( ) -q-22- UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “the same names?” Two television networks with “NBC” in their names will no longer have any corporate connection to NBC News once a spinoff formally takes effect in about a year. [CutID: <Cuts> CNBC-MSNBC-SPINOFF-house-q-THUam.mp3 Time: 22s Title: CNBC-MSNBC-SPINOFF-house-q-THUam Out-cue: the same names?] TAG: Correspondent Jeremy House reporting. ——————————- […]
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Without NBC News, what will happen to CNBC and MSNBC?
( ) -q-22- UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “the same names?”
Two television networks with “NBC” in their names will no longer have any corporate connection to NBC News once a spinoff formally takes effect in about a year.
[CutID: <Cuts> CNBC-MSNBC-SPINOFF-house-q-THUam.mp3
Time: 22s
Title: CNBC-MSNBC-SPINOFF-house-q-THUam
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TAG: Correspondent Jeremy House reporting.
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VERBATIM: Comcast is cutting loose several of its cable companies into a separate company in order to improve its bottom line. It leaves several questions for MSNBC and CNBC, particularly for the former. Among them…Will the news network geared to liberal viewers continue to use NBC News personnel? And will they even keep the same names?