If Anyone Cares, Versus Is Now Being Renamed NBC Sports Network - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

Brian Damage · 08-01-2011, 05:42 PM

Another name change post Comcast-NBCUniversal merger. At TCA's press tour today, Mark Lazarus, Chairman of the NBC Sports Group, announced that sports channel Versus, previously owned by Comcast, was being re-branded as the NBC Sports Network beginning on Jan. 2, 2012. Comcast's sports properties had already been folded into the NBC Sports Group immediately after the merger. Lazarus called the re-branding a reflection of "a strategic refocusing of the Versus brand to leverage the heritage of NBC Sports on cable." Also getting a face-lift is the NBC Sports logo, which has been slightly updated.

http://www.deadline.com/2011/08/tca-...ports-network/

catlover79 · 08-01-2011, 07:44 PM

Makes sense.

TMC · 08-28-2015, 02:32 AM

1. Figure out the mass of humanity on Sunday Night Football

2. Figure out what to do with Josh Elliott

3. Give Rebecca Lowe more work during the week/off-season

4. Get rid of Golf Channel, and rebrand it NBCSN2

5. No. More. Tape. Delay. Anything.

08-01-2011, 05:42 PM	#1
Brian Damage I'm Rich Bitch Forum Icon Join Date: Feb 03, 2002 Location: What Ain't No Country I Ever Heard Of...They Speak English in What? Posts: 63,107	If Anyone Cares, Versus Is Now Being Renamed NBC Sports Network Another name change post Comcast-NBCUniversal merger. At TCA's press tour today, Mark Lazarus, Chairman of the NBC Sports Group, announced that sports channel Versus, previously owned by Comcast, was being re-branded as the NBC Sports Network beginning on Jan. 2, 2012. Comcast's sports properties had already been folded into the NBC Sports Group immediately after the merger. Lazarus called the re-branding a reflection of "a strategic refocusing of the Versus brand to leverage the heritage of NBC Sports on cable." Also getting a face-lift is the NBC Sports logo, which has been slightly updated. http://www.deadline.com/2011/08/tca-...ports-network/
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08-01-2011, 07:44 PM	#2
catlover79 God Bless Val Forum Addict Join Date: May 29, 2006 Location: Bewitched in Ohio Posts: 70,392	Makes sense.
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08-28-2015, 02:32 AM	#3
TMC Member Forum Idol Join Date: Jan 09, 2001 Posts: 127,268	KING FOR A DAY: 5 CHANGES AT NBC SPORTS 1. Figure out the mass of humanity on Sunday Night Football 2. Figure out what to do with Josh Elliott 3. Give Rebecca Lowe more work during the week/off-season 4. Get rid of Golf Channel, and rebrand it NBCSN2 5. No. More. Tape. Delay. Anything.