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What will happen to CNBC and MSNBC when they no longer have a corporate connection to NBC News?

Nov. 21, 2024 09:24 AM EST

Comcast's corporate reorganization means that there will soon be two television networks with “NBC” in their name — CNBC and MSNBC — that will no longer have any corporate connection to NBC News. How that affects viewers of those networks, along with the people who work...

Comcast will spin off its cable networks, once star performers at the entertainment giant

Nov. 20, 2024 08:29 AM EST
WASHINGTON (AP) — Comcast will spin off its cable networks, once star performers at the entertainment giant.

Veteran NBC host Craig Melvin tapped to replace Hoda Kotb for the first hours of 'Today' show

Nov. 14, 2024 16:34 PM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — Veteran NBC host and news anchor Craig Melvin has been tapped to replace Hoda Kotb as co-host of the 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. hours of “Today.” Melvin is a familiar face to “Today” show viewers. He currently hosts the show’s third hour and is the news anchor...

John Krasinski named People magazine's 2024 Sexiest Man Alive

Nov. 13, 2024 11:12 AM EST

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Let the office debates begin — John Krasinski is People magazine's Sexiest Man Alive for 2024. The magazine announced the actor-writer-director as its pick Tuesday night during “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.” Krasinski starred in “The...

Chris Wallace is leaving CNN. He says he wants to see what the new media environment has to offer

Nov. 12, 2024 12:19 PM EST

Chris Wallace says he's leaving CNN after three years and, at age 77, is eager to see what a transformed media environment has to offer. “When I look at the media landscape right now, the people who are going independent, whether it's podcasting or streaming, that seems to be where...

What to stream: 'Yellowstone' starts its end, Eddie Redmayne as a sniper and Aubrey Plaza gets high

Nov. 04, 2024 00:12 AM EST

Eddie Redmayne starring as a sniper for hire in the new limited series “The Day of the Jackal" and “Yellowstone” riding off into the sunset with the launch of its final episodes are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you. Also among the...

Andrea Mitchell says she's ending her daytime MSNBC show after 16 years

Oct. 29, 2024 15:12 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Veteran NBC News reporter Andrea Mitchell said Tuesday that she plans to end her weekday MSNBC show after the inauguration of a new president and switch back to a reporting role. Mitchell, 77, has been hosting “Andrea Mitchell Reports” in the daytime lineup...

Brian Williams and Amazon are asking election night news-seekers to take a leap of faith with them

Oct. 28, 2024 11:22 AM EDT

Let no one accuse Brian Williams of trying to lower expectations a week before his election night special coverage on Amazon Prime Video. “This will be the first — if you'll forgive the phrase — new product introduction in the election night space since color television,” the...

Review: Tom Hardy's double act can't save 'Venom: The Last Dance'

Oct. 23, 2024 17:04 PM EDT

For three films now, Tom Hardy has smushed Jekyll and Hyde into one strange and slimy double act. In a Marvel universe filled with alter egos that cloak stealthy superpowers, his investigative reporter Eddie Brock doesn’t transform. He shares his body with an ink-black alien symbiote (voiced with...

‘Smile 2’ grinning to No. 1 at box office while ‘Anora’ glitters in limited release

Oct. 20, 2024 14:18 PM EDT

Horror movies topped the domestic box office charts and an Oscar contender got off to a sparkling start this weekend. “Smile 2,” in its first weekend, and “Terrifier 3” in its second proved to be the big draws for general movie audiences in North America, while the Palme d’Or...