Fandom Is A Superpower

Matt Strauss grew up watching Must See TV on Thursday nights and never stopped thinking about what it means to make a viewer feel like they belong to something. Now as Chairman of NBCUniversal Media Group, he is building the next chapter of a 100-year-old company that was first to air the Super Bowl, first to launch a national morning news program, and now first to ask what it really means to super serve a fandom across every screen.

Quite the Summer: The World Cup is breaking records on Telemundo and Peacock. Love Island USA Season 8 is outperforming Season 7, which already set all kinds of records. Matt calls it a perfect storm and he means it. 🏆

Super Serving Fandoms Across Every Screen: Audiences want instant gratification, bigger screens, and mobile as second nature. Matt sees that convergence as the opportunity to bring community back to the platform rather than letting fans go find it elsewhere. 📱

100 Years of Disruption and Being Disrupted: NBC went from radio to television to cable to streaming. Matt calls that seizing opportunities and taking chances the core DNA of what they do. 🎙️

The Firsts: First national broadcast network. First to air the Super Bowl. First national television commercial. First national morning news program. The history is not nostalgia. It is a blueprint. 📺

LA28 Is Personal: Matt calls the LA Olympics in 2028 a unifying moment for the company and the country. For someone who grew up watching NBC, getting to be part of that feels like a privilege. 🌟