- NBC News (NASDAQ:CMCSA) will launch a streaming service this year in a quest for younger viewers who've largely abandoned the evening newscast as a primary source.
- The company hasn't yet decided whether it will be a subscription service. NBC's twice-daily Snapchat show Stay Tuned has 5M subscribers, and is tracking toward 37M-38M unique visitors this month vs. 33M last month -- relatively successful especially in comparison with rivals like CNN, which shut down its daily Snapchat show.
- The media age of viewers of NBC Nightly News is 64, according to Nielsen.
- And Chairman Andy Lack says NBC News has no plans to bring its content back to Facebook (NASDAQ:FB): “Facebook doesn’t have value for publishers." Facebook's own video news ambitions are beginning to take shape with a planned program for its Watch tab.
- Previously: Facebook reportedly paying up front for new video news feature (Mar. 14 2018)
- Previously: Report: Facebook to launch News feature on its Watch platform (Mar. 13 2018)
- Now read: 'It's Facebook, Stupid'
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