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He and Gunnar Weidenfels detail the blockbuster unbundling of WBD: Decision "reflects our belief that each company will go ...
The Kabletown era of NBC is coming to a close — or, at the very least, entering a much different phase. Back in December 2009 ...
Comcast is carving off most of its cable channels. Will its new spinoff be a hunter or prey? The media giant last week put an upbeat spin on its move to shed what Wall Street sees as an albatross ...
From red carpets to resident aliens and driving ranges, NBCUniversal’s SpinCo has given its first indication what its programming strategy might look like with the hire of Val Boreland as ...
Even Versant boss Mark Lazarus acknowledges that the new name for Comcast’s cable TV spinoff business may not be everyone’s favorite, per a memo reported on by Deadline: We would be foolish to ...
Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ: CMCSA) announced Wednesday plans to spin off several major cable television networks and digital properties into an independent media company called SpinCo ...
By Caitlin Huston Business Writer SpinCo made a number of communications hires ahead of Comcast’s spinoff of its cable TV channels. Lauren Skowronski will serve as senior vp of global ...
Fandango, the Golf Channel, MSNBC, Oxygen, Rotten Tomatoes, Syfy, and USA will all be severed from 30 Rock, packaged into a publicly traded company with the working title “SpinCo,” and ...
Notably, Bravo will remain a part of NBCUniversal. The company previously announced that SpinCo would be overseen by former NBCUniversal Media Group chairman Mark Lazarus, who will serve as chief ...
As for what happens next, the best thing SpinCo (yes, we’re going to keep calling it that) has going for it are its non-entertainment assets — MSNBC and CNBC. While MSNBC’s ratings post ...