Averaging 1.6 million daily viewers, Dateline in syndication has grown its audience by 21% year-over-year and ranks as a top five one-hour Monday-Friday show in syndication.
From the creators of the U.K. documentaries Fixing Dad and The Fixing Challenge, Fixing Us debuts for U.S. audiences on Sept. 10.
Channels covering Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston and South Florida are available now for free, with additional channels to launch later this year.
The local news playlists are available through Peacock’s “News” tab. Audiences can access content produced by the stations for streaming audiences, as well as local news headlines.
The Emmy-winning home improvement series George to the Rescue returns for an 11th fall season on Saturday, Sept. 19, on NBC-owned stations (check local listings). Produced by LX.TV, the in-house production team […]
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NBC/Telemundo Helps Eliminate Medical Debt
The program, sponsored by NBC O&Os and Telemundo-owned stations, will recognize nonprofits using tech and innovation to solve everyday challenges and award nearly $5 million in grants during 2018 and 2019.
NBC/Telemundo Stations Earn 61 Texas Emmys
Hulu has finalized a deal with NBCUniversal for carriage of 15 channels as part of its live TV service that will be unveiled soon. The deal covers NBCU-owned cable channels as well as NBC- and Telemundo-owned stations.
Sara Gore, Jacque Reid and Today contributor Lilliana Vazquez return as co-hosts of the NBC stations’ centerpiece show, 1st Look Live on the Red Carpet on Sunday, Jan. 8, just prior to the network’s coverage of the 74th Annual Golden Globe Awards.
Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren has joined Sen. Ed Markey in questioning how much of the Boston market will be able to watch new NBC O&O WBTS over the air when it officially launches on Jan. 1, 2017.
WMAQ Boss Adds Oversight Of WSNS
NBCUniversal has combined management of its two TV stations in Chicago, with WMAQ GM David Doebler now overseeing both the O&O and its Spanish-language Telemundo sister station, WSNS.
Over-the-air viewers in Boston can get a glimpse of NBC’s future with the Countdown to NBC Boston channel that launched today. It’s the NBC-owned station’s push to get viewers to rescan their TV sets or set top boxes to WBTS on ch. 8 and ch. 60.2 in Northern Massachusetts and New Hampshire before the station launches for real on Jan. 1, 2017.
NBC’s New Boston O&O, WBTS, Sets Lineup
To be known as NBC Boston, the O&O will air on low-power WBTS on virtual chs. 8 and 8.2 and rely heavily on cable and satellite distribution. The O&O will replace long-time affiliate WHDH, owned by Ed Ansin, starting Jan. 1. NBC also announced programming for the new O&O along with the teams for each of its newscasts. The news operation is being built atop NECN, NBC’s regional cable news service.
NBC/Telemundo Stations Win 51 Texas Emmys
The NBC Owned Television Stations today announced that Ashley Roberts will make her national debut as the new host of NBC’s 1st Look on Saturday, Jan. 9, the night before […]
NBC Owned Television Stations today named Ashley Roberts the new host of NBC’s 1st Look starting in January 2016. Roberts, former member of one of the pop group The Pussycat Dolls, will make […]
Digital Turning ‘Broadcast’ Sales Upside Down
The great challenge for local TV is not only to create compelling digital products and services, but to find and train people to sell them. Station groups are stepping up those efforts, hoping to latch on to some of the dollars that are migrating from broadcast to digital. “Digital, social, secondary channels, websites, mobile – it’s literally a laundry list that each sales rep needs to understand, then master himself,” says sales consultant Adam Armbruster. Part II of this special report tomorrow will address integrating new programmatic or automated selling platforms with existing sales, traffic and billing workflows. Also see today’s Open Mike on sales compensation for new hires.
Women Journos Honored At NBC Owned Stations
NBC Adds Live TV Everywhere
News staffers at the NBC-owned stations have been ordered to review the network’s 83-page manual on news guidelines in the wake of the Brian Williams scandal at NBC News. WMAQ Chicago staff were told they have until Friday to get it done.
Hoping to leverage the network broadcast of the awards show this Sunday night, the station group will offer an hour and a half of additional Golden Globe programming prior to the network feed. It also plans to dedicate the season premiere of 1st Look on Saturday night to Golden Globe coverage.
Hoping to leverage the network broadcast of the awards show this Sunday night, the station group will offer an hour and a half of additional Golden Globe programming prior to the network feed. It also plans to dedicate the season premiere of 1st Look on Saturday night to Golden Globe coverage.
New features of the iPhone apps include interactive radar and quicker access to breaking news.
NBC Owned Television Stations unveiled its upgraded iPhone apps today with features like interactive radar, quick access to breaking news and the capability to send video from a mobile device to a television. The upgrades are the result of a rapid increase in digital mobile traffic that NBC owned-and-operated stations were seeing and comes just over a year after the company, a division of NBCUniversal, announced it was bringing its Web and app development in-house.
After 40 years in television, the head of NBC’s New York flagship O&O will step down next June. Prior to taking over at WNBC in 2010, Jack ran two other NBC stations, WRC Washington and WCHM Columbus, Ohio.
Sarah Glover moves from WCAU Philadelphia to work with NBC Owned Stations to build and engage social audiences at the 11 stations.
The stations will air the extra newscasts at 5:30 p.m. ET/PT (4:30 p.m. CT/MT). They will lead into an existing half-hour newscast and then the national network news. Two other stations will likely add similar newscasts next year.
The new syndicated talker from NBCUniversal Domestic Television Distribution gets a green light from its anchor station group.
News Sharing New Normal At NBC, Telemundo
The NBC O&Os and Telemundo stations cooperate in covering stories, with reporters, anchors and weathercasters evolving into “a culture of one,” especially in markets with heavy Hispanic population. And in markets without an NBC O&O, the cooperation extends to the NBC affiliate. “We have so much competition in Spanish and we have so much competition in English, that it makes no sense for us to compete with each other,” says Ozzie Martinez, the Telemundo group’s VP of news.
To gear up for the 66th Primtetime Emmy Awards, which takes place on Monday, Aug. 25, NBC’s Owned Stations division has launched the second screen companion game, Emmys Ballot Challenge on its stations’ websites.
The NBC Owned Television Stations division of NBCUniversal today promoted Josh Kleinbaum to executive editor of the division’s Digital Media group, effective immediately. In this role, Kleinbaum will lead the […]
Crafting The Rebirth Of NBC’s TV Stations
Valari Staab, the president of the NBC Owned Television Stations, took over management of the 10 stations a few years back. Her bosses also gave her the charge of improving the group and money to do so. She talks about how her investment in investigative reporters, helicopters, additional newscasts, new facilities and other resources has paid off. This story originally appeared earlier this month in the Spring 2014 edition of TVNewsCheck’s Executive Outlook, a quarterly print publication devoted to the future of broadcasting.
The Olympics are almost as much of a news event as they are a sporting event so it’s not surprising that NBC-related news properties are out in force during the games. And this year the NBC Owned Stations, the NBC News Channel, and NBC network news are working more closely together than ever.
The team — representing each of the 10 markets served by the NBC-owned stations — is charged with bringing viewers distinctively local stories during the 18-day event, which starts Thursday, Feb. 6.
