Fans of big NBC sports franchises like the NHL and Premier League will have to follow them to a new home.
NBCUniversal will shutter its Nbcsn sports network, and move some of its top sports properties to the USA network in a maneuver executives believe will boost the economics of the general-entertainment cable outlet at a time when new streaming-video hubs are luring bigger audiences. The decision could also push some sports fans to the streaming-video hub Peacock, which has begun to test new kinds of sports-programming opportunities.
NBCUniversal has told its distributors it intends to shut down Nbcsn at the end of 2021, according to a person familiar with the matter.
NBCU’s top sports properties include Nascar racing, National Hockey League contests and English Premier League football. USA is not going to become an all-sports network, this person cautioned, but might function more like WarnerMedia’s TNT, which has
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NBCUniversal will shutter its Nbcsn sports network, and move some of its top sports properties to the USA network in a maneuver executives believe will boost the economics of the general-entertainment cable outlet at a time when new streaming-video hubs are luring bigger audiences. The decision could also push some sports fans to the streaming-video hub Peacock, which has begun to test new kinds of sports-programming opportunities.
NBCUniversal has told its distributors it intends to shut down Nbcsn at the end of 2021, according to a person familiar with the matter.
NBCU’s top sports properties include Nascar racing, National Hockey League contests and English Premier League football. USA is not going to become an all-sports network, this person cautioned, but might function more like WarnerMedia’s TNT, which has