NBCU Names Mark Marshall Interim Ad Sales Chair With Linda Yaccarino Headed to Twitter
By Jon Lafayette published
Shakeup comes ahead of Monday’s upfront presentation

NBCU Stations Launch Local News Channels On Amazon Fire TV
By Jon Lafayette published
Channels also available on Amazon’s Echo Show devices

Amazon Announces (Hopefully Improved) 2023 'Thursday Night Football' Schedule
By Daniel Frankel published
To be honest, poring over the schedule, we fear Amazon Prime Video might be hosting another weekly Turkey Bowl this fall

BET Plus To Launch Ad-Supported Tier in June
By R. Thomas Umstead published
BET Plus Essential $5.99 service to feature 15 to 30 second ads before and after shows

CNN Averages Only 3.3 Million Viewers for Reputation-Wilting Trump Town Hall
By Daniel Frankel published
Performance soundly beat out Fox News and MSNBC, but it didn’t come close to Trump cable news appearances in the run-up to the 2016 election. Advocacy orgs call for the firing of CNN president Chris Licht

SVOD Boom Goes Bust as Consumers 'De-Stack' Subscription Video Services (Gobs of Breathtaking Charts)
By Daniel Frankel published
You want bad news about the video entertainment industry? Hub Entertainment Research has got it

Lame Changers: AI Is About to Disrupt Everything ... Just Like the Metaverse, Audio Chatrooms and Live Social Video (Wolk)
By Alan Wolk published
The allegedly disruptive technologies of the past decade have all gone belly up, in a way that proved the skeptics among us correct

NBC, Peacock Set Coverage Plans for Paris 2024 Olympics
By Jon Lafayette published
NBC will be live during daytime, Peacock will stream all events live

Cash-Strapped Fubo Passes on the 'Sweat Mop Guy,' Sets Marketing Partnership With the Cleveland Guardians
By Daniel Frankel published
Following similar arrangement with the Boston Red Sox, virtual pay TV service will get signage at Cleveland's Progressive Field and other 'fan engagement opportunities'
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