Nolte: Comcast Dumps Cratering MSNBC and Other Dying Cable Channels
With the inevitable death of cable TV accelerating, communications giant Comcast has decided to cut its losses and separate from MSNBC and other cable networks.
With the inevitable death of cable TV accelerating, communications giant Comcast has decided to cut its losses and separate from MSNBC and other cable networks.
Comcast/NBC/Universal’s streaming service, Peacock, lost a whopping $639 million in the first three months of 2024.
NBCUniversal’s Peacock lost a mind-boggling $2.7 billion in 2023 as the left-wing legacy studio continues to burn through cash at an alarming rate in the Hollywood streaming arms race.
Comcast confirmed that a data breach has affected close to 36 million Xfinity customers. Based on the company’s reported number of subscribers, this means practically all Xfinity customers have been placed at risk.
CNBC has reportedly shut down its climate desk and will no longer have dedicated journalists covering climate change.
NBCUniversal’s Peacock lost more than half a billion dollars during the three months of summer, the latest example of Hollywood’s streaming carnage that has seen studios struggling to carve out a profitable piece of the home video market.
NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell stepped down from his leadership position this weekend after admitting to an “inappropriate relationship.”
Comcast-owned Sky News has stealth edited an uncritical article about “Chechen jihadis” fighting the Russians in Ukraine, heavily deemphasising their “jihadi” status.
NBCUniversal can’t seem to whip up much consumer enthusiasm for its Peacock streaming service. The highly touted streamer — which features MSNBC programming and original scripted shows like “Queer as Folk” — failed to grow its subscriber base during the second quarter and even lost $467 million in the process.
On the heels of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v Wade, a number of top studios and entertainment giants — including Comcast, Disney, Netflix, Paramount, Warner Bros Discovery — vowed to pay travel expenses for employees looking to get abortions.
NBC News staffers are angry and “troubled” about White House press secretary Jen Psaki’s television deal with MSNBC, according to the network’s competitor CNN.
“The Batman,” “Ambulance,” “The Bad Guys,” “Escape Room: Tournament Of Champions.” What do these Hollywood movies have in common? Studios won’t release them in Russia but have successfully secured theatrical releases for them in China, despite the CCP’s record of invasion and genocide.
25,000 Comcast customers in the Oakland, California, area were unable to watch the 49ers in Sunday’s NFC championship — or anything else — on Sunday after gunfire severed the fiberoptic cables linking them to cable television and Internet services.
When the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics kicks off in February, the Faustian bargain NBC made with China and the International Olympic Committee will finally come due. Will the network acknowledge the big, red elephant in the room, or will it bury some of the world’s worst human rights atrocities under puff pieces and more ice dancing?
As it continues to cozy up to China with a new multi-billion dollar theme park and the upcoming Beijing Olympics, NBCUniversal is losing important ground at home among American consumers as its streaming service Peacock has so far failed to generate much interest among TV viewers.
Universal Studios is taking a major step toward cementing its relationship with China’s Communist dictators as the Comcast-owned Hollywood studio prepares to open its long-planned, multibillion-dollar theme park in Beijing.
Nigel Farage’s weeknight programme has hit its highest ratings and beat the BBC and the Comcast-owned Sky News combined on Thursday.
NBC has called off its latest spin-off of “Law & Order” before the new series had even premiered, making it the latest woke TV title to hit the wall.
The right-leaning anti-woke British news channel GB News netted more viewers than main competitors Sky News and BBC News on its launch, having ratings of almost triple that of Sky.
Recent Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings indicate that frontline Democrat Rep. Stephanie Murphy (FL) has seen a flood of corporate cash into her campaign from big multinational companies with deep ties in China.
Many woke corporations and wealthy individuals have donated millions of dollars to President Joe Biden’s Inaugural Committee, totaling a sum of $61 million.
More people cut the cable-satellite TV cord than ever before in 2020, which is pretty remarkable when you consider how the coronavirus kept everyone at home for most of the year.
The Sky Group, the Comcast-owned British telecommunications giant, has pledged to reach 20 percent of its workforce to be black, Asian, or other minorities by the year 2025.
In a Monday op-ed, the Washington Post called on heavyweight telecommunications corporations to shut down conservative cable news outlets including Fox News, One America News, and Newsmax TV, comparing the need to do so with that of shutting down foreign terrorist influencers.
NEW YORK (AP) — “No New ‘Movies’ Till Influenza Ends” blared a New York Times headline on Oct. 10, 1918, while the deadly second wave of the Spanish Flu was unfolding. A century later, during another pandemic, movies — quotes no longer necessary — are again facing a critical juncture. But it’s not because new films haven’t been coming out. By streaming service, video-on-demand, virtual theater or actual theater, a steady diet of films have been released under COVID-19 every week. The Times has reviewed more than 460 new movies since mid-March.
Congressional candidate Laura Loomer claimed on Monday that Comcast Xfinity has banned her campaign from sending fundraising emails and text messages. After being contacted by Breitbart News, Comcast claimed that it was working with Loomer to resolve the issue with a ‘technical fix.’
NBC Entertainment has ousted chairman Paul Telegdy following accusations that he engaged in racist, sexist, and homophobic behavior while overseeing a hostile work environment. His dismissal comes as NBCUniversal moves to enact sweeping layoffs this week, including cuts at the left-wing NBC News and the Spanish-language Telemundo.
Sixteen films including Aliens, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Flash Gordon, The Jungle Book, and Lawrence of Arabia have been given trigger warnings for their “outdated attitudes” by Comcast-owned Sky in the UK as a Black Lives Matter inspired Cultural Revolution sweeps the country
Comcast-owned Sky has added trigger warnings to Disney’s Aladdin — both the 1992 original and the 2019 remake — warning its “outdated attitudes” may “cause offence today”.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) told Breitbart News Daily on Tuesday that big tech needs a “cop on the beat” to rein in big tech censorship.
President Donald Trump on Monday called for NBC’s Meet The Press host Chuck Todd to be fired for broadcasting a deceptively edited video clip of Attorney General William Barr discussing the Department of Justice’s decision to drop the Michael Flynn case.
Comcast, the telecom giant that owns NBC and MSNBC lost a lawsuit that alleged the company deliberately stole multiple pieces of intellectual property from TiVo for its cable boxes.
Fact check – CLAIM: NBC News White House correspondent Peter Alexander claims he asked the president to calm Americans, and he lashed out.
VERDICT: False. Alexander first asked whether the president was giving Americans “false hope.”
“Is it possible that your impulse to put a positive spin on things may be giving Americans a false sense of hope and misrepresenting preparedness right now?” Alexander asked.
Comcast is offering to help low-income families stay connected via the Internet amid the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.
NBCUniversal has reportedly made the sweeping decision to suspend production for at least two weeks on multiple TV shows including such hits as “Chicago Fire” and “Law & Order: SVU” in a precautionary response to the spread of the coronavirus.
The coronavirus has already hammered the travel and airline sectors as more consumers are opting to stay at home to avoid getting sick. Now the virus has claimed another economic victim: the news media and Hollywood, which are feeling the financial ripple effects of a weakening advertising market.
With another 6 million lost subscribers in 2019, customers are still fleeing traditional cable and satellite networks in droves.
LAS VEGAS, Nevada — President Donald Trump told a gathering of several hundred donors in the lobby of the Trump Hotel that “MSDNC” was worse than CNN, and Comcast was “a bad company.”
Pacific Gas & Electric allegedly gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to California Gov. Gavin Newsom and his wife, Jennifer, over a period of two decades.