When the off-network run of NBC skein "Smash" launches tonight, the Ovation network will be doing something NBC couldn't: Banking on Broadway. Differences of scale between Big Four net NBC and smaller basic cabler Ovation make the gambit viable "Â and make Broadway fans the focus of attention for Ovation in a way they never could... Read more »
SOURCE: Variety at 05:03PM on July 19, 2013