{"id":17869,"date":"2012-07-16T10:03:25","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T08:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=17869"},"modified":"2012-07-16T10:05:19","modified_gmt":"2012-07-16T08:05:19","slug":"microsoft-sells-msnbc-com-stake-to-nbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/17869\/microsoft-sells-msnbc-com-stake-to-nbc\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft sells MSNBC.com stake to NBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Comcast Corp, the parent company of NBC, has bought out Microsoft Corp&#8217;s 50 percent stake in MSNBC.com for about $300 million to assume full control of the news web site, the New York Times said, citing people with knowledge of the deal.<\/p>\n<p>MSNBC.com was renamed NBCNews.com and users were automatically redirected to the new website.<\/p>\n<p>NBC and Microsoft joined forces in 1996 to create a cable news channel and online news operation that melded broadcasting with then-emerging internet technology.<\/p>\n<p>The news of a possible buyout was first reported in May.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;MSNBC TV will launch a new digital home in 2013, as an extension of the MSNBC TV on-air brand,&#8221; the editor-in-chief of MSNBC.com wrote in a letter posted on MSNBC website.<\/p>\n<p>Comcast and Microsoft could not be immediately reached for comment by Reuters outside regular U.S. business hours.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related article<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/13631\/nbc-to-buy-out-microsoft-stake-in-msnbc-com\/\"><strong>NBC to buy out Microsoft stake in MSNBC.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comcast Corp, the parent company of NBC, has bought out Microsoft Corp&#8217;s 50 percent stake in MSNBC.com for about $300 million to assume full control of the news web site, the New York Times said, citing people with knowledge of the deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":13632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9882],"tags":[25,169,2934,2935],"class_list":["post-17869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-microsoft","tag-msnbc-com","tag-nbc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17869"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17876,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17869\/revisions\/17876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}