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On August 23, 2010, it was announced that WPBT-TV had sold the show to NBR Worldwide Inc., a newly formed, privately held company headed by Mykalai Kontilai, who became the majority owner of the program. Kontilai, an entrepreneur in the Instructional Television Distribution (ITV) industry.
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Aug 18, 2010 · NEW YORK and MIAMI, Aug. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- NBR Worldwide, Inc. has acquired "Nightly Business Report" – America's most-watched daily business news program announced today by Mykalai Kontilai,...
Aug 19, 2010 · “Nightly Business Report” on PBS, by some measures the nation’s most-watched business newscast, has been acquired from its owner, the public station WPBT-TV in Miami, by a private company...
- Elizabeth Jensen
Nov 11, 2019 · Nightly Business Report, television’s longest-running business news broadcast, will cease production after Dec. 27. A spokesperson for CNBC, which has produced the nightly newscast since 2013, acknowledged the “difficult decision” Thursday and thanked presenting station WETA in Washington, D.C., and Boston-based distributor American ...
Aug 18, 2010 · The PBS business newscast “Nightly Business Report” has been acquired from WPBT Miami, according to the NY Times. The buyer? A new company led by Mykalai Kontilai, who was most recently a...
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Dec 20, 2019 · The notion of a business news program delivering stock quotes, business news and analysis just two and a half-hours after the closing market bell resonated with millions of viewers. After six months on WPBT, NBR grew into a half-hour weeknightly program.
Mykalai Kontilai, whose NBR Worldwide this month purchased Nightly Business Report, a staple of public TV carried five nights a week on 250 stations, talks about how his years as an instructional television distributor gave him a strong sense of public broadcasting values.