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As if the management at Universal Pictures didn't have enough to worry about. As rumors continue to swirl about an impending executive shake-up at the Hollywood studio, Universal Studios President Ron Meyer and his team apparently had no clue that...
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NBC Universal Chief Executive Jeff Zucker issued a companywide memo to calm down the staff in response to the news Wednesday that cable giant Comcast Corp. has had some flirtations with NBC about buying a stake. (See our previous coverage.)...
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The nation’s largest cable television company, Comcast Corp., is kicking the tires of entertainment giant NBC Universal, according to people familiar with the situation. Comcast, which has almost 25 million subscribers, has been looking to expand its entertainment offerings for...
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The good news: More people are watching NBC live at 10 p.m. -- now that Jay Leno is in the time slot -- as opposed to recording the hour and watching it later, according to TiVo, which tracks how its...
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Vivendi Chairman and Chief Executive Jean-Bernard Levy declined to say what the French conglomerate will do with its 20% stake in General Electric Co.'s NBC Universal. "This is not something we should decide now," Levy said at the Goldman Sachs...
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Looking to avoid another premature declaration, NBC will not issue a press release today anointing Jay Leno as the new king of prime time as it did with Conan O'Brien in late night when he premiered in June. That turned...
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At 8 a.m. Tuesday, the early ratings for Jay Leno's opening-night performance will start hitting desks and the immediate Tuesday-morning quarterbacking will begin. One night of numbers, heck, one week of numbers, particularly when the competition is soft, is not...
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ESPN is looking to snag the Olympics away from longtime rights holder NBC, a top executive at the cable sports behemoth told USA Today. In an interview with Mike McCarthy, John Skipper, ESPN's executive vice president of content, promised that...
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Walt Disney Co., General Electric Co.'s NBC Universal and Hearst Corp. have finalized an agreement to merge several cable networks together, for now anyway. Under the terms of the agreement, A&E Television Networks (AETN), which is owned by all three...
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Will rock and roll chef Anthony Bourdain come work in the commissary as part of a deal? That might be what some of the major media conglomerates kicking the tires of Cox Communications' Travel Channel are wondering. The auction for...
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Almost 16 months after Lifetime Television struck a deal to snag the fashion reality hit "Project Runway" from Bravo the show will finally debut in its new home tonight. A lot is riding on this for Lifetime, which needs "Project...
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The National Football League is making a big bet on 2014. That's when its four big television deals are set to expire, which means the league will either have incredible leverage or find itself in a deep hole, depending on...
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When the U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) and cable giant Comcast Corp. teamed up in early July to announce a new channel devoted to the games which would launch next year, they promised "excitement, competition and values connected with the Olympic...
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Being at NBC's executive session at the TV press tour today reminded me of a classic episode of "M*A*S*H" in which Hawkeye and Trapper crash a press conference and start badgering a general about the lack of medical equipment in...
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Mogul Barry Diller, who last week at an industry conference warned that the transition from old media to new media will get "bloody," is betting on Ben Silverman to figure it all out. Cutting through all the industry speak about...