Over time, streaming platforms have started to resemble broadcast and cable TV, adopting many of the same time-tested elements that traditional TV proved over decades, NBC executive Matt Strauss said.

Industry observers are increasingly asking whether the cable news operation now known as MS Now and the remaining NBC News division could eventually reunite once NBCUniversal completes its separation from Comcast.

Janelle Rodriguez, who helped build and launch NBC News‘ live-streaming outlet NBC News Now while overseeing a rare changing of the guard at “NBC Nightly News,” is leaving. “I’ve spent a long time thinking about what comes next, and I’ve ...