NBC is giving free commercial time to former President Donald Trump's campaign in response to Vice President Kamala Harris' appearance Saturday night liveincluding an unusual announcement during NASCAR coverage on Sunday, a source familiar with the matter says. Harris appeared Saturday SNL for one minute and 30 seconds, meaning that if another presidential campaign requested … Read more
Viewers tuning into NBC's 2024 election coverage on Nov. 5 could be forgiven for thinking the anchor desk was smack dab in the middle of New York's Rockefeller Plaza. On MSNBC, Steve Kornacki's “Big Board” might appear to be just feet away from a window opening onto the White House. NBC and MSNBC's election coverage … Read more
Justin Spitzer is the Armando Iannucci of the good guy, which is to say that if the Hypermarket AND American car If the showrunner's work were 25% angrier and 75% more profane, perhaps more attention would have been paid to his ever-expanding resume of comedic critiques of eroding institutions. Of course, it's the quiet anger … Read more
Former NBC marketing chief John D. Miller wrote in an op-ed this week that he regrets helping market Donald Trump The Apprenticesaying he helped “create a monster”. The Apprentice ran for 15 seasons from 2004 to 2017; Trump hosted the first 14 episodes. “To sell the show, we created the narrative that Trump was a … Read more
A strong one Sunday evening football The play and strong showings of many of its long-running series helped NBC claim its biggest audience for the first week of the 2024-25 season. The network averaged 6.2 million primetime viewers for the week of Sept. 23-29, according to same-day Nielsen data (which doesn't include streaming or other … Read more
Network morning show host chairs don't come around very often, but when they do, they're easily the most prized seats in the house. Despite the well-worn problems facing network television news and entertainment (sports is a different story), morning shows have remained beacons of relative stability. Anchors tend to stay, well, anchored, for years. And … Read more
Hoda Kotb Is Planning to Leave NBC Today show. The NBC anchor announced the news on the program Thursday morning, adding that she will remain co-host of the program until early 2025 before moving on to a new role at NBC News. “I just turned 60, and it was a monumental moment for me when … Read more
NBC News and Comcast's Sky News Join Forces to Launch The World with Richard Engel and Yalda Hakima new weekly podcast on global affairs that will “combine eyewitness accounts from the front lines of the world's most dangerous areas with in-depth analysis and conversations with some of the most prominent and influential figures on the … Read more
NBC News Group wants its viewers to vote, and in an unusual twist for a network news organization, it will help them figure out how. The NBCUniversal division, which includes NBC News, MSNBC and CNBC, is launching a PSA campaign featuring several of its top hosts that will direct viewers to local resources where they … Read more