Sunday, July 15, 2012

Bye Bye MSNBC

MSNBC is no more and their 6 viewers are disappointed.
From the AP: Microsoft is pulling out of the joint venture that owned MSNBC.com, freeing the world's largest software maker to build its own online news service.
The breakup announced late Sunday dissolves the final shreds of a 16-year marriage between Microsoft Corp. and NBC News, which is now owned by Comcast Corp. The relationship began to unwind in 2005 when Microsoft sold its stake in MSNBC's cable TV channel to NBC.
NBC is buying Microsoft's 50 percent interest in the MSNBC website for an undisclosed amount. MSNBC.com will be rebranded as NBCNews.com, and readers who logged into MSNBC.com late Sunday were automatically redirected to NBCNews.com.
 http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_MSNBC_MICROSOFT?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-07-15-22-16-31

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3 comments:

  1. James GreenleeJuly 16, 2012 at 10:38 AM

    Don't get too excited. It was the very popular web page that is changing its name. MSNBC the TV channel is still so named.

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  2. DanJuly 16, 2012 at 11:58 AM

    But the name is changing to something like NBC-TV.

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  3. James GreenleeJuly 16, 2012 at 9:30 PM

    I don't think so. Possibly, I guess. They've kept the "MS" years after Microsoft was bought out. I suppose, like the Las Vegas Hilton, there could be a period of transition years, and then they rebrand. But I didn't see that in the story.

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