Posted on 07/02/2015 9:04:41 AM PDT by tennmountainman
The embattled Miss USA beauty pageant will be available as a live stream on July 12 now that NBC and Univision have dropped out as TV partners.
A rep for the pageant confirmed that the three-hour event will be available for viewing via MissUniverse.com/MissUSA. The live stream is a last-ditch effort to salvage viewership of the pageant, set to take place in Baton Rouge, La.
More details of the streaming plan will be forthcoming, according to the rep. Pageant producers will need to recruit a new host or co-hosts after two NBC-affliated personalities, Cheryl Burke and MSNBCs Thomas Roberts, withdrew from their roles as co-host.
The drama for the Miss USA telecast began last week when Univision scrapped its planned telecast on the heels of disparaging remarks about Mexican immigrants made by Donald Trump. Trump co-owns the Miss USA/Miss Universe franchise with NBC.
On Tuesday, Trump filed a $500 million lawsuit against Univision.
Who knows, this may turn into the first salvo in breaking the channel bundling and brin on ala carte channels. Content providers may see the techs and infrastructure is in place for them to bypass the distributors.
Thanks!
The drama for the Miss USA telecast began last week when Univision scrapped its planned telecast on the heels of disparaging remarks about Mexican immigrants>/b> made by Donald Trump.He did no such thing
He was talking about illegal criminal invaders crossing out southern border.
And he was 100% correct.
He could have been a bit more eloquent in the way he expressed his thoughts, but never the less, most American citizens agree with him.
Watching twitter last nite, Trump had tweet after tweet of his re-tweeted in agreement, some RT's over a thousand times!
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