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Happy 113th Anniversary To Universal.

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Fragile Snowflake Trump Threatens NBC, Seth Myers for Telling Jokes About Him

J.D. Wolf at MeidasTouch Network:

In a late night Truth Social post, former Trump launched a scathing attack on comedian Seth Meyers and his employer, NBC, accusing the network of spreading political propaganda. Trump specifically targeted Meyers, calling him "Marble Mouth Meyers" and labeling him untalented, before further railing against NBC as a "truly bad group of people." The former president also broadened his criticism to include Comcast, the parent company of NBC and MSNBC, accusing them of pushing "in-kind contributions" to the Democratic Party through their programming. Trump framed late-night comedy shows like Meyers' as not merely entertainment but as tools of political warfare, designed to undermine him and the Republican Party.

Fragile snowflake Donald Trump threatens NBC, Comcast, and Seth Meyers all because Meyers ruthlessly and righteously mocks the Orange Wanker.

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From the 01.09.2025 edition of NBC's Late Night With Seth Meyers:

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Late-Night Comedy Criticism Now a Matter of National Importance: it’s good to know what keeps Trump awake at night.

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Elvis Costello is British??

On 17 Dec. 1977, Elvis Costello appeared on Saturday Night Live, and was immediately banned from the show for the next 12 years.

The Sex Pistols were supposed to be the musical act, but were unable to make it, so Malcolm McLaren suggested Elvis Costello and the Attractions (Pete Thomas wears a “Thanks Malc” t-shirt during the performance).

While Costello’s debut record My Aim is True was available as an import, it would not be released in the US until March 1978.  The band’s label wanted them to play the (UK only) single, “Less Than Zero,” a pointed attack on British politician Oswald Mosley.

A few bars into the song, Costello put a stop to it. “I’m sorry, ladies and gentlemen,” he said, “but there’s no reason to do this song here.” He and the band launched into “Radio Radio,” a song that takes a jab at corporate-controlled broadcasting. Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels was furious. According to some reports, Michaels raised his middle finger at Costello and kept it up until the song was over.

http://videos.mediaite.com/video/Elvis-Costello-Radio-Radio-1977

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Lilly: Comcast High Media Drama

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The left-leaning news channel — which recently gave star anchor Rachel Maddow a $5 million-a-year haircut from her annual $30 million haul — has been negotiating with Reid and Ruhle on new deals at reduced salaries. The controversial Reid is believed to be earning $3 million a year to host her nightly 8 p.m. show, “The ReidOut.

"The state of left-wing corporate media is unrecognizable. Say wild things on air, and you still get to keep your job." - Jonathan Choe, a senior fellow and journalist at the Discovery Institute

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Status Post #10986: NBC, CBS, ABC and Fox.

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Happy Late 112th Anniversary To Universal.

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Marita Vlachou at The Guardian:

Comcast, the parent company of NBCUniversal, on Wednesday announced the spinoff of many of its cable TV channels, including MSNBC, carrying out a plan the company had hinted at earlier this year. In addition to MSNBC, the portfolio of the newly created company titled “SpinCo” will also comprise CNBC, USA, Oxygen and E!, among other channels, as well as digital assets, including Fandango and Rotten Tomatoes. Those assets made about $7 billion in revenue in the year that ended Sept. 30, the company said in a press release.

Bravo, the NBC broadcast network, the Peacock streaming service, Telemundo as well as the theme parks business and film and television studios will remain part of Comcast. The Wall Street Journal was first to report the transaction was imminent. Mike Cavanagh, the president of Comcast, said the move will enable “both SpinCo and NBCUniversal to play offense in a changing media landscape.” “Taken together, the entirety of NBCUniversal will be on a new growth trajectory, fueled by our world-class content, technology, IP, properties and talent — all working in concert with each other as an integrated media company,” Cavanagh said. Mark Lazarus, the outgoing chair of the NBCUniversal Media Group, will serve as chief executive of the new company. The process is expected to be completed in about a year, the Journal reported earlier.

Comcast spins off nearly all of NBCU’s cable networks, including USA, CNBC, MSNBC, and E!, into a separate spin-off company named SpinCo. NBCUniversal will retain NBC, Telemundo, Bravo, and Peacock as its key assets.

Splitting off CNBC and MSNBC, and possibly USA, from NBCU, is a disastrous decision, mainly due to newsgathering resources being shared (MSNBC and CNBC) and sports coverage (primarily USA, but also some CNBC).

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what's the service gonna be called then?

on one hand, they get their Yellowstone franchise under one roof.

on the other hand---wait! Paramount is going to own Seaquest and Seaquest DSV 2032 if these talks become a real deal.

s1 and s2 are split into one show while s3 is split into it's own series on peacock; which let's be honest, it does well enough on it's own two feet. Now its gonna be Paramount's headache in how they organize the series on the new streaming service.

They own the parody, the source material (Galaxy Quest), and a spiritual successor.

As I was saying, on the other hand, Poker Face. :D

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Joy Reid on MSNBC just accused President Biden of dividing America. Let's just be clear. Journalists can have all the political leanings they want, but what they say on air, is what the BOSS wants them to say.

Meet the owner of NBC/Universal/Comcast, Brian L Roberts. Joy Reid just simply told us how the Israeli government feels about Biden's remarks. The vicious way she went after Kamala Harris in 2020 is making so much more sense, now.

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Lilly: Rupert is Cooked

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With just days to go before taking office, President-elect Donald Trump spent the wee hours of Tuesday complaining about late night host Seth Meyers.

“How bad is Seth Meyers on NBC, a ‘network’ run by a truly bad group of people,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social website shortly before 1:30 a.m. ET. “I got stuck watching Marble Mouth Meyers the other night, the first time in months, and every time I watch this moron I feel an obligation to say how dumb and untalented he is, merely a slot filler for the Scum that runs Comcast.”

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It would be silly to think, in this time of spectacular fools, that the Donald Trump administration mandate to kill diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs was simply a workplace issue. What’s happening is bigger than that, says Vernā Myers, and it will have implications for years to come. The US government has declared war on American culture.

The removal of DEI efforts doesn’t just impact the workforces at specific companies, it also impacts what those companies produce, their cultural output. Removing diversity programs limits the voices present when decisions are made about features on social media platforms or what TV show to make. But for Myers, a longtime consultant and cultural strategist who served as Netflix’s vice president of inclusion strategy from 2018 to 2023, the administration’s anti-DEI agenda is “not about how DEI is practiced.”

“This is about the principles of equality and inclusion for all,” Myers says. “This is, ‘We are going to take down the structure of values that DEI is associated with, and by doing so we are going to pull back your civil rights.’”

Trump made a target of DEI on day one, signing an executive order to end “radical and wasteful” preferencing in federal agencies. He followed that up with another order aimed squarely at DEI programs in the private sector. His attorney general Pam Bondi has called for investigations into companies that uphold DEI standards.

A federal judge subsequently blocked Trump’s DEI orders, but that hasn’t stopped companies from scaling back on their initiatives. Warner Bros. Discovery changed the title of its DEI program to simply “Inclusion.” Paramount put a stop to several policies. Disney changed the diversity and inclusion factors it used to determine executive compensation. Per a report in Axios, the company also altered some of the content advisory disclaimers that ran before older titles on Disney+.

Companies like Meta, meanwhile, were eager to embrace a corporate culture of “masculine energy,” because it aligns with the Trump administration’s “warrior” ethos. It also preemptively ditched its third-party fact-checking program and paid moderators in favor of a system that is similar to Community Notes on X. The move, coupled with changes to its Community Guidelines, has exposed users across Facebook, Threads, and Instagram to more hate speech and abuse.

In Hollywood, there is a shift happening, a move toward programming geared to Trump’s America. Law-and-order shows are making a comeback (Prime Video’s On Call; A+E’s Ozark Law) as broadcast-style TV slowly reasserts its dominance. Even the first breakout show of the year—Paradise on Hulu—is all about keeping order in a world ripped apart by nuclear warfare and climate disaster. Rolling back the studios’ diversity initiatives will likely only ensure this continues.

Last month, Federal Communications Commission chair Brendan Carr, a Trump loyalist who previously said he would end the agency’s DEI efforts if appointed, opened a probe into NBC parent company Comcast, promising to take action against the telecom giant if it found “any programs that promote invidious forms of DEI.”

“This whole, we want MEI over DEI is laughable,” Myers says. “Who do you actually think is disadvantaged by DEI? It certainly cannot be white men or white people because they are not. If you do a cultural audit, those are the groups that are doing best. The highest percentages are coming from men and white folks.”

In a political climate where Republicans hold power, she says the current temperature is to be expected. “When you've been in the majority for a very long time and pretty much your world is at ease, you don’t like when it gets disrupted. You don’t like when it feels uncomfortable. You certainly don’t like when things are pointing at you,” Myers tells me.

Myers left Netflix in 2023. The timing of her departure was, she says, coincidental. That June, several Black studio executives also exited top-level roles. The exodus included LaTondra Newton, chief diversity officer and senior vice president at Disney, Karen Horne, head of DEI efforts at Warner Bros. Discovery, and Jeanell English, executive VP of impact and inclusion at the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, among others.

The joint departures sent the rumor mill into overdrive. Almost all of the women oversaw DEI initiatives, and their exits suggested that maybe the entertainment industry—and America at large, some speculated—wasn’t exactly ready to commit to a shared vision of inclusion, both onscreen and off. Corporate power would only allow change to go so far.

Myers says that wasn’t the whole story. “When people start going on about what was happening in Hollywood, somehow they're not paying attention to the fact that studios were losing money,” she adds. “And often DEI is a cost center.” Myers says all of that talk merged together. Some women were let go in response to DEI rollbacks. Others, like her, were already planning an exit. Still, Myers says, the problem is that DEI is seen as an ancillary resource—necessary only when it benefits the bottom line.

In fulfilling his pledge to “make America great again,” Trump finds no benefit in how DEI points the finger at white power structures that prop up men like him. The remaking of his America demands blind complicity. It requires the kind of stale cultural programming that DEI—the work of giving everyone a voice—stands in opposition to. Thus far, reviews have been mixed.