That’s a fair few cancellations from NBC.
Making room for the NBA
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NBC is relying too much on live sport to prop up its primetime ratings. I don’t think Sunday night NBA will pull as many viewers as Sunday night NFL.
We now have a new official name for the spin-off company for CNBC, USA and MSNBC: Versant.
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Suits LA binned as NBC upfronts set to begin
With a squeeze on international content deals available for Australian TV networks — and streaming services and the rights for NBCU content up for negotiation within the next 18 months — there will be increased local scrutiny of the NBC Upfronts held in New York this week.
In Australia, NBCUniversal’s catalogue is split three ways: Seven handles the fresh NBC broadcast series, Foxtel (and its streamer Binge) hosts Peacock US and Sky Studios UK titles, while Hayu gets the first‑run Bravo reality shows.
With DAZN now running Foxtel, there will be greater scrutiny over the value of Foxtel’s deals with suppliers.
The existing deal with Foxtel was announced in November 2022. Mumbrella understands it runs through to 2027, with the optionality to exit six months earlier.
Stan is an obvious interested party for when negotiations begin next year. Stan held the rights in the previous window, but Mumbrella understands it opted not to renew over price concerns and the early termination clause.
DAZN may look at the cost of the existing deal and determine it is too expensive, or it could go the opposite direction and seek to expand the terms of the deal to include the first-run NBC programming.
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They don’t have a choice if that’s what they’ve committed to airing.
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Of course it won’t but it’ll likely do as well (if not better) than whatever reality/scripted programming NBC would have otherwise aired.
Considering we live in a world where live sport is one of the few must watch live types of content, it’s understandable why NBC will have three nights of live sport in the last few months of the year.
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Speaking of NBA on NBC
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