E! News Canceled After More Than 3 Decades

E! Information, the half-hour celeb information collection, has been axed.At the moment, ADWEEK realized that E! community has knowledgeable staff that the nightly E! Information linear broadcast present, which first premiered in 1991, is being canceled.The information comes following NBCUniversal’s resolution to spin off nearly all of its cable networks, together with CNBC, MSNBC, Syfy, and E!, below the Versant model.Workers had been knowledgeable concerning the resolution this morning, in accordance with a supply accustomed to the matter. Whereas alternatives are nonetheless being decided for workers on the present, some correspondents shall be supplied new positions inside Versant, per the supply.New episodes of the nightly present, hosted by Keltie Knight and Justin Sylvester, will proceed to air till September 25. The present was beforehand canceled in 2020, however got here again after two years. In line with the supply, the information displays E!’s resolution to give attention to social platforms, citing that the 11 p.m. time slot of E!’s linear programming “not serves popular culture followers that want real-time protection all through the day.”Relating to the model’s social presence, E! at present has 87 million followers throughout its platforms, with social and digital accounts producing 11 billion views in 2024 throughout all content material.The digital model’s content material consists of E! Information’ The Rundown on Snapchat, Sizzling Goss on Instagram, and RE!CAP on YouTube. E!, the linear community, will proceed to air authentic programming like Botched Presents: Plastic Surgical procedure Rewind, Truthfully Cavallari: The Headline Tour, and different acquired content material. The community may also host its pink carpet protection, together with airing the thirty first annual Critics’ Alternative Awards on Jan. 4.  In the meantime, Entry Hollywood and Entry Day by day will proceed to supply and function regular broadcasts out of Terrace Studios. Regardless of NBCU’s evolving relationship with its former cable channels, Mark Marshall, NBCU’s world promoting and partnerships chairman, beforehand advised ADWEEK that gross sales shall be enterprise as traditional, together with his group managing gross sales throughout the properties.“Our entrepreneurs will really feel no distinction, and inside our partitions, it’ll function because it does immediately,” Marshall stated.