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Nearly three months after NBC News cancelled Megyn Kelly Today in the wake of the host’s on-air Halloween blackface defense  the Andy Lack-run network division has finally reached an agreement with the former Fox News superstar for her to officially walk out the door. "The parties have resolved their differences, and…

2018 was a wild ride in the TV news business. Shocking reports in the wake of #MeToo forced the industry to vomit out more sexual harassers. Some high-profile programs suffered ratings consequences. Meanwhile, TV news executives licked self-inflicted wounds, and, once again, viewers said so long, for now at least, to…

Almost a month after Megyn Kelly’s show was dropped by NBC News and coming up on the one-year anniversary of Matt Lauer's pink-slipping from the same organization over sexual harassment claims, talks over an exit agreement for Kelly still have a ways to go. Despite a flurry of speculation in the last few hours from…

While political navel lint gazers argued whether Democrats or Republicans were the big winners of Tuesday’s midterm elections that won Dems control of the House and handed the GOP a bigger majority in the Senate, some media outlets also scored varying degrees of success with their midterms coverage. Best Public Wrist S…

Updated with Megyn Kelly tweets: Playing out in the press and social media as much as the conference room, it looks like negotiations over Megyn Kelly's departure from NBC News have taken a bad turn yet again – and the ex-morning show host’s attorney wants the big boys to step in if news boss Andy Lack can’t or won’t…

EXCLUSIVE: Megyn Kelly is off the air and heading toward the door at NBC, but it looks like any exit won't be as smooth as the former Fox News Channel host may have anticipated. Over the weekend and today, increasingly intractable NBC News boss Andy Lack has made it clear in talks with Kelly’s reps that a hefty payout…

Today hosts Hoda Kotb, Craig Melvin, Al Roker, and Savannah Guthrie moved seamlessly into the third hour of the show this morning, after NBC announced Friday it had cancelled Megyn Kelly Today in the wake of Kelly’s defense of blackface Halloween costumes. “Today, as you know, we are starting a new chapter in the…

"Megyn Kelly Today is not returning,” NBC News announced Friday morning, one day after she was yanked off the air, following a defense of blackface Halloween costumes. “Next week, the 9 a.m. hour will be hosted by other TODAY co-anchors," the news division said in a statement. Kelly’s LA-based lawyer Bryan Freedman…

UPDATED 5:30 AM: Megyn Kelly’s own NBC News franchise reported Friday morning her departure is “imminent.” “This morning, NBC News host Megyn Kelly is in talks with the network about her imminent departure, according to a source familiar with the situation,” Today reported this morning, adding, sources tell NBC News…

NBC News chief Andy Lack opened a town hall with his staff this afternoon by blasting the on-air remarks Megyn Kelly made on her show Tuesday, in which she defended the use of blackface at Halloween. “I want to address just one” topic before taking questions, Lack told staff, diving into “the Megyn Kelly situation&#8221…

"Contrary to [Ronan] Farrow's claims, his story was never cleared or approved for air by NBC News Legal or Standards," the Comcast-owned network division said this morning in the latest blast after days of dust-ups over how the now Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist’s investigation into claims of sexual harassment and…

President Donald Trump resumed his attacks on NBC News, ramping things up by suggesting a review of the network’s broadcast license given its handling of the Harvey Weinstein story. In a tweet this morning, Trump said the news division “is now fumbling around making excuses for their probably highly unethical conduct&#8221…