Joe Scarborough, the host of his eponymous morning news show, was in his downmarket new office in Times Square last month, watching Piers Morgan on YouTube.
“It’s something completely new,” he later marveled to reporters. “The landscape has completely changed. We don’t know who is going to win, who is going to lose.”
Scarborough and his colleagues have emerged from the cable apocalypse, blinking and a little stunned but surprisingly optimistic, into the wreckage and opportunity of a new television landscape.
More specifically, on Friday evening, the company turned off the lights for the last time in its old studio space in 30 Rockefeller Center, the iconic palace of 20th-century media. Staff began broadcasting early the next morning from the blocky old New York Times building a few blocks southeast.
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