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NBC Sports has announced the telecast schedule for its exclusive games for the 2020-21 NHL regular season, beginning with a Wednesday Night Hockey tripleheader on Jan. 13 on NBCSN headlined by the defending Stanley Cup Champion Tampa Bay Lightning against the Chicago Blackhawks at 8 p.m. ET.
CNN reached its largest digital audience in history in 2020 according to Comscore, shattering all records and ranking top in every available month to date for global and U.S. unique visitors, wrapping the year with a monthly average of 215 million unique visitors globally (2020 global numbers represent a monthly average of January-October).
Fox News Digital closed out November 2020 with a record month in multiplatform views (over 2.7 billion) and multi-platform minutes (over 5 billion), its highest month in history across both categories.
Nexstar has announced that KDVR-TV and KWGN-TV, Nexstar Inc.’s local television stations serving the Denver, Colorado, area (DMA #16) have begun broadcasting with NEXTGEN TV, the revolutionary new digital broadcast technology powered by ATSC 3.0.
ESPN and the Southeastern Conference (SEC) have reached a new, historic 10-year agreement beginning in 2024-25, which cements their television partnership, and expands coverage on ABC.
Verizon has begun notifying some Fios customers that, due to a carriage dispute with Hearst Television, it may soon be forced to stop offering channels owned by Hearst.
Ringing in the new year together for the fourth time, Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen will co-host CNN’s New Year’s Eve Live from New York City’s Times Square.
UMC (www.UMC.tv), the streaming service which focuses exclusively on Black TV and film, will be rebranded as ALLBLK in January 2021.
NBC will air the two-hour special "Global Citizen Prize Awards" on Saturday, 19th December at 8pm ET/PT, hosted by John Legend.
