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Comcast, NBC Universal pledge support for local news
Comcast has finally unveiled its formal announcement that it plans to take control of NBC Universal from General Electric. Public interest groups and various U.S. government types have been tutting and...
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Viacom: Don’t look to us for major dealmaking
After Comcast-NBC Universal, investment bankers are clearly drooling at the thought of some big money wheeling and dealing in the media business. Probably best not to count too heavily on Viacom being...
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Zucker praises Comcast; but will it be a good fit?
When it comes to the Comcast-NBC Universal deal, one of the big stories over the coming year will center on corporate culture. Maybe too much is made of this, maybe different cultures had nothing to do...
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UPDATE: Everybody loves Steve Burke, even Warren Buffett
When news of Comcast’s bid for NBC Universal broke on Sept 30 most of the spotlight focused on Comcast chairman and CEO Brian Roberts. But as the weeks dragged on, some of that spotlight began to shine...
View ArticleHulu to charge? It’s getting closer…
Everybody loves free. But free has a price. And that price might just be $9.95 a month, according to The Los Angeles Times, which writes that Hulu, the second most popular video site in the U.S, will...
View ArticleThat NBC: so green and so healthy
For those of you annoyed by NBC Universal’s “Green Week” — that stretch when the company’s peacock logo turns an irritating shade of green and its programs carry some sort of tortured green storyline —...
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Sun Valley: Jane Goodall and the primary primates
It’s day three of the Sun Valley media conference and the event has started to feel like a Jane Goodall documentary, in which we’re Jane and the moguls are the apes who have become comfortable letting...
View ArticleRelief in Philadelpia? NBCU profit up 13 percent
NBC Universal’s quarterly results — still wrapped into the General Electric numbers — should have some of the folks down in Philadelphia smiling this weekend. The numbers didn’t set the world on fire,...
View ArticleNBC Universal creates new sports marketing agency
It’s no secret that sports has been the brightest star of broadcast television lately. It pulls big audiences, and those viewers watch live — a combination that advertisers drool over. So NBC...
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Talking heads block Al-Jazeera TV in U.S.-Zucker
Millions of Americans have turned to Al-Jazeera for coverage of the crisis in Egypt, but for the vast majority, that has meant turning to the Internet rather than their televisions. Why? Former NBC...
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