Root Sports Northwest is dead.
Wheel of Fortune just made history.
During Tuesdayâs episode of the beloved game show, contestant Christina Derevjanik from Stamford, Connecticut, took home a cash prize of $US1,035,155 ($A1.56 million), the largest prize in the showâs history.
After making it to the bonus round, Derevjanik managed to solve the below puzzle within the allocated 10 seconds.
NBC announces new sports channel.
Same name, new attitude. Probably not same (that) logo.
The channel will âcomplement the prominent sports properties presented year-round on the NBC broadcast networkâ. No one has any idea what the hell that encompasses.
Coming this fall on Youtube TVâs specialty tier.
I thought the cable rights to literally everything NBCS has the rights to was staying with Versant and USA Network? Odd to start a sports channel that canât show any sports, though I suppose Comcast has experence in that (hello Universal Sports and Versus.)
Hereâs the important thing.
Those rights are also (or exclusively) on Peacock. It consists of NFL, B1G, EPL, NBA, Olympics, MLB, and some others.
However, most of those arenât really attractive to a casual viewer because Peacock only has like, what, one marquee game per sport per week? If there are many at once, well, they arenât top tier. Letâs just say that.
So how will NBC recoup its investments into MLB (reportedly start next season) and NBA?
Easy. Launch a sports channel that targets cable-bundle viewers.
Because NBCâs wording is too vague to decipher, the channel will just consist of events already available on Peacock*. Thatâs it. No original programming.
It will be placed on non-basic tier* to avoid cannibalizing existing Peacock subscriber base.
Itâs a channel, in gist, that you would find to be attractive because you have cable, but arenât that rich to shell out more for Peacock.
Remember, those cable assets being spun off means loss of those sweet, sweet per-subscriber fees. Gotta have a way to get it back.
*AFAWK
He has since had a further felony charge added:
Would not surprise me if he was let go by Fox.
There is a separate Wordle thread at the MS forum.
As usual, once a trend is dead it becomes a US TV show 
Absolutely unacceptable in 2025.
Awkward situation inside the control room, I bet, as they desparately try to get a replacement promo on the rightmost area.
As none of them could be brought up, the BottomLine got canned altogether. (Maybe after some other attempts to reroute the system to another ESPN networkâs BottomLine.)
A Vizrt fail at the worst time.
ESPN AU never experienced this because, well, ESPN BET is not available (heck, not even in a lot of U.S. states).
Huge loss for paramount. Probably will look back on this as a poor decision if Sheridan pumps out more hits for NBC and peacock.
Disney has completed its acquisition of a majority stake in Fubo, which will create the No. 6 pay-TV operator in the U.S. when combined with Hulu + Live TV.
The two services will together have nearly 6 million subscribers in North America. Each will continue to be available as separate services, branded individually. Even so, their new heft makes Disney a larger rival to YouTube TV in the internet-delivered pay-TV space. YouTube TV reported passing 8 million subscribers in early 2024 but more recently has approached 10 million, according to industry sources, due largely to bundles with the NFL Sunday Ticket package.
Here comes the âkilling seasonâ.