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STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) — NBC’s on-air personalities are taking a pay cut through the rest of the year because of the coronavirus pandemic.

NBC News’ Meet the Press was forced to acknowledge Sunday that it had edited an interview of Attorney General William Barr in a way that made it look like he did not care about the rule of law, leaving out his comments on exactly that issue.

NBC News Chairman Andy Lack will leave his post by the end of the month as part of a corporation-wide shake-up, NBCUniversal’s chief executive wrote in a Monday memo to the news organization.

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.

This week’s broadcast of NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” featured Brad Pitt as Dr. Anthony Fauci taking jabs at President Donald Trump for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic.

South Korean officials told the nation’s Yonhap news agency on Tuesday that a CNN report claiming North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un was “in grave danger” were “not true” and that “nothing unusual” appeared to be happening in the communist country.

In a Monday interview with NBC’s “Today,” CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield shined some hope on the ongoing fight against the coronavirus pandemic.

During their respective interviews, neither Tapper nor Todd (both of whom identify as journalists) asked Biden a single tough question, much less a question about what would have been a catastrophic error of judgment had Joe Biden been president.  

White House coronavirus task force coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx on Monday provided a bleak outlook as the coronavirus pandemic rages on, predicting that if everything to combat the virus is done “almost perfectly, there could be up to 200,000 deaths in the country.

Following a Friday interview with New Orleans Saints star quarterback Drew Brees, NBC “Today” anchor Hoda Kotb was overcome with emotion after discussing the coronavirus pandemic’s impact on the place she once called home.

During a Thursday interview on NBC’s “Today,” Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell discussed the risks taken to help the economy amid the coronavirus pandemic.

ESPN is looking to add to their Monday Night Football broadcast booth. However, former NFL great and future Hall of Famer Peyton Manning will not be among those additions.

U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams issued Americans a stark warning on the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic during an appearance Monday on NBC’s “Today.”

Never Trump stalwart, Iraq War advocate, and CNN analyst Max Boot has written an op-ed in in the Washington Post in which he claims that the coronavirus outbreak would not have been as bad if Hillary Clinton had won the 2016 presidential election.

A journalist has a duty to report the truth, and to hold the media to account. But a journalist is also a member of a community, and a citizen of a nation.

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.

To sum this up, the fake news media floods these words and terms into the American lexicon, and then sanctimoniously turns around and attacks those who repeat them as racist.

U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams on Wednesday doubled down on his belief that the nation has hit a pivotal point in combating the coronavirus pandemic.

A Today show staffer has contracted the Chinese coronavirus, leading co-hosts Craig Melvin and Al Roker to temporarily go off-air, co-anchor Savannah Guthrie announced on Monday.

Late-night shows including those of NBC’s Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers have announced they will shut down production in the wake of the Coronavirus.

Late-night comedy shows hosted by Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Trevor Noah, and others will reportedly tape without in-studio audiences as network producers seek to implement social distancing in response to the spread of the coronavirus.

NBC has rebuffed ESPN’S requests to let host Al Michaels out of his contract so he can join the cable network’s Monday Night Football broadcast.

The official start to free agency is less than two weeks away. Though, if a new report is true, the biggest acquisition surrounding the NFL may take place in the broadcast booth, not on the football field.

Thursday on NBC’s “Today,” 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful former Vice President Joe Biden took aim at President Donald Trump, saying he can “hardly wait to debate” the president should he go on to win the Democratic presidential nomination.

It’s been quite a couple of weeks for former NHL star Jeremy Roeninck: Last week, the former Blackhawk and Coyote was let go by NBC. This week, he got a shout-out from the most powerful man in the world.

The Democrat presidential candidates launched at least 50 different attacks that, at times, appeared to overwhelm the NBC debate moderators. 

The collapse of the Russian and Ukrainian impeachment hoaxes has left a huge void to fill in the left’s ceaseless war on the will of the American voter.

NBC has fired hockey analyst Jeremy Roenick after “inappropriate” comments made last year about one of his co-workers.

During Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary coverage on NBC’s “Today,” network host and foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell weighed in on former Vice President Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign.

During the roundtable discussion segment of NBC’s “Meet the Press,” former “Nightly News” anchor Tom Brokaw admitted his skepticism of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) chances at the presidency, especially with the success of the economy.

“Saturday Night Live” sent former Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz to “hell” in a sketch this weekend — shortly before Dershowitz is due to defend President Donald Trump in his Senate impeachment trial this week.

Former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg, a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, during Monday’s “Today” on NBC discussed the 2020 presidential election and his decision to enter the race.

Monday, 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful Mike Bloomberg said if he were a senator, he “would vote to convict” President Donald Trump in the upcoming Senate impeachment tri

Vice President Mike Pence on Thursday shared some insight into the briefing the day before on the Iran airstrikes which killed Iran Gen. Qasem Soleimani.

NBCUniversal’s reboot of the classic 90’s teen comedy “Saved by the Bell” will feature transgender teen Josie Totah in its lead role.