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Behind NBC's decision to put Golden Globes on ice for a year


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Throughout the scandal swirling around the Golden Globe Awards show, longtime broadcaster NBC appeared flat-footed seemingly unprepared to tackle the crisis that was consuming one of its biggest live TV events.
Since late February, the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn., the group that owns the lucrative Golden Globes franchise, has been at the center of a furor over alleged ethical lapses, self-dealing and a lack of Black members revelations that surfaced in a Los Angeles Times investigation.
NBC, which has broadcast the Golden Globe Awards show annually since 1996, was slow to recognize the intensity of the highly charged atmosphere over race and diversity and the level of frustration that existed among producers and publicists who had chafed for years under the demands of the free-wheeling group of 86 foreign journalists who vote on the Golden Globes. NBC also was stunned by the speed in which Hollywood turned on an awards show it had long embraced. ....

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