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It's probably not much fun being Jeff Zucker these days. Over the last year or so, the NBC Universal President and CEO has faced harsher criticism than usual. A press favorite when he was the wunderkind producer of NBC's "Today,"...
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Lets see. Comcast is on the verge of announcing a deal to take control of NBC Universal. Said deal will draw lots of attention from Washington. Even though, on the surface, the deal appears to face few regulatory obstacles, now...
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French media company Vivendi may need some extra cash -- and that comes as good news to General Electric Co. GE has been negotiating to sell its majority stake in NBC Universal to the nation's largest cable operator, Comcast Corp....
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USA Network's move to renew its deal for "Monday Night Raw" with World Wrestling Entertainment for another four years may be just the beginning of a broader partnership between the NBC Universal-owned cable network and Vince McMahon's WWE. WWE, as...
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Since we're all expecting Comcast to announce its deal to take control of NBC Universal next week from General Electric Co. the next step is coming up with a name for the new entity. Will it be something boring like...
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News Corp. President and Chief Operating Officer Chase Carey said not to expect his boss, Chairman Rupert Murdoch, to make a last-minute bid on NBC Universal, whose parent General Electric Co. is in talks to sell control of the entertainment...
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They're not exactly shouting "Vive NBC!" within the executive suites of Vivendi these days. Vivendi, the Paris-based media and telecommunications conglomerate that holds a 20% stake in General Electric Co.'s NBC Universal, said the U.S. entertainment company's contribution to Vivendi...
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The takeover of General Electric Co.'s NBC Universal by cable giant Comcast Corp. is expected to be announced very soon, and already public interest groups are lining up to do battle in D.C. against the deal. The Center for Digital...
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Former NBC Universal CEO Bob Wright said he doesn't think Vivendi, the French conglomerate that owns 20% of the media giant will look to unload that stake in a public offering. What Vivendi will do with its chunk of NBC...
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In Hollywood's worst-kept secret, Warner Bros. and TNT are putting the finishing touches on a deal to bring the dark cop drama "Southland" to the cable channel. But whether this means "Southland," which NBC abruptly canceled earlier this month, is...
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Senior executives and staff are on pins and needles at Lifetime Television and A&E Networks these days. Now that the deal to merge Lifetime and its sister channels into A&E Networks has closed, the brass at A&E (which stands for...
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Peter Chernin is not flying the News Corp. jet into Philly. But he probably could if he wanted to. The veteran movie and TV executive, who stepped down as president and chief operating officer of the News Corp. media empire...
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Jeffrey Immelt, the chairman and chief executive of NBC Universal parent General Electric Co., expressed some frustration with NBC's lackluster prime-time performance this season in an interview at an industry conference. "I hate being No. 4," Immelt said at the...
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Call it the Comcast Friends and Advisors plan. The cable television giant doesn't have deep roots in Hollywood, but it has friends who do. For more than two months, two former high-ranking Fox entertainment executives -- Peter Chernin and Peter...
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Maybe if we drink enough the show will actually seem funny. As part of its push for Bud Light Golden Wheat, Anheuser-Busch has cut a deal with NBC Universal to be the exclusive sponsor of this week's "Saturday Night Live,"...