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Companies will see the MTA Money Grab as a cost of doing business, just like regular tolls on bridges, tunnels, parkways and turnpikes. As long as Disney (Paramount, NBCU, Nexstar, oops, I mean Mission and Fox) reimburse employees when covering stories the impact is more palatable to producing and on air staff. The one's getting hurt are those that have to commute into the city via private vehicles that don't normally get reimbursed for tolls. I would think many of them already take mass transit.

It wasn't a big deal and did not take away from coverage. By seeing some of the local station's graphics, it was a cue that they leveraged their local station in New Orleans. I'm sure very few were bothered by it. This was an emergency broadcast due to a terrorist attack. There were more important things that morning.

That is not a job offer. It is a job opening.

Interesting, this is from 2 days ago. So what happened, now that it is Jan. 2?

Confirming, MSG and MSG+ are off of Optimum (Altice USA) NY and NJ systems. Worse, you cannot log into or get the YES part of the Gotham App using your Optimum credentials. This is plain wrong. By combining YES App and MSG app now YES subscribers are being punished in this fight when many have no skin in the game. Any others interested in a class action suit?

Can you guys take this conversation or whatever it is offline? Thanks. It is way off topic.

The Dolans spun off MSG 14 years ago into a separate company they continue to own. They sold Cablevision/Optimum 8 years ago and have nothing to do with Altice USA. If there was a long term carriage agreement at the time of the sale, it probably expired already. One question come baseball season. MSG and YES combined their apps into a joint venture - Gotham Sports. If this lasts into baseball season, will access to the Yes App part of Gotham be impacted since it authenticates through your Optimum subscription? Hopefully not as it is a joint venture. It will be up to Knicks, Rangers, Islanders and Devils fans to be loud enough that Altice cares. I'm not sure they do.

Hanukkah is a festival, not a religous holiday. They may have been off for other reasons such as family vacations, etc. Wasn't Lee Goldberg on? WNBC had an all Jewish news team at 6 and 11. I'm not a usual Eyewitness News watcher but I found the newscast from 6:30 on to be useless from a news standpoint. It was just viewers letters interspersed with some letters. For those Eyewitness News fanboys, I'm sure that was fine. For me looking for an update on news, I was disappointed.

Today's staffing is going to be different (on every channel), like all other years due to the holiday and allowing many anchors and staff to be home with their families. I would not use today as a reason to question about regular assignments.

It also doesn't warrant every anchor sub being reported. It won't get back to normal until after the new year. Enjoy the season. Even anchors & reporters deserve time off with heir families.

Every year at this time, there are many not usual substitutions as many staff, especially those with long service are off before, during and after Christmas. Typically this time of year can be slow news cycles (this year may be an exception). On air and behind the scenes staff take needed vacation days. Many have to use it or loose it, just like those who work elsewhere.

Way back prior to being fully bought by NBCUniversal, the company that included USA and SciFi was called USA Networks. The down side is if SpinCo goes international, the name may not work.

Depends on what they decide. All we know is that the cable stations except Bravo will be spun off (not sold). Probably moving to Peacock is the end game but they can also license to the new entity for broadcast on USA etc for a specified period. Golf rights could also be split between NBC and the new company for airing on both the network and Golf Channel. They can take this approach with the Olympics too in 2026. For now it is all speculation as they have a lot to figure out and nothing has been publicly announced other than the planned spin off..

It’s not the first time. I wish they leveraged sky news more.

Details to be worked out. One reason they said it will take a year to implement.

Many choose to keep their private business just that: private. They are under no obligation to make public disclosures. We should respect that.

Sorry, that makes no sense. They would have to license the name from Comcast which owns Sky. Sky isn’t part of the announcement. Just the US cable properties are being spun off as a separate company. They will probably license MSNBC and CNBC names for a portion of time.

It’s produced by NBCU and sold to O&Os and on the sindie market. I’m sure NBCU can produce E News for a fee out of the Universal lot.

In being on the air. Not in terms of total years in the anchor chair in DMA 1. Chuck started in 1974. For that the attention should be on Chuck's storied career. Honestly, I'm not sure why Chuck's retirement from daily anchoring impacts WABC TV.

Here is the article from their website including the NBC press release. He will continue to contribute to special projects and events. https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/chuck-scarborough-semi-retirement-wnbc-new-york/6006471/

They teased it at 6:23, he made the announcement right after sports and before the handoff to NNN in 1A. Handled with class, and just wanted to say Thank You to viewers for now. More testimonials and goodbyes to come. The end of an era.

Fox owns the name. Disney modified the studio name to remove the use of Fox. FX and FXX don’t use the Fox name.

They did not say that. Lazarus said the new company could be a buyer of stations without specifying any station groups.

All speculation for now. I would expect at some point in the future, both MSNBC and CNBC changes names, since both have NBC in them.

So? It's just a place card while they figure out the actual name. It won't be called Spinco Media. They could also license events to the new USA, which others have done. I would assume there are some longterm licensing agreements across the board. We got a year for them to figure this all otu.