Recently divested from the #Peacock branded #NBC mothership, MGMT at #MSNBC announce new name in corporate split from National Broadcasting Service. The left leaning editorialized cable news network, that once took on the MS in a 90s era partnership with #Microsoft , now is being divested by #Comcast and will become #MSNOW aka My Source News Opinion World owned by Versant.

Versant is a holding company created in the effort to spin off cable channels with fading revenues from core #NBCUniversal assets. The Comcast CEO's family wound up personally owning 33% of the joint venture.

Somehow #Versant owned #CNBC will be allowed to retain its current branding sans any #Peacocks in its logo, as will E! And USA Network. Earlier this month, #NBCSports and it's new separate holding co partner Versant renewed their joint broadcast rights to United States #Golf Association (#USGA) championships through 2032, with the Versant operated #USANetwork and #GolfChannel continuing to serve as the cable tv home of the events post-split.

In other #cable #sports broadcasting news is the creation of something called #GlobalNetworks, basically another possibly botched biz decision by David Zaslav's awkward WB/HBO/Discovery empire to split off the #Turner #TNTsports #broadcasting assets that currently hold the live #BroadcastRights to such iconic sports events as :

#NCAA Men’s #Basketball Tournament (through 2032)
#MLB (through 2028)
#NHL (through 2028)
#NCAA #Football Playoff (through 2028)
#NASCAR (through 2031)
And #FrenchOpen #Tennis (through 2034)

https://awfulannouncing.com/warner-bros-discovery/tnt-sports-splitting-wbd-what-now.html

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/18/media/msnbc-msnow-nbc-news-versant-split

Tuesday, August 12, 2025

Russian forces pierce Ukrainian defense in Donetsk Oblast, bypassing fortifications — Ukrainian drones strike Russian missile component plant in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast — Russia’s Saratov oil refinery halts operations after Ukrainian drone strike — What were so many deaths for? Ukrainians react to Trump-Putin ‘peace plan’ ahead of Alaska summit … and more

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/08/tuesday-august-12-2025/

🚀 Be a Part of #NDN2024 - Submit your proposal! 🚀
Examples of topics and areas of interest:
#Services for #education
#security (#Privacy, Risk Mitigation, Nordic CERT, Best Practices)
#Infrastructure developments (SDN, Converged Networks, #Globalnetworks, Cross-border Fibre)
#eScience

Read more:
https://nordu.net/submit-proposal-for-NDN2024

Really pleased to hear that my paper "The Networked Refugee" received enough citations to be a #TopCitedArticle in the journal #GlobalNetworks.

Reading #migration through #SNA can have important social and policy implications.

@migration

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/glob.12312

An #introduction! 🌺

My name is Johanna Waters & I am Prof of Human Geography @ University College London. I am Co-Director of the Migration Research Unit & Co-Editor of the wonderful journal #GlobalNetworks

I work on #transnational #family #migration & #education & #internationalstudentmobilities.

Waters, J. & R. Brooks (2021) Student Migrants & Contemporary Educational Mobilities (Palgrave).

I enjoy #running and #orienteering, #vegan food. Will also post #guineapigs & other nice things.

RT @[email protected]

New open access paper in #globalnetworks, this one has been a long time in the works and draws on research across several years and five continents, I’m pretty proud of it. 1/7 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/glob.12358

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/kellehowson/status/1476220501924225027