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RNC threatens to punish NBC for firing Ronna McDaniel: Spokeswoman says network could be banned from Trump’s coronation convention, but new chairman insists they need to use all channels to reach voters

The Republican National Committee Thursday offered conflicting messages about whether it planned to punish NBC by withholding access over its treatment of former chair Ronna McDaniel.

A spokesperson said the organization was taking a ‘hard look’ at the network’s participation at this summer’s convention, when Donald Trump will officially become the party’s nominee.

Meanwhile, the new RNC chair pushed back on the idea, saying Republicans should use all available avenues to reach voters.

NBC News announced Tuesday that McDaniel, who repeatedly raised questions about the results of the 2020 election, would not appear on the network as a paid contributor

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China launches world’s fastest internet with 1.2 terabits per second link, years ahead of forecasts

China has beaten a global deadline, launching the world’s first next-generation Internet service – more than 10 times faster than existing major routes – two years ahead of industry predictions.

The backbone network – so called because it forms a principal data route between cities – can transmit data at 1.2 terabits (1,200 gigabits) per second between Beijing in the north, central China’s Wuhan and Guangzhou in the southern province of Guangdong.

The line, which spans more than 3,000km (1,860 miles) of optical fiber cabling, was activated in July and officially launched on Monday, after performing reliably and passing all

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Dean Elgar: The writing was on the wall – LNN

Dean Elgar says he was being “wasted as a person and as a cricketer” due to the lack of Test cricket played by the Proteas.

In a wide-ranging interview with ESPNcricinfothe 36-year-old opening batsman revealed that he had decided in February 2023 – after being replaced as Test captain by Temba Bavuma – that he would retire after the home series against India in December 2023/January 2024.

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Samsung and AMD Collaborate To Advance Network Transformation With vRAN – Samsung Global Newsroom

New collaboration will unlock a wider set of choices for operators to build high-capacity, energy-efficient networks, leveraging Samsung’s vRAN solutions and ecosystem

Samsung Electronics today announced a new collaboration with AMD to advance 5G virtualized RAN (vRAN) for network transformation. This collaboration represents Samsung’s ongoing commitment to enriching vRAN and Open RAN ecosystems to help operators build and modernize mobile networks with unmatched flexibility and optimized performance.

The two companies have completed several rounds of tests at Samsung’s lab to verify high-capacity and telco-grade performance using FDD bands and TDD Massive MIMO wide-bands, while significantly reducing power consumption. In this

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Rachel Maddow, Joy Reid respond to Ronna McDaniel being dropped by NBC after liberal pressure: ‘I’m grateful’

MSNBC anchors Joy Reid and Rachel Maddow reacted happily to the hiring and almost immediate termination of former RNC chair Ronna McDaniel on Tuesday as an NBC News annalyst.

NBCUniversal News Group chairman Cesar Conde sent a memo to staff Tuesday announcing that McDaniel was no longer with the network, after Maddow, Reid and several other network hosts cried foul in on-air rebukes.

“I want to personally apologize to our team members who felt we let them down,” Conde wrote. “While this was a collective recommendation by some members of our leadership team, I approved it and take full responsibility

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The damning verdict of viewers on US cable TV

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Every week the big cable news networks in the US — CNN, Fox News and MSNBC — blast out press releases touting some kind of ratings achievement. These documents are sometimes specific, and often ultra competitive, with each channel trying to claim the title of “most-watched” on cable.

Recently, this obsession with ratings has started to look a bit like musicians playing their violins as the Titanic sinks. Cable television is in long-term decline. Some recent statistics: every day, about

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