In his big Matt Lauer exclusive: Howard Kurtz says that NBC owns the History Channel. It dosn't.
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Alex Weprin (@alexweprin) March 11, 2013In a Daily Beast write-up about “Today Show” host Lauer’s crappy year, CNN’s Kurtz dropped this little factoid:
Too bad History is actually owned by A&E Networks.
Facepalm time. RT @alexweprin: In his big Matt Lauer exclusive: Howard Kurtz says that NBC owns the History Channel. It dosn't.—
Armen Terjimanian (@translator82) March 11, 2013
Disney-Hearst's gotta love that. MT @alexweprin: In his big Lauer exclusive: Howard Kurtz says that NBC owns History Channel. It doesn't.—
Greg Sainer (@gsainer) March 11, 2013
@brianstelter interesting story. Someone should ask @howardkurtz when NBC bought History Ch. Whopper of a mistake. What else is inaccurate?—
Don Day (@DonLDay) March 11, 2013
Howard’s journalistic cred will be history before he knows it.
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