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NBC Sports and Shaun White are ready to make a powder grab.

The Comcast-backed sports unit and the Olympian snowboarder have entered into a multi-year media rights deal that will have White’s new Snow League showcased on both NBC and Peacock. Both outlets will feature the league’s inaugural event from Aspen, Colorado on March 7 and 8. Four events from the league’s first season will appear live on Peacock, with encore presentations scheduled for NBC.

The Snow League, a professional winter sports league founded by White, is dedicated to snowboarding and freeskiing.

““This collaboration will showcase the incredible talent in snowboarding and free skiing and bring the thrill of the competition to a whole new level,” said White, in a statement. “We hope to inspire the next generation of athletes, and there is no better platform to help showcase our athletes and their stories than NBC Sports.”

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Donn Cambern, the Oscar-nominated Romancing the Stone film editor whose credits also include Easy Rider, The Last Picture Show and Ghostbusters II and was a longtime president of the Motion Picture Editors Guild, died Wednesday, his family told the guild. He was 93.

Born on October 9, 1929, in Los Angeles, Cambern came from a showbiz family. His father was in the music-publishing business, and his mother played harp on movie soundtracks including Top Hat for the Rko Pictures orchestra. He graduated from UCLA in 1952 and landed a gig at Disney as a messenger.

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Fox National Cable Networks veteran David Sternberg is stepping down from his post at the end of the year, capping a 12-year stint at the company.

Sternberg most recently served as executive vp and chief operating officer of Fox's Emerging Networks division, which includes Fuel TV, Fox Soccer Channel and Fox Sports en Espanol. Sternberg oversaw day-to-day operations at the latter two channels.

Fox Cable Nets will announce the management structure for Fox Soccer Channel and Fox Sports en Espanol at a later date. General manager C.J. Olivares will continue to oversee Fuel TV.

The three sports nets report to Rich Battista, president of Fox National Cable Networks.

"David has been instrumental in the success of our emerging networks during his tenure at the company," said Battista, by way of announcing Sternberg's departure. "These networks are well positioned for future growth. We thank David for his contributions and wish him all the best.

After a decade at the final frontier, Star Trek: The Experience is going where no Las Vegas Strip attraction wants to go. The exhibit and its replica of the Enterprise closed its doors for good on Monday, says an Associated Press report on CNN. More than 3 million people have come through since the Experience opened in 1998, and the last few are “beaming up” from across the United States and around the world one last time, according to exhibit spokesman Chad Boutte. Some seek a final encounter with the Borg, the television show’s race of organic robot aliens who tell everyone “resistance is futile.” Others just want to share a farewell glass of Tronya with fellow fans at the attraction’s restaurant. The attraction’s owner, Cedar Fair Entertainment Co., and the Las Vegas Hilton, its landlord, couldn’t agree on a new lease. They worked as a typical landlord and retail tenant,...

Priming the pump for its new action sports network, Fox Networks Group has selected its name: Fuel. Available on the digital sports tiers of DirecTV, Time Warner Cable and smaller operators, Fuel is scheduled to launch July 1 with a base of at least 2 million households. Targeting mostly young adult males with a mix of live and archived "extreme" sports like skateboarding and surfing, the network deliberately chose not to include the Fox brand in its new name, according to David Sternberg, general manager of Fuse and senior vp of emerging networks at Fox. "It was very consciously an effort on our part not to be seen as just another offshoot of the Fox empire, but something that is a start-up project that has its own personality and position, and isn't seen as overly corporate," he said.